Brian Vickers

14 Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing as an interim driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for the injured Tony Stewart.

Vickers' career has been marred by a series of health issues since 2010 that have included blood clots and heart problems.

After competing in the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Racing Series in 1999, he moved to USAR ProCup; and was named Rookie of the Year.

Going down the backstretch, Johnson attempted to pass Dale Jr. on the inside and Vickers tried to follow Jimmie and bump draft him past Earnhardt.

[6] Fortunately for Vickers, Jimmie Johnson ended up winning the 2006 NEXTEL Cup Series Championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway leaving that race at Talladega behind.

The next week, the team regrouped, however, and scored a tenth-place finish in their first outing, the Auto Club 500 at California, which was coincidentally Toyota's first top 10 in the Cup Series.

Toyota brought a new engine to Charlotte, and Vickers showed its potential and surprised many by leading more than seventy laps of the race and having the dominant car.

However, towards the end of the race, the power steering of the vehicle began to fail, and eventually ceased operation completely.

Immediately as Vickers entered pit road, the caution flew for debris on the track; supposedly from his car.

Richert managed to salvage the race through pit strategy; enabling Vickers to score a fifth-place finish.

The resulting inattention to its "current car" program severely hampered Vickers' efforts during the remaining races of that platform.

One of Vickers' failures to make the race was due to a disqualification from the lineup of the 2007 Lenox Industrial Tools 300, after his car failed post-qualifying inspection three times.

In 2008, Vickers, with new crew chief Kevin Hamlin, qualified for the fiftieth running of the Daytona 500 after racing himself in the field with an eleventh-place finish in the Gatorade Duel.

Vickers went on the next weekend and led sixty-one laps in the Coca-Cola 600 before he lost his left rear wheel and crashed about halfway through the race.

83 Red Bull Toyota to the side of the road and the team changed four tires in Times Square with traffic still moving around them.

After finishing seventh in the Chevy Rock and Roll 400 at Richmond, Vickers clinched a spot in the 2009 Chase for the Sprint Cup.

On May 13, 2010, it was announced that Vickers, who had earned three top 10s in the first 11 races, would not be participating in the Autism Speaks 400 at Dover International Speedway due to an undisclosed medical condition, later revealed to be blood clots in his legs and around his lungs.

[8] On May 21, 2010, six days after being released from a hospital for the aforementioned blood clot issue, it was announced that Vickers would miss the remainder of the season.

After season's end, Red Bull shut down its Cup Series team, leaving Vickers without a ride for 2012.

61 Ferrari in the GTE-AM class for the FIA World Endurance Championship at the 6 Hours of Spa and the 24 Heures du Mans.

In reply Vickers bumped Harvick when entering pit road after the race was over; he climbed out and the two briefly argued.

He led 4 laps and had a very fast racecar, even though he had to start at the rear of the field because Jason Bowles had qualified the car as Vickers was racing at Road America.

Vickers led 63 laps in the Nationwide Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway but finished second to Kyle Busch.

Ironically, the next day, Vickers held off Busch to win his third career Sprint Cup Series race during the 2013 Camping World RV Sales 301 at New Hampshire after making a late race pass on Tony Stewart, and retaining the lead on a green-white-checkered finish as Stewart ran out of fuel.

55 for the 2014 and 2015 seasons;[16] on August 19, it was announced that following the release of Mark Martin to substitute for the injured Tony Stewart, Vickers would drive the No.

55 in twelve of the season's final 13 races, the exception being Talladega, where Michael Waltrip will drive the car, as previously scheduled.

[25][26] It was also announced that NASCAR had granted him a waiver to make him eligible for the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship should he qualify.

[26] Vickers' replacements in the 55 were team boss Michael Waltrip and MWR test driver Brett Moffitt.

14 Chevrolet SS for all the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events with all sponsors besides Bass Pro Shops (which Ty Dillon was hired for) after Tony Stewart was injured in a sand rail accident.

Green 2001  K. Harvick 2002  G. Biffle 2003  B. Vickers 2004  M. Truex Jr. 2005  M. Truex Jr. 2006  K. Harvick 2007  C. Edwards 2008  C. Bowyer 2009  Ky. Busch 2010  B. Keselowski 2011  R. Stenhouse Jr. 2012  R. Stenhouse Jr. 2013  A. Dillon 2014  C. Elliott 2015  C. Buescher 2016  D. Suárez 2017  W. Byron 2018  T. Reddick 2019  T. Reddick 2020  A. Cindric 2021  D. Hemric 2022  T. Gibbs 2023  C. Custer 2024  J. Allgaier

Vickers' crew working on his 2004 car.
2007 Nextel Cup car
2008 Sprint Cup car
2009 Sprint Cup car
Vickers at a merchandise trailer
Vickers during the 2011 Toyota/Save Mart 350
Vickers during the 2013 STP Gas Booster 500
Vickers' 2013 Nationwide Series car at Road America
Vickers driving the 55 at Sonoma Raceway in 2014
Vickers' 2016 Cup car for Stewart-Haas Racing