CMI Motorsports

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CMI Motorsports
CMI Motorsports logo.jpg
Owner(s) Ray Ciccarelli
Series NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Race drivers49. Andrew Gordon (part-time)
Sponsors49. Staar Trucking
Manufacturer Ford
Opened2017 (ARCA)
2019 (Trucks)
Closed2017 (ARCA)
2022 (Trucks)
Career
Debut 2019 NextEra Energy 250 (Daytona)
Latest race 2022 Pinty's Truck Race on Dirt (Bristol)
Races competed41
Drivers' Championships 0
Race victories0
Pole positions 0

CMI Motorsports (formerly Ciccarelli Racing) is an American professional dirt track racing team that competes in the World of Outlaws Late Model Series, fielding the No. 49 Rocket XR1 part-time for Ray Ciccarelli. The team also previously fielded teams in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and ARCA Menards Series.

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Although Ciccarelli announced on June 10, 2020 that he would be closing down the team and selling off all its equipment after the conclusion of the 2020 Truck Series season. His decision to shut down his race team came in response to NASCAR's announcement on the same day that they would be banning the display of the Confederate flag from all tracks. Ciccarelli believed that the sport was getting too political and unnecessarily taking sides in those matters. [1] In a Twitter post, in October 2020 they said that they would return in 2021 in some capacity, and three weeks later CMI Motorsports would announce that Tim Viens would run the No. 83 truck full time. [2] However, after 2022 the team shut down and sold their assets to G2G Racing on the NASCAR side however continued on as a Super Late Model team.

History

ARCA Racing Series

Car No. 38 history

Ciccarelli ran the season-opener at Daytona in 2017 with his own team, the No. 38 Ford, under the name Ciccarelli Racing. It was not his first race in the series, as he previously drove part-time in the series in 2014, 2015, and 2016 for teams Carter 2 Motorsports, Kimmel Racing, Hamilton-Hughes Racing, and Hixson Motorsports. Ciccarelli returned with his team to Talladega, although he drove the No. 3 instead of the No. 38, using owner points from Hixson (a team he drove for in a few races the prior year) to have a better shot of qualifying for the race, which he successfully did. The No. 3 was running the full season while the No. 38 had only attempted Daytona. He started his team after buying a superspeedway Ford car from Lira Motorsports, [3] an ARCA team which fielded multiple cars in 2016 but had downsized to one car due to financial problems for the 2017 season and therefore was selling off equipment.

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series

Truck No. 49 history

Ciccarelli's No. 49 for his own team at Daytona in 2019. Ray ciccarelli (46248425035).jpg
Ciccarelli's No. 49 for his own team at Daytona in 2019.

The team was restarted in 2019 when Ciccarelli, who previously drove in the Truck Series part-time for Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing, bought trucks and equipment from Premium Motorsports, which closed down their Truck Series team after the 2018 season. He kept the same number that Premium ran with, the No. 49, and the owner points that their No. 49 (driven mostly by Wendell Chavous) accumulated the prior year. The name of the team was CMI Motorsports, which stands for "Ciccarelli Moving & Installation", a company owned by Ciccarelli and which is one of the team's sponsors. The team made its debut at the season-opening 2019 NextEra Energy 250 at Daytona, where Ciccarelli successfully qualified for the race. However, he finished 28th after a crash ended his hopes of a good run. [4] Ciccarelli attempted a part-time schedule for the rest of that season, totaling about half of the races. This included an upset ninth-place finish at Michigan. The team had two other surprisingly strong runs that year at Texas in March and Pocono, both top-20 finishes.

For 2020, the No. 49 started the year with Ciccarelli himself behind the wheel of truck, failing to qualify for the season-opener at Daytona with Ciccarelli, unlike the previous year. The team signed Bayley Currey on January 30, 2020 to drive for them at the following race at Las Vegas. In that announcement, CMI indicated that the No. 49 would be attempting the first five races to start the year. [5] Currey ended up driving the next two races at Charlotte and Atlanta. He was supposed to have competed at Homestead but left the team in what was considered by many to be a one-screen departure after Ciccarelli made his remarks about the Confederate flag. [6] Tim Viens later drove this truck at Kentucky, Texas, and Michigan. Roger Reuse made his Truck return in August 2020 for the Sunoco 159 at the Daytona International Speedway road course, driving this truck. [7]

Despite announcing that they were going to shut down at the end of the season, CMI Motorsports and their flagship No. 49 truck returned for 2021 with owner Ray Ciccarelli driving at Daytona, failing to qualify. [8] The No. 49 was entered again at the Daytona road course with Roger Reuse, but again failed to qualify due to the lack of qualifying being held. The team returned at Atlanta Motor Speedway with Ciccarelli again behind the wheel, but since the team hadn’t qualified in the last two races, due to no qualifying being held, Ciccarelli automatically DNQ’d. Andrew Gordon would make his Truck Series debut at the Bristol Dirt race, finishing 31st. Ryan Reed would make his Truck Series return at Richmond, finishing 29th. John Atwell and J. J. Yeley would DNQ at COTA and Nashville respectively. Keith McGee would appear at Las Vegas.

In 2022, Gordon would make his return for G2G Racing's No. 46 truck (owned by Viens). Later, NASCAR notified G2G that the chassis for their No. 46 truck for the Bristol dirt race was registered to CMI (who G2G had purchased the truck from). As a result, Viens had to withdraw the No. 46 truck from the race. Viens then phone called Ciccarelli who agreed to file a late entry and field the No. 49 truck for Gordon for the race.

Truck No. 49 results

YearDriverNo.Make1234567891011121314151617181920212223NGTCPtsRef
2019 Ray Ciccarelli 49 Chevy DAY
28		 ATL
26		 LVS MAR
DNQ		 TEX
16		 DOV
24		 KAN TEX IOW GTW CHI KEN
DNQ		 POC
19		 ELD MCH
9		 BRI MSP LVS TAL MAR
21		 PHO HOM
31		33rd135 [9]
Stefan Parsons CLT
24
2020 Ray Ciccarelli DAY
DNQ		 HOM
29		 POC
27		 KAN
32		 KAN
24		 DAR RCH
31		 BRI LVS
26		 TAL
27		 MAR PHO 38th136
Bayley Currey LVS
DNQ		 CLT
28		 ATL
32
Tim Viens KEN
35		 TEX
26		 MCH
26		 KAN
32		 TEX
37
Roger Reuse DAY
38		 GTW
27
Tyler Hill DOV
30
2021 Ray Ciccarelli DAY
DNQ		 ATL
DNQ		 DAR
DNQ		41st75
Toyota TEX
32		 POC
23
Ford BRI
39
Roger Reuse Chevy DAY
DNQ		 LVS
Ford GLN
30		 GTW
24		 DAR MAR
35		 PHO
Andrew Gordon Chevy BRI
31
Ford KNX
24
Ryan Reed Chevy RCH
29
Toyota KAN
40
John Atwell Ford COA
DNQ		 CLT
J. J. Yeley Toyota NSH
DNQ
Keith McGee LVS
32		 TAL
2022 Andrew Gordon Ford DAY LVS ATL COA MAR BRI
32		 DAR KAN TEX CLT GTW SON KNO NSH MOH POC IRP RCH KAN BRI TAL HOM PHO -*-*

Truck No. 72 history

In 2021, CMI Motorsports debuted the No. 72 at Circuit of The Americas. Texas-native and Trans am TA 2 Series driver Samuel LeComte would drive this truck. [10]

Truck No. 72 results

YearDriverNo.Make12345678910111213141516171819202122NGTCPtsRef
2021 Samuel LeComte 72 Chevy DAY DAY LVS ATL BRI RCH KAN DAR COA
DNQ		 CLT TEX NSH POC KNX GLN
DNQ		 GTW DAR BRI LVS TAL MAR PHO NA01

Truck No. 83 history

CMI Motorsports debuted a second truck, the No. 83, at the second race of the 2020 season at Las Vegas with Stefan Parsons driving it. [11] It was also entered in the next two races at Charlotte and Atlanta with T. J. Bell driving it. Tim Viens later drove this truck for a part-time Truck schedule beginning at Pocono. [12] Owner Ray Ciccarelli drove the No. 83 part time as well, in Kentucky, Michigan, Kansas, Texas, and Martinsville.

The No. 83 returned in 2021 as a full-time team, with Tim Viens being tabbed to run the full schedule. [13] Viens had a rough start to his first full-time season, failing to qualify for both Daytona races and skipping Las Vegas and Atlanta to focus on the upcoming Bristol Dirt Race, [14] where Trevor Collins would drive but fail to qualify. Brad Gross, a Texan driver, was tabbed to run the Toyota Tundra 225, but he failed to qualify along with John Atwell and Samuel LeComte.

Truck No. 83 results

YearDriverNo.Make1234567891011121314151617181920212223NGTCPtsRef
2020 Stefan Parsons 83 Chevy DAY LVS
29		41st103
T. J. Bell CLT
33		 ATL
38		 HOM
Tim Viens POC
29		 DAY
24		 DOV
31		 GTW DAR RCH
35		 BRI LVS
33		 TAL PHO
Ray Ciccarelli KEN
32		 TEX KAN KAN MCH
34		 KAN
26		 TEX
22		 MAR
25
2021 Tim Viens DAY
DNQ		 DAY
DNQ		 LVS ATL NA01
Trevor Collins BRI
DNQ		 RCH KAN DAR
Brad Gross COA
DNQ		 CLT TEX NSH POC KNX GLN GTW DAR BRI LVS TAL MAR PHO

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