Ray Ciccarelli

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Ray Ciccarelli
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Ciccarelli at Pocono Raceway in 2018
BornRaymond J. Ciccarelli
(1970-01-20) January 20, 1970 (age 52)
Ellicott City, Maryland
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career
33 races run over 5 years
Truck no., teamNo. 49 (CMI Motorsports)
2021 position67th
Best finish33rd (2019)
First race2017 Eldora Dirt Derby (Eldora)
Last race2021 UNOH 200 (Bristol)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 1 0
Statistics current as of December 30, 2021.

Raymond J. Ciccarelli (born January 20, 1970) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, driving the No. 49 Chevrolet Silverado for his own team, CMI Motorsports. He has also competed in what are now the ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series East in the past.

Racing career[]

ARCA Racing Series[]

Ciccarelli drove part-time in the series in 2014, 2015, and 2016 for teams Carter 2 Motorsports, Kimmel Racing, Hamilton-Hughes Racing, and Hixson Motorsports. He started his own team, Ciccarelli Racing, for 2017. The team's first race came in the season-opener at Daytona where Ciccarelli finished 21st in his No. 38 Ford after a solid seventh-place qualifying run. The team returned at Talladega, although they used owner points from the full-time Hixson Motorsports No. 3 car to have a better shot of qualifying for the race (which they successfully did). Using that number instead of the No. 38 (which had only run Daytona), they picked up a thirteenth-place finish in the race. Ciccarelli had driven for the Hixson team in a few races in 2016.

Truck Series[]

Ciccarelli in the No. 0 for Jennifer Jo Cobb at Homestead in 2018.
Ciccarelli's No. 49 for his own team at Daytona in 2019.

In 2017, Ciccarelli made his Truck Series debut in the Eldora Dirt Derby, driving the No. 10 truck for Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing. He started 32nd and finished 22nd. After that, he start-and-parked the No. 0 truck for the same team in 4 races at Michigan, New Hampshire, Texas, and Phoenix. He finished 26th, 29th, 28th, and 26th respectively. He returned to the No. 10 truck at Homestead. He qualified 31st, but an engine malfunction before the green flag waved gave him a 32nd-place finish.[1][2]

In 2019, Ciccarelli acquired trucks, equipment, and owner points from the closed Premium Motorsports No. 49 truck[3] and restarted his own team, now under the name CMI Motorsports, which stood for "Ciccarelli Moving & Installation", a company owned by Ciccarelli and which is one of the team's sponsors. After running the first two races of the season, Ciccarelli and the CMI Motorsports team skipped the third round at Las Vegas with a planned comeback for the fourth round at Martinsville.[4]

Planned departure from NASCAR announcement[]

Ciccarelli made headlines in June 2020 when he announced his retirement from NASCAR as a driver and a team owner at the end of the 2020 season. His announcement, which came in the form of a post on his Facebook page on June 10, was made on the same day as NASCAR's decision to ban the display of the Confederate flag from their events, a decision they made in the midst of the George Floyd protests due to the flag's longtime association with white supremacist groups. While many NASCAR drivers praised the ban, Ciccarelli decried it, as he believed that it and other recent decisions by the sanctioning body ventured into the realm of politics.[5][6]

However, Ciccarelli's team, CMI Motorsports, would post on their Twitter account on October 30 that "We're not done yet. See you all in 2021.", which indicated that he would not close down his team after the 2020 season as planned.[7] On November 19, when it was revealed on TobyChristie.com that Tim Viens would continue as a driver for CMI, Ciccarelli told the website that he planned on driving in three to four races in 2021,[8] and therefore cancelling his plans to retire as a driver.

Motorsports career results[]

NASCAR[]

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

Camping World Truck Series[]

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 NCWTC Pts Ref
2017 Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing 10 Chevy DAY ATL MAR KAN CLT DOV TEX GTW IOW KEN ELD
22 		POC HOM
32 		38th 59 [9]
0 MCH
26 		BRI MSP CHI NHA
29 		LVS TAL MAR TEX
28 		PHO
26
2018 DAY ATL LVS MAR DOV KAN CLT TEX IOW GTW CHI KEN ELD
DNQ 		TAL
DNQ 		MAR
DNQ 		TEX PHO HOM
25 		61st 31 [10]
Beaver Motorsports 50 POC
27 		MCH BRI MSP
28 		LVS
2019 CMI Motorsports 49 DAY
28 		ATL
26 		LVS MAR
DNQ 		TEX
16 		DOV
24 		KAN CLT TEX IOW GTW CHI KEN
DNQ 		POC
19 		ELD MCH
9 		BRI MAR
21 		PHO HOM
31 		33rd 130 [11]
Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing 0 MSP
29 		LVS TAL
2020 CMI Motorsports 49 DAY
DNQ 		LVS CLT ATL HOM
29 		POC
27 		KAN
32 		KAN
24 		RCH
31 		BRI LVS
26 		TAL
27 		40th 111 [12]
83 KEN
32 		TEX MCH
34 		DAY DOV GTW DAR KAN
26 		TEX
22 		MAR
25 		PHO
2021 49 DAY
DNQ 		DAY LVS ATL
DNQ 		BRI RCH KAN DAR
DNQ 		COA CLT 67th 20 [13]
Toyota TEX
32 		NSH POC
23 		KNX GLN GTW DAR
Ford BRI
39 		LVS TAL MAR PHO

Busch East Series[]

NASCAR Busch East Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NBESC Pts Ref
83 Ford GRE STA TMP ERI NHA
16 		WFD
15 		NHA
31 		DOV
DNQ 		LRP 35th 331 [14]

ARCA Racing Series[]

ARCA Racing Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ARSC Pts Ref
2014 97 Dodge DAY MOB SLM TAL TOL NJE MCH ELK CHI
19 		44th 390 [15]
40 BLN
19 		ISF
22 		MAD DSF KEN KAN
2015 68 Ford DAY MOB SLM TAL TOL NJE POC
32 		MCH CHI WIN IOW IRP 90th 200 [16]
97 Dodge
20 		BLN ISF DSF KEN KAN
2016 Hamilton-Hughes Racing 63 Dodge DAY
DNQ 		NSH
33 		SLM TAL TOL NJE 74th 300 [17]
2 Chevy POC
26 		MCH MAD WIN IOW IRP
24 		BLN ISF DSF SLM CHI KEN KAN
2017 Ciccarelli Racing 38 Ford DAY
21 		NSH SLM 66th 290 [18]
3 TAL
13 		TOL ELK POC MAD IOW IRP WIN ISF DSF SLM CHI KEN KAN

References[]

  1. ^ "Ciccarelli makes NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut with JJCR at Eldora". ESPN.com. July 14, 2017. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
  2. ^ Frederick, Cole (November 10, 2017). "Truck catches fire during NASCAR practice at Phoenix and driver has to evacuate fast". alt_driver. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
  3. ^ Beard, Brock (February 14, 2019). "PREVIEW: The ARCA invasion beefs up Truck Series entry list while the XFINITY Series struggles". LASTCAR. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
  4. ^ Beard, Brock (February 28, 2019). "PREVIEW: "Something old and something new" the theme of Las Vegas entry lists". LASTCAR. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  5. ^ Heim, Mark (June 10, 2020). "NASCAR's Ray Ciccarelli posts he's done at end of season, disagrees with Confederate flag policy". AL.com. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
  6. ^ "Bubba Wallace praises NASCAR's Confederate flag ban but one driver says he's quitting over decision". CBS News. June 11, 2020. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
  7. ^ "(Twitter post)". Twitter. CMI Motorsports. October 30, 2020. Retrieved December 14, 2020. We're not done yet. See you all in 2021.
  8. ^ Srigley, Joseph (November 19, 2020). "Timothy Viens returning to CMI Motorsports for full-time campaign in Truck Series". TobyChristie.com. Retrieved December 14, 2020. In addition, Ciccarelli has confirmed to TobyChristie.com that he expects to run three to four races himself in a second entry.
  9. ^ "Ray Ciccarelli – 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
  10. ^ "Ray Ciccarelli – 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
  11. ^ "Ray Ciccarelli – 2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
  12. ^ "Ray Ciccarelli – 2020 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
  13. ^ "Ray Ciccarelli – 2021 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved December 30, 2021.
  14. ^ "Ray Ciccarelli – 2006 NASCAR Busch East Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
  15. ^ "Ray Ciccarelli – 2014 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
  16. ^ "Ray Ciccarelli – 2015 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
  17. ^ "Ray Ciccarelli – 2016 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
  18. ^ "Ray Ciccarelli – 2017 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved March 1, 2018.

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