Randy Tolsma

Randy Tolsma(born May 4, 1966) is an American formerstock car racingdriver. Tolsma began his racing career ingo-kartsat the age of nine, before moving intosprint cars,running as high asUSAC,where he won four track championships. He failed to qualify for the 1996Indianapolis 500and then shifted his focus toNASCARand made his first start in theCraftsman Truck Serieslater that year. From then until 2002, he made 107 starts in the Truck Series. He also made 13Busch Seriesstarts in 2000 and 2001.

Randy Tolsma
Born	(1966-05-04)May 4, 1966 Meridian, Idaho
NASCARXfinity Seriescareer
13 races run over 2 years
Best finish	45th (2001)
First race	2000MBNA 200(Dover)
Last race	2001Sam's Club 200(Rockingham)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCARCraftsman Truck Seriescareer
107 races run over 7 years
Best finish	8th (2000)
First race	1996GM Goodwrench/AC Delco 300(Phoenix)
Last race	2002Advance Auto Parts 250(Martinsville)
First win	1997Dodge California Truckstop 300(Mesa Marin)
Last win	2000Federated Auto Parts 250(Nashville)
Wins Top tens Poles 2 46 2

Tolsma made his NASCAR debut in1996atPhoenix International Raceway.Driving the #61IWX Motor FreightChevrolet SilveradoforSteve Coulter'sXpress Motorsportsteam, he started 16th but finished 29th after wrecking early in the race. Tolsma returned to the team in1997,running a limited schedule for Coulter. Running 15 races, he had 5 top-tens, including his first career win atMesa Marin Raceway,where he held off fellow rookieStacy Comptonfor the final twelve laps. Tolsma teamed with Coulter to run full-time in1998,grabbing his first career pole atIndianapolis Raceway Park,and had ten top-ten finishes. Late in the season, Coulter shut down his Truck team, and Tolsma split the year driving forLiberty Racing,Phil Bonifield,andDominic Dobson.He ran 26 races total and finished 14th in points.

For1999,Tolsma signed to drive the new #25Supergard Motor OilDodge RamforImpact Motorsports.He sat on the pole in the season-opening race atHomesteadand posted ten top-ten finishes throughout the course of the season, finishing eleventh in points. In2000,Tolsma grabbed fifteen top-tens and a win atNashville.He finished eighth in points. He also made his Busch Series debut atDover,driving the #25Lance SnacksChevy forTeam Rensi Motorsports.He started 38th and finishing 28th.

After Impact began running into financial problems, Tolsma left to drive for Rensi's truck team. Unfortunately, their #16 was unsponsored, and despite Tolsma being in the top-ten in points, the team folded after thePower Stroke Diesel 200.He finished out the year driving twelve races for Rensi's Busch team, his best finish an 18th atMemphis.He was unable to keep his ride for the 2002 season, and ran one Truck race atMartinsville,where he finished 18th. He has not raced in NASCAR since.

Motorsports career results

IRL IndyCar Series

Year	Team	Chassis	No.	Engine	1	2	3	Rank	Points	Ref
1996	Zunne Group Racing	LolaT93	24	Buick	WDW	PHX	INDY DNQ	-	0

NASCAR

(key) (Bold– Pole position awarded by qualifying time.Italics– Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Busch Series

NASCARBusch Seriesresults
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	NBSC	Pts	Ref
2000	Team Rensi Motorsports	25	Chevy	DAY	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	BRI	TEX	NSV	TAL	CAL	RCH	NHA	CLT	DOV	SBO	MYB	GLN	MLW	NZH	PPR	GTY	IRP	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV 28	CLT	CAR	MEM	PHO	HOM		100th	79
2001				DAY	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	BRI	TEX	NSH	TAL	CAL	RCH	NHA	NZH	CLT	DOV	KEN	MLW	GLN	CHI	GTY	PPR 23	IRP 33	MCH 33	BRI 22	DAR 29	RCH 38	DOV 26	KAN 40	CLT 25	MEM 18	PHO 25	CAR 31	HOM	45th	924

Craftsman Truck Series

NASCARCraftsman Truck Seriesresults
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	NCTC	Pts	Ref
1996	Xpress Motorsports	61	Chevy	HOM	PHO	POR	EVG	TUS	CNS	HPT	BRI	NZH	MLW	LVL	I70	IRP	FLM	GLN	NSV	RCH	NHA	MAR	NWS	SON	MMR	PHO 29	LVS DNQ				115th	77
1997				WDW DNQ	TUS 19	HOM DNQ	PHO DNQ	POR	EVG 26	I70 DNQ	NHA	TEX 8	BRI	NZH	MLW 31	LVL	CNS	HPT 15	IRP 6	FLM	NSV 32	GLN 32	RCH 9	MAR 14	SON 18	MMR 1	CAL 5	PHO 33	LVS 30		22nd	1802
1998				WDW 20	HOM 37	PHO 10	POR 2	EVG 3	I70 17	GLN 9	TEX 25	BRI 5	MLW 12	NZH 18	CAL 6	PPR 9	IRP 6	NHA 25	FLM 26	NSV 6	HPT 25	LVL 22	RCH 7	MEM 13	GTY 16						14th	3121
	Liberty Racing	84	Ford																							MAR 14
	Team Racing	11	Chevy																								SON 19
	PacWest S/T Motorsports	78	Dodge																									MMR 34	PHO 34	LVS 25
1999	Impact Motorsports	25	Dodge	HOM 17*	PHO 15	EVG 11	MMR 13	MAR 7	MEM 8	PPR 26	I70 8	BRI 16	TEX 17	PIR 6	GLN 13	MLW 8	NSV 21	NZH 5	MCH 15	NHA 10	IRP 9	GTY 16	HPT 13	RCH 8	LVS 16	LVL 25	TEX 5	CAL 12			11th	3173
2000				DAY 15	HOM 6	PHO 31	MMR 25*	MAR 7	PIR 29	GTY 3	MEM 7	PPR 12	EVG 2*	TEX 3	KEN 6	GLN 10	MLW 2	NHA 3	NZH 31	MCH 10	IRP 10	NSV 1	CIC 10	RCH 34	DOV 16		CAL 20				8th	3157
			Chevy																							TEX 7
2001	Team Rensi Motorsports	61	Chevy	DAY 5	HOM 6	MMR 10	MAR 5	GTY 11	DAR 13	PPR 28	DOV 28	TEX 8	MEM 13	MLW 30	KAN 13	KEN 8	NHA 12	IRP 19	NSH	CIC	NZH	RCH	SBO	TEX	LVS	PHO	CAL				18th	1859
2002				DAY	DAR	MAR 18	GTY	PPR	DOV	TEX	MEM	MLW	KAN	KEN	NHA	MCH	IRP	NSH	RCH	TEX	SBO	LVS	CAL	PHO	HOM						81st	109

External links

• Archived version of Randy Tolsma's home page
• Randy Tolsmadriver statistics at Racing-Reference