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John Blankenship

American racing driver (born 1981)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ131765605 ↗
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John Blankenship (born July 3, 1981) is an American professional stock car racing driver who has competed in the NASCAR Nationwide Series and the ARCA Racing Series.

Blankenship has also previously competed in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East, the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, the World of Outlaws Late Model Series, the Lucas Oil Midwest LateModel Racing Association, and the Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series.

Motorsports results

NASCAR

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

Nationwide Series

K&N Pro Series East

ARCA Racing Series

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

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “John Blankenship” as american racing driver (born 1981). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1981-07-03. The account is most persuasive where John, Blankenship and American can be independently traced.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q131765605. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1981.

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This entry incorporates text from “John Blankenship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.