Michael Annett, who turned 39 years outdated this 12 months, has tragically handed away. Annett competed in any respect three nationwide ranges of the game, and was a winner within the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Components (previously Xfinity) Sequence.
Annett was a full-time Cup driver from 2014 by means of 2016 as effectively, beginning 106 races and putting as excessive as thirteenth within the 2015 Daytona 500. He drove for each Tommy Baldwin and later Harry Scott in his NASCAR Cup profession. As a driver within the secondary degree of the game, Annett competed in 321 races between 2008 and 2021, together with a number of seasons with JR Motorsports.
His lone victory as a NASCAR driver got here with the crew co-owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr., successful the 2019 season-opener at Daytona. He positioned as excessive as fifth within the championship standings, which got here in 2012 whereas driving for Richard Petty Motorsports.
Michael Annett, JR Motorsports Chevrolet
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“Our ideas and prayers are with all the Annett household with the passing of our buddy Michael Annett,” stated JR Motorsports in a press release. “Michael was a key member of JRM from 2017 till he retired in 2021 and was an essential half in turning us into the four-car group we stay right this moment.”
Annett solely began 9 Truck races, incomes a runner-up end at Kentucky in 2008, ending half-a-second again of race winner Johnny Benson Jr.
Annett additionally received twice as an ARCA driver, taking the checkered flag at Talladega in 2007 and Daytona in 2008.
Annett made his last begin on the nationwide degree of NASCAR in 2021, ending eleventh within the Phoenix finale. He additionally missed a handful of races that 12 months attributable to a stress fracture in his proper femur.
No particulars had been offered concerning the character of his passing at the moment.
NASCAR world remembers Annett
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