About Ron Young

Ron Young is from Conyers, Georgia, a town nestled in the same North Georgia foothills that gave birth to the roots of modern-day stock car racing.

Young now hopes to make his own mark in the realm of NASCAR after a successful tour through the short track bullrings of the southeastern United States.

Born on July 22, 1970, Young got his start on the go-kart circuit around the age of 10  and tasted much prosperity in only two years. In 127 starts, Young won 78 times to go with 97 top five runs that led to six Track Championships.

From 1988 to 1990, Young raced in the NASCAR All-American Challenge Series, finishing 8th in points his first season while coming in third in 1990.

Then it was on to the All_Pro Series. Following an eighth place rookie season points run and limited 1992 schedule, 1993 was the best year yet for Young, finishing fifth in points. Young would come in 10th and seventh the next two seasons to set the stage for what would be a 5th place finish that saw him win not only for the first time, but four times before the season was out. Young was victorious at Martinsville, Pensacola, Peach State  Speedway in Jefferson, GA and at Myrtle Beach, SC.
Though the only two wins of 1997 were at Pensacola and Salem, IN, Young was consistent with 14 top 10 runs and 11 top fives that gave him a career-high third place points finish.

In his last full season in the series, 1998, Young finished sixth with seven top fives.

Young would run the next two seasons in the All-Pro Series part-time, setting the stage for the next step in his racing career that had seen Young finish in the top ten of the All-Pro Series in nine of the ten seasons competing full-time.

Near the end of Young's tenure in the All-Pro Series, he began to run some races at Lanier National Speedway in Braselton in the Late Model Stock Car Division. Young won there seven times while finishing in the top five eight times and ten times in the top 10.

Late in the 1999 season,  Young and his father Jerry Young began the path to racing in the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series.

After purchasing some race cars to make qualifying attempts for races, the family-owned RB1 Motorsports team debuted in November of 2000 at Homestead after coming up short in their previous five qualifying attempts dating back to 1999 at Homestead. 

That November day in 2000,  Ron started 36th and finished 34th in the no. 71 Chevrolet, beginning his career in the NASCAR Busch Series.

In 2001, Young competed in events at Darlington, Bristol and Memphis. The highlight came at Memphis where Young scored his best to-date finish of 25th.

Young ran a 12-race schedule in 2002 and only failed to qualify for two events despite having minimal sponsorship.
Five of those 12 races  were in the familar no. 71 unsponsored RB1 Motorsports machine while the other six were behind the wheel of the no. 63 Greased Lightning Chevy. The season finale at Homestead was behind the wheel of the no. 70 Oleomed Chevy.

Young's highest starting spots that year would come at Milwaukee where he rolled off 27th and 28th at Atlanta.
A 14th place run would end up being the best run of the year for Young while finishes of 17th at Gateway and 21st at Milwaukee also were strong outings.

Ron and the RB1 Motorsports team competed in 13 NASCAR Busch Series events in 2003, making the field of each attempt except Kansas.

The highlight of thea season came at Memphis, where Ron started 17th and finished 14th.

In the midst of being on the fast track of NASCAR, Young still manged to be a devoted husband to his wife Melanie and father two twin daughters Ellie and Emma.