Ron Barfield Jr. Explained

Ronald Barfield II
Birth Date:	20 April 1971
Awards:	1987 World Karting Association National Dirt Series Championship 1994 Texas Pete All-Pro Series Rookie of the Year
Total Cup Races:	1
Years In Cup:	1
Best Cup Pos:	59th (1997)
First Cup Race:	1997 Brickyard 400 (Indianapolis)
Cup Wins:	0
Cup Top Tens:	0
Cup Poles:	0
Total Busch Races:	29
Years In Busch:	4
Best Busch Pos:	37th (1997)
First Busch Race:	1996 GM Goodwrench/Delco 200 (Dover)
Last Busch Race:	2003 Funai 250 (Richmond)
Busch Wins:	0
Busch Top Tens:	2
Busch Poles:	0
Total Truck Races:	71
Years In Truck:	6
Best Truck Pos:	9th (1998)
First Truck Race:	1996 Florida Dodge Dealers 400 (Homestead)
Last Truck Race:	2001 Darlington 200 (Darlington)
Truck Wins:	0
Truck Top Tens:	17
Truck Poles:	0

Ron Barfield Jr. (born April 20, 1971) is an American former stock car racing driver. He raced in all of the major NASCAR series: Winston Cup, Busch Series, and Craftsman Truck Series, but did not win a race. He is a former protégé of Bill Elliott.

Beginnings

Barfield began racing at the age of six in go-karts. In 1987, he won the World Karting Association's National Dirt Series Championship. Two years later, he switched to stock car racing and won nine races in a Late Model at Myrtle Beach Speedway. He would win the track championship at Myrtle Beach in 1991, collecting a total of 46 feature wins. In 1994, he was named the Texas Pete All-Pro Series Rookie of the Year, finishing fourth in points.

Early NASCAR

In 1995, he moved to the Slim Jim All Pro Series, where he won two races and had sixteen top-ten starts in twenty-one starts. The next season, he began racing in the major NASCAR series. He made his debut in the Truck Series at Homestead-Miami Speedway, driving the #94 for Super 8 Motel Ford F-150 for Elliott, starting third and finishing fourth. He ran six more races in the trucks that season and had two additional top-ten finishes. He also ran six races in the Busch Series for Elliott's New Holland team, where his best finish was 11th. In addition, Barfield attempted the Brickyard 400 in the Cup series, but failed to qualify. He took home a victory at Michigan International Speedway in an Auto Racing Club of America as well.

Barfield returned to the trucks for another part-time run in 1997, finishing eighth at Walt Disney World Speedway. He also attempted to run in the Busch Series full-time with Elliott's team, and posted two ninth-place runs, but his schedule was eventually cut back. He ran two more truck races for Gloy Racing, before rounding out the schedule in a team owned by Elliott's partner, Charles Hardy. He also attempted again at Indianapolis in the Cup series, where he finished 22nd.

In 1998, Barfield went full-time with the Hardy team, with sponsorship from Ortho Lawn & Garden. He had ten top-tens and finished 9th in points. He also ran a pair of races in the #2 for Craven, his best finish a 21st at Bristol.

Final years

Despite the success of 1998, Hardy's team closed its doors, and Barfield return to Gloy to pilot the #55 Icehouse Beer Ford. He had two top-tens but was released late in the year, and finished the season driving for Rick McCray. He started 2000 driving for his own team, but ran four more races, his worst finish a 27th. He made his final truck start the following year at Darlington Raceway, finishing 22nd in a truck owned by Team 23 Racing. After not racing in 2002, Barfield made seven Busch starts in 2003, the first five in a car owned by Stanton Barrett. After running two more races in the #73 car, Barfield disappeared from the NASCAR circuit.

He now runs a racing shop in Timmonsville, SC and in 2006, purchased an overgrown site that once was the site of a four-tenths mile dirt track in nearby Dillon (1966-73, 1977-80). Barfield rebuilt the track, paving it, where today it runs as the Dillon Motor Speedway, hosting local and national (PASS) (Super) Late Models. http://www.dillonmotorspeedway.com/

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

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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		Pts	Ref
1996	Elliott-Hardy Racing	94		DAY	CAR	RCH	ATL	DAR	BRI	NWS	MAR	TAL	SON	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH QL^†	DAY	NHA	POC	TAL															NA	-	^[1]
	Bill Elliott Racing	91																				IND DNQ	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	MAR	NWS	CLT	CAR	PHO
	David Blair Motorsports	27	Ford																															ATL DNQ
1997	Bill Elliott Racing	92		DAY	CAR	RCH	ATL	DAR	TEX	BRI	MAR	SON	TAL	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	CAL	DAY	NHA	POC	IND 22	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	NHA	DOV	MAR	CLT	TAL	CAR	PHO	ATL	59th	97	^[2]
^† - Qualified for Todd Bodine

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		Pts	Ref
1996	Bill Elliott Racing	94	Ford	DAY	CAR	RCH	ATL	NSV	DAR	BRI	HCY	NZH	CLT DNQ	DOV 23	SBO	MYB	GLN	MLW	NHA	TAL DNQ	IRP	MCH DNQ	BRI	DAR 28	RCH 37	DOV 13	CLT 11	CAR 41	HOM									53rd	519	^[3]
1997				DAY DNQ	CAR 19	RCH 9	ATL 20	LVS 38	DAR 13	HCY	TEX 25	BRI 39	NSV	TAL 9	NHA	NZH	CLT 23	DOV 22	SBO	GLN	MLW	MYB	GTY	IRP	MCH DNQ	BRI 24	DAR 16	RCH DNQ	DOV 29	CLT DNQ	CAL 22	CAR	HOM					37th	1362	^[4]
1998	RC Racing	2	Chevy	DAY DNQ	CAR	LVS DNQ	NSV	DAR DNQ	BRI 21	TEX	HCY	TAL	NHA	NZH	CLT	DOV	RCH	PPR	GLN	MLW	MYB	CAL 28	SBO	IRP	MCH	BRI	DAR DNQ	RCH	DOV	CLT	GTY	CAR	ATL	HOM				107th	79	^[5]
2003		91	Ford	DAY	CAR	LVS	DAR 21	BRI	TEX	TAL	NSH	CAL	RCH	GTY	NZH 32	CLT	DOV 39	NSH	KEN	MLW 41	DAY	CHI	NHA 30	PPR	IRP	MCH	BRI											69th	472	^[6]
	Havill-Spoerl Racing	73	Ford																									DAR 35	RCH 25	DOV	KAN	CLT	MEM	ATL	PHO	CAR	HOM
2004		97	Ford	DAY	CAR	LVS	DAR	BRI	TEX	NSH	TAL	CAL	GTY	RCH	NZH	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	DAY	CHI	NHA	PPR DNQ	IRP	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT	MEM	ATL	PHO	DAR	HOM	NA	-	^[7]

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		Pts	Ref
1996	Bill Elliott Racing	94	Ford	HOM 4	PHO 8	POR 11	EVG 9	TUS	CNS	HPT	BRI	NZH	MLW 28	LVL	I70	IRP	FLM	GLN	NSV	RCH	NHA	MAR	NWS	SON	MMR	PHO 27	LVS 19				29th	837	^[8]
1997				WDW 8	TUS	HOM	PHO	POR																							39th	618	^[9]
	Gloy/Rahal Racing	55							EVG 12	I70	NHA	TEX	BRI 29	NZH	MLW	LVL	CNS	HPT	IRP	FLM	NSV	GLN	RCH	MAR	SON	MMR
	Charles Hardy Racing	35	Chevy																								CAL 19	PHO 27	LVS 26
1998				WDW 22	HOM 5	PHO 21	POR 18	EVG 9	I70 12	GLN 23	TEX 30	BRI 7	MLW 9	NZH 20	CAL 28	PPR 13	IRP 9	NHA 4	FLM 7	NSV 10	HPT 16	LVL 11	RCH 30	MEM 6	GTY 14	MAR 20	SON 13	MMR 23	PHO 15	LVS 9	9th	3227	^[10]
1999	Gloy/Rahal Racing	55		HOM 15	PHO 21	EVG 3	MMR 29	MAR 24	MEM 31	PPR 7	I70 19	BRI 11	TEX 18	PIR 18	GLN 14	MLW 11	NSV 7	NZH 26	MCH 17	NHA 14	IRP 13	GTY 13	HPT 28	RCH 18	LVS 29						17th	2743	^[11]
	McCray Racing	40	Chevy																							LVL 17
		42																									TEX 33	CAL 21
2000	RDR Racing	97		DAY 17	HOM	PHO	MMR	MAR	PIR	GTY															DOV DNQ	TEX DNQ	CAL				44th	501	^[12]
	Nessa Motorsports	28									MEM 27	PPR	EVG	TEX	KEN 21	GLN	MLW	NHA	NZH	MCH
	Black Tip Racing	69	Chevy																		IRP 20
	Nessa Motorsports	8																				NSV 20	CIC	RCH
2001	Team 23 Racing	23		DAY	HOM	MMR	MAR	GTY	DAR 22	PPR	DOV	TEX	MEM	MLW	KAN	KEN	NHA	IRP	NSH	CIC	NZH	RCH	SBO	TEX	LVS	PHO	CAL				99th	97	^[13]
2002	Kelvin Locklear	97		DAY DNQ	DAR DNQ	MAR	GTY	PPR	DOV	TEX	MEM	MLW	KAN	KEN	NHA	MCH	IRP	NSH	RCH	TEX	SBO	LVS	CAL	PHO	HOM						NA	-	^[14]

Winston West Series

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		Pts	Ref
1996	Bill Elliott Racing	94	Ford	DAY 5	ATL 4	SLM	TAL 32	FIF	LVL	CLT 38	CLT	KIL	FRS	POC 3	MCH 1	FRS	TOL	POC 2	MCH	INF	SBS	ISF	DSF	KIL	SLM	WIN	CLT 3	ATL 24	24th	-	^[16]
1997				DAY 2	ATL	SLM	CLT	CLT	POC	MCH	SBS	TOL	KIL	FRS	MIN	POC	MCH	DSF	GTW	SLM	WIN	CLT	TAL	ISF	ATL				121st	-	^[17]
1998	RC Racing	2		DAY 5	ATL	SLM																							NA	0	^[18]
			Chevy				CLT 4	MEM	MCH 16	POC	SBS	TOL	PPR	POC	KIL	FRS	ISF	ATL	DSF	SLM	TEX	WIN	CLT	TAL	ATL
1999	RDR Racing	92		DAY 6	ATL	SLM	AND	CLT	MCH	POC	TOL	SBS	BLN	POC	KIL	FRS	FLM	ISF	WIN	DSF	SLM	CLT	TAL	ATL					89th	200	^[19]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ron Barfiel Jr. – 1996 NASCAR Winston Cup Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.
2. Web site: Ron Barfield Jr. – 1997 NASCAR Winston Cup Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.
3. Web site: Ron Barfield Jr. – 1996 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.
4. Web site: Ron Barfield Jr. – 1997 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.
5. Web site: Ron Barfield Jr. – 1998 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.
6. Web site: Ron Barfield Jr. – 2003 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.
7. Web site: Ron Barfield Jr. – 2004 NASCAR Busch Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.
8. Web site: Ron Barfield Jr. – 1996 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.
9. Web site: Ron Barfield Jr. – 1997 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.
10. Web site: Ron Barfield Jr. – 1998 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.
11. Web site: Ron Barfield Jr. – 1999 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.
12. Web site: Ron Barfield Jr. – 2000 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.
13. Web site: Ron Barfield Jr. – 2001 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.
14. Web site: Ron Barfield Jr. – 2002 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.
15. Web site: Ron Barfield Jr. – 1999 NASCAR Winston West Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.
16. Web site: Ron Barfield Jr. – 1996 ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.
17. Web site: Ron Barfield Jr. – 1997 ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.
18. Web site: Ron Barfield Jr. – 1998 ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.
19. Web site: Ron Barfield Jr. – 1999 ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series Results. Racing-Reference. July 31, 2017.