Rick Crawford is one of the few NASCAR drivers the community wants to forget about. The truck series veteran spent 16 years racing in the premier stock car racing National scene. He also spends time as the crew chief of ARCA Mendes series outfit Team Stange Racing and driver Maryeve Dufault in the 2014 season.

Crawford ruined his entire NASCAR legacy at the age of 59 for attempted enticement of a minor into s**. He was caught in a police operation that involved an undercover sheriff’s deputy who posted a 12-year-old to uncover a sex offender.

The ex-NASCAR driver negotiated a meeting time and place for him and the 12-year-old girl. Crawford agreed to pay her between $50 and $75 if she showed up in a parking lot they agreed to meet up.

Crawford and his advocates argued in the court that he didn’t know the girl in question was underage and if not would have followed through with s** with her if he had known. In 2018 the court found him guilty of all the charges, and he was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in Florida federal prison and is serving the term.

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Rick Crawford’s NASCAR legacy

He spends the prime of his career racing full-time in the cup series for Circle Bar Racing. His first attempt to race in NASCAR was in the 1993 cup season at Atlanta. He didn’t qualify for the final race. He entered 2 more races that season and failed in qualifying on both occasions. He registered for the 1994 Daytona 500 with the Circle Bar team, but they had to withdraw at the end.

Crawford returned to NASCAR in 1997 driving full-time for Circle Bar in the Truck series. In his rookie season, he scored ten top 10s. His best finish of the season was a P3 in Texas. He finished P12 in the championship in his rookie year. Crawford scored his first win in the 1998 Truck season at Homestead Miami.

His best finish in the championship came in 2002 where he finished P2, though he failed to score a single win. Crawford’s final full-time year came in 2009, and they finished P10 in the championship. He then had a part-time stint with five different Truck teams and also had stints in Whelen Euro Series in Europe. He also made two Xfinity series starts in 2011 and 2012.

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