Richard White (racing driver)

White began competing in the NASCAR Late Model Sportsman National Championship in 1971, scoring a top ten.^[1] In 1973 White began competing full-time in the NASCAR Winston West Series, driving the No. 42 Ford for Dean Barnicle. In his series debut at Altamont, White finished in fifth.^[2] Across the season's twenty-one races, White scored sixteen top tens and finished the season fifth in the standings. He was awarded rookie of the year.^[3] White also made his NASCAR Winston Cup Series debut in 1973, finishing eighth and sixth in the races at Riverside International Raceway.^[4] White scaled back to part-time in 1974, running fourteen of twenty-eight races and scoring five top tens.^[5] In one Cup start, he finished nineteenth.^[6] He competed in fourteen West Series races again in 1975, scoring five more top tens.^[7] Engine issues caused him to again finish nineteenth in his lone Cup start of the year.^[8] The 1976 season spanned only thirteen races, and White competed in ten of them, finishing in the top ten eight times en route to a fifth place points position.^[9] White had attempted eleven total races, but failed to qualify for the Cup Series race at Ontario Motor Speedway.^[10] White competed full time in 1977, scoring a pole and nine top tens and ending the season a career-best third in points.^[11] White failed to qualify for the season opener at Riverside, but was running at the finish in the other two Winston Cup combination races.^[12] White also returned to the Late Model Sportsman Championship for at least one race, finishing sixteenth at Riverside.^[13] White continued competing full time in the West Series in 1978, scoring thirteen top tens across twenty-two races, and scored a career-high seven top tens.^[14] He led his first and only career Cup laps at Ontario, where he also scored his best Cup finish of the season.^[15] He scored a top five result in the Late Model Sportsman Championship and also competed in the NASCAR Grand American Stock Car National Championship, although results are unknown.^[1] White ran his final full-time West season in 1979, scoring a pole and eleven top tens.^[16] He led a career high seventy-one laps. In running the complete schedule, he made his final Winston Cup starts, finishing twenty-ninth, sixteenth, and thirtieth.^[17] White attempted a race in the Western States Open Competition Series at Craig Road Speedway, but failed to qualify.^[18] In 1980, he competed in the Copper World Classic at Phoenix International Raceway, finishing twenty-fourth.^[19] He is also known to have competed in the NASCAR Grand American Stock Car National Championship, although results are unknown.^[1] White made his final Winston West start at Mesa Marin Raceway, finishing twenty-first after retiring with oil pressure issues.^[20] His final known start in racing is a November 1981 race at Riverside, where he finished eleventh.^[1][21]