Road Course Ringers
A "ringer" is a driver who does not normally run the oval race tracks, but attends (and often competes well at) the road courses.
| Driver | Sprint Starts | Sprint Wins | Nationwide Starts | Nationwide Wins | Truck Starts | Truck Wins | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon Ash | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Attempted Sonoma and Phoenix in 2010 | |
| Tony Ave | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Attempted Sonoma in 2011 | |
| Matt Bell | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Driving for Go Green Racing at Watkins Glen | |
| Patrick Carpentier | 40 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Driving for RAB Racing at Montreal | |
| Tim Connolly | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Driving for SR2 Motorsports at Watkins Glen | |
| Chris Cook | 4 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Ringer for Rick Ware Racing | |
| Eric Curran | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Making Nationwide debut at Watkins Glen International | |
| Tomy Drissi | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Driving for Tommy Baldwin Racing at Sonoma | |
| Jean-François Dumoulin | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Attempted Montreal in 2011 | |
| Louis-Philippe Dumoulin | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Driving for Randy Hill Racing at Montreal | |
| Ron Fellows | 23 | 0 | 23 | 4 | 15 | 2 | Road course ringer for JR Motorsports | |
| Victor Gonzalez, Jr. | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Driving for RAB Racing at Road America | |
| Kenny Habul | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Driving for Rick Ware Racing at Watkins Glen | |
| Tom Hubert | 11 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 15 | 0 | Ran two Nationwide races in 2009 | |
| Billy Johnson | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Occasional ringer for Roush-Fenway Racing | |
| P. J. Jones | 33 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 18 | 0 | Drove for Robby Gordon Motorsports in 2011 | |
| Kyle Kelley | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Driving Nationwide race at Road America | |
| Alex Kennedy | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Drove for NEMCO Motorsports in 2012 | |
| Patrick Long | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Making Cup debut at Watkins Glen | |
| Max Papis | 35 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 44 | 0 | Driving for Richard Childress Racing at Road America | |
| Andy Pilgrim | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Drove for Whitney Motorsports at Infineon 2011 | |
| Alex Popow | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Driving in place of Tayler Malsam at Watkins Glen | |
| Bill Prietzel | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Driving for R3 Motorsports at Road America | |
| Andrew Ranger | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Ran five races in 2011 | |
| Boris Said | 45 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 65 | 1 | Driving for FAS Lane Racing at Sonoma | |
| Brian Simo | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Attempted Sonoma race for Inception Motorsports | |
| Dexter Stacey | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Driving for R3 Motorsports at Watkins Glen | |
| Alex Tagliani | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Driving for Turner Motorsports at Montreal | |
| Jacques Villeneuve | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 0 | Road course ringer for Penske Racing | |
| Derek White | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Making Nationwide debut at Montreal | |
| John Young | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Driving Nationwide race at Road America |
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