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Rick Carelli (born November 9, 1955) is a race car driver from Arvada, Colorado
Arvada, Colorado

The City of Arvada is a Colorado municipalities#Home_Rule_Municipality located in Jefferson County, Colorado and Adams County, Colorado counties in the Denver Metropolitan Area of the U.S....
. He was nicknamed "The High Plains Drifter. He won multiple times in the #6 Craftsman Truck Series
Craftsman Truck Series

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is a racing series owned and operated by the NASCAR. It is the only series in all of NASCAR to race modified production pickup trucks and is one of the three national divisions of NASCAR, together with the Nationwide Series and the top level Sprint Cup....
 truck.

Carelli began competing in the NASCAR Winston West Series in 1992, and he was named the series Rookie of the Year. He returned to the series in 1993, capturing the series championship and Most Popular Driver award.

He was one of the original drivers in the Craftsman Truck Series, starting at the series' first race at Phoenix in 1995.






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Rick Carelli (born November 9, 1955) is a race car driver from Arvada, Colorado
Arvada, Colorado

The City of Arvada is a Colorado municipalities#Home_Rule_Municipality located in Jefferson County, Colorado and Adams County, Colorado counties in the Denver Metropolitan Area of the U.S....
. He was nicknamed "The High Plains Drifter. He won multiple times in the #6 Craftsman Truck Series
Craftsman Truck Series

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is a racing series owned and operated by the NASCAR. It is the only series in all of NASCAR to race modified production pickup trucks and is one of the three national divisions of NASCAR, together with the Nationwide Series and the top level Sprint Cup....
 truck.

Carelli began competing in the NASCAR Winston West Series in 1992, and he was named the series Rookie of the Year. He returned to the series in 1993, capturing the series championship and Most Popular Driver award.

He was one of the original drivers in the Craftsman Truck Series, starting at the series' first race at Phoenix in 1995. Carelli raced every series race until he suffered near-fatal injuries when his truck hit the wall during a race at Memphis Motorsports Park
Memphis Motorsports Park

Memphis Motorsports Park is a race track located in just across the Loosahatchie River from Memphis, Tennessee, approximately ten miles south of Millington, Tennessee....
 in 1999. He recovered and returned to win another race with an underfunded team that he was the crew chief
Crew chief

The term crew chief can refer to several different things:*In auto racing, a crew chief is the head person on a pit stop. The crew chief's primary duties include developing car setups, configuring pit strategies, and receiving feedback from his driver about the car's handling....
 for. He also made 9 Winston Cup starts from 1992 to 1994. He is now the team manager for Kevin Harvick Incorporated
Kevin Harvick Incorporated

Kevin Harvick Incorporated is a NASCAR team owned by NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kevin Harvick and his wife Delana, who herself is the daughter of a former Nationwide Series driver, John Linville....
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