David Louis Blaney (born October 24, 1962) is a semi-retired American professional stock car racing driver.

Blaney, born in Hartford Township in Trumbull County, Ohio, was awarded the 1983 All-Star Sprint Circuit Rookie-of-the-Year.

[1] In the 1997 season, he won the Gold Cup, and the Knoxville Nationals, which is considered the premiere event in sprint car racing.

In 2016 after retiring from NASCAR, he drove the Motter Motorsports 71M on a hand-picked schedule of primarily World of Outlaws and All-Star, along with races in central Pennsylvania.

In May 2021, Blaney won the World Of Outlaws sprint car feature race at his home track of Sharon Speedway, setting series records for both longest gap between victories—his previous win with the Outlaws came in 1997—and oldest driver to win in the series at 58 years old.

93 Amoco-sponsored Pontiac and in his first season had three sixth-place finishes and a pole position at Lowe's Motor Speedway.

In 2000, Blaney and his Amoco team moved up to Winston Cup full-time and posted two Top 10s, but DNQ’d in the second race of the season at Rockingham.

He finished third in the NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie of the Year award standings for the season.

Blaney returned to Bill Davis Racing in 2004 for a limited schedule, due to a lack of a sponsorship.

99 Canteen Vending/Kraft Foods-sponsored Ford in the place of rookie Carl Edwards, who missed the start due a Craftsman Truck Series race that ran late.

He also scored his first Busch Series victory at Lowes Motor Speedway, when Matt Kenseth spun on the last lap and Blaney was in the lead.

Blaney almost won the season-opening Busch Series race at Daytona, finishing second to Kevin Harvick.

Incidentally, Blaney did not qualify for three out of the four races that he had sponsorship for (Hyde Park was on the car at Las Vegas, and the Denny Hamlin Foundation at Charlotte and Texas).

For the remainder of the 2010 Sprint Cup season, Blaney split his time between Front Row Motorsports and Tommy Baldwin Racing.

[5][6] The team did not run the Sprint All-Star Race in May in order to focus on the points-paying events.

During a caution, shortly after race leaders had made pit stops, Juan Pablo Montoya crashed into a jet dryer, which was being used to blow debris from the track.

As a result of the crash, the jet fuel that powered the helicopter engine spilled out onto the track and was ignited.

Blaney returned to Tommy Baldwin Racing for the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, moving to the new No.

[9] With Blaney's son Ryan's career having reached a level in which it no longer needed family funding, Dave went into semi-retirement after 2013.

Blaney was credited with being a major part of building TBR into a legitimate Cup-level organization.

At the August race at Pocono, Blaney returned to TBR for the first time,[16] driving a third car for the team he helped build.