Ricky Craven

Ricky Craven
Craven in 1997
Born	Richard Allen Craven (1966-05-24) May 24, 1966 (age 58) Newburgh, Maine, U.S.
Achievements	1991 Busch North Series Champion
Awards	1981 Unity Raceway Rookie of the Year 1990 Busch North Series Rookie of the Year 1990, 1991 Busch North Series Most Popular Driver 1992 Busch Series Rookie of the Year 1995 Winston Cup Series Rookie of the Year
NASCAR Cup Series career
278 races run over 11 years
Best finish	15th (2002)
First race	1991 AC Delco 500 (Rockingham)
Last race	2004 EA Sports 500 (Talladega)
First win	2001 Old Dominion 500 (Martinsville)
Last win	2003 Carolina Dodge Dealers' 400 (Darlington)
Wins Top tens Poles 2 41 6
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
142 races run over 14 years
Best finish	2nd (1993, 1994)
First race	1986 Oxford 250 (Oxford)
Last race	2006 Goody's 250 (Martinsville)
First win	1991 True Value 250 (Oxford)
Last win	1994 Meridian Advantage 200 (Nazareth)
Wins Top tens Poles 4 57 7
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
26 races run over 2 years
Best finish	14th (2005)
First race	2004 Sylvania 200 Presented By Lowe's (Loudon)
Last race	2005 Ford 200 (Homestead)
First win	2005 Kroger 200 (Martinsville)
Wins Top tens Poles 1 9 0
Statistics current as of December 2, 2012.

Richard Allen Craven (born May 24, 1966) is an American stock car racing analyst and former driver. Prior to his broadcasting duties, he was a NASCAR driver who won in four different series—the ARCA Menards Series, and the three national series.^[1]

He occasionally served as a pit reporter when NASCAR aired on TBS in the mid-1990s. Craven is perhaps most well known for winning the 2003 Carolina Dodge Dealers 400, beating Kurt Busch in the closest finish in Cup Series history at the time. A margin of victory, 0.002 seconds, only tied by Jimmie Johnson and Clint Bowyer in April 2011 at Talladega with Jimmie coming out on top. It stood for more than 20 years until Kyle Larson bested Chris Buescher by a margin of 0.001 seconds at Kansas in May of 2024.