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Ryan McGlynn

American racing driver

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ7384313 ↗
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Ryan McGlynn (born November 22, 1974) is an American former stock car racing driver and was the co-owner of McGlynn Racing along with his father Raynard "Ray" McGlynn. Together they managed the No. 74 Nextel Cup Series team with drivers Derrike Cope and himself. The team closed in 2007.

McGlynn is also a NASCAR driver, with experience in the Craftsman Truck Series as well as some scattered attempts at the Nextel Cup Series.

In 2000, he was in a crash at Evergreen Speedway, where he hit the tire barrier in the second turn, which resulted in his truck rolling over.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

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

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“Ryan McGlynn” enters the record as american racing driver. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ryan, McGlynn and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ryan McGlynn” 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.