Andrew Houston (born November 7, 1970) is an Americanstock car racing spotter and former driver. He is a veteran of theNASCARCraftsman Truck Series, scoring three wins.

Houston is the son of legendary Busch driverTommy Houston and the youngest of three brothers, one of them being part-time NASCAR driverMarty Houston and the other being the oldest of the three,Scott Houston. He is also the cousin of former team ownerTeresa Earnhardt. Houston has also raced in theWinston Cup Series and theBusch Series. Houston is married to wife Lorie and has two children, Collin (born in 1997) and Clark (born in 2001).

Houston wonHickory Motor Speedway's Late Model Championship in 1994, and, in 1996, he won theGoody's Dash Series Most Popular Driver Award.

2000 marked Houston's first start in theWinston Cup Series as he competed in five races to prepare for his 2001 rookie campaign withPPI Motorsports. Out of the five races his best finish would come atLowe's Motor Speedway, a 26th. Houston began the year 2001 well with a ninth place qualifying effort at theDaytona 500 in the No. 96McDonald's Ford. It would be one of the highlights of the year, as Houston ended the year with no top-tens and a best finish of seventeenth atMartinsville; Houston only managed to qualify for seventeen races and his team folded after McDonald's pulled its sponsorship late in the season. He has not returned to the Cup Series since.

Houston made hisBusch Series debut in 1996 driving the No. 0Suburban Propane Ford atIndianapolis Raceway Park. He would start the race in the 21st position and finish in the 24th position, five laps down. He returned to the series in 1998 to make another start this time atHickory Motor Speedway in the No. 50Dr Pepper Ford. He would start the race in seventh and finish twentieth. In 2000, Houston made one start forTeam SABCO and brought the No. 82Channellock Chevrolet home in the 36th position at theMilwaukee Mile. For the 2002 season, Houston was supposed to run the whole season with theHerzog-Jackson Motorsports team, but was released and replaced byTodd Bodine after Las Vegas Due to "performance issues". His best finish with the team was a ninth atDaytona.

In 1997, Houston made his firstCraftsman Truck Series start withAddington Racing. He would compete in four races for the team with a best finish of 11th atMartinsville. For the 1998 season, he returned to Addington Racing and ran full-time in the Truck Series. Houston would have a solid year winning his first race atNew Hampshire International Speedway and posting nine top-tens, while finishing 12th in points. Houston again returned to Addington Racing for the 1999 season and he scored fourteen top-tens with an 8th-place finish in points. 2000 was a breakout year for Houston, as he won two races at Homestead and Portland, had thirteen top-fives, and eighteen top-tens, finishing 3rd in points toRoush Racing teammatesGreg Biffle andKurt Busch. He returned to the series in 2002 with Melling Racing where he ran one race atSouth Boston Speedway. After thatBilly Ballew Motorsports hired him to run the remainder of 2002. He would post a best finish of twelfth atCalifornia out of the five races he competed in. In 2003, Houston was still running races forBilly Ballew andNelly whenVokal became his primary sponsor, until Billy ran out of money to run two trucks. Ballew kept Rich Bickle, leaving Houston without a ride. Later that year,Ultra Motorsports gave him a truck ride and he did very well, finishing no worse than tenth and earned a pole atTexas Motor Speedway. For the 2004 season, he continued driving forUltra Motorsports until he was released after the race atBristol. Andy's best finish with the team that year was a seventh atDover. For the remainder of 2004 with the exception of Richmond, Houston raced with multiple teams, but with limited success. In 2005, he only ran one race withKey Motorsports atBristol Motor Speedway, finishing 33rd after a crash in his final NASCAR race.

Following his racing career, Houston worked as aspotter for other drivers; he worked withRichard Childress Racing, spotting forAustin Dillon in theNationwide Series in the early 2010s,^[1] moving up with Dillon to theSprint Cup Series in 2014.^[2] He left Dillon's team after the 2019 season.^[3] He announced in November 2019 onTwitter that he would spot forCole Custer for the 2020 season in Custer's rookie campaign.^[4] He also spotted forRyan Preece in 2023. He will now be spotting forNoah Gragson in 2024.

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

• Andy Houston driver statistics at Racing-Reference

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