Stuart Crow

Stuart Crow
Born (1959-08-21) August 21, 1959 (age 65)
Dallas, Texas, US
Retired2001
Championship titles
1990
2000		Formula Super Vee
US Formula 3

Stuart Crow (born August 21, 1959) is an American former racing driver. Crow won the 1990 United States Formula Super Vee Championship and the 2000 United States Formula 3 Championship.[1][2][3]

Career

1983-1986: Formula Ford, Formula 2000

Crow’s introduction to motorsports began with dirt bikes and, later, IKF and WKA Karting. He subsequently graduated to racing cars, starting with Formula Ford and Formula 2000. He quickly showed his mettle, winning the Formula 2000 class at the SCCA National Run-offs at Road Atlanta in 1985.[4] The following season Crow graduated to the Canadian Formula 2000 Championship and scored his first professional victory at Quebec’s Sanair Super Speedway en route to sixth place in the series. In October 1986, Crow finished third at the CASC F2000 Grand National Canadian Run-off.[5][6]

1987-2000: Formula Super Vee, Formula Atlantic, Formula Three

In the late 1980's Crow took the next step on the professional racing ladder, by competing in the Bosch VW Formula Super Vee Series, a national championship that propelled Michael Andretti, Al Unser Jr. and Arie Luyendyk into North America's premiere racing series' (Cart, IndyCar and IMSA).[7] After contesting several races with smaller teams, Crow joined Ralt America in mid-1988 with immediate results, reeling-off a string of top ten finishes including a fifth place in the season finale that helped him secure eighth place in the season standings.[8] Crow became a regular contender in the 1989 Super Vee series with eight top five finishes in a season that culminated with a win at St. Petersburg, the final event of a season that saw him finish third in the overall standings.[9]

Crow began the 1990 Formula Super Vee season with back-to-back victories at Phoenix International Raceway and the Milwaukee Mile before posting a string of podium finishes at Cleveland, Road Atlanta, Mid-Ohio and Road America. Crow scored a third win at Nazareth Speedway before the season final at St.Petersburg where he drove a measured race, finished fourth and clinched the 1990 Bosch VW Super Vee Championship.[10]

In 1991 Crow drove for BDJS/Ralt America in the United States Formula Atlantic Championship. Crow earned podium finishes on the streets of Des Moines and Watkins Glen, as well as a fourth place in the series’ most iconic race on the streets of Trois Rivieres in Quebec. The highlight of the season came in Canada where Crow scored his first Formula Atlantic win at the Grand Prix of Toronto, a result that helped him secure fourth place overall in his first season of Formula Atlantic.[11]

The following 16 months were perhaps the most productive of Crow’s racing career, although he fell just short of two championships. He stayed with BDJS/Ralt America for the 1992 Formula Atlantic Championship. Crow scored a dominant win at Mid-Ohio to compliment runner-up finishes at Mosport and Vancouver, a third place at Miami and a fourth place at Long Beach en route to third place in the overall standings. BDJS/Ralt America spent the first half of the 1992 season developing the new Ralt RT-40, likely missing out on several potential wins because of inevitable new car “teething” problems. Crow won three pole positions in 1992. He converted pole into a win at Mid-Ohio but mechanical retirements while leading at Circuit Trois-Rivières (broken half shaft) and at Nazareth a (broken throttle linkage) cost him a chance at the top step two more times and ultimately the championship.[12]

At the end of the 1992 Formula Atlantic season Crow teamed up with Dave McMillan Racing and journeyed Down Under to contest the 1993 New Zealand Formula Pacific Series. Crow scored wins at Timaru and the historic Pukekohe circuit, along with four runner-up finishes at Timaru, Wigram and Manfeild. A misunderstanding about the starting procedure in the final race of the series cost him a realistic chance at the championship and he was forced to settle for second place, three points adrift of veteran Kiwi Craig Baird and twenty five points ahead of Jos Verstappen.[13][14][15][16]

Crow returned to the Northern Hemisphere that spring for another Formula Atlantic campaign with BDJS/Ralt America. Crow won the 1993 season opener at Phoenix but crashed heavily in round three at Road Atlanta and subsequently had to withdraw from the championship after five rounds.[17][18]

Although 1993 would effectively prove to be Crow's final season of professional racing, on the three occasions when he returned to professional racing he continued to be competitive. In 1994 Crow drove for Florida Sports Cars in the American Continental Championship at the Dallas Grand Prix and won. In 1996 Crow drove for BDJS/Ralt America at the fourth round of the Players's Toyota Atlantic Championship at Nazareth. He won pole and finished second to the eventual championship winner Patrick Carpentier.[19] Years later, in 2000, Crow contested the United States Formula Three Championship with Dave McMillan Racing and won the championship scoring three wins and four additional podiums.[20][21][22]

Racing record

Career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles FLaps Podiums Points Position
1985 SCCA National Championship Runoffs Wyndham Racing 1 1 0 1 1 N/A 1st
1986 Canadian F2000 Championship Florida Sports Cars 9 1 0 0 N/A 138 6th
CASC F2000 Grand National Canadian Run-off 1 0 0 0 1 N/A 3rd
SCCA Formula Ford Nationals 5 1 1 0 5 N/A N/A
1987 Formula Super Vee Ralt of America 12 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A
1988 Formula Super Vee Ralt America 13 0 0 0 0 83 8th
1989 Formula Super Vee Ralt America 11 1 0 0 3 123 3rd
1990 Formula Super Vee Ralt America 9 3 1 4 7 144 1st
1991 Formula Atlantic BDJS 13 1 0 N/A 3 103 4th
1992 Formula Atlantic BDJS 14 1 3 0 7 134 3rd
1993 Formula Pacific Dave McMillan Racing
BDJS 		10 2 2 N/A 7 199 2nd
Formula Atlantic 4 1 0 1 1 30 15th
1994 SCCA American Continental Championship Florida Sports Cars 1 1 1 20 15th
1996 Formula Atlantic BDJS 2 1 1 24 18th
2000 Formula Three Dave McMillan Racing 11 3 3 8 3 152 1st
Sources:[23][24][25][26][27][28][8][29][9][1][30][11][31][32][12][33][34][13][14][15][16][35][36][37][38][20][39][19][40][41]

American and International Open Wheel racing results

(key)

SCCA National Championship Runoffs

Year Track Car Engine Class Pos. Class
Pos.		 Start Status
1985 Road Atlanta Swift DB-3 Ford Loyning F2000 9 1 13 Running
Source:[42]

CASC F2000 Grand National Canadian Run-off

Year Track Car Engine Class Finish Start Status
1986 St. Jovite Swift DB-3 Ford Loyning F2000 3 5 Running
Sources:[43][44][45]

Canadian F2000

Canadian F2000 results
Year Team Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Rank Points
1986 Florida Sports Cars Swift DB-3 F2000 Ford Loyning MOS
13 		MON
10 		MOS
8 		MNT
5 		MOS
9 		SAN
1 		SAN
4 		MOS
5 		MNT
3 		6th 138
Sources:[46][43]

Formula Super Vee

Formula Super Vee results
Year Team Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Rank Points
1989 Ralt America Ralt RT5/89 VW Brabham PHX
Ret 		DAL
6 		IRP
4 		MIL
6 		CLE
5 		DEM
3 		ATL
7 		MDO
5 		ROA
3 		NAZ
5 		STP
1 		3rd 123
1990 Ralt America Ralt RT5/90 VW Brabham PHX
1 		MIL
1 		CLE
2 		DEM
6 		ATL
2 		MDO
3 		ROA
2 		NAZ
1 		IRP
4 		STP
4 		1st 144
Sources:[47][48][49][10]

Formula Atlantic

Formula Atlantic results
Year Team Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Rank Points
1991 BDJS Swift DB-4 Toyota Quicksilver LBH
6 		PHX
8 		LRP
4 		MON
15 		WGI
3 		DEM
2 		TOR
1 		RCS1
NC 		RCS2
NC 		CTR
4 		VAN
Ret 		MDO
16 		NAZ
5 		LS1
Ret 		LS2
Ret 		4th 103
1992 BDJS Swift DB-4, Ralt RT-40 Toyota Loyning MIA
3 		PHX
5 		LBH
4 		LRP
4 		MON
Ret 		WGI
6 		TOR
Ret 		CTR
Ret 		VAN
2 		MDO
1 		MOS
2 		NAZ
Ret 		LS1
5 		LS2
6 		3rd 134
1993 BDJS Ralt RT-40 Toyota Loyning PHX
1 		LBH
Ret 		ATL
Ret 		MIL
7 		MON
Ret 		MOS
 HAL
 TOR
 CTR
 VAN
 MDO
 NAZ
 LS1
 LS2
 15th 30
1996 BDJS Ralt RT-40 Toyota Loyning HMS
1 		LBH
9 		NAZ
2 		MIL
 MON
 TOR
 CTR1
 CTR2
 MDO
 ROA
 VAN
 LS
 18th 24
Sources:[50][51][52][53][54][55][56][12][57][58][17][19][59]
  Non-championship race

Formula Pacific

Formula Pacific results
Year Team Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rank Points
1993 Dave McMillan Racing RT-40 Toyota Loyning TIM1
1 		TIM2
2 		TER1
4 		TER2
Ret 		WIG1
2 		WIG2
4 		MAN1
2 		MAN2
2 		PUK1
6 		PUK2
1 		2nd 210
Sources:[13][14][15][16]

American Continental Championship

American Continental Championship results
Year Team Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Rank Points
1994 Florida Sports Cars Van Diemen RF-94 Ford MOS1
 WGI
 DEM
 CTR
 MOS2
 ATL
 DAL
1 		15th 20
Sources:[20][60]

US Formula 3

US Formula 3 results
Year Team Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Rank Points
2000 Dave McMillan Racing Ralt RT-40 Volkswagen Bertils HAL1
5 		HAL2
1 		MEM1
1 		MEM2
1 		STC1
3 		STC2
5 		WGI
2 		SPR1
3 		SPR2
5 		SDG1
2 		SDG2
4 		1st 152
Sources:[61]

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