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Bobby Santos III
Santos III's No. 44 car atBristol Motor Speedway in 2016
Born	Robert Santos III (1985-10-03)October 3, 1985 (age 40) Franklin, Massachusetts, U.S.
Achievements	2006Night Before the 500 winner 2008Turkey Night Grand Prix winner 2010NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour champion 2020Little 500 winner
NASCARO'Reilly Auto Parts Series career
6 races run over 3 years
2012 position	92nd
Best finish	70th (2011)
First race	2007Circuit City 250 (Richmond)
Last race	2012Subway Jalapeño 250 (Daytona)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCARCraftsman Truck Series career
1 race run over 1 year
2011 position	110th
Best finish	110th (2011)
First race	2011F.W. Webb 175 (Loudon)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
Statistics up to date as of February 25, 2013.

Robert Santos III (born October 3, 1985) is an American professional racing driver from Franklin, Massachusetts. He graduated in 2004 fromTri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School. Santos, nicknamed "Bobby New England", is the grandson of Bobby Santos, a formermodified racer. His sister,Erica Pitkat, and brother in lawWoody Pitkat are also racecar drivers.^{[citation needed]} He is the cousin of formerUniversity of New Hampshire quarterback, and current head coach^[1]Ricky Santos.

Before stock cars, Santos was a successfulmidget racer. He raced in theNortheastern Midget Association,USAC,PRA Big Car, andISMA. He had the most wins of any driver in the USAC National Midget Tour in 2006, collecting five wins, including a win atO'Reilly Raceway Park on theNight Before the 500. He was signed toBill Davis Racing.

In 2006, Santos made his stock car debut atIowa Speedway for Bill Davis Racing in the #02Dodge. He started tenth and finished sixth. He returned to ARCA in 2007 for Bill Davis, now in aToyota Camry. He won Toyota's first stock car pole atUSA International Speedway inLakeland, Florida. While leading the race, he was involved in an incident with a lapped car and did not finish. He returned atNashville Superspeedway, but had a mid-pack run. AtKansas Speedway, Santos started second, but a blown engine relegated him to another DNF. Santos broke his dry spell atKentucky Speedway when he started fourth and finished third, behindErik Darnell andErin Crocker. Santos placed third in the next race at Kentucky, as well. He won a pole atPocono Raceway in early August and qualified fifth atTalladega Superspeedway, but was unable to back up either with a strong finish.

In 2007, Santos made his NASCAR Busch Series debut atRichmond International Raceway for the newRiley D'Hondt Motorsports team. He qualified seventh in his No. 91 Toyota but faded back to a thirtieth-place finish after running in the top-ten at the beginning of the race. He also qualified fourth for the Camping World 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and was running in the top 10 before being hit by a lapped car. He ran two additional races for RDHM but did not finish better than 30th.

Santos has also participated in theWhelen Modified Tour, collecting his first two wins atThompson International Speedway in October 2007, and the Ice Breaker, also atThompson International Speedway, in April 2010. He parlayed his season-opening Icebreaker win into the 2010Whelen Modified Tour championship, collecting a total of four wins and four poles on the season.^[2]

Santos ran the 2011 Nationwide Series opener forJimmy Means in what was a back-upJR Motorsports car after wrecking the No. 52 in practice; the Earnhardt family has a long friendship with the independent owner and former driver. Santos finished seventeenth after vowing to run the race in its entirety.

After his stint in stock car racing, Santos returned to his roots, racing the full NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour for Bob Garbarino's Mystic Missile Racing team and a limited schedule in all three USAC divisions. Santos also made select appearances in the NEMA ranks in 2009. Santos' post-NASCAR career has been highlighted by wins in many of the nation's largest midget races, including theTurkey Night Grand Prix andCopper World Classic. He also won the 2020 Little 500 USAC Sprint car race atAnderson Speedway.^[3]

Santos would drive part-time in the NASCARNationwide Series in 2012 forTommy Baldwin Racing^[4] and would continue to compete on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour behind the wheel of the Tinio Corporation No. 44.

Santos registered back-to-backMusket 250 wins in 2019 and 2020.^[5]

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

¹ Ineligible for series points

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

(key) * – Most laps led.¹ – Heat 1 winner.² – Heat 2 winner.

^* Season still in progress

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• Bobby Santos at USAC Racing

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