CUP: Scott Speed Lands Part-Time Ride For 2012

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CUP: Scott Speed Lands Part-Time Ride For 2012

Scott Speed will run a partial schedule for Leavine Family Racing next season...

Media Release | Posted December 13, 2011 Concord, NC

Scott Speed will have a new racing home in 2012. (Photo: LAT Photographic)

Scott Speed has joined Leavine Family Racing for a 15-race NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule for 2012 in the No. 95 Ford.

Speed, who has spent time in all three of NASCAR's national series, joins Leavine Family Racing after making 13 Sprint Cup starts in 2011 with Whitney Motorsports' No. 46 Ford.

The California native competed full-time with Red Bull Racing in 2010, earning two top-10 finishes and leading 21 laps. The 2012 campaign will be Speed's fifth Sprint Cup Series season.

"We are pleased to have Scott Speed join our team," team owner Bob Leavine said. "We, as a team, want to give Scott the equipment and the resources he needs to win – and that is what I believe he will do for us in return.

"Scott is a proven driver. He was the first American to race in Formula One since Michael Andretti and has a lot to offer our program as a teammate and a competitor."

Speed has made 18 starts in the Nationwide Series and 16 starts in the Camping World Truck Series over the past four years. He posted a Truck Series win at Dover International Speedway in 2008. His best Nationwide finish came last year on the road course at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve where he placed sixth. Speed earned his first career pole in the series in 2009.

"I am excited to team up with Bob Leavine and his guys at Leavine Family Racing," Speed said. They have a solid group of guys working on the team and I think it will be a real fun deal. Our goal is to build this race team to become competitive. We know it will be baby steps, but we are all excited to get it rolling."

Speed began his racing career in karting at the age of 10. Making his way through the open-wheel racing ranks throughout the West Coast, he made his Formula One debut in 2006. Speed recorded 28 F1 starts before making the transition to stock-car racing in 2007 with a move to the ARCA Racing Series.

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