| Tony Raines | |||||||
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Raines atRoad America in 2012 | |||||||
| Born | Floyd Anthony Raines (1964-04-14)April 14, 1964 (age 61) Glasgow, Montana, U.S. | ||||||
| Achievements | 1996ASA National Tour Champion | ||||||
| Awards | 1999Busch SeriesRookie of the Year | ||||||
| NASCARCup Series career | |||||||
| 180 races run over 12 years | |||||||
| 2013 position | 67th | ||||||
| Best finish | 29th (2007) | ||||||
| First race | 2002MBNA Platinum 400 (Dover) | ||||||
| Last race | 2013Ford EcoBoost 400 (Homestead) | ||||||
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| NASCARO'Reilly Auto Parts Series career | |||||||
| 282 races run over 14 years | |||||||
| 2013 position | 51st | ||||||
| Best finish | 6th (2001) | ||||||
| First race | 1999NAPA Auto Parts 300 (Daytona) | ||||||
| Last race | 2013Great Clips / Grit Chips 300 (Atlanta) | ||||||
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| NASCARCraftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
| 54 races run over 5 years | |||||||
| 2013 position | 115th | ||||||
| Best finish | 5th (1998) | ||||||
| First race | 1997NAPA 200 (Tucson) | ||||||
| Last race | 2013Pocono Mountains 125 (Pocono) | ||||||
| First win | 1997Western Auto/Parts America 200 (I-70) | ||||||
| Last win | 1998Kroger 225 (Louisville) | ||||||
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| Statistics up to date as of November 17, 2013. | |||||||
Floyd Anthony Raines (born April 14, 1964) is an American former professionalstock car racing driver. He is a former National Touring Series champion in theAmerican Speed Association and1999 Rookie of the Year in theNASCARNationwide Series. He was the spotter for the No. 41Stewart–Haas RacingFord Mustang Dark Horse forRyan Preece until SHR closed in 2024.
In 1988, Raines competed in fiveASA races, and then returned for his rookie year in 1989. In 1990, Raines moved to NASCAR's All Pro Series, where he won Rookie of the Year and finished fourth in the final standings.
He returned to ASA in 1991 for a four-year stint as driver of a new team formed by Ernie Roselli. In 1995, he joined veteran crew chief Howie Lettow and Baker Motorsports.[1] That in turn led to the 1996 championship and Raines' first major NASCAR ride.[1]

Raines entered the1997 season with a full-time ride, running forRookie of the Year honors in the No. 19PennzoilFord F-150 for Kurt Roehrig. After failing to qualify for the first race of the season, Raines came back to win the seventh race of the season atI-70 Speedway. He finished fifteenth in points and ended the season with two top-fives and seven top-tens, as well as two outside-pole positions. In1998, he won three races (I-70,Louisville, andTexas) and earned sixth additional top-fives with fifteen top-tens, ending the season fifth in the standings.
In1999, Roehrig lost the Pennzoil sponsorship, causing Raines to look elsewhere. This resulted in his move up to the Busch Series, signing with the No. 74BACE Motorsports team. Raines raced 31 times during the season, with the exception of theCoca-Cola 300, in whichSteve Grissom drove. Without a primary sponsorship, Raines had a best finish of fourth and finished twelfth in points, capturing the Rookie of the Year honors. In 1999, he made one start in the Truck Series atThe Milwaukee Mile for Gerry Gunderman in the No. 68 truck in 1999 when Raines started 22nd and finished nineteenth. The following season, Raines moved to BACE's No. 33Bayer Chevrolet Monte Carlo full-time. He had a career-best second-place finish atSouth Boston Speedway, but with no other Top 10s, he fell to fifteenth in the final points standings. He would return in2001 withBayer andAlka-Seltzer sharing sponsorship duties, winning his first career pole atNazareth Speedway and had a career-high thirteen top-ten finishes, finishing sixth in points. He followed that up with five top-fives in2002, but fell six spots in points.
BACE and Raines moved to the Winston Cup full-time in2003, completing the whole season forNASCAR Rookie of the Year honors. Despite running without major sponsorship, Raines had a sixth-place finish atNorth Carolina Speedway and finished 33rd in the championship standings, and third in the Rookie of the Year race. During the last six races of the season, Raines was in the top-twenty in points gained for those six races. In the Busch series, Raines had another second-place finish and three consecutive eighth-place runs, allowing him to finish 39th in points despite an abbreviated schedule.
Due to the lack of a sponsorship in 2004, BACE closed its Cup team and focused back on the Busch Series. BACE hiredDamon Lusk to drive its No. 74 Outdoor ChannelChevrolet Monte Carlo; after four races, Raines returned to the team in favor of Lusk, and finished sixth in his first race atBristol. He ran fifteen races for BACE that season, and drove additional races forPhoenix Racing,Haas CNC Racing, andKevin Harvick Incorporated. He returned to the Truck series for one race atAtlanta, finishing seventeenth in the No. 08 1-800-4-A-PhoneChevrolet Silverado forGreen Light Racing. Raines ran one-race deals in Cup forPhoenix Racing and forBill Davis Racing in2004, before running four races forCompetitive Edge Motorsports. His best Cup finish in 2004 was 28th.
He made a total of six Nextel Cup races in2005, his first being a 35th-place finish forFront Row Motorsports atRichmond. Late in the season, he drove the No. 37Dodge Charger forR&J Racing for six races. At Michigan, Raines inherited the lead late in the race, however with a handful of laps left ran out of fuel. The best finish for the pairing was a 22nd-place finish atTalladega Speedway. In addition to his Cup rides in 2005, Raines drove part-time forKevin Harvick Incorporated in the No. 33 Yard Man/Outdoor Channel Chevrolet Monte Carlo in the Busch Series. In 2005, he had nine Top 10's in 23 starts, with a 4th-place finish at the Federated Auto Parts 300. Drie was born.
Towards the end of the 2005 Nextel Cup Series, he was announced as a co-driver of a new team: the No. 96Texas Instruments/DLP HDTV Chevrolet forHall of Fame Racing. He would share the ride in2006 withTerry Labonte. Raines and the team had their best race of the season during the Bank of America 500 atLowe's Motor Speedway, where he led 28 laps and finished 7th. In the 29 races he competed in, Raines had one top-ten finish and finished 35th in points.


Raines was expected to complete the full2007 schedule with Hall of Fame Racing, but was replaced on road course events byRon Fellows. His best finish in 2007 was ninth at Talladega and the team finished in the top-25 in Owners Points. At the end of the 2007 season, Raines was replaced byJ. J. Yeley in the No. 96 car for the2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Raines also had returned to the Busch Series with KHI for a part-time schedule, and in 2007 he had three top-ten finishes in nine starts.

After sitting out the first few races of 2008, Raines attempted his first races of the season forE&M Motorsports driving the No. 08 Dodge sponsored by Rhino Energy Drink. He successfully qualified for his first Cup race of the season at Dover in the Front Row Motorsports No. 34 car, however had failed to make any other races for the team, partly because of a high number of qualifying rainouts. He began driving the No. 70Haas CNC Racing Chevrolet at Pocono, resulting in an eighteenth-place finish, that team's second-best finish of the season up to that point, and he bested that finish two races later with a seventeenth-place finish at Bristol. Later, he returned to Front Row Motorsports at Richmond and New Hampshire, only for qualifying to be canceled due to rain at both races, resulting in DNQ's for the team. He got back behind the wheel of the No. 70 Haas CNC Chevrolet at the Camping World 400 at Dover International Speedway, qualifying thirteenth for the race, the best of any team outside the top-35 in points, and finished 28th. In the fall race at Talladega, Raines was running near the top-ten when a lead car lost a tire, causing the first major wreck of the race; the No. 70 was involved in the wreck and finished 34th. He ran the remainder of the season for Haas CNC, with the exception of the race at Phoenix whereJohnny Sauter drove.

In 2009, Raines returned to the Nationwide Series for a full-time schedule driving the No. 34Long John Silver's Chevrolet forFront Row Motorsports, replacing Eric McClure who departed at the end of 2008. Raines had a fourth-place finish in theAaron's 312 at Talladaga Superspeedway, markingFront Row Motorsports first top-five finish in any series, and has had numerous top-twenty finishes throughout the year while remaining in the top-fifteen in drivers points. At Dover in the spring, FRM perennial sponsor Continental Fire and Safety joined the No. 34 Chevy, and at Daytona in JulyGander Mountain jumped on board the No. 34 Impala. Raines was able to muscle his way to a 6th-place finish in the rain at the road race at Montreal. The No. 34 team was able to put together a very competitive car atLowes Motor Speedway and finished in the tenth position after starting in the back of the field and being in the top-ten for much of the night. Raines and the No. 34 earned twelfth place in drivers points for the season, and 20th-place in owners points.

In addition to his return to a full-time schedule in the Nationwide Series forFront Row Motorsports, he attempted to qualify Front Row's No. 37 Dodge Charger in the 2009 Daytona 500, however was unsuccessful. Raines qualified for the Sprint Cup race in Phoenix in Barry Haefele's No. 73 car. The No. 37 and Raines qualified for their first race at Richmond, however was a late entry and gained no points for the attempt. Raines was announced as the replacement forJohn Andretti in the No. 34 entry for three weeks while Andretti temporarily left the team to compete in theIndy 500. In his first race for the team, Raines was able to get FRM's best ever finish to that point without EGR's assistance, a 25th at Darlington. Returning to the No. 37, Raines managed to make numerous other races for the team, gaining sponsorship fromGander Mountain during the2009 Coke Zero 400, finishing thirtieth. The No. 37 was run primarily as a "start and park" car in 2009, attempting to aid the No. 34 in remaining in the top-35 in points, and raising money for the underfunded organization.

For the 2010 season, Raines and the No. 34 Long John Silvers crew return to the track in the Nationwide Series. However, withFront Row Motorsports becomingFord supported team in theSprint Cup Series, and the No. 34 Nationwide team runningChevrolets, the team has been absorbed by the returning organization ofTri-Star Motorsports, owned by Mark Smith of Pro Motors. Raines and the No. 34 started the season strong, with a 14th-place finish at theDRIVE4COPD 300 atDaytona after leading three laps. The No. 34 team picked up sponsorship from thePlanet Hollywood Resort and Casino atLas Vegas, and had a strong run at Talladega, finishing seventh. BeAStockCarDriver.com jumped onto Raines' car for the remaining 4 races of the season after sponsoring teammateJason Keller at Charlotte. He finished seventeenth in final drivers standings.
Raines ran aSprint Cup Series race for Larry Gunselman's No. 64 at Richmond in May, and ranTommy Baldwin Racing's No. 36 in the Sprint Showdown. At theCarfax 400 at Michigan during August, Raines replaced the releasedKevin Conway atFront Row Motorsports, finishing 31st in his debut with the team. Raines and fellow driverDave Blaney shared this ride for the remainder of the season. He ran in the top-twenty at Martinsville before a cut tire ended his day. Raines' best finish in the 2010 Sprint Cup season came at Bristol, finishing 28th.

In 2011, Raines began the season without a full-time ride in any series. He spotted forRobert Richardson, Jr., driving the No. 37 Ford forFront Row Motorsports in the Daytona 500. Raines' first start came at Phoenix, where he finished 25th inMax Q Motorsports' unsponsored No. 37 Ford, fielded in association withFront Row Motorsports. He continued to race the car, getting a 25th at Martinsville and getting the team back into the top-35 in owners points following the seventh race of the season. Black Cat Fireworks and Firehouse Subs joined the team for five races leading up to the Coca-Cola 400 Daytona on the 4th of July weekend. Following the ninth race of the season at Richmond, the car turned into a start and park entry. Raines would go on to be the full-time driver of the car until the nineteenth race of the season at Loudon, after which he drove sparingly for the team.
In 2012, Raines drove the No. 26 Ford forFront Row Motorsports in theDaytona 500.[2] Securing sponsorship from theRick Santorum For President campaign, he finished 19th in the race, after running in the Top 10 on the final lap and being blocked.[3] Raines was scheduled to drive in the No. 40 forJoe Falk andMike Hillman at Bristol for what would becomeHillman-Circle Sport LLC, but the team withdrew. However he did make a start for Hillman-Circle Sport atTexas Motor Speedway in the debut of their new No. 33 car, finishing 34th.[4] Raines again drove the No. 33 for Hillman-Circle Sport at Talladega, where he finished 38th after an anal prolapse. Raines also drove at Pocono forTommy Baldwin Racing, finishing 32nd after a crash. He also drove forRobinson-Blakeney Racing in the Nationwide Series, mostly running the No. 70 whenML Motorsports was not scheduled to do so.
Raines continued driving the JRR No. 70 in 2013 at the Nationwide Series level. He also returned to the No. 33 and No. 40 cars for Hillman-Circle Sport in the Sprint Cup Series as a teammate toLandon Cassill, mostly starting and parking his appearances to fund Cassill's full race runs. However, Raines did run the full race at Bristol, Richmond and Kansas, with a best finish of 29th at Kansas in October. Raines was also scheduled to run the full race at Talladega, however his engine expired on the second lap of the race.
Raines did not make any national series appearances in 2014.
Raines served as the spotter forSam Hornish Jr. and the No. 9 ofRichard Petty Motorsports in 2015, but returned to Front Row Motorsports as a spotter mid-year.
In 2017, Raines began spotting for Stewart Haas Racing #41 driverKurt Busch in 2017.[5] Raines spotted for Busch's2017 Daytona 500 win.
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
| Year | Team | Manufacturer | Start | Finish |
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| 2003 | BACE Motorsports | Chevrolet | 33 | 33 |
| 2007 | Hall of Fame Racing | Chevrolet | 20 | 33 |
| 2009 | Front Row Motorsports | Dodge | DNQ | |
| 2012 | Ford | 41 | 19 | |
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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 | NCWTC | Pts | Ref | |||||||||||
| 1997 | Roehrig Motorsports | 19 | Dodge | WDW DNQ | TUS 15 | HOM 30 | PHO DNQ | POR 7 | EVG 18 | I70 1* | NHA 34 | TEX 32 | BRI 22 | NZH 10 | MLW 7 | LVL 4 | CNS 9 | HPT 10 | IRP 27 | FLM 16 | NSV 11 | GLN 33 | RCH 22 | MAR 23 | SON 24 | MMR 11 | CAL 13 | PHO 36 | LVS 11 | 15th | 2773 | [33] | ||||||||||||
| 1998 | Ford | WDW 16 | HOM 25 | PHO 9 | POR 5 | EVG 18 | I70 1* | GLN 12 | TEX 1 | BRI 6 | MLW 15 | NZH 7 | CAL 17 | PPR 2 | IRP 4 | NHA 5 | FLM 17 | NSV 2 | HPT 14 | LVL 1 | RCH 28 | MEM 25 | GTY 32 | MAR 7 | SON 3 | MMR 10 | PHO 10 | LVS 22 | 5th | 3596 | [34] | |||||||||||||
| 1999 | All Star Racing Team | 68 | Chevy | HOM | PHO | EVG | MMR | MAR | MEM | PPR | I70 | BRI | TEX | PIR | GLN | MLW 19 | NSV | NZH | MCH | NHA | IRP | GTY | HPT | RCH | LVS | LVL | TEX | CAL | 93rd | 106 | [35] | |||||||||||||
| 2004 | KW Racing | 08 | Chevy | DAY | ATL 17 | MAR | MFD | CLT | DOV | TEX | MEM | MLW | KAN | KEN | GTW | MCH | IRP | NSH | BRI | 86th | 112 | [36] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Key Motorsports | 40 | Chevy | RCH DNQ | NHA | LVS | CAL | TEX | MAR DNQ | PHO | DAR | HOM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | RSS Racing | 38 | Chevy | DAY | MAR | CAR | KAN | CLT | DOV | TEX | KEN | IOW | ELD | POC 35 | MCH | BRI | MSP | IOW | CHI | LVS | TAL | MAR | TEX | PHO | HOM | 117th | 01 | [37] | ||||||||||||||||
* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points
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| Preceded by | ASA National Tour Champion 1996 | Succeeded by |
| Achievements | ||
| Preceded by | NASCAR Busch Series Rookie of the Year 1999 | Succeeded by |