Stephen Nasse

A third-generation racer, Nasse started his racing career in the go-kart ranks at age four.^[2] He won a national karting championship.^[3] He grew up watching racing at his hometown track Sunshine (now Showtime) Speedway. As a 13-year-old, he moved up to Florida's FasTrucks.^[3][4] Nasse had his first late model win as a 14-year-old in the 2009 New Smyrna Speedway's World Series of Asphalt Racing,^[3] and moved up to full-time late model racing in 2010.^[5] He and his family team eventually made two NASCAR K&N Pro Series East starts in 2012.^[6] Nasse won the Red Eye 100 late model race in 2012 and 2013.^[7]

Nasse was running in the Pro Cup Series in 2013 when he caught pneumonia, keeping him off of the track for two-plus months. After he recovered, Nasse ran in the Pro Cup Series' successor, the CARS Super Late Model Tour, teaming with DLP Motorsports.^[8]

In 2015, Nasse spun leader Anderson Bowen on the first lap of the Rattler 250 at South Alabama Speedway. Nasse took responsibility for the incident but called it an accident, claiming that Bowen took an irregular line into corner entry, braking earlier than Nasse was expecting.^[9] During a Pro All Stars Series South contest at South Boston Speedway, Nasse was spun from the lead by Brandon Setzer and retired from the race.^[10] 2016 saw Nasse take checkered flags in various events, including the Baby Rattler 125 and races sanctioned by the Bright House Challenge Series and the CARS Tour.^[11] Multiple run-ins with Dalton Sargeant led to a brief rivalry between the two.^[12] In the 2016 Snowball Derby, Nasse wrecked William Byron under caution in retaliation for an on-track incident;^[3] Nasse later called out Byron, Johanna Long and Todd Gilliland for moving up by writing checks and not moving up by talent.^[13]

Nasse won the 2017 Southern Super Series championship and also claimed a victory in the CARS Super Late Model Tour season finale.^[4][14] The SSS championship came after Nasse started the season unsure of whether he would run the full season, as he had never done so in the past.^[15]

He switched teams from DLP Motorsports to Jett Motorsports in 2018 and followed the championship up with an early 2018 championship in the World Series of Asphalt.^[16][6] In April 2018, Nasse punched rival Donnie Wilson while Wilson was still in his car after an on-track incident at Five Flags Speedway.^[17] Nasse later controlled the last third of the race to win the Mobile 300 at Mobile International Speedway.^[18] At the Snowball Derby in December, Nasse wrapped his car in a Fortnite-style winter paint scheme.^[19] He also spent $5000^[3] to hire what he thought was a Roush Fenway Racing development pit crew for the race but had myriad problems with the crew during the day, losing spots on pit road and eventually returning to the track twice with a loose wheel, ending his day in a crash.^[3] Nasse, infuriated by the smirks he saw on the rented pit crew's faces, charged the crew after exiting his car over an estimated $40,000 loss.^[20]

Nasse switched to a freelance schedule in 2019 instead of running for any one particular points championship.^[21] He won the super late model portion of Short Track Nationals at Bristol Motor Speedway in May, prevailing over Casey Roderick.^[22] At Winchester Speedway, Nasse led all but eight laps en route to a Winchester 400 win.^[23] After leading laps in the All American 400 at Fairgrounds Speedway, brake issues dropped Nasse from contention.^[24] He also finished first in the Snowball Derby in December, but was stripped of the win during post-race technical inspection for having titanium piston caps in the braking system, something that was explicitly disallowed in the rulebook. Nasse claimed that his former brake supplier, PFC Brakes, told technical inspectors to check the brakes, and the claim was not immediately refuted by PFC employees, although the company later released a statement denying involvement.^[25] Nasse also blasted PFC for playing favorites within their customer base.^[26]

To start the 2020 season, Nasse debuted a new Rowdy Manufacturing super late model chassis, switching from a Fury Race Cars-built entry.^[27] After winning the pro late model portion of SpeedFest in January, he spun Bubba Pollard with fifteen laps to go in the super late model portion of the event. Pollard later dumped Nasse, leading to an exchange of words between the two culminating in Nasse calling Pollard "the biggest crybaby in this pit area."^[28] In February, Nasse was asked by his team owner to run the ARCA Menards Series East race at New Smyrna Speedway in an aim to get into the driver development program arena.^[29] In his first race at Five Flags since the Snowball, Nasse scored a win at a Blizzard Series race there.^[30] After a potential late model stock car debut at the ValleyStar Credit Union 300 was cancelled, he returned to the Short Track Nationals.^[31] Nasse also won two Southern Super Series races, claiming a $5,000 bonus for his win at Crisp Motorsports Park in August.^[32]

Other racing

Nasse has said that he originally aspired to be a high-level NASCAR driver, but decided against it due to what he called "boring racing, empty stands and vanilla personalities". As an alternative, Nasse said that he would like to run in a World of Outlaws Late Model with personalities like Scott Bloomquist.^[4]

When not racing, Nasse works as a foundation builder for residential construction.^[2] He is a casual iRacing player. Other hobbies of his include bass fishing in his hometown.^[33]

ARCA Menards Series East

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

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ARCA Menards Series East results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	AMSEC	Pts	Ref
2012	DLP Motorsports	51	Toyota	BRI	GRE	RCH 20	IOW	BGS	JFC 22	LGY	CNB	COL	IOW	NHA	DOV	GRE	CAR	48th	46	[34]
2020	Jett Motorsports	09	Toyota	NSM 6	TOL	DOV	TOL	BRI	FIF									32nd	38	[35]

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CARS Late Model Stock Car Tour

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CARS Late Model Stock Car Tour results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	CLMSCTC	Pts	Ref
2021	Jamie Yelton	51	Chevy	DIL	HCY	OCS 5	ACE	CRW	LGY	DOM	HCY	MMS	TCM 9	FLC	WKS	SBO				23rd	52	[36]
2023	Jamie Yelton	51	Chevy	SNM	FLC	HCY	ACE	NWS	LGY	DOM	CRW	HCY	ACE	TCM	WKS	AAS	SBO	TCM 5	CRW	38th	28	[37]

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CARS Super Late Model Tour

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CARS Super Late Model Tour results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	CSLMTC	Pts	Ref
2015	Jeff Nasse	51N	Ford	SNM 7	ROU 17	HCY 15	SNM 13	TCM 12	MMS 20	ROU 2	CON	MYB	HCY				10th	153	[38]
2016		51		SNM 12					ROU 1**	CON	MYB	HCY	SNM				23rd	68	[39]
			Chevy		ROU 22	HCY	TCM	GRE
2017		51N		CON	DOM	DOM	HCY	HCY	BRI 4								18th	70	[40]
		51	Ford							AND 12	ROU	TCM
			Chevy										ROU 18	HCY	CON
		74														SBO 1
2018		51N		MYB	NSH 7	ROU 2	HCY	BRI 12	AND	HCY	ROU	SBO					23rd	53	[41]
2019		51		SNM 5	HCY		MMS 3	BRI 1	HCY	ROU 5	SBO						6th	142	[42]
		51N				NSH 12
2020		51		SNM 3	HCY	JEN 18	HCY	FCS									10th	105	[43]
		51N							BRI 3	FLC	NSH 3
2021		51		HCY	GPS 1	NSH 3	JEN 5	HCY	MMS	TCM 2	SBO						10th	62	[44]

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ASA STARS National Tour

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ASA STARS National Tour results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	ASNTC	Pts	Ref
2023	Stephen Nasse Racing	51N	Toyota	FIF 28	MAD DNQ		HCY 7	MLW								9th	265	[45]
		51				NWS 17			AND 6	WIR	TOL
		51N	Chevy									WIN 3	NSV 25
2024			N/A	NSM 22	FIF 2											10th	294	[46]
		51	Toyota			HCY 7	MAD	MLW	AND 9	OWO	TOL
			Chevy									WIN 20	NSV 5
2025		51N		NSM 5	FIF 4											5th	568	[47]
		51				DOM 7	HCY 16	NPS 2	MAD 4	SLG 3	AND 16	OWO	TOL	WIN 5	NSV 5
2026		51N		NSM 9	FIF 9	DOM	HCY	TRI	SLG	MAD	NPS	OWO	TOL	WIN	NSV	-*	-*	[48]

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^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points