Ray Ciccarelli
Ciccarelli atPocono Raceway in 2018
Born	Raymond J. Ciccarelli (1970-01-20)January 20, 1970 (age 55) Ellicott City, Maryland, U.S.
NASCARCraftsman Truck Series career
33 races run over 5 years
2021 position	67th
Best finish	33rd (2019)
First race	2017Eldora Dirt Derby (Eldora)
Last race	2021UNOH 200 (Bristol)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 1 0
Statistics current as of December 30, 2021.

Raymond J. Ciccarelli (born January 20, 1970) is an American professionalstock car racing driver. He last competed part-time in theNASCAR Camping World Truck Series, driving the No. 49Chevrolet Silverado for his own team,CMI Motorsports. He has also competed in what are now theARCA Menards Series andARCA Menards Series East in the past.

Ciccarelli drove part-time in the series in2014,2015, and2016 for teams Carter 2 Motorsports, Kimmel Racing, Hamilton-Hughes Racing, and Hixson Motorsports. He started his own team, Ciccarelli Racing, for2017. The team's first race came in the season-opener at Daytona where Ciccarelli finished 21st in his No. 38 Ford after a solid seventh-place qualifying run. The team returned at Talladega, although they used owner points from the full-time Hixson Motorsports No. 3 car to have a better shot of qualifying for the race (which they successfully did). Using that number instead of the No. 38 (which had only run Daytona), they picked up a thirteenth-place finish in the race. Ciccarelli had driven for the Hixson team in a few races in 2016.

In 2017, Ciccarelli made his Truck Series debut in theEldora Dirt Derby, driving the No. 10 truck forJennifer Jo Cobb Racing. He started 32nd and finished 22nd. After that, hestart-and-parked the No. 0 truck for the same team in 4 races at Michigan, New Hampshire, Texas, and Phoenix. He finished 26th, 29th, 28th, and 26th respectively. He returned to the No. 10 truck at Homestead. He qualified 31st, but an engine malfunction before the green flag waved gave him a 32nd-place finish.^[1][2]

In 2019, Ciccarelli acquired trucks, equipment, and owner points from the closedPremium Motorsports No. 49 truck^[3] and restarted his own team, now under the nameCMI Motorsports, which stood for "Ciccarelli Moving & Installation", a company owned by Ciccarelli and which is one of the team's sponsors. After running the first two races of the season, Ciccarelli and the CMI Motorsports team skipped the third round at Las Vegas with a planned comeback for the fourth round at Martinsville.^[4] Later in the year, he would score a career-best 9th-place finish at Michigan.

Ciccarelli announced in June 2020 his retirement from NASCAR as a driver and a team owner at the end of the 2020 season. His announcement, which came in the form of a post on hisFacebook page on June 10, was made on the same day asNASCAR's decision to ban the display of the Confederate battle flag from their events, a decision they made in the midst of theGeorge Floyd protests due to the flag's longtime association withwhite supremacist groups. While many NASCAR drivers praised the ban, Ciccarelli decried it, as he believed that it and other recent decisions by the sanctioning body ventured into the realm of politics.^[5][6]

However, Ciccarelli's team, CMI Motorsports, posted on their Twitter account on October 30 that "We're not done yet. See you all in 2021", signaling he would not close down his team after the 2020 season as planned.^[7] On November 19, when it was revealed on TobyChristie.com thatTim Viens was to continue as a driver for CMI, Ciccarelli told the website that he planned on driving in three to four races in 2021.^[8]

(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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