Stanton Thomas Barrett (born December 1, 1972) is an American professional stock car racing driver and Hollywood stuntman. He is the co-owner of Barrett–Cope Racing, which fields the No. 30 Chevrolet in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series. He has previously competed in the WRL and HSR/SVRA Vintage Series.
The son of former stuntman Stan Barrett, he began NASCAR racing in the early 1990s, starting with the Daytona Dash Series in 1991 and moving on to the Busch North and Busch Series in 1992. Seven years later, he started racing in the Cup Series, making his series debut with Donlavey Racing in 1999. Barrett has since run part-time across NASCAR's top three series, sometimes as an owner/driver. Barrett has also competed in the IndyCar Series, running four races in 2009 for Team 3G.
Barrett first started racing when he was sixteen in karts, winning 21 races in 28 starts. In 1992, Barrett started racing in NASCAR's Busch North Series, his debut coming at the Big Apple Food Stores 200 at Oxford Plains Speedway at the age of nineteen; Barrett finished 21st, eleven laps behind race winner Joe Bessey. He also ran in the NASCAR Goody's Dash Series, funding the car with money earned as a stuntman for the movie Freejack. Despite running as high as second in points while leading many races, crashes resulting in other hard racing drivers resulted in his final finish in the standings to sixth.
During the 1992 season, Busch Series driver Clifford Allison was killed in a crash at Michigan International Speedway, leaving a ride open for Barrett. He made a few limited starts with his own team in the series for several years, and in his sixth career start, finished fifth at the spring race at Atlanta in 1996.
For the following two years, Barrett drove for Pro-Tech Motorsports and NorthStar Motorsports, recording an eighth-place finish at Bristol with the latter. In 1999, Barrett ran a partial Busch slate with Galaxy Motorsports, but left the team in the middle of the season when management suggested he would be replaced for an upcoming race at Watkins Glen International. Later Galaxy Motorsports would fail to qualify for many races and go out of business.
In 2003, Barrett signed with Roush Racing and finished in the top-ten four times, but Odoban ended its sponsorship after fifteen races due to financial trouble, forcing the team to close down. He returned to driving his own car for the remainder of the season, on a partial bases. Barrett continued driving for his team in 2004, and joined DCT Motorsports for the 2005 season, scoring his only top ten of the season at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. In 2006, Barrett ran a variety of Busch events for MacDonald Motorsports and McGill Motorsports, and ran some races for Stanton Barrett Motorsports in 2007.
In 2008, Barrett became the primary driver for SKI Motorsports in the No. 30 and qualified for 26 of 29 attempted races for the team. Barrett had an average start of 29.3, an average finish of 25.7, five DNFs and two laps lead in his 2008 campaign, which included a start for his own team for race 32 at Memphis International Raceway. Barrett failed to qualify the No. 30 for SKI and had to race in his own No. 31 that was qualified by Kenny Hendrick to make the field, resulting in a DNF on lap 155 due to transmission issues. Barrett also failed to qualify at Homestead for race 35. Stanton finished the 2008 season 22nd in points and would only make 31 more NASCAR Nationwide Series starts from 2009-2023.
During the 2008 season, Barrett still ran his own No. 31 as an owner with 18 total starts for the car. Kenny Hendrick ran 14 of them, with Stanton, Jeff Fuller, and Shane Huffman each running one race in the No. 31. Stanton Barrett fielded a second car for his dad Stan at the 2008 NAPA Auto Parts 200 in the No. 61, he completed only seven laps before pulling off citing brake issues and finished in 39th.
The following year, Barrett joined Rick Ware Racing. He raced for them on a part-time schedule with some respectable finishes and top-ten qualifying and from 2009 to 2016 until he joined MBM Motorsports and B. J. McLeod Motorsports.
In 2019, Barrett returned to the Xfinity Series after a three year hiatus. He raced for MBM Motorsports in the Zippo 200 at Watkins Glen. He would finish 23rd.
In 2022, Barrett was driving the No. 47 for Mike Harmon Racing in 2022. However, he failed to qualify for the Sunoco Go Rewards 200 at Watkins Glen.
Barrett raced in the Xfinity Series in 2023, driving the No. 35 car for Emerling-Gase Motorsports in the race at Road America and the Shriners Children's 200 at Watkins Glen.
In 1999, Barrett announced his intention to compete part-time in the Winston Cup Series, running for Rookie of the Year honors with PBH Motorsports, with plans to run full-time in 2000. During testing for General Motors at Daytona International Speedway, Barrett was the sixth-fastest driver with a speed of 185.624 miles per hour (298.733 km/h). However, he failed to qualify for the Daytona 500. Barrett worked out a late-season deal with Donlavey Racing to make eight race attempts in 1999. in 2000, he attempted the Budweiser Shootout qualifier for drivers who ran the fastest in second-round-qualifying in 1999, but crashed on the first lap when Jimmy Spencer collected Rick Mast and Kenny Wallace. He joined the Tri-Star Motorsports team for the 2000 Daytona 500.
In 2004, Barrett returned to Nextel Cup driving the No. 94 Chevrolet for W.W. Motorsports where Barrett helped the team prepare and field the car from Stanton Barrett Motorsports shop. He failed to finish a race for the team and parted ways when driving duties were taken by Derrike Cope. Later in the year, he helped Means-Jenkins Motorsports to drive the No. 92 for the race at Dover, but failed to qualify.
In 2005, Barrett began the season helping Front Row Motorsports start out of Stanton Barrett Motorsports shop but later owner of Front Row Motorsports and Stanton Barrett decided to take different paths; he then ran Cup races under his own Stanton Barrett Motorsports team. The following year, he ran a partial schedule between SBM and Rick Ware Racing, failing to qualify for a number of races. He reunited with Ware for an attempt at the 2007 Daytona 500. Barrett attempted a limited schedule of 2008 races with in a partnership with Stanton Barrett Motorsports/SKI Motorsports.
Barrett was initially scheduled to make his Cup Series return in 2017 with Rick Ware Racing, but did not make a start. A year later, he rejoined Ware for the 2018 Bank of America Roval 400 at Charlotte. In 2019, he returned to the series for his first superspeedway Cup start in the 2019 GEICO 500 at Talladega.
In August 2020, Barrett joined Spire Motorsports for the Go Bowling 235 on the Daytona road course.
In 2015, Barrett made his Camping World Truck Series debut for his team at Talladega Superspeedway, driving the No. 91 Chevrolet Silverado. The race marked his first at Talladega since 2005. After qualifying 21st, Barrett was collected in The Big One on lap 86, hitting the wall and Matt Crafton. Barrett was credited with a 29th-place finish.