H2 Motorsports

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H2 Motorsports
H2 Motorsports logo.png
Owner(s)Matt Hurley
Series NASCAR Xfinity Series
Race drivers28. Shane Lee (part-time)
Sponsors28. Circuit City
Manufacturer Toyota
Opened 2019
Closed2020
Career
Debut 2019 CircuitCity.com 250 (Iowa)
Latest race 2019 Food City 300 (Bristol)
Races competed7
Drivers' Championships 0
Race victories0
Pole positions 0

H2 Motorsports was an American professional stock car racing team owned by Matt Hurley. The team operated part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, fielding the No. 28 Toyota Supra for Shane Lee. [1] The team shut down before the start of the 2020 season. The assets of H2 Motorsports were purchased by Sam Hunt Racing for the 2020 season.

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Founder

Founder Matt Hurley was born April 5, 1996. Hurley graduated from Cypress Lake High School in Fort Myers, Florida, [2] and claims to have worked at least 40 hours per week since he was 14 years old. [3] Hurley once described himself as an "...investor, entrepreneur, and political hack..." [4]

Hurley founded H2 Motorsports [5] and based it in Mooresville, North Carolina. [6] H2's primary sponsor was Circuit City. [7] An entrepreneur, Hurley has started additional businesses such as H2 Innovation Center, and Youngbloods, Inc., a private holding company which later changed its name to the H2 Organization. [3] [8] Hurley co-founded Torchlight Productions, a website design and development firm at the age of 15. [2]

Xfinity Series

The team announced on May 23, 2019, that they would attempt twenty races with Lee in the No. 28 Toyota Supra, beginning at Iowa in June with Circuit City as the sponsor for all races. [9] In late summer 2019, it was revealed that Lee was signed for all of 2020, and that depending on sponsorship, the team could expand to two cars for 2020. [10]

Due to concerns that their cars would not be ready in time for the three road course races in August with being a new team, H2 decided to skip those races (at Watkins Glen, Mid-Ohio, and Road America) and better prepare for the upcoming oval races. [11]

Before the race at Darlington in September, they released Lee due to what they deemed a lack of performance, who the team released on August 28, 2019, [12] after less than 3 months with the team [13] and despite the fact that he finished in the top 21 in all but one of his races, and had great runs at both Daytona (before crashing in "the big one") and Iowa, where he finished in the top 10. No replacement driver was ever announced and the team didn't attempt any of the remaining races of the 2019 season. During the offseason it was announced that the team would be shutting down. The remaining assets were sold to Sam Hunt Racing for the upcoming 2020 season.

Car No. 28 results

YearDriverNo.Make123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233NXSCPts
2019 Shane Lee 28 Toyota DAY ATL LVS PHO CAL TEX BRI RCH TAL DOV CLT POC MCH IOW
18		 CHI
18		 DAY
21		 KEN
16		 NHA
33		 IOW
7		 GLN MOH BRI
13		 ROA DAR IND LVS RCH CLT DOV KAN TEX PHO HOM 36th217

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