| Butch Gilliland | |||||||
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| Born | February 25, 1958 Albuquerque, New Mexico | ||||||
| Achievements | 1997 Winston West Series champion 1997 and 1999 Winston West Series Most Popular Driver | ||||||
| Awards | West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame (2012) | ||||||
| NASCAR Cup Series career | |||||||
| 10 races run over 11 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 60th (1997) | ||||||
| First race | 1990 Banquet Frozen Foods 300 (Sonoma) | ||||||
| Last race | 1999 Save Mart/Kragen 350 (Sonoma) | ||||||
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| NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
| 12 races run over 3 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 39th (1995) | ||||||
| First race | 1995 Skoal Bandit Copper World Classic (Phoenix) | ||||||
| Last race | 1997 Carquest 420K (Las Vegas) | ||||||
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Leonard N. "Butch" Gilliland [1] (born February 25, 1958) is a former NASCAR Winston Cup Series and Craftsman Truck Series driver from California.[2] He was the 1997 Winston West Series champion and based on the west coast.[2] All of his 10 Cup starts came at either Sears Point Raceway or Phoenix International Raceway, most of them as West competitors in Cup/West combination races, and all 12 of his Truck Series starts came at various west coast tracks.[2] He has one NASCAR top-ten, which he recorded in a Truck Series race at Saugus Speedway in Santa Clarita, California in 1995.[2] He retired from competitive racing in 2002.[3]
He is the father of former Cup Series driver David Gilliland and the grandfather of NASCAR Cup Series driver Todd Gilliland.