Matt Kenseth Wife, age, kids, net worth, when is he retiring?

For someone like Matt Kenseth who started racing at the age of 16 and has been doing it profitably for three decades, then it makes sense that people ask themselves “when is he going to retire?” worth? Keep reading and see what we have.

Matt Kenseth’s Bio (Age)

Mathew Roy Kenseth who was born in 1972 shares the same birthday on March 30 with celebrities such as Celine Dion, Sergio Ramos and many others we have talked about. His birthplace is Cambridge, Wisconsin, where he was born to horse racing enthusiast Roy Kenseth (father) and his wife, Nicola Sue Kenseth (mother of Matt).

Matt had a high school education at Cambridge High School where he graduated in the early 90s. Very interested in motor racing from an early age, he started racing from the age of 16 in 1988 at Madison International Speedway. After high school, he worked for 4 years in left-handed chassis trading and shipping, for a race car manufacturer just south of Wisconsin, Illinois.

In his competitive debut, Matt only needed 3 starts to clinch his first motor racing victory. It didn’t take long for him to start competing against more experienced riders such as Dick Trickle, Rich Bickle and Ted Musgrave. In 1991, Matt Kenseth broke the record for the youngest driver to win an ARTGO Challenge series race. The same year, he was also named Model Rookie of the Year at Slinger Speedway. His mastery of the race tracks and the reaction of the cars in the races continued to improve, although he recorded many victories, so it became customary to expect him to win all of them. the races for which he is preparing.

In 1994, he won the Miller Genuine Draft National Championship and his winning streak continued in the years that followed. Matt Kenseth won three Busch Series and also made his first appearance on the big circuit that year. He joined the senior circuit in the year 2000 and earned his first Coca-Cola 600 win at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.

His career hasn’t been as rosy as when he’s had it at different times, either because of race losses or because of the 2003 championship controversy he was involved in despite not winning. only 1 out of 36 races, but that he had won the title by points. Nonetheless, the mark of a true champion is to bounce back whenever he’s down and Matt is certainly one of them.

Other wins include the 2004 InternationalChampionship Race of Champions (IROC), Sharpie 500 Bristol Motor Speedway in 2006, Auto Club 500 at California Speedway in 2007, Texas Motor Speedway, win on April 9, 2011, which ended a streak of 76 wins without a win. He also won the FedEx 400 Dover International Speedway. Matt Kenseth became the third driver after Kyle Busch and Cale Yarborough to win a race on their anniversary in Las Vegas in 2013.

In 2015, he kicked off the NASCAR Sprint Cup season by winning the Sprint Unlimited for the first time in his career. The few races he has entered since have seen him record a lower number of wins than what we usually know for him.

His net worth

Over the years, Matt Kenseth has distinguished himself as the driver with the sharpest eyes and fastest hands on the race track. This translated into so many wins and awards for the racing driver. Matt, despite his hard work, has amassed a net worth of $50 million for himself which has been separately reported online.

Family – wife, children

Matt Kenseth like most celebrities his age is a married man. He is married to Katie Martin, who is also from Cambridge and they both have four daughters together. Kaylin Nicola was born on July 6, 2009, Grace Katherine was born on February 22, 2011, Clara Mae was born on March 25, 2014, and Mallory Karen was born on December 20, 2017. However, Matt had a son, Ross Kenseth, who was born around 1993. from a previous relationship he had.

Ross looks like he’s going to take after his career as a race car driver, just like his father took on his grandfather – despite not being a professional stock car racer. Aged 14, Ross raced in a limited run of late models. At the age of 16, he won a series of late model tours in Wisconsin and northern Illinois called the Big 8 Series. Let’s watch out for him!

When does he retire?

Matt Kenseth who is the longest serving Monster Energy NASCAR Series driver with 38 wins over a cup career spanning over 20 seasons has technically not retired yet. According to him, he might see something that might interest him on the track and decide to come and try his luck. However, he reportedly said he was going to take the remainder of the 2018 season ‘whatever that means’.

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