| abstract | - Lucky Sawyer is a former NASCAR driver from Baltimore, MD. He competed in ten Sprint Cup Series events in his career. Sawyer made his initial foray into the sport during the 1952 season, but it was a tough entrance for the driver. He was a meager 27th in his debut at Langhorne, but it turned out to be the best point of his season as broken radiators led Sawyer to a 19th place finish at Hillsboro and a 28th at Martinsville. Sawyer returned during the 1953 season, running four races to finish a career-high 105th in the final points. Unfortunately, Sawyer's results didn't improve very much. He ran the first four races of the year, starting off with an ignition failure that left him last (23rd) at Palm Beach. A broken gas line then left Sawyer 39th at the Daytona Beach Road Course and then was a struggling 24th at Spring Lake. However, Sawyer salvaged the end to his season, recording a career-best 15th place at North Wilkesboro. Sawyer did not return to the sport until the 1957 season, but his return turned out to be yet another struggle for the driver. He started last (28th) and only finished 25th at Langhorne due to a blown engine. He wasn't much better a few weeks later at New Oxford, when Sawyer broke a transmission and finished 23rd. Sawyer's final career race, which came in 1958, was also quite disasterous for the driver. An engine issue just twelve laps into the race left Sawyer 30th in the field of thirty-one.
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