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| Born | August 19, 1962 Darien, Connecticut |
| Organization | World Stock Car Championship |
| Title | Chief Executive Officer |
| Predecessor | Jack Crawford |
| Successor | current |
| Spouse(s) | Louis Harper |
| Children | Cal Harper Louis Harper, Jr. Joseph Harper |
Victoria Crawford "Vickie" Harper (born Victoria Louise Crawford on August 19, 1962) is the current CEO of the World Stock Car Championship, having been named to the position in 2004 by her father upon his retirement. Harper has frequently been cited as the most successful current head of a motorsports sanctioning body, having guided the World Stock Car Championship for well over two decades with few scandals and far more stability than her peers in Formula A and Champ Car.
Early Life[edit | edit source]
Harper was born in Darien, Connecticut, an affluent suburb of Norwalk. She is the second child and only daughter of Jack Crawford and Suzanne Taylor. She attended Darien High School along with her three brothers and graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Economics. Upon graduating from Columbia in 1984, she joined the World Stock Car Championship to to learn the family business.
Early Career[edit | edit source]
Harper joined the WSCC as a marketing manager, working to negotiate television and sponsorship deals for the series throughout the mid-to-late 1980's as the series was growing in popularity. She negotiated several deals for races to be shown in vignettes on national broadcasts, and secured the first major deal to see the winner of The Icebreaker to do the talk show circuit.
Harper would take over leadership of the World Stock Car Lites in 1990, first on an interim basis while her brother, Joe Crawford was treated for leukemia. As Crawford's diagnosis proved terminal, she was named the director of the series following his death. She officially ran the series from 1991 until 1998, when she moved to become the executive Vice President of the World Stock Car Championship, working directly with her father Jack to transition the series into the 20th century in the wake of what had been a tumultuous decade.
CEO of WSCC[edit | edit source]
Personal Life[edit | edit source]
Harper married her husband, Louis Harper, on September 9, 1988 at the Avery Point Lighthouse in Connecticut.