Richard Allen Bickle Jr. (born May 13, 1961) is an American former professional stock car racing driver.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel described him in 2012 as a "stud on the short tracks in the late 1980s and early '90s and a journeyman who rarely caught a break in NASCAR.

Butch Miller, who had led most of the race, went in for a pit stop with 60 laps left, and Bickle and Ted Musgrave gained the lead.

The race was halted for rain and hail with 46 laps left, and it was declared over with Bickle receiving the win.

[5] In 1990, Bickle made his debut in the American Speed Association, a Midwest-based racing organization based primarily in short tracks.

Bickle made his NASCAR Winston Cup debut in 1989 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, in his self-owned, unsponsored #02 Buick.

He made his first start in the Daytona 500 the next year when, once again driving his own underfunded Oldsmobile, and finished 28th, five laps down.

After years of limited starts, Bickle made the full-time jump to Cup in 1998, driving the #98 Thorn Apple Valley Ford Taurus for Cale Yarborough, replacing Greg Sacks who had been critically injured in an accident at Texas.

Bickle had two top-five qualifying efforts and finished a career-best 4th at Martinsville and delivered an emotional post-race interview.

In 2001, he made his first full-time run in the Busch Series, driving the #59 Kingsford Chevy, and competed in 27 events before he was released.

[citation needed] Bickle began racing in the Craftsman Truck Series in 1996 for Petty Enterprises, winning two poles, having 9 top-10 finishes, and wound up a solid 11th in points.

[citation needed] For the 1997 season, he switched to the #17 DieHard Chevrolet owned by Darrell Waltrip Motorsports, and the combination was an instant success.

[8][9] At the end of the 2012 season, Bickle won the National Short Track Championship race at Rockford Speedway for the second time.

[10] Bickle announced that 2013 would be his final season of racing stock cars; competing for the full season in the ARCA Midwest Tour,[11] he also returned to Slinger Super Speedway where he won his fourth Slinger Nationals after the apparent winner, Steve Apel, was disqualified.

[12] Bickle battled for the lead in the middle of the 2013 National Short Track Championship race and ended up finishing fourth.

[10] He ended his career on the following weekend finishing 22nd at the Oktoberfest 100 ARCA Midwest Tour race at the La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway on October 6, 2013.

[15] After the signing tour, Bickle continued to race super lates, and in 2020 said that the 2021 Snowball Derby will be his last contest.

On May 2, 2021, Bickle won the annual Joe Shear Classic ARCA Midwest Tour race at Madison International Speedway.

[18] He won the Jim Sauter Classic ARCA Midwest race at Dells Raceway Park in early September.