Driver Profile

DRIVER HISTORY

Career (1998-2007)

91 feature wins

215 top five finishes

293 top ten finishes

2007

9 feature wins

35 top five finishes

51 top ten finishes

2006

13 feature wins

34 top five finishes

52 top ten finishes

This was definately a very interesting year for the Warsaw, Mo driver. Jesse started off the year as excited as could be finally getting to take his talent on the road as he traveled with the ASCS National Tour. Second stop on the tour saw the Rocket put his #75 VKCC Motorsports mount in victory lane at Baton Rouge, LA. The year was looking very highly for the young man, but yet to find out this would be his only victory in ASCS National Tour action, although scoring multiple top fives with the series. The team would go on to win an additional twelve races last year including non wing victorys with the Sprint Bandits, USAC, and winged with the WOW, and Civil War series. At the end of the year the team ended up third in ASCS National Tour points, and went on to win the Sprint Bandits midwest championship.

2005

19 feature wins

31 top five finishes

38 top ten finishes

Won the western Australia points week championship.

Jesse had a great year, although was up and down from time to time. Starting the year in the Kasey Kahne Racing car it was a struggle for Jesse and the crew chief at the time to get on the same page and it led to Jesse deciding to leave the team. At that point he came home and starting running his own equipment with help from former owner Tom vankiersblick. The year just took off from there and things went great everything was running smoothly and things continued that way all the rest of the year. Winning 19 feature race, among the most in the country.

2004

11 feature wins

19 top three finishes

23 top five finishes

31 top ten

Finished in the A-Main at Knoxville Nationals.

4 non wing starts 4 top 2 finishes

As of August Fast time Sharon Speedway All Stars

Jesse qualified 4th, won the dash and led 22 laps of the SCRA non

wing world championship ultimate challenge in Oskaloosa Iowa, He finished

second to Dickie Gaines by only inches. That same week one of Jesse's

lifelong dreams came true when he Qualified 4th, ran 6th in the

preliminary feature and made it into the Knoxville Nationals A main

lineup Starting 7th. A week later Jesse qualified 5th won his heat and

ran second to Josh Wise in the non wing SCRA prelim at Lakeside

Speedway. On Saturday Jesse Started 5th and ran down usac contender

Tony Elliott to lead the last 9 laps in one of the most exciting

drives through traffic ever, to claim the $10,000 to win SCRA Non

wing world championship finale for the second straight year. He drove by

non wing stars such as Levi Jones, Tony Elliott, Rickie Gaunt, Bud

Kaeding, Dave Darland,and more in only his 6th non wing start.

During August Jesse has also won 4 360 wing sprint car races in a row

at XX Speedway near his Home in Missouri. Jesse has to be considered

one of the most versitale drivers in Sprint car racing winning in every type

of car he has driven. Jesse drove the Wright One Construction #35 on the

World of Outlaws Tour for two months at the end of 2004.

Jesse has aspirations of racing on pavement and dirt in all 3 usac series

sometime in the future.

2003

15 feature wins

27 tops five finishes

37 tops ten finishes

Jesse raced his first full season of outlaw type 410 sprint cars. He made it to the B main at the Knoxville Nationals, set 2 track records at US-36 and one at Capital Speedway with the All-Star Circuit of Champions. He also had the biggest win of his career when he won the $10,000 to win Non-Wing World Championship feature at Lakeside Speedway, against the likes of Bud Kaeding, J.J. Yeley, and Corey Kruseman in only his 4th non wing start.

2002

8 feature wins

23 top five finishes

35 top ten finishes

Jesse raced for VKCC Motorsports full time. The team obtained their first 410 engine and won 6 races in that division at US 36 Raceway and Savannah Speedway. He also set 2nd fast time in his first ever non-wing attempt at Lakeside Speedway with the SCRA. Jesse also raced his family's #77 at XX-Speedway in California, Mo

2001

3 feature wins

15 tops five finishes

22 top tens

Jesse Hockett raced throughout the Midwest with both the ASCS and the WOW 360 divisions. He finished 5th in WOW points.

2000

2 feature wins

8 top five finishes

11 top ten finishes

Jesse had 2 feature wins and began racing 360 sprints during the 2000 season

1999

6 feature wins

23 top five finishes

28 top ten finishes

Four days after Jesse's sixteenth birthday he captured the Winged Outlaw Four-cylinder points championship in Warrensburg, MO

1998

5 feature wins

At fourteen years old Jesse Hockett captured his first feature win at Linn County Speedway in Pleasanton, KS on July 12. This was in only his fifth race since his career had begun. Jesse finished second in season long points in his first season racing. He also received "Rookie of the Year" honors at Dallas County Speedway in Urbana, MO.

Publicity

Jesse has been featured in a number of racing publications along with newspapers, Television Interviews, and radio shows.

He has been on television in a post race interview after a win at the WOFCS nationals, and at the Knoxville Nationals. He has been the featured guest twice on WHB sports radio's race show. Here is a list of the publicity he has received.

Speed Channel direct Interview

Metro sports Racing show commercial

Sprintcar & Midget Magazine picture

Flat out Magazine Centerfold/quotes