Stephen Brian Park (born August 23, 1967)[1] is an American former professional stock car racing driver.

Park was initially hired by seven-time Winston Cup Champion Dale Earnhardt in 1996.

Throughout the season, Park posted three wins at Nashville, Michigan, and Richmond, walking away with Rookie of the Year honors with a third-place finish in the final points standings.

During practice for the fourth event of the year at Atlanta, Park suffered a tire failure and had three hard hits before his car came to rest.

In the Sears Point crash, Park spun in turn two and backed into an embankment, thrusting his car up into the air and over onto the top of a tire barrier.

Park's 2001 season began with a crash in lap 173 of the Daytona 500, in which he was one of eighteen cars involved.

He also competed in the Busch Series that season, but on September 1, he was injured in a crash at Darlington Raceway while driving the No.

At the same time, Larry Foyt was speeding up to join the front for the restart, and he rammed the driver side of Park's car.

[6] Fortunately, neither drivers were injured and Park and Jr. walked with each other to the waiting ambulance to the infield care center.

The race had a 65-minute red flag to repair the old-fashioned guardrail highway barrier that Park hit.

During the 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Dale Earnhardt, Inc. let Park go midway into the season, and he was effectively "traded" to Richard Childress Racing for Jeff Green, who took over the No.

However, Park and the team struggled the rest of the season, and in October, right before the truck race in Martinsville, Park and Orleans Racing parted ways due to Dodge pulling support and money to many truck teams.

In his first Sprint Cup Series race in several years, Park started the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona from the 39th position, as qualifying was rained out.

Park's fan-sponsored car was painted to honor Richie Evans, a nine-time NASCAR Modified champion who was killed in a racing accident shortly after winning his final championship in 1985.

The fan-sponsored New Hampshire car was intended to honor six-time Modified Series champion owner Len Boehler.

[9] He also ran two races on the NASCAR Southern Modified Tour, finishing fifth at Connecticut's Thompson Speedway and twelfth at Charlotte.

The race was run as part of the inaugural UNOH Battle at the Beach to open Daytona's new backstretch .4 mile short-oval configuration.

[10] Park became acquainted with Mariah Carey in high school through mutual friends as they both grew up in the same area.

Park was inducted into the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame on Long Island in the Auto Racing Category with the Class of 2004.