Wayne Andrews Biography and Stats

During his career, Siler City, North Carolina's Wayne Andrews competed in 28 NASCAR Grand National East races and compiled 2 top-five and 14 top-ten finishes in the series. Andrews best finish in Grand National East competition was fourth place in the 1972 Columbia 200 (Columbia, South Carolina), finishing only one lap down to race winner Max Berrier.  He managed to keep his 1970 Mustang on the lead lap of the event until being passed with only four laps remaining in the 102 mile race. Four months later, he followed his Columbia 200 performance up with a fifth-place finish in the Sandlapper 200, also at Columbia Speedway.   The photo at right was taken at Hickory Motor Speedway (Hickory, North Carolina) in 1972 and includes Andrews, car owner Jack St Clair, St Clair's son and Darrell Bryant.  Andrews piloted the St. Clair owned Ford Mustang in both 1972 NASCAR Grand National East and Grand American  competition.   Grandnationaleast.com would like to thank Kevin Andrews of Siler City, North Carolina for allowing the usage of the photo.

Andrews also competed in 70 NASCAR Grand American Series events during the 1969 - 1972 seasons, captured the 1972 series championship and earned an impressive 41 top-five finishes.  At his first series event, Andrews captured the pole at Smokey Mountain Raceway on May 3, 1969 with a track record speed of 85.959 mph.  He would go on to capture the 1969 Rookie of the Year honors for the series in his ex-Bud Moore Racing Mercury Cougar. During the 1972 Grand American season, Andrews campaigned a Ford Mustang for car-owner Jack St. Clair and beat veteran Ernie Shaw for the series championship by 144 points.  Andrews is pictured at right with his Reid Shaw Grand American Mercury Cougar at Daytona International Speedway in 1970.

The Siler City, North Carolina native competed in six NASCAR Winston Cup / Sprint Cup races with his best finish coming at Hickory Motor Speedway in August 1971.  Andrews finished fifth behind Tiny Lund, Elmo Langley, Richard Petty and Bobby Allison in the Buddy Shuman 276 at the .363 mile North Carolina oval.  During the 1971 season, he would also earn a sixth-place finish at Columbia in the Sandlapper 200 and a seventh place finish at Winston-Salem in the Myers Brothers 250, both while driving his Reid Shaw owned Ford Mustang.  Andrews finished out his racing career in the mid-seventies in the NASCAR Late Model Sportsman division.

Sprint Cup Career Totals

Grand National East Career Totals