Larry Pollard is a racing driver from Canada who last raced in NASCAR Xfinity for Whitaker Racing. Pollard has recorded 1 win and 3 podiums from 98 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,132 ranks Pollard 3038th of 40,700 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 1990-10-20 | North Carolina | P35 | −95 |
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +138 | Langley 1987 | NASCAR Xfinity | P1 |
| +123 | Martinsville 1987 | NASCAR Xfinity | P4 |
| +110 | Orange County 1985 | NASCAR Xfinity | P3 |
| +98 | Dover 1987 | NASCAR Xfinity | P5 |
| +95 | Hickory 1986 | NASCAR Xfinity | P3 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | ▸NASCAR Xfinity | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P41 | −95 | 4,190 | |
| 1989 | ▸NASCAR Xfinity | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P44 | −407 | 4,284 | |
| 1988 | ▸NASCAR Xfinity | Whitaker Racing | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P28 | +86 | 4,692 |
| 1987 | ▸NASCAR Xfinity | Hensley Motorsports | 26 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P15 | −138 | 4,606 |
| 1986 | ▸NASCAR Xfinity | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P16 | −76 | 4,744 | |
| 1985 | ▸NASCAR Xfinity | 24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P12 | +3,470 | 4,820 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 L.D. Ottinger | 4,514 | 98 | 36 | 62 | 37% |
| 🇺🇸 Rick Mast | 4,413 | 98 | 46 | 52 | 47% |
| 🇺🇸 Tommy Houston | 3,993 | 98 | 39 | 59 | 40% |
| 🇺🇸 Jack Ingram | 3,905 | 96 | 24 | 72 | 25% |
| 🇺🇸 Jimmy Hensley | 4,538 | 95 | 31 | 64 | 33% |
| 🇺🇸 Larry Pearson | 4,177 | 93 | 26 | 67 | 28% |
| 🇺🇸 Dale Arnold Jarrett | 4,439 | 90 | 30 | 60 | 33% |
| 🇺🇸 Ronnie Silver | 4,209 | 89 | 50 | 39 | 56% |
| 🇺🇸 Joe Thurman | 3,777 | 89 | 57 | 32 | 64% |
| 🇺🇸 Brad Teague | 3,319 | 77 | 44 | 33 | 57% |
| 🇺🇸 Jeff GordonFIA Gold | 5,270 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| 🇺🇸 Elton SawyerHigher-rated | 4,808 | 71 | 44 | 27 | 62% |
| 🇧🇪 Thierry TassinHigher-rated | 4,735 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,028 | 🇸🇪 Markus Lönnroth | Nürburgring 24 Hours | 4,135 |
| 3,029 | 🇩🇪 Henrik Roos | FIA GT Championship | 4,134 |
| 3,030 | 🇯🇵 Hiroaki Nagai | GT World Challenge Asia | 4,134 |
| 3,031 | 🇬🇧 Jack Bartholomew | GB3 | 4,134 |
| 3,032 | 🇭🇷 Marin Colak | World Touring Car Championship | 4,134 |
| 3,033 | 🇩🇪 Sandy Grau | FIA GT Championship | 4,134 |
| 3,034 | 🇦🇺 Duvashen Padayachee | FIA Formula 3 European | 4,133 |
| 3,035 | 🇦🇹 Markus Friesacher | International Formula 3000 | 4,133 |
| 3,036 | 🇬🇧 Robert Nimkoff | American Endurance Racing | 4,133 |
| 3,037 | 🇯🇵 Shinichi Yamaji | Super GT | 4,133 |
| 3,038 | 🇨🇦 Larry Pollard | NASCAR Xfinity | 4,132 |
| 3,039 | 🇳🇱 Phil Bastiaans | FIA GT Championship | 4,132 |
| 3,040 | 🇺🇸 Adam Andretti | NASCAR Truck | 4,131 |
| 3,041 | 🇺🇸 Davey Allison | NASCAR Xfinity | 4,131 |
| 3,042 | 🇬🇧 Ibrahim Badawy | Asian Le Mans Series | 4,131 |
| 3,043 | 🇲🇽 Jorge Goeters | NASCAR Xfinity | 4,131 |
| 3,044 | 🇩🇪 Marc Walz | Formula Renault Eurocup | 4,131 |
| 3,045 | 🇬🇧 Ben Dörr | DTM | 4,130 |
| 3,046 | 🇫🇷 Fabien Barthez | GT World Challenge Europe | 4,130 |
| 3,047 | 🇩🇪 Gerd Ruch | FIA GT Championship | 4,130 |
| 3,048 | 🇯🇵 Kyosuke Mineo | Super GT | 4,130 |
Larry Pollard is a professional racing in NASCAR Xfinity, the American single-class stock car championship. He raced primarily on oval circuits across six seasons from 1985 to 1990, driving for Whitaker Racing and latterly Hensley Motorsports.[1]
Pollard scored a single win and three podiums across 98 starts. His win came in 1987 at Langley Speedway in the Busch 200, making him the first non-American driver to win a Busch Grand National event. His final indexed season was 1990, when he made a single start and finished 41st in the points.[2]
His regular opponents in Xfinity were professionals with far longer tenures in the series; Pollard ran closely matched against L.D. Ottinger and Rick Mast, both drivers with over 200 starts each. He finished ahead of Elton Sawyer, who accumulated 392 starts across his career, on 44 occasions. Among stronger drivers, he beat established professional Jeff Gordon once, Gordon having raced 73 Xfinity starts. Pollard came to Xfinity as an experienced crew chief for NASCAR, having worked for Richard Petty and Phil Parsons in the 1980s before turning to driving.