Joel Eklund
Joel Eklund | |
Age | 32 |
Nationality | Swedish |
STARS Lowe's Premier Series | |
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Car # | 05 |
Years Competed | 2021 |
Debut Season | 2021 |
Former Team(s) | Mach 5 Motorsports |
Championships | 0 |
Pole Positions | 0 |
Wins | 0 |
Top 5 Finishes | 0 |
Top 10 Finishes | 0 |
Best Finish | |
First Attempt | TBD |
STARS Lowe's Truck Series | |
Car # | 36 |
Years Competed | 2018- |
Debut Season | 2018 |
Current Team | Outlaw Racers Group |
Former Team(s) | Doug Hammond Motorsports |
Championships | 0 |
Pole Positions | 0 |
Wins | 3 |
Top 5 Finishes | 9 |
Top 10 Finishes | 13 |
First Start | 2018 Spotify 100 |
First Win | 2018 Air Canada 100 |
Last Win | 2021 Sunshine 100 |
Miscellaneous | |
Created By | WildWoobs |
STARS Driver |
Joel Eklund is a STARS Premier Series driver from Umeå, Sweden. He currently drives for Outlaw Racers Group.
Early Life
Joel was born on August 29th, 1993. His first taste of racing was when he was 5 years old, when a STARS race at Talladega was being shown on tv. He asked his dad how racecars work and his dad replied with, "IT'S MAGIC JOEL, IT'S MAGIC!", and that alone made Joel want to be a STARS driver someday. At age 16, he wanted to prepare to become a racecar driver so on a vacation in Tuscon, Arizona, he stole a bus and drove 8 hours to Las Vegas, Nevada. He almost crashed the bus during the trip when an American Hornet (holy shit) snuck onto the bus. He would actually do this trip three times, one of those times was a failure after he fell asleep at the wheel and got towed back.
Once back home in Sweden, he got word that his bus trips got eyes from team owners, one being his grandfather that lived in North Carolina. In excitement, he yelled out "GRANDAD? FLINTSTONES?" Nobody knows why he yelled out Flintstones, but he did. He would get his first Late Model start at Concord Speedway, where he would finish 15th. He would only enter 5 more races that season as the teams computer had to get replaced after on a late night quest to find "fat boobies", Joel wound up putting lots of viruses on the computer, and downloading Bonzi Buddy, which the team didn't find amusing. He wouldn't be fired for this.