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Jim's Racing History
 In the past
three years, Jim has gone from start-up team to a well-respected
consistent finisher at the young age of 25. His aggressive
style, natural talent, and continued devotion to the sport of racing
are transcended from the two generations prior to him. His
grandfather raced sprint cars for 22 years in Texas and his father,
Steve Siegel, was a very successful sprint car racer for 31 years Jim's racing career
began in micro sprints and quickly progressed to sprint cars as his
ability and success evolved and improved. In
2001, Jim was honored with the “Rookie of the Year” award for the 358-sprint
car division at Lincoln Speedway, also known as the limited sprint
division. That season
saw Jim run the full 358 schedule of fourteen races and finish 8th in
the overall points. The
season's highlight came on July 14, 2001, The
2002 racing season saw Jim compete in the 358 division at Williams
Grove Speedway on Friday nights and Lincoln Speedway on Saturday
nights. Being the first
year he competed at Williams Grove, he quickly showed his prowess
by qualifying for all the feature events but one of the races he
attended. This was a
significant achievement for Jim since the 358-sprint car division
has become a very large and competitive group, especially at Williams
Grove where the car count would average 52 cars per race. His
performance at Lincoln Speedway in 2002 also proved to be extremely
successful. The
year-end recap showed him with eight top 10 finishes and five top
5 finishes. In only
his second year of limited sprint cars, he managed to finish 3rd in
the Lincoln Speedway 358 Points Division. It
was after this successful season that Jim was now destined to move
into the 410 Sprint Car Division to once again advance in his racing
career.
March
13, 2004 marked Jim's first career 410 sprint car win. This
win came in only his second year of racing 410's. Jim
had successful finishes at both Lincoln Speedway and Susquehanna
Speedway. He was awarded
4th place overall in the Susquehanna Speedway 410 Sprint
Car Point Standings and 10th place overall in the Lincoln
Speedway 410 Sprint Car Point Standings. Jim competed in 48 races
between these two race tracks and was credited with nine top five
and twenty-eight top ten finishes. Although
Jim considers this to be a very successful season, he is looking
forward to a more victorious 2005 racing season. Because of his mature
driving style many of the top veteran sprint car drivers comment
of his natural talent and his smooth driving abilities. They
also like the fact that he uses his head and makes good decisions
while racing making him a very valued competitor to race with. These
qualities can only lead to more success and improvement as a sprint
car racer piloting him into a rewarding and spectacular career. |
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when Jim won his first feature
event.
During
the 2003 racing season, Jim competed at in the entire thirty-scheduled
410 Sprint Car races at Lincoln Speedway.