| Patty Moise | |||||||
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| Born | (1960-12-29)December 29, 1960 (age 64) Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. | ||||||
| NASCARCup Series career | |||||||
| 5 races run over 3 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 59th (1988) | ||||||
| First race | 1987The Budweiser at the Glen (Watkins Glen) | ||||||
| Last race | 1989Talladega DieHard 500 (Talladega) | ||||||
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| NASCARO'Reilly Auto Parts Series career | |||||||
| 133 races run over 12 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 22nd (1990) | ||||||
| First race | 1986Food Giant 300 (Road Atlanta) | ||||||
| Last race | 1998Stihl 300 (Atlanta) | ||||||
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| Statistics up to date as of February 29, 2012. | |||||||
Patricia Moise-Sawyer (/moʊʔˈiːs/) is a formerNASCAR driver. She drove in fiveWinston Cup races from 1987 to 1989, and 133Busch Series races from 1986 to 1998. She is the wife of former fellow NASCAR driverElton Sawyer.

Moise began racing at the age of sixteen, when she drove road course races in theIMSA series. She made her Busch Series debut in 1986 at Road Atlanta, driving the No. 47Buick Regal forRandy Hope. She qualified third and finished 30th due to engine problems on the first lap. She ran another Busch race that season atNorth Carolina Speedway, finishing 34th. She also became the first woman to lead a Busch Series event.
In 1987, she fielded her own team, the No. 37 Buick. She posted two top-tens in twelve starts, but also had six DNF's, finishing 31st in points. She also made her Cup debut atWatkins Glen in the No. 89Chevrolet owned byMarc Reno andErnie Irvan. She finished 33rd after a crash.
The next season, she dropped to 34th in points and did not finish in the top-ten in eleven starts. She also ran two Cup races for Hope that year, thePepsi 400 and at Watkins Glen, with her best finish being a 26th. In 1989, she switched to the No. 45 Buick. She posted two sixteenth-place runs and finished 35th in points. She also made her final two Cup starts, at Daytona andTalladega in her own car. Her best finish was 33rd.
In 1990, she sold her team to Mike Laughlin and made the most starts of her career, 24. Despite not finishing in the top-ten, she finished a career-high 22nd in points at season's end. During the season, she married her husband Elton, whom she joined as a teammate part-time the following season at Dilliard Racing, where her best finish was a fifteenth atDover. She only made one race the next season, finishing fourteenth in her own No. 42 at Watkins Glen. In 1994, she ran six races forDoug Taylor, who signed her to drive the next season. She had a seventh-place run at Talladega in the No. 40 Ford and finished 25th in points. Unfortunately, she was released, and Sawyer started a team for her, the No. 14. Moise ran 18 races and finished 37th in points. She ran one race the next year in the car at Dover, but wrecked early in the race.
In 1998, her team was purchased byMichael Waltrip Racing, and she signed to drive the car. Despite a top-ten atBristol, she had trouble making races and finished 37th in points. She has not raced in NASCAR since.
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
| NASCARWinston Cup Series results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | NWCC | Pts | Ref | ||||||
| 1987 | Reno Enterprises | 89 | Chevy | DAY | CAR | RCH | ATL | DAR | NWS | BRI | MAR | TAL | CLT | DOV | POC | RSD | MCH | DAY | POC | TAL | GLN 33 | MCH | BRI | DAR | RCH | DOV | MAR | NWS | CLT | CAR | RSD | ATL | 96th | 64 | [1] | ||||||
| 1988 | Hope Motorsports | 37 | Buick | DAY | RCH | CAR | ATL | DAR | BRI | NWS | MAR | TAL | CLT | DOV | RSD | POC | MCH | DAY 26 | POC | TAL | GLN 30 | MCH | BRI | DAR | RCH | DOV | MAR | CLT | NWS | CAR | PHO | ATL | 59th | 158 | [2] | ||||||
| 1989 | Moise Racing | 45 | Buick | DAY | CAR | ATL | RCH | DAR | BRI | NWS | MAR | TAL | CLT | DOV | SON | POC | MCH | DAY 39 | POC | TAL 33 | GLN | MCH DNQ | BRI | DAR | RCH | DOV | MAR | CLT | NWS | CAR | PHO | ATL DNQ | 69th | 110 | [3] | ||||||
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
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| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | APSC | Pts | Ref | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1988 | Moise Racing | 37 | Buick | DAY | ATL | TAL 41 | FRS | PCS | ROC | POC | WIN | KIL | ACS | SLM | POC | TAL 33 | DEL | FRS | ISF | DSF | SLM | ATL | 75th | - | [16] | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1989 | 45 | DAY 19* | ATL | KIL | TAL DNQ | FRS | POC | KIL | HAG | POC | TAL 15 | DEL | FRS | ISF | TOL | DSF | SLM | ATL | 75th | - | [17] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1990 | Laughlin Racing | DAY 6 | ATL | KIL | TAL | FRS | POC | KIL | TOL | HAG | POC | TAL | MCH | ISF | TOL | DSF | WIN | DEL | ATL | 104th | - | [18] | ||||||||||||||||||||||