Dwayne Leik
Dwayne Leik is an American former NASCAR driver. He was formerly an owner of Leik Motorsports and a part-time driver in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. He formerly worked as the business manager for Marcis Racing and legendary NASCAR driver Dave Marcis. Leik was able to secure racing sponsorship for Marcis for eleven consecutive seasons and he is widely regarded as the key figure in resurrecting Marcis' faltering career. Since Marcis Racing did not have a test team, Leik's car was often seen as a test car for Marcis Racing. Leik also accompanied Marcis and participated in the IROC test sessions. He once logged over in an IROC car at Daytona in a single day test. He has also served as a driving instructor at the Fast Track High Performance Driving School and Richard Petty Driving School.
Early racing career
Leik began his racing career with SCCA racing in Florida. He is also a veteran of Late Model Stock divisions.ARCA racing
In thirteen career Automobile [Racing Club of America|ARCA] RE/MAX Series starts, Leik had one top-five, two top-ten, eight top-twenty finishes. He finished tenth at Charlotte in his first ever ARCA race, with a best finish of fourth at Pococno.NASCAR career
Leik purchased two NASCAR Busch/Nationwide Series cars from Andy Petree Racing. Under funding and time limitations have always plagued his career. Through his career he qualified and started in fourteen second-tier series races with his best finishes coming at Chicagoland Speedway where he finished 24th twice. His Nationwide career earnings are 247,723.00. One race of note that typifies his career is when he qualified a car for Davis Motorsports in 2008 at the biggest race of the year, Daytona, only to give up his starting spot to the owner's son Kertus whose car did not make the race. "This is a small father and son operation and they didn’t put in all of those long hours to watch me race one of their cars while Kertus sat out... It doesn't matter to me if I qualified it; Kertus deserves to be in their own car... it's the right thing."In 2006, Leik partnered with Keith Duesenberg to form Duesenberg & Leik Motorsports. The team ran the full 2006 Busch Series season with driver Jay Sauter and sponsor Western Union. In the year of the "Buschwhackers" the team posted three top-ten, six top-fifteen, and thirteen top-twenty finishes. The team's best qualifying efforts were second at Martinsville, 6th at California and seventh at Richmond. The team earned $751,219 in purse money. Leik ran one race for the team, at Daytona.