Rich Bickle

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Rich Bickle
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Bickle at a 2019 race
BornRichard Allen Bickle Jr.
(1961-05-13) May 13, 1961 (age 63)
Edgerton, Wisconsin, U.S.
Achievements1992, 1996, 2003, 2013 Slinger Nationals Winner
1990, 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999 Snowball Derby Winner
1990, 2010 National Short Track Championship Winner
AwardsInducted into the Southeastern Wisconsin Short Track Hall of Fame (2015) [1]
NASCAR Cup Series career
85 races run over 12 years
Best finish38th (1999)
First race 1989 All Pro Auto Parts 500 (Charlotte)
Last race 2001 Old Dominion 500 (Martinsville)
WinsTop tens Poles
030
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
54 races run over 7 years
Best finish24th (2001)
First race 1994 Busch Light 300 (Atlanta)
Last race 2003 Bashas' Supermarkets 200 (Phoenix)
WinsTop tens Poles
091
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
79 races run over 7 years
Best finish2nd (1997)
First race 1996 Florida Dodge Dealers 400 (Homestead)
Last race 2005 Toyota Tundra 200 (Nashville)
First win 1997 Craftsman 200 (Portland)
Last win 1997 Hanes 250 (Martinsville)
WinsTop tens Poles
3346
Bickle (center) after winning the final stock car races at Lake Geneva Raceway in 2006 RichBickleLRG2.jpg
Bickle (center) after winning the final stock car races at Lake Geneva Raceway in 2006

Richard Allen Bickle Jr. (born May 13, 1961) is an American former professional stock car racing driver. Now retired from NASCAR racing, Bickle, who never completed a full season in the NASCAR Cup Series, had a long history in short track racing. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel described him in 2012 as a "stud on the short tracks in the late 1980s and early '90s and a journeyman who rarely caught a break in NASCAR." [2] He won three NASCAR truck races and had a career-best fourth-place finish in the Cup Series in 218 career NASCAR starts. [2]

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Early career

Bickle was introduced to the sport as a child, when he watched his father, Rich Sr., race throughout Wisconsin. [3] The younger Bickle began racing motocross at the age of five. While winning the 250cc championship on Sunday nights when he was 16, he raced stock cars at Jefferson Speedway on Saturday nights in 1977. [3] He went behind his father's barn to pick out one of his father's old racecars and selected a beat-up 1968 Pontiac GTO. "It was so beat up you could hardly tell what it was." [3] Bickle began racing a 1974 Pontiac as a sportsman at Jefferson for the second half of the 1977 season and the whole 1978 season. [3] Bickle stopped racing motorcycles after he graduated in 1979. [3] He built a 1972 Ford Torino with a 302 cubic inch motor that year, which he began using at mid-season. [3] He used the car to win a heat and the semi-feature at Columbus 151 Speedway in the car's first night out, and it ran well at Lake Geneva Raceway and Rockford Speedway. [3] That off-season he changed the rear clip on the car to improve it for Rockford before deciding to give away the car and build a new one. [3] In 1980 he raced weekly at Rockford, Lake Geneva, and Capital Speedway (now Madison International Speedway), winning 23 semi-features which was the most in the United States. [3] He was named the Sportsman Rookie of the Year at Lake Geneva and Rockford. [3]

Bickle turned his Rockford car into a late model in 1981 and raced the car to a Top 5 points finish at Lake Geneva and ninth place at Capital. [3] He raced the car at Slinger Super Speedway and selected ARTGO races. [3] He won his first late model feature that season at Lake Geneva. [3] In 1982, he decided to try to run as many races as he could within 300 miles of his home, and he had raced in between 90 and 100 events by the end of the season. [3] He had won a couple of features and had set fast time at Wisconsin Dells Speedway (now Dells Raceway Park). [3] At the off-season banquet for Slinger Super Speedway, he told track owner Wayne Erickson that he would win the 1983 track championship. [3] Bickle focused on winning Slinger's track championship that year and he finished in the Top 5 in 17 of 18 features that season to win the track championship. [3] In 1984 he raced primarily at Slinger, Wisconsin International Raceway (WIR), and Capital. [3] Bickle won his first half-mile feature at WIR even though he had raced at Capital for several seasons. [3]

Bickle updated his car, hauler, engine, and equipment for 1985 with a new sponsor. [3] He won the season opener at Capital and several other features later in the season en route to winning the track championship. [3] He had a good season at WIR and raced well at the ARTGO races that he ran. [3] In 1986 he won the points championship at Capital Speedway. [3] He had 17 feature wins that season and he ran well at Slinger, WIR, and Wisconsin Dells. [3] In 1987, he raced at numerous Wisconsin tracks. He won a $15,000-to-win event at Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1987. Butch Miller, who had led most of the race, went in for a pit stop with 60 laps left, and Bickle and Ted Musgrave gained the lead. The race was halted for rain and hail with 46 laps left, and it was declared over with Bickle receiving the win. [3]

He had won 230 races at various short tracks, including Lake Geneva Raceway, Wisconsin International Raceway, and late model track championships at Slinger Super Speedway in 1983 and 1989. [4] Bickle won the Snowball Derby at Five Flags Speedway a record five times: 1990, 1991, 1996, 1998 and 1999. [5]

ASA

In 1990, Bickle made his debut in the American Speed Association, a Midwest-based racing organization based primarily in short tracks. He finished runner up to Johnny Benson in Rookie of the Year standings.(Ironically, Benson would take over Bickle's old Cup ride in 2000.)

NASCAR career

NASCAR Winston Cup

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Bickle in 1996

Bickle made his NASCAR Winston Cup debut in 1989 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, in his self-owned, unsponsored #02 Buick. He finished 39th out of 42 cars after his engine expired 37 laps into the race. He made his first start in the Daytona 500 the next year when, once again driving his own underfunded Oldsmobile, and finished 28th, five laps down. Bickle competed in 11 events over the next three years (leading one lap at Charlotte in 1993). 1994 marked a then-career-high in terms of starts, driving ten races, most of them for Harry Melling. After years of limited starts, Bickle made the full-time jump to Cup in 1998, driving the #98 Thorn Apple Valley Ford Taurus for Cale Yarborough, replacing Greg Sacks who had been critically injured in an accident at Texas. Bickle had two top-five qualifying efforts and finished a career-best 4th at Martinsville and delivered an emotional post-race interview. When the sponsorship went away, Bickle signed with Tyler Jet Motorsports to drive the #45 10-10-345 Lucky Dog Pontiac. It was an up-and-down year for Bickle and the team; Bickle posted top-10s at the Pontiac Excitement 400 and the Pocono 500. However he had trouble qualifying for races, and after the Pepsi Southern 500 at Darlington, he was released from the team. Bickle drove some for Melling Racing that year. In 2000, Bickle did substitute duty for Joe Bessey's team, and drove one race for Morgan-McClure Motorsports the following year, in addition to driving once for Midwest Transit Racing.

NASCAR Busch Series

Bickle found considerably more success in the lower levels of NASCAR than he did in Winston Cup. He made his Busch Series debut in 1993 at Atlanta, finishing 27th with engine failure. Bickle's best season in the Busch Series was 1995, where he won one pole and had four top-10 finishes in a limited schedule. In 2001, he made his first full-time run in the Busch Series, driving the #59 Kingsford Chevy, and competed in 27 events before he was released. He has run only one Busch Series race since then.[ citation needed ]

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

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Bickle's 1997 truck

Bickle began racing in the Craftsman Truck Series in 1996 for Petty Enterprises, winning two poles, having 9 top-10 finishes, and wound up a solid 11th in points.[ citation needed ]

For the 1997 season, he switched to the #17 DieHard Chevrolet owned by Darrell Waltrip Motorsports, and the combination was an instant success. Bickle started four races on the pole position, winning three. He nearly won a fourth race at Sonoma until both a chaotic next-to-last restart occurred as well as rookie Boris Said retaliating against Bickle for contact during that restart; foiling the race for Bickle. When the checkered flag fell on the season, he was second in championship points. Since then he has run a limited schedule in the trucks, the most starts he's had in a season since then is twelve in 2003.

Career after NASCAR

Bickle occasionally races at special events at his home tracks in Wisconsin. [2] As of 2007, Bickle planned to open an auto fabrication business in Edgerton with his father, tentatively named Rock County Flatheads and Fabrication. Bickle had owned an auto customization at his racing shop in Mooresville. [6] He began concentrating more being a businessman and by 2012 he operated three businesses. He owned a hot rod shop in Janesville, Wisconsin, a bar in Madison, Wisconsin, and a drive-shaft business in Madison. Bickle is co-owner of a controversial strip club in Bristol, WI. [7] [2]

Bickle built a new chassis that he raced from 2005 until 2010. [2] He was dissatisfied with the car's performance and acquired one of his early 2000s cars back for the 2011 National Short Track Championship at Rockford Speedway. [2] Bickle was second fastest in practice and raced in the top five during the feature. [2] In 2012 he qualified third for the Slinger Nationals behind Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth. After being sent to the back of the field for early-race contact, he battled his way up to the lead just after half way, and he finished sixth. [8] [9] At the end of the 2012 season, Bickle won the National Short Track Championship race at Rockford Speedway for the second time. [10]

Bickle announced that 2013 would be his final season of racing stock cars; competing for the full season in the ARCA Midwest Tour, [11] he also returned to Slinger Super Speedway where he won his fourth Slinger Nationals after the apparent winner, Steve Apel, was disqualified. [12] Bickle battled for the lead in the middle of the 2013 National Short Track Championship race and ended up finishing fourth. [10] He ended his career on the following weekend finishing 22nd at the Oktoberfest 100 ARCA Midwest Tour race at the La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway on October 6, 2013. [13] He came out of retirement in 2015 - racing at the Slinger Nationals, Madison, and several races at Wisconsin International Raceway. [14] In 2015, he was inducted in the Southeastern Wisconsin Short Track Hall of Fame citing his two Slinger track championships and four Slinger Nationals wins. [1] Bickle is the subject of a 2019 book Barnyard to Brickyard - The Rich Bickle Story and he announced a book signing tour of Wisconsin race tracks in July 2019. [15] After the signing tour, Bickle continued to race super lates, and in 2020 said that the 2021 Snowball Derby will be his last contest. [16]

Bickle started the 2021 year racing a snowmobile in January at Eagle River, Wisconsin. He won the Outlaw 600 class feature at the Vintage World Championship Snowmobile Derby. [17] After several years away from a major racing series, Bickle would return to run the 2021 ARCA Menards season opener at Daytona for Empire Racing. On May 2, 2021, Bickle won the annual Joe Shear Classic ARCA Midwest Tour race at Madison International Speedway. [18] He won the Jim Sauter Classic ARCA Midwest race at Dells Raceway Park in early September. [19] He was chasing the weekly Super Late Model season track championship at Slinger; on the following Sunday night he won the final race and finished second to Luke Fenhaus for the championship. [19] At the time, he stated in an interview that he had raced at 226 race tracks. [19] Bickle made his final career start at the 2021 Snowball Derby in early December. [20]

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
YearTeamNo.Make123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536NWCCPtsRef
1989 Bickle Racing 02 Buick DAY CAR ATL RCH DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL CLT DOV SON POC MCH DAY POC TAL GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR CLT
39		 NWS CAR PHO ATL
22		62nd143 [21]
1990 Olds DAY
28		 RCH CAR ATL DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL CLT DOV SON POC MCH DAY POC TAL GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR NWS CLT CAR PHO ATL 84th79 [22]
1991 Close Racing 47 Olds DAY
DNQ		 RCH CAR
26		 ATL
34		 DAR
24		 BRI NWS
DNQ		 MAR TAL CLT DOV
DNQ		 SON POC MCH DAY POC TAL GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR NWS CLT CAR PHO ATL 51st237 [23]
1992 TTC Motorsports Inc. 45 Ford DAY CAR RCH ATL DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL CLT DOV SON POC MCH DAY POC TAL GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR
DNQ		 NWS
20		 CLT
25		 CAR PHO ATL
34		49th252 [24]
1993 DAY
DNQ		 CAR RCH
DNQ		 ATL
DNQ		 DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL
38		 SON CLT
21		 DOV POC MCH DAY
DNQ		 NHA POC TAL
DNQ		 GLN MCH
41		 BRI
DNQ		 DAR RCH
DNQ		 DOV MAR NWS
DNQ		 CLT
40		 CAR PHO ATL
36		48th292 [25]
1994 DAY
DNQ		 RCH
DNQ		 TAL
DNQ		 MCH
35		 BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR NWS CLT
DNQ		 CAR ATL
DNQ		43rd849 [26]
Melling Racing 9 Ford CAR
41		 ATL
37		 DAR
23		 BRI NWS
DNQ		 MAR TAL
DNQ		 SON CLT
34		 DOV POC
28		 MCH
30		 DAY
20		 NHA
21		 POC
34		 IND
29		 GLN
Roulo Brothers Racing 39 Chevy PHO
37
1995 Dick Brooks Racing 40 Pontiac DAY CAR RCH ATL DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL SON CLT DOV POC MCH DAY NHA
38		 POC
30		 TAL IND
37		 GLN MCH
DNQ		 BRI
31		 DAR
21		 RCH DOV
35		 MAR
DNQ		 NWS
27		 CLT
38		 CAR PHO ATL 45th538 [27]
1997 Darrell Waltrip Motorsports 26 Chevy DAY CAR RCH ATL DAR TEX BRI MAR SON TAL CLT DOV POC MCH CAL DAY NHA POC IND
34		 GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH NHA DOV MAR CLT TAL CAR PHO ATL 65th61 [28]
1998 Cale Yarborough Motorsports 98 Ford DAY CAR LVS ATL DAR BRI TEX MAR
41		 TAL
DNQ		 CAL
DNQ		 CLT
24		 DOV
31		 RCH
27		 MCH
27		 POC
32		 SON
31		 NHA
38		 POC
28		 IND
39		 GLN
22		 MCH
28		 BRI
18		 NHA
40		 DAR
19		 RCH
DNQ		 DOV
19		 MAR
4		 CLT
17		 TAL
DNQ		 DAY
39		 PHO
11		 CAR
18		 ATL
DNQ		39th1773 [29]
1999 Tyler Jet Motorsports 45 Pontiac DAY
33		 CAR
DNQ		 LVS
23		 ATL
30		 DAR
DNQ		 TEX
12		 BRI
DNQ		 MAR
11		 TAL
14		 CAL
32		 RCH
10		 CLT
25		 DOV
33		 MCH
24		 POC
24		 SON
21		 DAY
18		 NHA
14		 POC
7		 IND
DNQ		 GLN
36		 MCH
28		 BRI
DNQ		 DAR
23		 RCH 38th2149 [30]
Melling Racing 9 Ford NHA
20		 DOV
36		 MAR
37		 CLT
39		 TAL
41
LJ Racing 91 Chevy CAR
DNQ		 PHO HOM ATL
2000 Joe Bessey Motorsports 60 Chevy DAY CAR LVS ATL DAR BRI TEX MAR
30		 TAL CAL RCH CLT DOV MCH POC SON DAY NHA POC MAR
DNQ		 CLT TAL
21		 CAR
DNQ		 PHO
35		 HOM ATL 56th231 [31]
Coulter Racing 61 Chevy IND
DNQ		 GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH NHA DOV
2001 Midwest Transit Racing 50 Chevy DAY CAR LVS ATL DAR BRI TEX MAR TAL CAL RCH CLT DOV MCH POC SON DAY CHI NHA POC IND
32		 GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV KAN CLT 56th137 [32]
Morgan-McClure Motorsports 4 Chevy MAR
31		 TAL PHO CAR
BAM Racing 49 Chevy HOM
DNQ		 ATL NHA
2003 Conely Racing 79 Chevy DAY CAR LVS ATL DAR BRI TEX TAL MAR CAL RCH CLT DOV POC MCH SON DAY CHI NHA POC IND GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH NHA DOV TAL KAN CLT MAR ATL PHO CAR
DNQ		NA- [33]
78 HOM
DNQ
Daytona 500
YearTeamManufacturerStartFinish
1990 Bickle Racing Oldsmobile 2928
1991 Close Racing Oldsmobile DNQ
1993 TTC Motrosports Inc. Ford DNQ
1994 DNQ
1999 Tyler Jet Motorsports Pontiac 2233

Busch Series

NASCAR Busch Series results
YearTeamNo.Make12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334NBSCPtsRef
1990 Beard Motorsports 00 Pontiac DAY
DNQ		 RCH CAR MAR HCY DAR BRI LAN SBO NZH HCY CLT DOV ROU VOL MYB OXF NHA SBO DUB IRP ROU BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR CLT NHA CAR MAR NA- [34]
1994 98 Chevy DAY
DNQ		 CAR RCH ATL
27		 MAR DAR HCY BRI ROU NHA NZH CLT DOV MYB GLN MLW SBO 76th171 [35]
TTC Motrosports Inc. 45 Ford TAL
42		 HCY IRP MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV CLT MAR
Gene Petty Motorsports 88 Chevy CAR
37
1995 Virtue Racing 54 Ford DAY
5		 CAR RCH ATL
13		 NSV DAR BRI HCY NHA
33		 NZH CLT
8		 DOV
16		 MYB GLN MLW
10		 TAL
DNQ		 SBO IRP MCH
15		 BRI DAR RCH DOV
37		 CLT
41		 CAR
7		 HOM
11		33rd1220 [36]
1996 45 DAY
DNQ		 CAR RCH ATL NSV DAR BRI HCY NZH CLT DOV SBO MYB GLN MLW NHA TAL IRP MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV CLT CAR HOM NA- [37]
1998 Bickle-Smith Motorsports 91 Ford DAY CAR LVS NSV DAR BRI TEX HCY TAL NHA NZH CLT
33		 DOV RCH PPR GLN MLW MYB CAL SBO IRP MCH BRI DAR RCH HOM
41		79th183 [38]
ST Motorsports 59 Chevy DOV
28		 CLT GTY CAR ATL
1999 Bickle-Smith Motorsports 91 Ford DAY CAR LVS ATL DAR TEX NSV BRI TAL CAL NHA RCH NZH CLT DOV SBO GLN MLW MYB PPR GTY IRP MCH
39		 BRI CLT
DNQ		 CAR
DNQ		64th516 [39]
HVP Motorsports 63 Chevy DAR
27		 RCH
11		 DOV
DNQ		 MEM
39
Pontiac PHO
27
Bickle-Smith Motorsports 91 Pontiac HOM
11
2000 DAY CAR LVS
DNQ		 ATL
DNQ		 DAR
29		 BRI TEX
DNQ		 NSV TAL CAL RCH NHA CLT
DNQ		 DOV
DNQ		 SBO
5		 MYB
5		 GLN MLW
35		 NZH PPR GTY
41		 IRP MCH
DNQ		 BRI DAR RCH
DNQ		 DOV CLT
DNQ		 CAR
DNQ		 MEM PHO
DNQ		 HOM
DNQ		70th329 [40]
2001 ST Motorsports 59 Chevy DAY
16		 CAR
7		 LVS
15		 ATL
29		 DAR
15		 BRI
39		 TEX
23		 NSH
12		 TAL
13		 CAL
29		 RCH
16		 NHA
21		 NZH
8		 CLT
17		 DOV
26		 KEN
27		 MLW
12		 GLN
22		 CHI
28		 GTY PPR IRP
9		 MCH
29		 BRI
20		 DAR
25		 RCH
16		 DOV
24		 KAN CLT MEM PHO CAR HOM 24th2595 [41]
2003 PF2 Motorsports 94 Chevy DAY CAR LVS DAR BRI TEX TAL NSH CAL RCH GTY NZH CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW DAY CHI NHA PPR IRP MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV KAN CLT MEM ATL PHO
38		 CAR
DNQ		 HOM 147th49 [42]

Craftsman Truck Series

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results
YearTeamNo.Make123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627NCTCPtsRef
1996 Petty Enterprises 43 Dodge HOM
21		 PHO
30		 POR
27		 EVG
4		 TUS
2*		 CNS
32		 HPT
12		 BRI
19		 NZH
15		 MLW
20		 LVL
27		 I70
10		 IRP
5		 FLM
3		 GLN
5		 NSV
18		 RCH
16		 NHA
12		 MAR
7		 NWS
8		 SON
29		 MMR
8		 PHO
11		 LVS
11		11th2914 [43]
1997 Darrell Waltrip Motorsports 17 Chevy WDW
3		 TUS
2		 HOM
11		 PHO
5		 POR
1*		 EVG
1*		 I70
4		 NHA
20		 TEX
21		 BRI
2		 NZH
4		 MLW
3		 LVL
5		 CNS
5		 HPT
23		 IRP
10		 FLM
3		 NSV
6		 GLN
16		 RCH
4		 MAR
1*		 SON
12		 MMR
5		 CAL
26		 PHO
18		 LVS
16		2nd3737 [44]
1998 PacWest S/T Motorsports 78 Dodge WDW
10		43rd551 [45]
Tyler Jet Motorsports 17 Chevy HOM
17		 PHO POR EVG I70 GLN TEX BRI MLW NZH CAL PPR IRP NHA FLM NSV HPT LVL
Billy Ballew Motorsports 15 Ford RCH
6		 MEM GTY MAR
5		 SON MMR PHO LVS
1999 Bickle-Smith Motorsports 45 Ford HOM PHO EVG MMR MAR
36		 MEM PPR I70 BRI TEX PIR GLN MLW NSV NZH MCH NHA IRP GTY HPT RCH
7		 LVS LVL TEX CAL 66th201 [46]
2002 Billy Ballew Motorsports 15 Ford DAY DAR MAR GTY PPR DOV TEX MEM
6		 MLW
11		 KAN
13		 KEN
15		 NHA
12		 MCH
12		 IRP NSH RCH TEX SBO LVS CAL PHO HOM 28th776 [47]
2003 Green Light Racing 07 Chevy DAY
19		 DAR MMR 22nd1288 [48]
Fasscore Motorsports 9 Ford MAR
8
Billy Ballew Motorsports 15 Ford CLT
10		 DOV
32		 TEX
24		 SBO
12		 TEX MAR
12		 PHO
33		 HOM
22
Dodge MEM
12		 MLW
27		 KAN
13		 KEN GTW MCH IRP NSH BRI RCH NHA CAL LVS
2005 Green Light Racing 08 Chevy DAY CAL ATL MAR GTY
36		 MFD
5		 CLT MLW
28		 KAN KEN MEM IRP 47th458 [49]
07 DOV
27		 TEX MCH NSH
27		 BRI RCH NHA LVS MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM

ARCA Menards Series

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

ARCA Menards Series results
YearTeamNo.Make12345678910111213141516171819202122232425AMSCPtsRef
1989 Bickle Racing 65 Chevy DAY
29		 ATL KIL TAL
2		 FRS POC KIL HAG POC TAL
34		 DEL FRS ISF 33rd- [50]
Venturini Motorsports 25 Chevy TOL
4		 DSF SLM ATL
1990 Bickle Racing 65 Chevy DAY
DNQ		 ATL KIL TAL FRS POC KIL TOL HAG POC TAL MCH ISF TOL DSF WIN DEL ATL NA- [51]
1991 Roulo Brothers Racing 26 Chevy DAY ATL KIL TAL TOL FRS POC MCH
3		 KIL FRS DEL POC TAL HPT MCH ISF TOL DSF TWS ATL 102nd- [52]
1992 39 DAY FIF
23		 TWS TAL TOL KIL POC MCH FRS KIL NSH DEL
3		 POC HPT FRS ISF TOL DSF TWS SLM ATL
39		59th- [53]
1993 DAY FIF
18		 TWS TAL KIL CMS FRS TOL POC MCH FRS POC KIL ISF DSF TOL SLM WIN 65th- [54]
TTC Motrosports Inc. 45 Ford ATL
34
1994 DAY TAL FIF LVL KIL TOL FRS MCH
42		 DMS POC POC KIL FRS INF I70 ISF DSF TOL SLM WIN ATL 112th- [55]
1996 Darrell Waltrip Motorsports 11 Chevy DAY ATL SLM TAL FIF LVL CLT CLT KIL FRS POC MCH FRS TOL POC MCH INF SBS ISF DSF KIL SLM WIN CLT ATL
4		127th- [56]
2021 Empire Racing 45 Chevy DAY
15		 PHO TAL KAN TOL CLT MOH POC ELK BLN IOW WIN GLN MCH ISF MLW DSF BRI SLM KAN 97th29 [57]

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1996		Succeeded by
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