Ray Black Jr.
Black atRichmond Raceway in 2019
Born	Raymond Black Jr. (1991-05-17)May 17, 1991 (age 34) Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.
NASCARCup Series career
4 races run over 2 years
2018 position	55th
Best finish	55th (2018)
First race	2017Tales of the Turtles 400 (Chicagoland)
Last race	2018Coke Zero Sugar 400 (Daytona Beach)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCARO'Reilly Auto Parts Series career
103 races run over 6 years
2020 position	40th
Best finish	16th (2019)
First race	2015O'Reilly Auto Parts Challenge (Texas)
Last race	2020Toyota 200 (Darlington)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 1 0
NASCARCraftsman Truck Series career
31 races run over 3 years
2016 position	99th
Best finish	11th (2015)
First race	2014Kroger 250 (Martinsville)
Last race	2016American Ethanol E15 225 (Chicagoland)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 1 0
Statistics up to date as of November 9, 2020.

Raymond Black Jr. (born May 17, 1991) is an American former professionalstock car racing driver. He last competed full-time in theNASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 07Chevrolet Camaro forSS-Green Light Racing.

Born inMontgomery, Alabama, he moved toPalm Coast, Florida when he was nine years old. After playingracing video games on hisPlayStation, Black developed an interest in racing professionally at the age of fourteen. In 2006, Black began racing in theFlorida Mini Cup Racing Association's Junior All-Star division, winning the championship after finishing in the top five in every race.^[1] In 2013, he began racing Pro Late Models.^[2]

In 2014, Black made hisNASCARCamping World Truck Series debut atMartinsville Speedway forSS-Green Light Racing, driving the No. 07.^[3] Due to qualifying being rained out, Black started 29th based on his team's owners points standing in 2013.^[4] Black finished 24th, five laps behind race winnerMatt Crafton.^[5] Black made six additional starts for the team in 2014, with a best finish of eighteenth atChicagoland Speedway andTexas Motor Speedway, the former being where he led his only lap of the season.

On December 16, Black announced he would compete full-time in the Truck Series with SS-Green Light for 2015, competing forRookie of the Year honors.^[6] In the season-opening race atDaytona International Speedway, Black finished fifth after avoiding a crash on the backstretch.^[7] After not finishing in the top-ten for the rest of the season, but rarely finishing outside the top-twenty, he managed an eleventh-place points finish.^[8]

In November 2015, Black made hisXfinity Series debut at Texas, driving the No. 15 forRick Ware Racing.^[9] On January 13, 2016, Black announced he would drive the No. 07Chevrolet Camaro full-time forSS-Green Light Racing.^[10] He finished nineteenth in his debut season, failing to break in to the top-ten in any races.^[11]

After starting the2017 NASCAR Xfinity Series season with SS-Green Light, Black was replaced byTodd Bodine for the Charlotte race in 2017 due to a lack of sponsorship.^[12]Spencer Boyd,Korbin Forrister,Andy Lally,Ryan Ellis andDevin Jones also ran in the 07 when Black could not bring sponsorship.^[13] Boyd took over the ride that Black ran 21 of the 33 races in 2017^[14] for 2018 with funding from Grunt Style.^[15]

After losing his ride with Ware in the Cup Series, Black returned withB. J. McLeod Motorsports at Daytona in 2018.^[16] The team failed to qualify along with five other cars. Black returned to the Xfinity Series sporadically in summer 2018, with Isokern Fireplaces as his sponsor.

In January 2019, it was announced that Black would compete full-time in 2019, driving the No. 07 car forSS-Green Light Racing.^[17]

Black began the 2020 season by scoring his first career Xfinity top-ten finish, avoiding late crashes to finish eighth at Daytona.^[18] Despite enjoying a strong start to the year with an average finish of 18.6 across the first five races, he withdrew from full-time racing in late May to help his sponsor and father's business CDA Technical Institute, which was struggling financially due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.^[19]

In September 2017, Black joinedRick Ware Racing's No. 51Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series car at Chicagoland'sTales of the Turtles 400.^[20] After qualifying 39th, he finished 40th, sixteen laps behind race winnerMartin Truex Jr.^[21] He made two more starts in the Playoffs, finishing 34th at Texas and 38th at Homestead.^[22] On November 22, 2017, Black joined the RWR team for a full2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season and aRookie of the Year effort.^[23] However the deal fell through later in the offseason,^[24] as Black's family, which owned reported sponsor ScubaLife, allegedly backed out of the commitment in December.

Despite no longer having a deal to drive full-time in the Cup Series for Ware, he did drive RWR's No. 51 Chevrolet Camaro Zl1 for the2018 Coke Zero Sugar 400, with a 16th-place finish. It is worth mentioning, that Black's car was serviced by two female pit crew members, for the first time in NASCAR Cup Series history.^[25]

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

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

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