Butch Gilliland
| Butch Gilliland | |||||||
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| Born | February 25, 1958 Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. | ||||||
| Achievements | 1997 NASCAR Winston West Series champion 1997 and 1999 NASCAR 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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| ARCA Menards Series career | |||||||
| 2 races run over 2 years | |||||||
| First race | 1992 NASCAR/ARCA Texas World Speedway Shootout (Texas World) | ||||||
| Last race | 1993 Western Auto Texas Shootout II (Texas World) | ||||||
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| ARCA Menards Series West career | |||||||
| 123 races run over 14 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 1st (1997) | ||||||
| First race | 1987 American National Bank 200 (Mesa Marin) | ||||||
| Last race | 2002 Pontiac Widetrack Grand Prix 200 (California) | ||||||
| First win | 1995 Valencia Dodge 200 (Saugus) | ||||||
| Last win | 1999 Bank One 250 (Rocky Mountain) | ||||||
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| Statistics up to date as of February 25, 2025. | |||||||
Leonard N. "Butch" Gilliland (born February 25, 1958) is an American former NASCAR Winston Cup Series and Craftsman Truck Series driver from California. He was the 1997 Winston West Series champion and based on the west coast. 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. He has one NASCAR national series top-ten, which he recorded in a Truck Series race at Saugus Speedway in Santa Clarita, California in 1995. He retired from competitive racing in 2002.
He is the father of former Cup Series driver David Gilliland and the grandfather of NASCAR Cup Series driver Todd Gilliland.