Norm Benning
Norm Benning is a Craftsman Truck Series competitor from Level Green, PA. A determined competitor, Benning has logged 248 career starts in NASCAR's national touring series. Norm continues to build a solid body of work in NASCAR competition.
About Norm Benning
Norm Benning is the Craftsman Truck Series' great folk hero, an owner-driver from Level Green, Pennsylvania who kept showing up long after the sport's economics said he shouldn't. Born in 1952, Benning made 248 career starts, hauling his own equipment and qualifying on stubbornness as much as speed, and he was still racing trucks into his seventies. The numbers are honest about the struggle: no wins, no top-10s, a best finish of 12th at Talladega in 2013. But the numbers miss the point. Benning's fight was with the entry list itself, and beating it a couple hundred times in self-owned trucks may be the most defiant statistic in the division's history. His national-series story reaches back decades further, including a handful of Cup Series starts between 1989 and 1993. Fans adopted Benning because he embodies something the modern sport rarely rewards: racing purely for the love of it. Every underfunded dreamer in the garage is following a trail he spent decades stubbornly keeping open.
Written by Richard R. Glover, NASCAR Reference
2025 Season
Best Tracks
Norm Benning's best track is Canadian Tire Motorsports Park with 0 wins and a 20.7 average finish in 7 races.
| Track | Races | Avg Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian Tire Motorsports Park | 7 | 20.7 |
| Daytona International Speedway | 8 | 21 |
| Talladega Superspeedway | 13 | 22.2 |
| Eldora Speedway | 6 | 23.2 |
| World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway | 7 | 24.3 |
Recent Results
Norm Benning's most recent 20 race results across the Cup Series.
Year-by-Year Results
Norm Benning has competed in 17 Cup Series seasons, with a career average finish of N/A.
| Season | Races | Wins | Avg Start | Avg Finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | 0 | 31.83 | 31.92 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 32.50 | 28.50 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 31.50 | 26.00 |
| 2021 | 13 | 0 | 36.54 | 32.31 |
| 2020 | 17 | 0 | 33.88 | 30.71 |
| 2019 | 14 | 0 | 29.93 | 24.79 |
| 2018 | 16 | 0 | 28.50 | 24.94 |
| 2017 | 20 | 0 | 27.45 | 23.05 |
| 2016 | 8 | 0 | 29.75 | 26.63 |
| 2015 | 19 | 0 | 28.05 | 24.79 |
| 2014 | 22 | 0 | 29.73 | 24.36 |
| 2013 | 21 | 0 | 32.90 | 26.38 |
| 2012 | 17 | 0 | 34.00 | 23.65 |
| 2011 | 19 | 0 | 33.05 | 27.00 |
| 2010 | 25 | 0 | 33.00 | 25.16 |
| 2009 | 24 | 0 | 32.13 | 25.21 |
| 2008 | 8 | 0 | 32.38 | 32.13 |
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