- Rick Crawford
Infobox_NASCAR_driver
Name = Richard Crawford
Birthdate = birth date and age|1958|7|26
Birthplace =Mobile, Alabama
Truck_Car_Team = #14 -Circle Bar Racing
Prev_Truck_Year = 2007
Prev_Truck_Pos = 5th
Best_Truck_Pos = 2nd - 2002 - (Craftsman Truck Series)
Truck_Wins = 5
Truck_Top_Tens = 142
Truck_Poles = 4
First_Truck_Race = 1997Chevy Trucks Challenge (Orlando)
First_Truck_Win = 1998Florida Dodge Dealers 400 (Homestead)
Last_Truck_Win = 2006Power Stroke Diesel 200 (ORP)
Awards = 1981, 1982, 1985Mobile Alabama Speedway Track Champion1983, 1984, 1989
Snowball Derby Winner
Updated_On =May 31 ,2008 Richard Crawford (born
July 26 ,1958 inMobile, Alabama ) is a race car driver who drives the 14Circle Bar /Ford Power Stroke Diesel by InternationalFord F-150 forCircle Bar Racing in theNASCAR Craftsman Truck Series .Crawford began his racing career as a short-track racer in the southeastern United States. During this time, he was a three-time winner of the annual
Snowball Derby , in 1983, 1984, and 1989. He also won the track championship atFive Flags Speedway in 1981 and 1984, and won the championship atMobile International Speedway in 1981, 1982, and 1984. After that, he moved to theAll Pro Series , where he made eleven starts, and collected sixty-one top tens, and earned five victories.In 1997, Crawford moved to the Craftsman Truck Series with his Circle Bar team. He qualified for every race, had ten top-tens and finished 12th in the points, runner-up to
Kenny Irwin, Jr. forNASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Rookie of the Year . The next season, he picked up his first career win atHomestead-Miami Speedway . Unfortunately, the team struggled to find consistency and he dropped to eighteenth in the standings. He started 1999 with two consecutive top-tens, but only wound up fourteenth in the points.In 2001, Crawford finished 8th in points, his first top-ten points finish. The next season, he had 17 top-nine finishes, two poles, and finished second in the standings. 2003 saw him grab his second victory, at the
Florida Dodge Dealers 250 at Daytona, and finished seventh in points. He picked up a win atMartinsville Speedway in 2004, but dropped to twelfth in points. Despite a win at Loudon, he finished seventeenth in points, mainly due to missing the first race of his Truck career after suffering injuries, ironically while practicing for theBuilt Ford Tough 225 .Boris Said , who was scheduled to be a guest on theSPEED 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 lateNeil Bonnet once did.In 2006, Crawford had four top-fives and ten top-ten finishes including a win on
August 4 atO'Reilly Raceway Park , finishing 9th in the final standings. Rick had a consistent year in 2007 racking up 11 top 5 finishes, 18 top 10's and a near win atMansfield Motorsports Park in route to a 5th place standing in the points championship.External links
* [http://www.rickcrawford.com Official website]
* [http://racing-reference.info/driver?id=crawfri01 Rick Crawford Career Statistics]
* [http://www.nascar.com/drivers/dps/rcrawfor00/truck/bio.html NASCAR.com profile]
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