August Louis "Auggie" Vidovich II (born February 20, 1981) is an American professional

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driver.

Racing career

Vidovich was born in

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. Vidovich has competed in the Elite Division Southwest Series for several years. He had a NASCAR

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start in 1998 and two starts in 1999. He won the Southwest Series championship in 2003, and finished second in 2000, 2001, and 2005. In 2005, Vidovich won the Toyota All-Star Challenge. At the end of that season, Vidovich tried out for

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's Truck Series team in the team's TV show on the

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, '' Roush Racing: Driver X'', but was not selected. However, in the spring of 2006, Roush did decide to hire Vidovich to run one Truck race in place of

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. Midway through the 2006 season, he was signed to pilot the No. 4 GEICO Dodge Charger for the Biagi Brothers in the

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, and recorded a best finish of 15th at the

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. He raced in 21 of 35 events and finished 33rd in the standings. In

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, Vidovich was to have remained with Biagi running full-time and the team switching from Dodge to Toyota, but the team shut down in January of that year due to lack of sponsorship after GEICO left for Phoenix Racing's No. 7 car of

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. He raced in one

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race in 2008. In 2009, Vidovich qualified

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' No. 60 car for Roush in the now-Nationwide Series in a number of the standalone races when Edwards was at whatever track the Cup Series was racing at that weekend. In 2010, Vidovich raced in four West races; he won the

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race and finished fourth at

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. These were his last NASCAR starts.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

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

Nationwide Series

Craftsman Truck Series

K&N Pro Series West

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vidovich, Auggie, II Living people 1981 births Sportspeople from San Diego County, California Racing drivers from California NASCAR drivers People from Lakeside, California RFK Racing drivers