Rick Crawford (racing driver)

Richard Hoyt Crawford Jr. (born July 26, 1958)[1] is an American former professional stock car racing driver. Crawford competed in the Craftsman Truck Series full-time from 1997 to 2009. He is the former promoter and manager of Mobile International Speedway.

This article is about the NASCAR driver. For the Arkansas politician, see Rick Crawford (politician). For the American endurance sports coach, see Rick Crawford (cycling).
Rick Crawford
Crawford (right) during a visit to Naval Air Station Sigonella in 2003
BornRichard Hoyt Crawford Jr.
(1958-07-26) July 26, 1958
Mobile, Alabama
Achievements1989 Snowball Derby Winner
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
2 races run over 2 years
2012 position139th
Best finish134th (2011)
First race2011 STP 300 (Chicagoland)
Last race2012 Food City 250 (Bristol)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series career
336 races run over 16 years
2013 position119th
Best finish2nd (2002)
First race1997 Chevy Trucks Challenge (Orlando)
Last race2012 Fred's 250 (Talladega)
First win1998 Florida Dodge Dealers 400 (Homestead)
Last win2006 Power Stroke Diesel 200 (ORP)
Wins Top tens Poles
5 160 6
Statistics current as of February 25, 2013.

Early career

Crawford began his racing career as a short-track racer in the southeastern United States. He won the 1989 running of the prestigious annual short track Snowball Derby race.[2] He also won the track championship at Five Flags Speedway in 1981 and 1984, and won the championship at Mobile International Speedway in 1981, 1982, and 1984. After that, he moved to the Slim Jim All Pro Series, where he collected sixty-one top tens, and earned five victories. In 1993 and 1994, he attempted four Winston Cup Series races in the No. 84, but did not qualify for any of them.

Truck Series

In 1997, Crawford moved to the Craftsman Truck Series with his Circle Bar team. He qualified for every race, had ten top-tens, a top 5 at Texas Motor Speedway and finished 12th in the points. He was also runner-up to Kenny Irwin, Jr. for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Rookie of the Year. The next season, he picked up his first career win at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Unfortunately, the team struggled to find consistency, with only five top-ten finishes and he dropped to eighteenth in the standings. Crawford started 1999 with two consecutive top-tens, but only wound up fourteenth in the points, scoring ten top-tens and four top fives.

In 2001, Crawford finished 8th in points, his first top-ten points finish, he would earn sixteen top tens and ten top fives. The 2002 season would prove to be Crawford's most successful to date, although winless for the season he had 17 top-ten finishes, a career high 12 top five finishes, two poles (at Dover and Phoenix), and finished second in the standings only 46 points behind champion Mike Bliss. 2003 saw him grab his second victory, at the Florida Dodge Dealers 250, in a memorable three-wide race to finish line at Daytona International Speedway. He finished the season seventh in points with 16 top tens and 10 top fives.

In 2004 in his first race after a massive crash at Atlanta Motor Speedway, in which Tina Gordon and Hank Parker, Jr. were also involved, he picked up a win at Martinsville Speedway. He would finish the season with 9 top tens and 4 top fives, and fell to 12th in points. Despite a win at Loudon in 2005, Crawford finished seventeenth in points, mainly due to missing the first race of his Truck career after suffering injuries, ironically while practicing for the Built Ford Tough 225. Boris Said, who was scheduled to be a guest on the Speed Channel's race coverage, was hired to drive the truck. While he wrecked later in the race, he returned to the booth to cover the rest of the race, as the late Neil Bonnett once did at Talladega Superspeedway in 1993 after taking a wild ride into the tri-oval. He did score two poles at Atlanta and Martinsville and had 11 top tens and 3 top fives.

For the 2006 season Crawford had five top-fives and thirteen top-ten finishes including a win on August 4 at O'Reilly Raceway Park, finishing 9th in the final standings, the win at O’Reilly was his final career victory. Rick had a consistent year in 2007 racking up 11 top 5 finishes, 18 top 10s and a near win at Mansfield Motorsports Park en route to a 5th place standing in the points championship. The eighteen top ten finishes would be a career high to date. In 2008 Crawford put together another solid season with thirteen top tens and seven top fives and a pole at Texas. He would end the season seventh in points. In 2009, now age 50, Crawford would again finish in the top ten in points at 10th. He scored seven top tens and three top fives and would win the pole at Martinsville for the second time in his career.

Crawford would start the 2010 season with a great deal of uncertainty. Longtime sponsor Circle Bar Motel and RV Park would cut back their sponsorship of the team dramatically and Crawford stated that he was unsure how many races they would be able to run without a new sponsor.[3] He would run the first four races of the season with Circle Bar, scoring two top tens. However, prior to Kansas Crawford announced that he would not race for Circle Bar in the #14 truck and would instead race in the Ray Hackett Racing #76 truck with sponsorship from SUPERSEAL Construction Products. This would be the first race in his record 327 Camping World Truck Series starts that he would not be in the #14 and would not be racing under Circle Bar Racing. Crawford would qualify for that race 15th and finish 31st after an accident going for the lead. In August, Crawford would take yet another unfamiliar step in his career as he would join forces with Tagsby Racing to race in the EnjoyIllinois.com 225 at Chicagoland Speedway. This would be the first race in his career that he would race in a Chevrolet truck. Crawford would earn his 3rd top ten finish in 6 races with an 8th-place finish in the race. He ran in two more races with Tagsby to close out the season.

Crawford attempted to race with Tagsby Racing and make his 12th consecutive start in the season opening race at Daytona in 2011, but failed to qualify. Before 2011, Crawford was one of only 3 drivers to compete in all Camping World Truck Series races at Daytona.

Crawford is a former manager and promoter of Mobile International Raceway, and attempted the 2012 season-opening race at Daytona with Tagsby Racing.[4]

Legacy

Crawford holds the current record for most starts in the Camping World Truck Series. He raced in 210 consecutive races before missing the 2005 Built Ford Tough 225 race at Kentucky due to injuries sustained from a hard crash in practice. He had not missed a race since that date until failing to qualify at Daytona in February 2011. Prior to 2011, Crawford was one of the few drivers in the history of the sport with more than 50 starts who has never raced in any major series in NASCAR other than the Truck Series. However, that statistic was ended in 2011, when Crawford made his Nationwide Series debut driving for Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing at Chicagoland Speedway.

Post-racing career

In March 2011 Crawford entered a multi-year contract to be the promoter and manager at Mobile International Speedway, his home track, in Irvington (Mobile), Alabama.

In March 2014 it was announced that Crawford would serve as crew chief for Team Stange Racing and driver Maryeve Dufault in the ARCA Racing Series.[5]

On March 1, 2018, Crawford was arrested in Florida;[6] he was charged for "attempted enticement of a minor."[7][8] He plans on pleading his innocence and was released into the custody of his family until his trial.[9] Crawford was convicted by a jury on August 30, 2018.[10] On November 26, 2018, Crawford was sentenced to 130 months in a federal prison. He was given BOP number 70138-018 and is serving time in FCI Beaumont.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

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

Winston Cup Series
NASCAR Winston Cup Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 NWCC Pts Ref
1993 Circle Bar Racing 84 Ford DAY CAR RCH ATL
DNQ		 DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL SON CLT
DNQ		 DOV POC MCH DAY NHA POC TAL GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR NWS CLT CAR PHO ATL
DNQ		 NA - [11]
1994 DAY
Wth		 CAR RCH ATL DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL SON CLT DOV POC MCH DAY NHA POC TAL IND GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR NWS CLT CAR PHO ATL NA - [12]
Daytona 500
Year Team Manufacturer Start Finish
1994 Circle Bar Racing Ford Wth

Nationwide Series
NASCAR Nationwide Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 NNSC Pts Ref
2011 JJC Racing 13 Ford DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL TEX TAL NSH RCH DAR DOV IOW CLT CHI
36		 MCH ROA DAY KEN NHA NSH IRP IOW GLN CGV BRI ATL RCH CHI DOV KAN CLT TEX PHO HOM 134th 01 [13]
2012 Mike Harmon Racing 74 Chevy DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL TEX RCH TAL DAR IOW CLT DOV MCH ROA KEN DAY NHA CHI IND IOW GLN CGV BRI
36		 ATL RCH CHI KEN DOV CLT KAN TEX PHO HOM 139th 01 [14]

Camping World Truck Series
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 NCWTC Pts Ref
1997 Circle Bar Racing 14 Ford WDW
11		 TUS
12		 HOM
18		 PHO
21		 POR
8		 EVG
23		 I70
15		 NHA
6		 TEX
3		 BRI
6		 NZH
18		 MLW
34		 LVL
16		 CNS
6		 HPT
8		 IRP
13		 FLM
15		 NSV
8		 GLN
14		 RCH
34		 MAR
24		 SON
25		 MMR
6		 CAL
10		 PHO
13		 LVS
10		 12th 3149 [15]
1998 WDW
29		 HOM
1		 PHO
5		 POR
27		 EVG
21		 I70
18		 GLN
14		 TEX
26		 BRI
38		 MLW
26		 NZH
29		 CAL
15		 PPR
11		 IRP
34		 NHA
22		 FLM
15		 NSV
3		 HPT
15		 LVL
25		 RCH
11		 MEM
5		 GTY
7		 MAR
15		 SON
29		 MMR
27		 PHO
16		 LVS
14		 18th 2956 [16]
1999 HOM
8		 PHO
6		 EVG
12		 MMR
22		 MAR
33		 MEM
22		 PPR
8		 I70
27		 BRI
21		 TEX
12		 PIR
16		 GLN
10		 MLW
3		 NSV
14		 NZH
17		 MCH
29		 NHA
5		 IRP
12		 GTY
9		 HPT
4		 RCH
12		 LVS
8		 LVL
7		 TEX
23		 CAL
35		 14th 3018 [17]
2000 DAY
34		 HOM
7		 PHO
10		 MMR
9		 MAR
15		 PIR
5		 GTY
12		 MEM
6		 PPR
13		 EVG
14		 TEX
8		 KEN
10		 GLN
9		 MLW
14		 NHA
13		 NZH
13		 MCH
7		 IRP
31		 NSV
10		 CIC
28		 RCH
16		 DOV
3		 TEX
6		 CAL
12		 11th 3053 [18]
2001 DAY
10		 HOM
8		 MMR
19		 MAR
7		 GTY
4		 DAR
4		 PPR
9		 DOV
14*		 TEX
20		 MEM
16		 MLW
25		 KAN
8		 KEN
27		 NHA
27		 IRP
6		 NSH
3		 CIC
5*		 NZH
4		 RCH
5		 SBO
24		 TEX
2		 LVS
5		 PHO
3		 CAL
2*		 8th 3320 [19]
2002 DAY
24		 DAR
5		 MAR
3		 GTY
4		 PPR
6		 DOV
3		 TEX
4		 MEM
9		 MLW
14		 KAN
12*		 KEN
4		 NHA
17		 MCH
9		 IRP
11		 NSH
2		 RCH
4		 TEX
4*		 SBO
3		 LVS
6		 CAL
5		 PHO
3		 HOM
7		 2nd 3313 [20]
2003 DAY
1*		 DAR
7		 MMR
6		 MAR
6		 CLT
3		 DOV
8*		 TEX
14		 MEM
11		 MLW
3		 KAN
23		 KEN
11		 GTW
5		 MCH
12		 IRP
14		 NSH
3		 BRI
3		 RCH
6		 NHA
18		 CAL
4		 LVS
36		 SBO
5		 TEX
9		 MAR
4		 PHO
11		 HOM
2		 7th 3578 [21]
2004 DAY
4		 ATL
34		 MAR
1		 MFD
7		 CLT
7		 DOV
2		 TEX
15		 MEM
19		 MLW
9		 KAN
3		 KEN
16		 GTW
25		 MCH
32		 IRP
8		 NSH
24		 BRI
17		 RCH
24		 NHA
25		 LVS
11		 CAL
12		 TEX
7		 MAR
16		 PHO
11		 DAR
18		 HOM
28		 12th 3030 [22]
2005 DAY
36		 CAL
14		 ATL
29*		 MAR
21		 GTY
5		 MFD
6		 CLT
25		 DOV
11		 TEX
19		 MCH
6		 MLW
8		 KAN
10		 KEN
INQ†		 MEM
11		 IRP
6		 NSH
10		 BRI
21		 RCH
28		 NHA
1		 LVS
7		 MAR
16		 ATL
32		 TEX
8		 PHO
4		 HOM
27		 16th 2917 [23]
2006 DAY
8		 CAL
8		 ATL
10		 MAR
26		 GTY
24		 CLT
11		 MFD
12		 DOV
8		 TEX
3		 MCH
6		 MLW
9		 KAN
2		 KEN
2		 MEM
13		 IRP
1*		 NSH
28		 BRI
13		 NHA
7		 LVS
14		 TAL
15		 MAR
9		 ATL
5		 TEX
33		 PHO
33		 HOM
15		 9th 3252 [24]
2007 DAY
10		 CAL
9		 ATL
4		 MAR
3		 KAN
2		 CLT
10		 MFD
23*		 DOV
23		 TEX
3		 MCH
6		 MLW
5		 MEM
28		 KEN
30		 IRP
4		 NSH
6		 BRI
5		 GTW
11		 NHA
6		 LVS
9		 TAL
2		 MAR
5		 ATL
12		 TEX
5		 PHO
12		 HOM
3		 5th 3523 [25]
2008 DAY
5		 CAL
14		 ATL
11		 MAR
3		 KAN
9		 CLT
5		 MFD
13		 DOV
9		 TEX
21		 MCH
11		 MLW
8		 MEM
4		 KEN
14		 IRP
12		 NSH
23		 BRI
5		 GTW
8		 NHA
5		 LVS
6		 TAL
28		 MAR
3		 ATL
12		 TEX
11		 PHO
9		 HOM
33		 7th 3315 [26]
2009 DAY
21		 CAL
14		 ATL
16		 MAR
5		 KAN
14		 CLT
11		 DOV
19		 TEX
5		 MCH
12		 MLW
12		 MEM
11		 KEN
17		 IRP
11		 NSH
7		 BRI
19		 CHI
4		 IOW
17		 GTW
10		 NHA
10		 LVS
11		 MAR
15		 TAL
21		 TEX
10		 PHO
14		 HOM
17		 10th 3161 [27]
2010 DAY
28		 ATL
9		 MAR
19		 NSH
10		 32nd 848 [28]
Ray Hackett Racing 76 Ford KAN
31		 DOV CLT TEX MCH IOW GTY IRP POC NSH DAR BRI
Tagsby Racing 73 Chevy CHI
8		 KEN NHA LVS
32		 MAR TAL TEX
17		 PHO HOM
2011 DAY
DNQ		 PHO
DNQ		 DAR MAR NSH DOV CLT KAN TEX KEN IOW NSH IRP POC MCH BRI ATL CHI NHA KEN LVS TAL MAR TEX
24		 HOM 66th 20 [29]
2012 DAY
25		 TEX
29		 KEN IOW CHI
11		 POC MCH BRI ATL IOW KEN LVS 41st 96 [30]
Mike Harmon Racing 74 Chevy MAR
36		 CAR KAN CLT DOV
BRG Motorsports 20 Toyota TAL
23		 MAR TEX PHO HOM
2013 MAKE Motorsports 50 Chevy DAY
DNQ		 MAR CAR KAN CLT DOV TEX KEN IOW ELD POC MCH BRI MSP IOW CHI LVS TAL MAR TEX PHO HOM NA - [31]
† - Qualified but replaced by Boris Said

Whelen Euro Series - Elite 1
NASCAR Whelen Euro Series - Elite 1 results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NWES Pts
2013 Scorpus Racing 19 Chevy NOG NOG DIJ DIJ BRH BRH TOU
17		 TOU
7		 MNZ MNZ BUG BUG 33rd -
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References
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  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2010-04-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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  5. "Crawford Named Dufault's ARCA Crew Chief". National Speed Sport News. March 10, 2014. Retrieved 2014-03-10.
  6. "Seminole Sheriff's Office". Seminole Sheriff's Office. March 1, 2018. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
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Achievements
Preceded by
Ted Musgrave		 Snowball Derby Winner
1989		 Succeeded by
Rich Bickle
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