Rich Bickle

Richard Bickle Jr. (born May 13, 1961) is an American professional stock car racing driver. Now retired from NASCAR racing, Bickle, who never completed a full season in the NASCAR Cup Series, had a long history in short track racing. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel described him in 2012 as a "stud on the short tracks in the late 1980s and early '90s and a journeyman who rarely caught a break in NASCAR."[2] He won three NASCAR truck races, had a career-best fourth-place finish in the Cup Series in 218 career NASCAR starts.[2]

Rich Bickle
Bickle at a 2019 race
Born	May 13, 1961 Edgerton, Wisconsin
Achievements	Four-time Slinger Nationals winner (1992, 1996, 2003, 2013) Five-time Snowball Derby winner (1990, 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999) Two time National Short Track Championship winner (1990, 2010)
Awards	inducted in the Southeastern Wisconsin Short Track Hall of Fame (2015)[1]
NASCAR Cup Series career
85 races run over 12 years
Best finish	38th (1999)
First race	1989 All Pro Auto Parts 500 (Charlotte)
Last race	2001 Old Dominion 500 (Martinsville)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 3 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
54 races run over 7 years
Best finish	24th (2001)
First race	1994 Busch Light 300 (Atlanta)
Last race	2003 Bashas' Supermarkets 200 (Phoenix)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 9 1
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career
79 races run over 7 years
Best finish	2nd (1997)
First race	1996 Florida Dodge Dealers 400 (Homestead)
Last race	2005 Toyota Tundra 200 (Nashville)
First win	1997 Craftsman 200 (Portland)
Last win	1997 Hanes 250 (Martinsville)
Wins Top tens Poles 3 34 6

Bickle (center) after winning the final stock car races at Lake Geneva Raceway in 2006

Early career

Bickle was brought into the sport as a child, when he watched his father, Rich Sr., race throughout Wisconsin.[3] The younger Bickle began racing motocross at the age of five. While winning the 250cc championship on Sunday nights when he was 16, he raced stock cars at Jefferson Speedway on Saturday nights in 1977.[3] He went behind his father's barn to pick out one of his father's old racecars and selected a beat up 1968 Pontiac GTO. "It was so beat up you could hardly tell what it was."[3] Bickle started racing a 1974 Pontiac as a sportsman at Jefferson for the second half of the 1977 season and the whole 1978 season.[3] Bickle stopped racing motorcycles after he graduated in 1979.[3] He built a 1972 Ford Torino with a 302 cubic inch motor that year, which he began using at mid-season.[3] He used the car to win a heat and the semi-feature at Columbus 151 Speedway in the car's first night out, and it ran well at Lake Geneva Raceway and Rockford Speedway.[3] That off-season he changed the rear clip on the car to improve it for Rockford before deciding to give away the car and build a new one.[3] In 1980 he raced weekly at Rockford, Lake Geneva, and Capital Speedway (now Madison International Speedway), winning 23 semi-features which was the most in the United States.[3] He was named the Sportsman Rookie of the Year at Lake Geneva and Rockford.[3]

Bickle turned his Rockford car into a late model in 1981 and raced the car to a Top 5 points finish at Lake Geneva and ninth place at Capital.[3] He raced the car at Slinger Super Speedway and selected ARTGO races.[3] He won his first late model feature that season at Lake Geneva.[3] For 1982, he decided to try to run as many races as he could within 300 miles of his home, and he had raced in between 90 and 100 events by the end of the season.[3] He had won a couple of features and had set fast time at Wisconsin Dells Speedway (now Dells Raceway Park).[3] At the off-season banquet for Slinger Super Speedway, he told track owner Wayne Erickson that he would win the 1983 track championship.[3] Bickle focused on winning Slinger's track championship that year and he finished in the Top 5 in 17 of 18 features that season to win the track championship.[3] In 1984 he raced primarily at Slinger, Wisconsin International Raceway (WIR), and Capital.[3] Bickle won his first half mile feature at WIR even though he had raced at Capital for several seasons.[3]

Bickle updated his car, hauler, engine, and equipment for 1985 with a new sponsor.[3] He won the season opener at Capital and several other features later in the season en route to winning the track championship.[3] He had a good season at WIR and raced well at the ARTGO races that he ran.[3] In 1986 he won the points championship at Capital Speedway.[3] He had 17 feature wins that season, and he ran well at Slinger, WIR, and Wisconsin Dells.[3] In 1987, he raced at numerous Wisconsin tracks. He won a $15,000-to-win event at Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1987. Butch Miller, who had led most of the race, went in for a pit stop with 60 laps left and Bickle and Ted Musgrave gained the lead. The race was halted for rain and hail with 46 laps left, and it was declared over with Bickle receiving the win.[3]

He had won 230 races at various short tracks, including Lake Geneva Raceway, Wisconsin International Raceway, and late model track championships at Slinger Super Speedway in 1983 and 1989.[4] Bickle won the Snowball Derby at Five Flags Speedway a record five times: 1990, 1991, 1996, 1998 and 1999.[5]

ASA

In 1990, he made his debut in the American Speed Association, a Midwest-based racing organization based primarily in short tracks. He finished runner up to Johnny Benson in Rookie of the Year standings.(Ironically, Benson would take over Bickle's old Cup ride in 2000.)

NASCAR Winston Cup

Bickle in 1996

Bickle made his NASCAR Winston Cup debut in 1989 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, in his self-owned, unsponsored #02 Buick. He finished 39th out of 42 cars after his engine expired 37 laps into the race. He made his first start in the Daytona 500 the next year when, once again driving his own underfunded Oldsmobile, and finished 28th, just five laps down. Bickle competed in 11 events over the next three years (leading one lap at Charlotte in 1993). 1994 marked a then career-high in terms of starts, driving ten races, most of them for Harry Melling. After years of limited starts, Bickle made the full-time jump to Cup in 1998, driving the #98 Thorn Apple Valley Ford Taurus for Cale Yarborough, replacing Greg Sacks who had been critically injured in an accident at Texas. Bickle had two top-five qualifying efforts and finished a career-best 4th at Martinsville and delivered an emotional post-race interview. When the sponsorship went away, Bickle signed with Tyler Jet Motorsports to drive the #45 10-10-345 Lucky Dog Pontiac. It was an up-and-down year for Bickle and the team; Bickle posted top-10s at the Pontiac Excitement 400 and the Pocono 500. However he had trouble qualifying for races, and after the Pepsi Southern 500 at Darlington, he was released from the team. Bickle drove some for Melling Racing that year. In 2000, Bickle did substitute duty for Joe Bessey's team, and drove one race for Morgan-McClure Motorsports the following year, in addition to driving once for Midwest Transit Racing.

NASCAR Busch Series

Bickle has found considerably more success in the lower levels of NASCAR than he has in Winston Cup. He made his Busch Series debut in 1993 at Atlanta, finishing 27th with engine failure. Bickle's best season in the Busch Series was 1994, where he won one pole and had four top-10 finishes in a limited schedule. In 2001, he made his first full-time run in the Busch Series, driving the #59 Kingsford Chevy, and competed in 27 events before he was released. He has run only one Busch Series race since then.

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

Bickle's 1997 truck

Bickle began racing in the Craftsman Truck Series in 1996 for Petty Enterprises, winning two poles, having 9 top-10 finishes and wound up a solid 11th in points.

For 1997, he switched to the #17 DieHard Chevrolet owned by Darrell Waltrip Motorsports, and the combination was an instant success. Bickle started four races on the pole position, winning three. He nearly won a fourth race at Sonoma until both a chaotic next-to-last restart occurred as well as rookie Boris Said retaliating against Bickle for contact during that restart; foiling the race for Bickle. When the checkered flag fell on the season, he was second in championship points. Since then he has run a limited schedule in the trucks, the most starts he's had in a season since then is twelve in 2003.

Career after NASCAR

Bickle occasionally races at special events at his home tracks in Wisconsin.[2] As of 2007, Bickle planned to open an auto fabrication business in Edgerton with his father, tentatively named Rock County Flatheads and Fabrication. Bickle had owned an auto customization at his racing shop in Mooresville.[6] He began concentrating more being a businessman and by 2012 he operated three businesses. He owned a hot rod shop in Janesville, Wisconsin, a bar in Madison, Wisconsin, and a drive-shaft business in Madison.[2]

Bickle built a new chassis that he raced from 2005 until 2010.[2] He was dissatisfied with the car's performance and acquired one of his early 2000s cars back for the 2011 National Short Track Championship at Rockford Speedway.[2] Bickle was second fastest in practice and raced in the top five during the feature.[2] In 2012 he qualified third for the Slinger Nationals behind Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth. After being sent to the back of the field for early-race contact, he battled his way up to the lead just after half way, and he finished sixth.[7][8] At the end of the 2012 season, Bickle won the National Short Track Championship race at Rockford Speedway for the second time.[9]

Bickle announced that 2013 would be his final season of racing stock cars; competing for the full season in the ARCA Midwest Tour,[10] he also returned to Slinger Super Speedway where he won his fourth Slinger Nationals after the apparent winner, Steve Apel, was disqualified.[11] Bickle battled for the lead in the middle of the 2013 National Short Track Championship race and ended up finishing fourth.[9] He ended his career on the following weekend finishing 22nd at the Oktoberfest 100 ARCA Midwest Tour race at the La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway on October 6, 2013.[12] He came out of retirement in 2015 - racing at the Slinger Nationals, Madison, and several races at Wisconsin International Raceway.[13] In 2015, he was inducted in the Southeastern Wisconsin Short Track Hall of Fame citing his two Slinger track championships and four Slinger Nationals wins.[1] Bickle is the subject of a 2019 book Barnyard to Brickyard - The Rich Bickle Story and he announced a book signing tour of Wisconsin race tracks in July 2019.[14] After the signing tour, Bickle continued to race super lates, and in 2020 said that the 2021 Snowball Derby will be his last contest.[15]

Bickle started the 2021 year racing a snowmobile in January at Eagle River, Wisconsin. He won the Outlaw 600 class feature at the Vintage World Championship Snowmobile Derby.[16]

Personal

Bickle poses for a photographer wearing his Green Bay Packers hat at the 2015 National Short Track Championship at Rockford Speedway (Illinois)

Bickle is a diehard Green Bay Packers fan.[17] He also likes riding his Harley-Davidson, restoring and building hot rods and adding to his antique beer can collection.}

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

NASCAR Winston Cup 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	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	NWCC	Pts	Ref
1989	Bickle Racing	02	Buick	DAY	CAR	ATL	RCH	DAR	BRI	NWS	MAR	TAL	CLT	DOV	SON	POC	MCH	DAY	POC	TAL	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	MAR	CLT 39	NWS	CAR	PHO	ATL 22								62nd	143	[18]
1990			Olds	DAY 28	RCH	CAR	ATL	DAR	BRI	NWS	MAR	TAL	CLT	DOV	SON	POC	MCH	DAY	POC	TAL	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	MAR	NWS	CLT	CAR	PHO	ATL								84th	79	[19]
1991	Close Racing	47	Olds	DAY DNQ	RCH	CAR 26	ATL 34	DAR 24	BRI	NWS DNQ	MAR	TAL	CLT	DOV DNQ	SON	POC	MCH	DAY	POC	TAL	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	MAR	NWS	CLT	CAR	PHO	ATL								51st	237	[20]
1992	TTC Motrosports Inc.	45	Ford	DAY	CAR	RCH	ATL	DAR	BRI	NWS	MAR	TAL	CLT	DOV	SON	POC	MCH	DAY	POC	TAL	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	MAR DNQ	NWS 20	CLT 25	CAR	PHO	ATL 34								49th	252	[21]
1993				DAY DNQ	CAR	RCH DNQ	ATL DNQ	DAR	BRI	NWS	MAR	TAL 38	SON	CLT 21	DOV	POC	MCH	DAY DNQ	NHA	POC	TAL DNQ	GLN	MCH 41	BRI DNQ	DAR	RCH DNQ	DOV	MAR	NWS DNQ	CLT 40	CAR	PHO	ATL 36							48th	292	[22]
1994				DAY DNQ		RCH DNQ															TAL DNQ			MCH 35	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	MAR	NWS	CLT DNQ	CAR		ATL DNQ						43rd	849	[23]
	Melling Racing	9	Ford		CAR 41		ATL 37	DAR 23	BRI	NWS DNQ	MAR	TAL DNQ	SON	CLT 34	DOV	POC 28	MCH 30	DAY 20	NHA 21	POC 34		IND 29	GLN
	Roulo Brothers Racing	39	Chevy																														PHO 37
1995	Dick Brooks Racing	40	Pontiac	DAY	CAR	RCH	ATL	DAR	BRI	NWS	MAR	TAL	SON	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	DAY	NHA 38	POC 30	TAL	IND 37	GLN	MCH DNQ	BRI 31	DAR 21	RCH	DOV 35	MAR DNQ	NWS 27	CLT 38	CAR	PHO	ATL						45th	538	[24]
1997	Darrell Waltrip Motorsports	26	Chevy	DAY	CAR	RCH	ATL	DAR	TEX	BRI	MAR	SON	TAL	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	CAL	DAY	NHA	POC	IND 34	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	NHA	DOV	MAR	CLT	TAL	CAR	PHO	ATL					65th	61	[25]
1998	Cale Yarborough Motorsports	98	Ford	DAY	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	BRI	TEX	MAR 41	TAL DNQ	CAL DNQ	CLT 24	DOV 31	RCH 27	MCH 27	POC 32	SON 31	NHA 38	POC 28	IND 39	GLN 22	MCH 28	BRI 18	NHA 40	DAR 19	RCH DNQ	DOV 19	MAR 4	CLT 17	TAL DNQ	DAY 39	PHO 11	CAR 18	ATL DNQ				39th	1773	[26]
1999	Tyler Jet Motorsports	45	Pontiac	DAY 33	CAR DNQ	LVS 23	ATL 30	DAR DNQ	TEX 12	BRI DNQ	MAR 11	TAL 14	CAL 32	RCH 10	CLT 25	DOV 33	MCH 24	POC 24	SON 21	DAY 18	NHA 14	POC 7	IND DNQ	GLN 36	MCH 28	BRI DNQ	DAR 23	RCH												38th	2149	[27]
	Melling Racing	9	Ford																										NHA 20	DOV 36	MAR 37	CLT 39	TAL 41
	LJ Racing	91	Chevy																															CAR DNQ	PHO	HOM	ATL
2000	Joe Bessey Motorsports	60	Chevy	DAY	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	BRI	TEX	MAR 30	TAL	CAL	RCH	CLT	DOV	MCH	POC	SON	DAY	NHA	POC									MAR DNQ	CLT	TAL 21	CAR DNQ	PHO 35	HOM	ATL			56th	231	[28]
	Coulter Racing	61	Chevy																				IND DNQ	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	NHA	DOV
2001	Midwest Transit Racing	50	Chevy	DAY	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	BRI	TEX	MAR	TAL	CAL	RCH	CLT	DOV	MCH	POC	SON	DAY	CHI	NHA	POC	IND 32	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT								56th	137	[29]
	Morgan-McClure Motorsports	4	Chevy																														MAR 31	TAL	PHO	CAR
	BAM Racing	49	Chevy																																		HOM DNQ	ATL	NHA
2003	Conely Racing	79	Chevy	DAY	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	BRI	TEX	TAL	MAR	CAL	RCH	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	DAY	CHI	NHA	POC	IND	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	NHA	DOV	TAL	KAN	CLT	MAR	ATL	PHO	CAR DNQ		NA	-	[30]
		78																																					HOM DNQ

Daytona 500

Year	Team	Manufacturer	Start	Finish
1990	Bickle Racing	Oldsmobile	29	28
1991	Close Racing	Oldsmobile	DNQ
1993	TTC Motrosports Inc.	Ford	DNQ
1994			DNQ
1999	Tyler Jet Motorsports	Pontiac	22	33

Busch Series

NASCAR Busch 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	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	NBSC	Pts	Ref
1990	Beard Motorsports	00	Pontiac	DAY DNQ	RCH	CAR	MAR	HCY	DAR	BRI	LAN	SBO	NZH	HCY	CLT	DOV	ROU	VOL	MYB	OXF	NHA	SBO	DUB	IRP	ROU	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	MAR	CLT	NHA	CAR	MAR				NA	-	[31]
1994		98	Chevy	DAY DNQ	CAR	RCH	ATL 27	MAR	DAR	HCY	BRI	ROU	NHA	NZH	CLT	DOV	MYB	GLN	MLW	SBO																		76th	171	[32]
	TTC Motrosports Inc.	45	Ford																		TAL 42	HCY	IRP	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	CLT	MAR
	Gene Petty Motorsports	88	Chevy																												CAR 37
1995	Virtue Racing	54	Ford	DAY 5	CAR	RCH	ATL 13	NSV	DAR	BRI	HCY	NHA 33	NZH	CLT 8	DOV 16	MYB	GLN	MLW 10	TAL DNQ	SBO	IRP	MCH 15	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV 37	CLT 41	CAR 7	HOM 11									33rd	1220	[33]
1996		45		DAY DNQ	CAR	RCH	ATL	NSV	DAR	BRI	HCY	NZH	CLT	DOV	SBO	MYB	GLN	MLW	NHA	TAL	IRP	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	CLT	CAR	HOM									NA	-	[34]
1998	Bickle-Smith Motorsports	91	Ford	DAY	CAR	LVS	NSV	DAR	BRI	TEX	HCY	TAL	NHA	NZH	CLT 33	DOV	RCH	PPR	GLN	MLW	MYB	CAL	SBO	IRP	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH						HOM 41				79th	183	[35]
	ST Motorsports	59	Chevy																										DOV 28	CLT	GTY	CAR	ATL
1999	Bickle-Smith Motorsports	91	Ford	DAY	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	TEX	NSV	BRI	TAL	CAL	NHA	RCH	NZH	CLT	DOV	SBO	GLN	MLW	MYB	PPR	GTY	IRP	MCH 39	BRI				CLT DNQ	CAR DNQ						64th	516	[36]
	HVP Motorsports	63	Chevy																									DAR 27	RCH 11	DOV DNQ			MEM 39
			Pontiac																															PHO 27
	Bickle-Smith Motorsports	91	Pontiac																																HOM 11
2000				DAY	CAR	LVS DNQ	ATL DNQ	DAR 29	BRI	TEX DNQ	NSV	TAL	CAL	RCH	NHA	CLT DNQ	DOV DNQ	SBO 5	MYB 5	GLN	MLW 35	NZH	PPR	GTY 41	IRP	MCH DNQ	BRI	DAR	RCH DNQ	DOV	CLT DNQ	CAR DNQ	MEM	PHO DNQ	HOM DNQ			70th	329	[37]
2001	ST Motorsports	59	Chevy	DAY 16	CAR 7	LVS 15	ATL 29	DAR 15	BRI 39	TEX 23	NSH 12	TAL 13	CAL 29	RCH 16	NHA 21	NZH 8	CLT 17	DOV 26	KEN 27	MLW 12	GLN 22	CHI 28	GTY	PPR	IRP 9	MCH 29	BRI 20	DAR 25	RCH 16	DOV 24	KAN	CLT	MEM	PHO	CAR	HOM		24th	2595	[38]
2003	PF2 Motorsports	94	Chevy	DAY	CAR	LVS	DAR	BRI	TEX	TAL	NSH	CAL	RCH	GTY	NZH	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	DAY	CHI	NHA	PPR	IRP	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT	MEM	ATL	PHO 38	CAR DNQ	HOM	147th	49	[39]

Craftsman Truck Series

NASCAR Craftsman 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	24	25	26	27	NCTC	Pts	Ref
1996	Petty Enterprises	43	Dodge	HOM 21	PHO 30	POR 27	EVG 4	TUS 2*	CNS 32	HPT 12	BRI 19	NZH 15	MLW 20	LVL 27	I70 10	IRP 5	FLM 3	GLN 5	NSV 18	RCH 16	NHA 12	MAR 7	NWS 8	SON 29	MMR 8	PHO 11	LVS 11				11th	2914	[40]
1997	Darrell Waltrip Motorsports	17	Chevy	WDW 3	TUS 2	HOM 11	PHO 5	POR 1*	EVG 1*	I70 4	NHA 20	TEX 21	BRI 2	NZH 4	MLW 3	LVL 5	CNS 5	HPT 23	IRP 10	FLM 3	NSV 6	GLN 16	RCH 4	MAR 1*	SON 12	MMR 5	CAL 26	PHO 18	LVS 16		2nd	3737	[41]
1998	PacWest S/T Motorsports	78	Dodge	WDW 10																											43rd	551	[42]
	Tyler Jet Motorsports	17	Chevy		HOM 17	PHO	POR	EVG	I70	GLN	TEX	BRI	MLW	NZH	CAL	PPR	IRP	NHA	FLM	NSV	HPT	LVL
	Billy Ballew Motorsports	15	Ford																				RCH 6	MEM	GTY	MAR 5	SON	MMR	PHO	LVS
1999	Bickle-Smith Motorsports	45	Ford	HOM	PHO	EVG	MMR	MAR 36	MEM	PPR	I70	BRI	TEX	PIR	GLN	MLW	NSV	NZH	MCH	NHA	IRP	GTY	HPT	RCH 7	LVS	LVL	TEX	CAL			66th	201	[43]
2002	Billy Ballew Motorsports	15	Ford	DAY	DAR	MAR	GTY	PPR	DOV	TEX	MEM 6	MLW 11	KAN 13	KEN 15	NHA 12	MCH 12	IRP	NSH	RCH	TEX	SBO	LVS	CAL	PHO	HOM						28th	776	[44]
2003	Green Light Racing	07	Chevy	DAY 19	DAR	MMR																									22nd	1288	[45]
	Fasscore Motorsports	9	Ford				MAR 8
	Billy Ballew Motorsports	15	Ford					CLT 10	DOV 32	TEX 24														SBO 12	TEX	MAR 12	PHO 33	HOM 22
			Dodge								MEM 12	MLW 27	KAN 13	KEN	GTW	MCH	IRP	NSH	BRI	RCH	NHA	CAL	LVS
2005	Green Light Racing	08	Chevy	DAY	CAL	ATL	MAR	GTY 36	MFD 5	CLT				MLW 28	KAN	KEN	MEM	IRP													47th	458	[46]
		07									DOV 27	TEX	MCH						NSH 27	BRI	RCH	NHA	LVS	MAR	ATL	TEX	PHO	HOM

ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series

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

ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde 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	24	25	ABSC	Pts	Ref
1989	Bickle Racing	65	Chevy	DAY 29	ATL	KIL	TAL 2	FRS	POC	KIL	HAG	POC	TAL 34	DEL	FRS	ISF													33rd	-	[47]
	Venturini Motorsports	25	Chevy														TOL 4	DSF	SLM	ATL
1990	Bickle Racing	65	Chevy	DAY DNQ	ATL	KIL	TAL	FRS	POC	KIL	TOL	HAG	POC	TAL	MCH	ISF	TOL	DSF	WIN	DEL	ATL								NA	-	[48]
1991	Roulo Brothers Racing	26	Chevy	DAY	ATL	KIL	TAL	TOL	FRS	POC	MCH 3	KIL	FRS	DEL	POC	TAL	HPT	MCH	ISF	TOL	DSF	TWS	ATL						102nd	-	[49]
1992		39		DAY	FIF 23	TWS	TAL	TOL	KIL	POC	MCH	FRS	KIL	NSH	DEL 3	POC	HPT	FRS	ISF	TOL	DSF	TWS	SLM	ATL 39					59th	-	[50]
1993			Olds	DAY	FIF 18	TWS	TAL	KIL	CMS	FRS	TOL	POC	MCH	FRS	POC	KIL	ISF	DSF	TOL	SLM	WIN								65th	-	[51]
	TTC Motrosports Inc.	45	Ford																			ATL 34
1994				DAY	TAL	FIF	LVL	KIL	TOL	FRS	MCH 42	DMS	POC	POC	KIL	FRS	INF	I70	ISF	DSF	TOL	SLM	WIN	ATL					112th	-	[52]
1996	Darrell Waltrip Motorsports	11	Chevy	DAY	ATL	SLM	TAL	FIF	LVL	CLT	CLT	KIL	FRS	POC	MCH	FRS	TOL	POC	MCH	INF	SBS	ISF	DSF	KIL	SLM	WIN	CLT	ATL 4	127th	-	[53]

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Autobiography

• Barnyard To Brickyard - The Rich Bickle Story, John Close.

External links

• Rich Bickle driver statistics at Racing-Reference