Ed Kosiski is an American
racing driver
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who won the
NASCAR
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Whelen All-American Series
The NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series (formerly the Whelen All-American Series, Winston Racing Series and the Dodge Weekly Series) is a points championship for NASCAR-sanctioned local short-track motor racing in the United States and Canad ...
national championship in 1998.
[Schaefer, Paul. ''Where Stars Are Born: Celebrating 25 Years of NASCAR Weekly Racing''. Coastal 181, Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA, 2006. . pp. 111-116.]
Driving a family-owned
dirt
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* Debris: scattered pieces of waste or remains
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late model
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vehicle, Kosiski won 16 of the 18 races that he entered at a one-third-mile clay race track in
Lincoln, Nebraska
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.
He is the younger brother of
Joe Kosiski and
Steve Kosiski, and son of the
Bob Kosiski.
Kosiski competed in one
ARCA Racing Series
The ARCA Menards Series is an American stock car series, the premier division of the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA). It is considered a minor, semi-professional league of stock car racing, used as a feeder series into the three nationa ...
event in 1997. He finished 11th.
As part of the 25th anniversary of the
NASCAR Weekly Series in 2006, Kosiski was named one of the series' All Time Top 25 drivers.
[Schaefer, Paul. ''Where Stars Are Born: Celebrating 25 Years of NASCAR Weekly Racing''. Coastal 181, Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA, 2006. . pp. 163-170.]
In 2011 Kosiski was convicted of Attempted 1st Degree Sexual Assault of a Child as part of an FBI investigation into a Nebraska sex trafficking ring. He was jailed and released in 2018.
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NASCAR drivers
ARCA Menards Series drivers
American racing drivers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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