Rick Crawford

Richard "Rick" Crawford
Crawford (right) during a visit to Naval Air Station Sigonella in 2003
Born	(1958-07-26) July 26, 1958 (age 58) Mobile, Alabama, United States
Achievements	1989 Snowball Derby Winner
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
2 races run over 2 years
2012 position	139th
Best finish	134th (2011)
First race	2011 STP 300 (Chicagoland)
Last race	2012 Food City 250 (Bristol)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career
336 races run over 16 years
2013 position	119th
Best finish	2nd (2002)
First race	1997 Chevy Trucks Challenge (Orlando)
Last race	2012 Fred's 250 (Talladega)
First win	1998 Florida Dodge Dealers 400 (Homestead)
Last win	2006 Power Stroke Diesel 200 (ORP)
Wins Top tens Poles 5 160 6
Statistics current as of February 25, 2013.

Richard Crawford (born July 26, 1958) is an American racing driver. Crawford competed in the Craftsman Truck Series full-time from 1997 to 2009, He is currently the promoter and manager of Mobile International Speedway.

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. 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 #84, but did not qualify for any of them.

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.