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Buzzie Reutimann

Reutimann in 2023

BornEmil Lloyd Reutimann
May 7, 1941 (age 83)
Zephyrhills, Florida, U.S.
Motorsports career
Debut season1957
Car number00
Championships5
Championship titles
1973 All Star Stock Car Racing League Champion
NASCAR Cup Series career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish119th (1963)
First race1963 Race No. 2 (Golden Gate Speedway)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 1 0

Emil Lloyd "Buzzie" Reutimann (born May 7, 1941) is a former NASCAR driver from Zephyrhills, Florida. He is the father of former driver David Reutimann. Reutimann was inducted into the Northeast Dirt Modified Hall of Fame in 1997[1] and the Eastern Motorsport Press Association Hall of Fame in 2006.[2]

Reutimann began working on race cars at age 13 despite his mother's protests.[1] Primarily a short track racer, he made one NASCAR start on November 11, 1962, in Tampa, Florida, at Golden Gate Speedway.[3] He started 18th and finished 10th in the event, which was considered part of the 1963 season.[1] He was given the nickname "Buzzie" at birth after several nurses noticed he made buzzing sounds as an infant. He drove the number #00, and so did his son David in the Cup Series.

While competing on dirt tracks in the Northeast, Reutimann was a summer resident on a farm in the Asbury section of Franklin Township, Warren County, New Jersey.[4]

In 1972, Reutimann won the dirt modified track championship at the Orange County Fair Speedway in Middletown, New York. That same year he captured the win at the prestigious Eastern States 200. Reutimann would also win the first running of the event now known as Super Dirt Week in 1972 at the Syracuse Fairgrounds. He would win again in 1973.[5]

Reutimann has continued to race and win into his eighties. He competes weekly at East Bay Raceway Park in Tampa, Florida.[6][7]

Motorsports career results

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

Grand National Series

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NASCAR Grand National Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 NGNC Pts Ref
1963 - 22A Chevy BIR GGS
10 		THS RSD DAY DAY DAY PIF AWS HBO ATL HCY BRI AUG RCH GPS SBO BGS MAR NWS CLB THS DAR ODS RCH CLT BIR ATL DAY MBS SVH DTS BGS ASH OBS BRR BRI GPS NSV CLB AWS PIF BGS ONA DAR HCY RCH MAR DTS NWS THS CLT SBO HBO RSD 119th 256 [8]
  1. ^ a b c James, Brant (February 18, 2005). "The Reutimanns: A history of racing". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
  2. ^ "EMPA Hall of Fame – Buzzie Reutimann". Eastern Motorsports Press Association. Retrieved August 30, 2024.
  3. ^ James, Brant (February 16, 2007). "Tears flow as Reutimann slips into Daytona 500". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
  4. ^ Vrentas, Jenny. "Farm Aid; From his childhood days, NASCAR's Reutimann has deep Jersey roots", The Star-Ledger, June 7, 2009. Accessed January 7, 2025, via Newspapers.com. "Here in tiny Asbury is the 400-acre farm NASCAR driver David Reutimann describes with the kind of delight taken from a childhood keepsake: The white farmhouse that's as old as America.... Thirty years ago, though, he was a skinny, blond-haired boy spending his summers on the farm in Asbury -- which has been owned by the Sigler family for more than a century -- while his father, Buzzie Reutimann, was making legend on the Northeast dirt car circuit."
  5. ^ Waltz, Keith (2022-09-24). "Buzzie - 50 Years Later". SPEED SPORT. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
  6. ^ "Reutimann wins second feature this season". Archived from the original on 2015-01-31.
  7. ^ "Buzzie Reutimann: 81-Year-Old Ageless Wonder". Outside Groove.com. Retrieved June 28, 2023.
  8. ^ "Buzzie Reutimann – 1963 NASCAR Grand National Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved June 28, 2023.