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Matt Jaskol

Matthew Allen Jaskol (born October 15, 1984) is an American professional auto racing driver and spotter. He has competed in a variety of different racing disciplines including kart, open-wheel, and stock car racing (including the NASCAR Xfinity and Truck Series). As a spotter, Jaskol won the 2016 Indianapolis 500 as the spotter for Alexander Rossi.

After spending much of his early career in karting, Jaskol became a member of the Red Bull Driver Search and competed in Formula BMW USA, where he won Red Bull's first race in North America in 2004. The following year, he won the American Speed Association Speed Truck Challenge championship. He would later race in the Indy Pro Series and the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series.

He also works as a skydiver, driving instructor, and stunt driver.

Jaskol began his career in motorcycle racing, driving in the World Mini Motorcycle series at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in 1994. After moving into karts, he won the Superkarts! USA (SKUSA) SuperNationals 80cc Shifter Class and a World Karting Association championship in 1998. In 2000, he was recruited by CART driver Paul Tracy to drive for his factory karting team. Two years later, Jaskol won a racing scholarship at the Skip Barber Scholarship Runoffs, which was followed by finishing third in the 2003 Skip Barber National Championship.

In 2003, Jaskol was one of four drivers selected for the Red Bull Driver Search, which provided him with Red Bull sponsorship for the 2004 racing season. That year, he entered the newly created Formula BMW USA series. Jaskol won three races at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as he finished fourth in points; the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve victory marked the first motorsports win for the Red Bull brand in North America. Jaskol also won in his lone North American Formula Renault 2000 start at Molson Indy Toronto.

For 2005, Jaskol raced in the Star Mazda Championship and the American Speed Association's Speed Truck Challenge. In the former, he scored podium finishes in the first two races for Hearn Motorsports before departing the team to focus on the Speed Truck Challenge as he was leading the points in that series at the time. The move was also spurred by a lack of financial support in open-wheel racing and the desire to race in NASCAR. Driving for United Nissan Auto Team, Jaskol would become the first rookie to win the championship in Speed Truck Challenge history. In July, he tested a NASCAR Truck for Roush Racing at Martinsville Speedway as part of the team's "Gong Show". He and his Red Bull peers were also test drivers for A1 Grand Prix team A1 Team USA.

Besides continuing to race stock cars such as late models at Las Vegas Motor Speedway's Bullring, Jaskol signed with Michael Crawford Motorsports to compete in the Indy Pro Series in 2007. He ran five Indy Pro races with a best finish of seventh in the Freedom 100 at Indianapolis and his final start at Infineon Raceway.

He focused on the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series in 2008, primarily competing at the LVMS Bullring and winning three times. He also returned to the Speed Truck Challenge and won on Phoenix International Raceway's road course; another victory in the series came at Firebird Raceway in 2010.

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