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Driver: Jac Haudenschild - Wooster, OH
Owner: Rick Wright - Morgan Hill, CA

Crew: Bonzi Bruns - Madison, SD
          Paul Baines - Sydney Australia
          Rodney Tiner - Sacramento, CA.


2006 marks the 33rd year of sprint car racing for Jac Haudenschild. Scroll below to take a look back in time at the first 32 years of excitement!

Year
Description
1974
Jac raced for his dad at Lakeville Speedway and Wayne County Speedway in Ohio at the age of 15.
1975
Jac won his first ever sprint car feature at Lakeville at the age of 16.
1976
Jac drove the Ferguson #34 during the 1976 season.
1977
Jac continued to drive the Ferguson sprint and won a total of eight main event features in the car.
1978
Jac ran the Yerian owned #75 winning over 10 main event features.
1979
Jac continued to drive the Yerian sprint in 1979 as well.
1980
Jac ran the Nickle Brothers #31 winning more than 12 main event features. He finished 10th in All-Star Circuit of Champions points.
1981
Jac continued winning in the #31 in Texas, Florida, and Indiana. He also ran the Bob Hampshire #63 and won his first non-winged sprint car feature at Lawrenceburg. He finished 10th in All-Star points.
1982
Jac won over 30 main event features, which included eight in Australia, for the U.S.A. He drove the Hampshire #63 and won many features with the All Stars and USAC. Later in the season, he was given his first big break to drive for a major sponsored team when C.K. Spurlock gave him the ride in the Gambler House car, sponsored by Kenny Rogers. He finished 10th in All-Star points and 16th in World of Outlaws points.
1983
The Wild Child, as he was now commonly referred to, ran Doug Howell's #4 to numerous top 5 finishes in the World of Outlaws. He finished the year 11th in WoO points
1984
Jac won over 25 features running for Bob Hamphire (#63) and the late Bob Weikert (#29). He finished 5th in All-Star points and 20th in WoO points
1985
A big win came in California's Vermille Classic. Jac drove the Watson #78 on the WoO circuit. First WoO win was on July 21 at Kokomo. He finished the year 10th in All-Star points and 16th in WoO points
1986
Jac ran for Daryl Saucier in the #1st car. He finished 5th in his first full year on the WoO circuit
1987
Haudenschild finished fourth in the World of Outlaws standings for Ted Lee in the #2. He won the Mini Gold Cup in Chico, California, and finished second at the Syracuse mile. His first major win came when we won the fourth annual King's Royal at Eldora.
1988
Jac set a new track record at the Eldora USAC race driving for Les Kepler in the Kokiak #18 (he also won that race). He missed over seven main events, but was still able to still finish 8th in the World of Outlaws points. He also drove for Verlin Chupp in the #7c during the year.
1989
Jac drove Ron Knott's Coors Extra Gold #48, and finished 6th in the WoO point standings, while winning 5 features. He also drove the Max Rogers #49 and Powell's #32u to ten other feature wins outside of the Word of Outlaws.
1990
Haudenschild jumped around a lot in the 1990 season. He drove Guy Forbrook's #5, Powell's #32u, Ron Pack's #4A(ces), and the Cat-Cam #511, to name a few. He finished 14th in WoO points
1991
Jac drove for Guy Forbrook at Knoxville. He won twenty features and won the Knoxville Championship for Guy. Jac was unable to win the driver points championship due to a couple of missed races because of illness. The Wild Child also finished 17th in WoO points
1992
Jac began the year racing with Guy Forbrook, principally at Knoxville Raceway and surrounding areas. He then obtained a ride in the Casey Luna #10 in May and raced with the World of Outlaws the remainder of the year. He managed to finish 8th in WoO points. The Wild Child also raced midgets in New Zealand for a short time during the 1992 season as well.
1993
1993 was the first of 8 years driving for Jack Elden in the famous Pennzoil #22. Jac won the inaugural Historical Big One at Eldora, which carried a $100,000 payday. He finished 6th in WoO points.
1994
Jac finished 6th in the World of Outlaws points with the Elden/Pennzoil team. He won his second King's Royal, and had 25 top five and 49 top ten finishes.
1995
Jac finished 2nd in the World of Outlaws points. His season ending stats looked like this: 10 first place finishes, 17 second place finishes, 19 third place finishes. He finished 5th or better in 60% of the races, and had four Hard Charger awards.
1996
The Wild Child finished 10th in the World of Outlaws points, after being injured and out of action for a month. End of the season stats totaled up to 19 heat wins, 1 dash win, 4 B-mains and 1 A-main win.
1997
Great season for Jac in the Elden sprint car. He finished 4th in the World of Outlaws point standings, and totaled up 81 top ten finishes, 55 top five finishes, 18 fast times (12
track records), 14 heat wins, 9 dash wins, 2 B-mains and 3 A-main wins.
1998
1998 brought 11 wins, including another Kings Royal championship, and a Gold Cup victory. He finished 7th in points, despite being knocked out of competition after being injured in New York during the summer. This was the last year for Pennzoil sponsorship on the Jack Elden owned sprint car.
1999
Jac won his second straight Chico Gold Cup championship. He also won the $50,000 prize at Oskaloosa for winning the Front Row Challenge after passing 25 cars when coming from the back. He finished 16th in WoO points, after running a partial schedule.
2000
Jac finished 10th in World of Outlaws points, in his last season running for Jack Elden. The team accumulated 2 WoO main event feature wins.
2001
Haudenschild drove Dennis Roth's #83 through April 29th at Huset's. He drove for Dwight Reidling, Denny Ashworth, Richard Hoffman, and Carl Wise to finish out the year.
He finished 20th in WoO points, after racing another partial schedule.
2002
The Wild Child reunited with Guy Forbrook to pilot the Wirtgen America #5. The two men raced most of the World of Outlaws circuit and finished 13th in points (Jac also drove the Stan Courtad 9h at the Brad Doty Classic in July).
2003
The biggest win of Haudenschild's career came aboard the Larry Woodward owned Race to Hawaii #4 sprint car. The Wild Child's victory in the Mopar Million Sprint at Eldora carries with it the distinction of being the richest sprint car race in the history of auto racing.
2004
Jac hooked up with Jamie Miller, a local car owner from Dayton. To the surprise of many fans, the duo ripped off 6 wins over the course of the first half of the season, before Jac accepted the Guy Forbrook WoO ride.
2005
Jac briefly reunited with long-time friend Jack Elden in the #22 car to start the year. He joined the Dennis Roth owned HR Cattle team for Ohio Speedweek and instantly started seeing success. The Wild Child realed off a number of wins with the All Stars and a WoO win at Eldora. He had accumulated 22 top ten finishes for Roth before breaking his wrist at Chico late in the season.
2006
Jac accepted the job to drive for Rick Wright in the Wright One Construction #35 World of Outlaws sprint car for the 2006 season.

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