Rick Crawford
Crawford (right) during a visit toNaval Air Station Sigonella in 2003
Born	Richard Hoyt Crawford Jr. (1958-07-26)July 26, 1958 (age 67) Mobile, Alabama, U.S.
Achievements	1989Snowball Derby Winner
NASCARO'Reilly Auto Parts Series career
2 races run over 2 years
2012 position	139th
Best finish	134th (2011)
First race	2011STP 300 (Chicagoland)
Last race	2012Food City 250 (Bristol)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCARCraftsman Truck Series career
336 races run over 16 years
2013 position	119th
Best finish	2nd (2002)
First race	1997Chevy Trucks Challenge (Orlando)
Last race	2012Fred's 250 (Talladega)
First win	1998Florida Dodge Dealers 400 (Homestead)
Last win	2006Power Stroke Diesel 200 (IRP)
Wins Top tens Poles 5 160 6
Statistics up to date as of February 25, 2013.

Richard Hoyt Crawford Jr. (born July 26, 1958)^[1] is an American former professionalstock car racing driver and convicted child sex offender. Crawford competed in theCraftsman Truck Series full-time from 1997 to 2009. He is the former promoter and manager ofMobile International Speedway.

Crawford began his racing career as a short-track racer in the southeastern United States. He won the 1989 running of the prestigious annual short trackSnowball Derby race.^[2] He also won the track championship atFive Flags Speedway in 1981 and 1984, and won the championship atMobile International Speedway in 1981, 1982, and 1984. After that, he moved to theSlim Jim All Pro Series, where he collected sixty-one top tens, and earned five victories. In 1993 and 1994, he attempted fourWinston Cup Series races in the No. 84, but did not qualify for any of them.

In 1997, Crawford moved to theCraftsman Truck Series with his Circle Bar team. He qualified for every race, had ten top-tens, a top-five atTexas Motor Speedway and finished twelfth in the points. He was also runner-up toKenny Irwin Jr. for theNASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Rookie of the Year. The next season, he picked up his first career win atHomestead-Miami Speedway. Unfortunately, the team struggled to find consistency, with only five top-ten finishes and he dropped to eighteenth in the standings. Crawford started 1999 with two consecutive top-tens, but only wound up fourteenth in the points, scoring ten top-tens and four top fives.

In 2001, Crawford finished eighth in points, his first top-ten points finish, he would earn sixteen top tens and ten top fives. The 2002 season would prove to be Crawford's most successful, although winless for the season he had seventeen top-ten finishes, a career high twelve top-five finishes, two poles (at Dover and Phoenix), and finished second in the standings only 46 points behind championMike Bliss. 2003 saw him grab his second victory, at theFlorida Dodge Dealers 250, in a memorable three-wide race to finish line atDaytona International Speedway. He finished the season seventh in points with 16 top tens and ten top-fives.

In 2004 in his first race after a massive crash atAtlanta Motor Speedway, in whichTina Gordon andHank Parker Jr. were also involved, he picked up a win atMartinsville Speedway. He would finish the season with nine top-tens and four top-fives, and fell to twelfth in points. Despite a win atLoudon in 2005, Crawford finished seventeenth in points, mainly due to missing the first race of his Truck career after suffering injuries, ironically while practicing for theBuilt Ford Tough 225.Boris Said, who was scheduled to be a guest on theSpeed Channel's race coverage, was hired to drive the truck. While he wrecked later in the race, he returned to the booth to cover the rest of the race, as the lateNeil Bonnett once did atTalladega Superspeedway in 1993 after taking a wild ride into the tri-oval. He did score two poles at Atlanta and Martinsville and had eleven top-tens and three top-fives.

For the 2006 season, Crawford had five top-fives and thirteen top-ten finishes including a win on August 4 atO'Reilly Raceway Park, finishing 9th in the final standings, the win at O’Reilly was his final career victory. Rick had a consistent year in 2007 racking up eleven top-five finishes, eighteen top-tens and a near win atMansfield Motorsports Park en route to a fifth place standing in the points championship. The eighteen top ten finishes would be a career high to date. In 2008 Crawford put together another solid season with thirteen top tens and seven top fives and a pole at Texas. He would end the season seventh in points. In 2009, now at the age of fifty, Crawford would again finish in the top ten in points at tenth. He scored seven top tens and three top fives and would win the pole at Martinsville for the second time in his career.

Crawford would start the 2010 season with a great deal of uncertainty. Longtime sponsor Circle Bar Motel and RV Park would cut back their sponsorship of the team dramatically and Crawford stated that he was unsure how many races they would be able to run without a new sponsor.^[3] He would run the first four races of the season with Circle Bar, scoring two top tens. However, prior to Kansas Crawford announced that he would not race for Circle Bar in the #14 truck and would instead race in theRay Hackett Racing #76 truck with sponsorship from SUPERSEAL Construction Products. This would be the first race in his record 327Camping World Truck Series starts that he would not be in the No. 14 and would not be racing under Circle Bar Racing. Crawford would qualify for that race fifteenth and finish 31st after an accident going for the lead. In August, Crawford would take yet another unfamiliar step in his career as he would join forces withTagsby Racing to race in theEnjoyIllinois.com 225 atChicagoland Speedway. This would be the first race in his career that he would race in aChevrolet truck. Crawford would earn his third top-ten finish in six races with an eighth place finish in the race. He ran in two more races with Tagsby to close out the season.

Crawford attempted to race with Tagsby Racing and make his twelfth consecutive start in the season opening race at Daytona in 2011, but failed to qualify. Before 2011, Crawford was one of only three drivers to compete in all Camping World Truck Series races at Daytona.

Crawford is a former manager and promoter ofMobile International Raceway, and attempted the 2012 season-opening race at Daytona with Tagsby Racing.^[4]He would race withMike Harmon Racing's No. 74 truck at Martinsville, finishing last. He would race two more races with Tagsby Racing in 2012 at Texas and Chicagoland, finishing 29th and eleventh respectively. At Talladega later that year, he raced for BRG Motorsports. This was the first time he would race in aToyota truck. In 2013, he attempted Daytona withMAKE Motorsports, but failed to qualify. After that, Crawford would stop racing for good.

He raced in 210 consecutive races before missing the 2005Built Ford Tough 225 race at Kentucky due to injuries sustained from a hard crash in practice. He had not missed a race since that date until failing to qualify at Daytona in February 2011. Prior to 2011, Crawford was one of the few drivers in the history of the sport with more than fifty starts who has never raced in any major series in NASCAR other than the Truck Series. However, that statistic was ended in 2011, when Crawford made his Nationwide Series debut driving forJennifer Jo Cobb Racing at Chicagoland Speedway. He would then race his second and last Nationwide Series race withMike Harmon Racing at Bristol in 2012.

In March 2011 Crawford entered a multi-year contract to be the promoter and manager atMobile International Speedway, his home track, in Irvington (Mobile), Alabama.

In March 2014 it was announced that Crawford would serve ascrew chief forTeam Stange Racing and driverMaryeve Dufault in the ARCA Racing Series.^[5]

On March 1, 2018, Crawford was arrested in Florida;^[6] he was charged for "attemptedenticement of a minor", after being caught in an online undercoversting operation involving aSeminole County, Florida Sheriff's deputy working for an FBI sex crimes task force posing as a father offeringcommercial sexual exploitation of his nonexistent 12 year old daughter in exchange for cash.^[7][8] Crawford later pled not guilty to the charge and was released into the custody of his family until his trial.^[9] Crawford was convicted by a jury on August 30, 2018.^[10] On November 26, 2018, Crawford was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison, a sentence that was later upheld on appeal in 2020.^[11]

(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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