Todd Cray

During the late 1980's, New Jersey's Todd Cray was coming up through the ranks at a very young age. In fact, he was featured in Sports Illustrated in August 1988 and the article can be accessed at this link: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1067636/index.htm.

During that year, Cray competed in the NASCAR Charlotte/Daytona Dash Series and finished his rookie season fifth in points with two wins, at Hickory and Myrtle Beach. Ar He would only compete in one more Dash Series race and would move up to compete in the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series with sponsor Good Stuff Candy Bars. However, Cray would only make four starts in the series from 1989-1990 with a best finish of 21st at Orange County Speedway in August 1990.

Todd Cray's #06 Good Stuff Candy Bars Buick
(photo taken at the 1991 Miller Motorsports show in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania)

Following the 1990 season, Cray made only two more NASCAR Touring series starts. Both were at the track he began racing at regularly in the 1990's, Flemington Speedway in New Jersey. In 1991 he finished 6th in a NASCAR Busch North Series event, and in 1996 he finished 34th in a NASCAR Featherlite Modified Tour event. Throughout the mid-1990's he also competed in Late Models at Grandview Speedway in Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania, and competed at Nashville Speedway in a Late Model Stock Car on at least one occasion.

Cray's former sponsor Good Stuff Candy Bars didn't last very much longer than his Busch Series career. The product was discontinued shortly after test-marketing, and then was sold to Grist Mill Company and officially taken off the market in 1993.

To this day Todd Cray still competes in Super Stocks at New Egypt Speedway in New Jersey and his driver page can be found here: http://www.newegyptspeedway.net/drivers/superstock/toddcray.htm. He is currently the 2009 points leader with six feature wins, and is still under the age of 40!

Note: I vaguely remember hearing about Todd Cray being interested in returning to the Dash Series (now ISCARS), probably from a 2006 episode of ISCARS Full Throttle. However, that is unconfirmed and he hasn't raced in that series since then.

Note #2: I also just found a promo video (which I believe was posted on YouTube by himself): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Sr_qVfW6E.