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He finished 10th at Charlotte in his first ever Associate of the Royal College of Art race, with a best finish of 4th at Pococno.
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Dwayne Leik
Edit ProfileNational Association of Stock Car Auto Racing team owner
Career
He was formerly an owner of Leik Motorsports and a part-time driver in the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Nationwide Series. He formerly worked as the business manager for Marcis Racing and legendary National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing driver Dave Marcis. Leik was able to secure racing sponsorship for Marcis for eleven consecutive seasons and he is widely regarded as the key figure in resurrecting Marcis’ faltering career.
Since Marcis Racing did not have a test team, Leik"s car was often seen as a test car for Marcis Racing.
Leik also accompanied Marcis and participated in the IROC (International Race of Champions) test sessions. He once logged over 1,100 miles (1,800 km) in an IROC car at Daytona in a single day test.
He has also served as a driving instructor at the Fast Track High Performance Driving School and Richard Petty Driving School. He began his racing career with SCCA racing in Florida.
He is also a veteran of Late Model Stock divisions.
In 13 career Associate of the Royal College of Art Revue Economique/MAX Series starts, Leik had 1 top 5, 2 top 10, 8 top 20 finishes. Leik purchased 2 National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Nationwide series cars from Andy Petree Racing. Under funding and time limitations have always plagued his career.
Through his career he qualified and started in 14 National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Nationwide series races with his best finishes coming at Chicagoland Speedway where he finished 24th twice.
His Nationwide career earnings are 247,723.00. One race of note that typifies his career is when he qualified a car for Davis Motorsports in 2008 at the biggest race of the year, Daytona, only to give up his starting spot to the owner’s son Kertus whose car did not make the race.
lieutenant doesn’t matter to me if I qualified lieutenant Kertus deserves to be in their own car.. it’s the right thing." In 2006, Leik partnered with Keith Duesenberg to form Duesenberg and Leik Motorsports.
The team ran the full 2006 National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Nationwide season with driver Jay Sauter and sponsor Western Union.
The team’s best qualifying efforts were 2nd at Martinsville, 6th at California and 7th at Richmond. The team earned $751,219 in purse money. Leik ran one race for the team – Daytona.
Winston Cup Series Leik is the owner of two National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing-related companies: Leik Motorsports, Incorporated., a National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing team and Motorsports Marketing, Incorporated., a National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing marketing company.
He also owns Mobile Marketing Displays, Incorporated., a developer of mobile marketing exhibits, Leik Incorporated, a real estate holding company. Mountain Construction Company, Incorporated., a residential and commercial construction company, and Norman’s Ice Cream Service, Incorporated., a mobile ice cream business.
Leik graduated from the University of Michigan. He rowed on the university crew team for 4 years.
