Rich Bickle

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rich Bickle
Occupation	Race Car Driver
Date Of Birth	May 13, 1961(1961-05-13)
Age	63
Country	United States
Birth City	Wisconsin
Horoscope	Taurus

Rich Bickle Biography

Rich Bickle is one of the most popular and richest Race Car Driver who was born on May 13, 1961 in Wisconsin, United States. American race car driver who started his NASCAR career back in 1994.

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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.” He won three NASCAR truck races, had a career-best fourth-place finish in the Cup Series in 218 career NASCAR starts.

Bickle was brought into the sport as a child, when he watched his father, Rich Sr., race throughout Wisconsin. 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. 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.” Bickle started racing a 1974 Pontiac as a sportsman at Jefferson for the second half of the 1977 season and the whole 1978 season. Bickle stopped racing motorcycles after he graduated in 1979. He built a 1972 Ford Torino with a 302 cubic inch motor that year, which he began using at mid-season. 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. 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. 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. He was named the Sportsman Rookie of the Year at Lake Geneva and Rockford.

Rich Sr. was his father and a competitor in racing.

Rich Bickle Net Worth

Rich Bickle is one of the richest Race Car Driver from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rich Bickle 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1990, he won the Snowball Derby.

At the 1997 Craftsman 200 in Portland, he won his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Race.

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.

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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.

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Rich Ranked on the list of most popular Race Car Driver. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Rich Bickle celebrates birthday on May 13 of every year.

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.