Rick Ware

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Rick Ware
Ware at Pocono Raceway in 2021
Born	(1963-08-06) August 6, 1963 (age 58) Los Angeles, California
NASCAR Cup Series career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish	97th (1990)
First race	1990 Budweiser at The Glen (Watkins Glen)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
2 races run over 2 years
Best finish	95th (1990)
First race	1990 Pontiac 300 (Nazareth)
Last race	1995 Busch Light 300 (Atlanta)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career
16 races run over 3 years
Best finish	24th (2000)
First race	1999 NAPA Auto Parts 200 (Fontana)
Last race	2003 Sears 200 (Michigan)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
Statistics current as of July 4, 2012.

Rick Ware (born August 6, 1963) is a professional racecar driver and owner of Rick Ware Racing.

When he was nine years old, he began racing motocross and moved up to the BMX class when he was 12.

In 1983, he was named Rookie of the Year in the California Sports Car Club. He went on to win several titles in that series, as well as the SCCA and IMSA. He also competed in the 1984 Long Beach Grand Prix.

In 1990, he moved to North Carolina and made his NASCAR Winston Cup Series debut that year at The Bud at the Glen in the No. 22 owned by Buddy Baker. He spent the next decade running short tracks in the ARCA, and the Busch Series. He suffered injuries in 1996 at Watkins Glen International Raceway, while practicing a Winston Cup car, he crashed into the wall and was unconscious for 45 minutes. He made his return to NASCAR in 1998, when he was unable to qualify for the Save Mart/Kragen 350 in his No. 70 Ford Thunderbird.

He ran 9 of the 14 races in NASCAR West Series in 1999, before he moved up to the Craftsman Truck Series in 2000, where he ran his own No. 51 Chevys, but only ran a limited schedule to sponsorship issues and injuries. Since then, he has run one Craftsman Truck race and is owner of Rick Ware Racing. He is the father of Cody Ware and Carson Ware.

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.)

Winston Cup Series[]

Busch Series[]

Craftsman Truck Series[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Rick Ware driver statistics at Racing-Reference