STANTON BARRETT
Stanton Barrett
His approach to living full-on, with little regard to the dangers he experiences almost daily, sets him apart as an ‘extreme-sports extremist’.
Coast to Coast...
Stanton is highly respected as one of the very few independent NASCAR team owners who is also the team driver. After personally directing his team’s race preparations, he routinely drives from 0 to 60 in about 2.4 seconds, then races for hours at speeds up to 200 mph, within fragile inches of others. That’s living motor sports full-on.
In LA...
Stanton is best known for his amazing stunt work, and more recently as an emerging director and producer. Want someone to jump a car 80 feet over a dry river bed, or fall 100 ft from a building, or perhaps jump a motorcycle from building to building in downtown Los Angeles... he has done it all.
In NY - he is best known for his film production and direction – working on everything from a killer 30 second spot, to an environmental documentary, and his first feature film is in development. Stanton also has a NY-based international personal management agency which represents his celebrity and fashion branding.
In Japan and Taiwan...
Stanton is helping introduce NASCAR motor racing in Asia where more and more fans and corporate sponsors are starting to follow and support this exciting sport that is already #1 in North America.
Full-on Sports Extremist
Stanton Barrett comes to all this X-extremism quite naturally. Genetics and environment were certainly both key contributors to his extraordinary talents and accomplishments. Stanton comes from an amazing lineage of pro athletes.
Stanton’s grandfather, Dave McCoy, served as a coach for the US Ski Team and founded Mammoth Mountain, the largest ski resort in the US. They still motocross in the mountains together. His mother, Penny McCoy, was an Olympic and US Ski Team member. At the age of 15, Penny became the youngest woman to ever win a World Cup medal for the U.S. World Cup Ski Team, and was considered the nation’s top skier in world cup racing. They still ski and ride motorcycles together.
Stanton’s father, Stan Barrett, was one of Hollywood’s most respected stuntmen appearing in over two hundred movie and television productions. His global fame came when he was the first person to break the speed of sound on land, in 1979 in the infamous Budweiser Rocket Car that sped him to over 739 mph (1,330 km/hr) at Mach 1.01. Stan then went on to be an accomplished NASCAR driver in the early 1980s with his close friends Hal Needham, Burt Reynolds and Paul Newman with the Skoal Bandit team. Stanton and father, Stan, still ride mountain bikes and motorcycles together.
Paul Newman, a very close friend of his fathers’ and Stanton’s godfather has also had a big influence on his life and drive to excel plus to give back to others. They still get together at every chance.
Fueled By Competition
Stanton Barrett is a highly competitive racer. After a successful career in go-karts with an amazing 21 wins in 28 starts, Barrett made his NASCAR Busch Series debut in 1992 at Oxford Plains Speedway where he earned the outside pole in his very first race.
Stanton has run a limited schedule in the Busch Series since then, with a best finish of fifth at Atlanta Motor Speedway, and eight top ten finishes.
Barrett has competed in 22 NASCAR Nextel Cup events since 1999. Prior to this, he also competed in the NASCAR Goody’s Dash Series in 1991 when he finished sixth in points after running as high as second with six races to go.
In 1993 Stanton raced a late model at Concord where he earned a win, 9 top-three finishes and 9 poles in 13 races. He also has four ARCA starts with three top-five finishes, and fifteen Cup starts.
Stanton was recently first introduced to competitive bobsled racing when he appeared on Geoff Bodine’s Bobsled Challenge TV show, and after just two seasons of limited training he was recognized as the top amateur in international competition
Stanton Barrett is a driven professional stuntman and has worked in nearly 150 motion pictures and television series. He has performed a variety of dangerous stunts, stunt doubling and coordinating for many of Hollywood’s finest actors in films such as...
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Stanton is an exciting media personality, and has been profiled on such well known shows as...
- MTV Japan
- Men’s Vogue
- GQ Magazine
- NASCAR Angels Television
- Reality Show’
- Tyra Banks’ America’s Next
- Top Model
- ABC News’ NASCAR in
- Primetime
Passion 4 Caring
Stanton has and continues to be a strong and willing supporter of many charitable organizations. His personal goal is to create the ‘4Caring’ non-profit organization (www.4Caring.org) whose primary mission is “To reach out and help comfort those dealing with a personal health crisis.”
