Matt Kenseth (natural March 10, 1972) is a stock car racing driver for the Roush Racing team in NASCAR's Nextel Cup series. Kenseth was natural inside Cambridge, Wisconsin.

Pre-NASCAR Career

Lusterlessness began commodity automobile race around 1988 at a age of Sixteen, & won the feature around his third nighttime of racing. When camping within various tracks thruought Wisconsin he drove a #8 commodity car.(ata) Per early 1990's he was making the title for himself in the late model ranks of Wisconsin, beating nationally known drivers like Dick Trickle and Robbie Reiser. He won championships at Wisconsin Internation Speedway, Madison International Speedway. He decided to last to a south to the Hooters Ventral suction cup series around 1996, & about won the series championship as a greenhorn.

Busch Series

Kenseth manufactured his Busch Series (BGN) debut in 1996 for a few spot starts. Inside 1997, snowmobile racer Tim Bender had injuried, & Benders crew chief/owner Robbie Reiser known as his previous contender Kenseth to fill within until Bender was healed. A Reiser-Kenseth combination proved to exist as successful, culmulating inside another & third place ends in the BGN points. Flatness drove a #17 car sponsored by Lycos, Kraft paper, & Dewalt.

Winston Cup Nextel Cup

Lusterlessness processed his Winston Cup series debut in 1998 at Dover, filling in for the wounded Bill Elliott. He finished Sixth (the endure driver prior to Flatness to debut sustaining a Top 10 finish was Rusty Wallace).

Around 2000 Matt's entire team joined the Roush Racing organization, where it run & won a Raybestos Rookie of the Season. He won a Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte, & finished Fourteenth around points.

Inside 2001 Matt finished 13th around points.

Around 2002 Matt won the virtually all races (Phoebe) & Ace pole, however inconsistency driven him to finish Eighth in the final points.

Inside 2003 Matt dominated in a points standings for almost a entire year & became the 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup champion, the go driver to ever hang on to that title.

Around 2004 Matt won the IROC championship. He finished Eighth in the NASCAR points & certified for the inaugural Nextel Cup.

Around 2005 Matt made his 200th run. His career amount fallowing his 1st 200 starts is: Single championship, Nine wins, Forty Top Five's, 85 Top 10's, Unity pole position, & across $28.Five million earnings. He began retired the year by owning comparatively unfortunate ends, however experienced a hard redo mid-year dog. His hard begaround took him from either moo teens within championship points to Eighth in less than Octad races, & he certified for the "Chase for the Cup".

He has caused his totally NASCAR career in the #17 Ford car, which has been sponsored by DeWalt Tools & owned by Jack Roush.

Around 2000, Lusterlessness married Katie Martin. Matte has the single tyke, the boy, Ross, from either a last relationship. It as well own 2 cats, of these known as Lars when Lars Ullrich of Metallica, Kenseth's favorite b& and a single known as Charlotte, when a places of Kenseth's number one Winston Ventral suction cup win.