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Crocker first started racing quarter midgets at the age of 7 in the Custom Quarter Midget Club, based in Thompson, Connecticut. She was named the Most Improved Novice during her first year of competition. She then moved on to win several awards and three Northeast Regional Quarter Midgets of America championships from 1993 to 1996 while in middle and high school. In 1997, Crocker began running Mini Sprints at Whip City Speedway in Westfield, MA. She became the youngest driver and the first female to win a race at the track. Crocker started racing professionally in the World of Outlaws while attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in industrial and management engineering in 2003. In 2002, Crocker signed with Woodring Racing to drive a 360 winged sprint car. She won five feature races as well as twelve heat events. In 2004, Crocker won an opportunity to drive for Ford Motor Company's driver development program, and tested a Ford sprint for Bob East. The following season, she left Ford to join Evernham Motorsports' driver development program. During the season, she raced in the ARCA RE/MAX Series and collected three top 5s, including a second-place finish. She also made her NASCAR debut that season at Richmond International Raceway driving the #6 Dodge for Evernham in the Xfinity Series. She started 42nd after a wreck in qualifying, and proceeded to finish 39th after

another wreck. She also ran a pair of Truck races for Bobby Hamilton Racing, at Phoenix and Homestead-Miami Speedway. Crocker crashed in both races. In 2006 Crocker drove the #98 full-time in the Truck Series. She finished 25th in the Craftsman Truck standings. After struggling during the 2006 season, Evernham decided to close the #98 team. During her tenure as a Truck Series driver, a dispute between then-Evernham Cup driver Jeremy Mayfield and Ray Evernham resulted in a series of lawsuits between Mayfield and Evernham. In Mayfield’s legal filings, he asserted that the #19 Cup team’s lack of on-track success was due in large part to Evernham’s attention being focused on his personal relationship with an unnamed female driver. At the time, Crocker was the only female driver employed by Evernham Motorsports. Crocker and car owner Evernham started having an affair and Mayfield had spilled the beans on the affair. This virtually ended Crocker's career. Following the fall 2007 ARCA race at Talladega Superspeedway, it was confirmed that she had

left Evernham Motorsports. She ran a limited two-race schedule in the truck series for Morgan-Dollar Motorsports, before she was replaced. Crocker and former boss/team owner Ray Evernham were wed on August 26, 2009 in Las Vegas. She made a low-key return to race in the World of Outlaw sprint cars in mid-2010. On July 25, 2015, Crocker gave birth to a daughter, Cate Susan Evernham. As of 2023 she is a broadcaster with the Motor Racing Networks Winged Nation. Some info from Wikipedia

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ERIC MARY CROCKER-EVERNHAM - 03/23/1991