HScott Motorsports

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HScott Motorsports
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Owner(s)Harry Scott Jr.
Base Mooresville, North Carolina
Series Sprint Cup Series
Xfinity Series
K&N Pro Series East
ARCA Racing Series
Race driversSprint Cup Series:
Clint Bowyer, Michael Annett, Bobby Labonte, Justin Allgaier, Kyle Larson, Brennan Poole, Justin Marks, Dylan Kwasniewski, Justin Haley, Harrison Burton, Hunter Baize, Tyler Dippel, William Byron, Ben Rhodes
SponsorsSprint Cup Series:
15. 5-Hour Energy, Aaron's, Visine, PEAK, AccuDoc Solutions
46. Pilot Flying J, Allstate Peterbilt, Northland Oil & Lubricants
K&N Pro Series East:
5. Braun Auto
12. DEX Imaging/Konica Minolta
13. Bicycle Playing Cards/Pine Mountain Firelogs
38. East West Marine/TyCar
Manufacturer Chevrolet
Opened 2013
Closed 2016
Career
DebutSprint Cup Series:
2013 Federated Auto Parts 400 (Richmond)
Xfinity Series:
2015 2015 Alert Today Florida 300 (Daytona)
Latest raceSprint Cup Series:
2016 Ford EcoBoost 400 (Homestead)
Xfinity Series:
2015 Ford EcoBoost 300 (Homestead)
Races competedTotal: 351
Sprint Cup Series: 189
Xfinity Series: 33
K&N Pro Series East: 126
ARCA Racing Series: 3
Drivers' Championships Total: 2
Sprint Cup Series: 0
Xfinity Series: 0
K&N Pro Series East: 2
Race victoriesTotal: 11
Sprint Cup Series: 0
Xfinity Series: 1
K&N Pro Series East: 10
Pole positions Total: 11
Sprint Cup Series: 0
Xfinity Series: 0
K&N Pro Series East: 11

HScott Motorsports was an American professional stock car racing team that last competed in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, the Xfinity Series, the K&N Pro Series East and the ARCA Racing Series. The organization was owned by North Carolina businessman Harry Scott Jr., a former owner of the defunct Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series team Turner Scott Motorsports (TSM). Scott was the owner of team sponsor AccuDoc Solutions. [1]

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The Sprint Cup Series team was founded in 1990 as Phoenix Racing by Florida businessman James Finch, and named for his business Phoenix Construction. The organization as currently constituted was formed when Harry Scott purchased Finch's Cup Series team in late 2013, and then took over the Xfinity and K&N Pro Series operations of TSM following the 2014 season. In the Sprint Cup Series, the team last fielded the No. 15 5-Hour Energy/Aaron's/Visine/PEAK Chevrolet SS full-time for Clint Bowyer and the No. 46 Pilot Flying J SS full-time for Michael Annett. Scott also fielded several teams in the K&N Pro Series East in a partnership with driver Justin Marks, winning the 2015 and 2016 Championships. The Xfinity Series program has since been moved to Chip Ganassi Racing.

The team sold their charter in December 2016 and eventually shut down the Cup and K&N teams for 2017. [2] Months later, on August 2 of 2017, Harry Scott Jr. died. [3]

Sprint Cup Series

Car No. 15 history

Following sponsorship struggles, longtime Phoenix Racing owner James Finch sold his Spartanburg, South Carolina-based operation to Harry Scott Jr. in mid-2013, [1] with Finch's last race as an owner at the Atlanta Labor Day Event in September. Scott continued to use the No. 51, Finch's longtime car number.

Ryan Truex, who had driven for Phoenix at Bristol earlier in the year, drove Scott's first race as owner at Richmond, finishing 35th (With sponsor SeaWatch Intl.). Although the team used the old Phoenix Racing number font for the first race, for his second race Scott's ownership was displayed by changing the paint scheme and number style of the car to match those used by Turner Scott Motorsports (Scott's Xfinity series team at the time). In addition, on February 5, 2014, Scott announced that Phoenix Racing would be renamed HScott Motorsports. [4]

Scott's Nationwide Series driver Justin Allgaier drove the car with Brandt Agricultural sponsorship at Chicagoland, Kansas, Talladega and Phoenix. [1] [5]

Kyle Larson, Allgaier's teammate at Turner Scott who was set to take over the No. 42 car the next year at Chip Ganassi Racing, drove the car at Charlotte, Martinsville and Homestead with an inverted white and red Target scheme. [6] He also drove at Texas with Visitdallas.com on the car.

Larson started 21st at Charlotte, but a late engine failure relegated him to a 37th-place finish. [7] Michael McDowell would run the car at New Hampshire (Finished 30th with sponsor SEM Products), and Truex made his third start for the team at his home track Dover (Finished 32nd with sponsor Shooters Sporting Center). Allgaier would have a best finish of 24th at Talladega, while Larson would have the team's best finish a 15th at Homestead, while also leading the team's first lap.

Justin Allgaier at Sonoma in 2015. TSM350 - 2015 - Justin Allgaier - 1 - Stierch.jpg
Justin Allgaier at Sonoma in 2015.

The team announced following the season that Allgaier would drive the No. 51 and compete for Rookie of the Year honors in 2014 with crew chief Steve Addington. Allgaier finished third in the ROTY standings behind Kyle Larson and Austin Dillon and 29th in the standings. His best finish was 15th at Charlotte and Homestead. The team failed to qualify for a single race, the GEICO 500 at Talladega in the fall, due to an unusual qualifying session that also saw another full-time driver also miss the race. The team had Brandt as the primary sponsor for 22 races with Scott's Accu-Doc Solutions being the sponsor for 5 races. The team had sponsors Auto-Owners Insurance, Sherwin-Williams, SEM Products, HendrickCars.com, Carcoon Airflow, Collision Cure Body Werks and Visitdallas.com filling in the rest of the schedule.

Allgaier returned to the team in 2015, with Brandt continuing to sponsor the team. He successfully qualified for the first two races of the season. Allgaier crashed during the 2015 Daytona 500 but rebounded a few weeks later at Phoenix. He was lapped on lap 56 during the 2015 Camping World.com 500 at Phoenix. Despite this, thanks to a strategy call by crew chief Addington, Allgaier got back onto the lead lap and raced his way into the top ten by the time there were 35 laps to go. After contact with Tony Stewart, Allgaier faded in the final 5 laps, finishing 18th. The next week at Fontana, he repeated his Phoenix performance, running as high as 8th and finishing 12th-his best finish at the time. A few weeks later, at Bristol, Allgaier ran well all race, even up in the top 5 at one point. Allgaier ended up finishing 8th, his first Cup top 10, and the first for HScott Motorsports as well. The team's good performance started to fade during the summer and Allgaier finished 30th in points. Also sponsoring the 51 that season was Auto-Owners Insurance, FOE.com, Switch Hitch, Accu-Doc Solutions, SEM products, TradeMark Nitrogen, Flipping Ships, and Texas Lottery.

Clint Bowyer in the No. 15 at Daytona International Speedway in 2016. Clint Bowyer 15 HScott Motorsports Chevrolet.jpg
Clint Bowyer in the No. 15 at Daytona International Speedway in 2016.

Parting ways with HScott Motorsports after the 2015 season, Allgaier took Brandt and returned to the Xfinity Series for JR Motorsports in 2016. Clint Bowyer, who had lost his ride when Michael Waltrip Racing folded with a year remaining on his contract and was already signed to Stewart-Haas Racing for 2017, was signed to a one-year contract to replace him. Carrying over with him was his car number, 15, and his sponsorship deals from 5-hour Energy, Visine, Aaron's and PEAK as per the terms of his original contract at MWR. [8] Scott's own Accu-Doc Solutions was on the car for 4 races.

The team struggled early in the season when the expected help from SHR never materialized. [9] Despite having a rough start to the season, Bowyer turned things around in April when he finished 8th at Bristol. He then finished 7th at Talladega, the best finish for HSM and later followed that with a 9th at Daytona. Even with the terrible start to the season, Bowyer would finish 27th in points (The 15 was 28th in Owner points).

After the season ended, Bowyer announced that he would be suing HScott Motorsports for $2.2 million in prize money and commission. [10] Both parties would settle the dispute a week later. [11] On December 5, with no viable sponsor/driver options for 2017, Harry Scott announced that he had sold the No. 15 charter to Premium Motorsports and closed his operation. [12] One of HScott's cars from the No. 15 team was later purchased by MBM Motorsports in the off-season, in which MBM would use it to participate as a part-time team in the 2017 season.

Car No. 15 results

YearDriverNo.Make123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536OwnersPts
2013* Ryan Truex 51 Chevy DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL MAR TEX KAN RCH TAL DAR CLT DOV POC MCH SON KEN DAY NHA IND POC GLN MCH BRI ATL RCH
35		 DOV
32		30th633
Justin Allgaier CHI
27		 KAN
39		 TAL
24		 PHO
31
Michael McDowell NHA
30
Kyle Larson CLT
37		 MAR
42		 TEX
23		 HOM
15
2014 Justin Allgaier DAY
27		 PHO
30		 LVS
31		 BRI
17		 CAL
28		 MAR
23		 TEX
24		 DAR
23		 RCH
21		 TAL
27		 KAN
36		 CLT
37		 DOV
26		 POC
27		 MCH
16		 SON
33		 KEN
24		 DAY
25		 NHA
37		 IND
27		 POC
16		 GLN
17		 MCH
42		 BRI
19		 ATL
26		 RCH
28		 CHI
27		 NHA
20		 DOV
29		 KAN
41		 CLT
15		 TAL
DNQ		 MAR
17		 TEX
20		 PHO
37		 HOM
15		29th636
2015 DAY
37		 ATL
20		 LVS
31		 PHO
18		 CAL
12		 MAR
42		 TEX
39		 BRI
8		 RCH
18		 TAL
23		 KAN
30		 CLT
43		 DOV
42		 POC
20		 MCH
27		 SON
35		 DAY
18		 KEN
24		 NHA
40		 IND
37		 POC
24		 GLN
19		 MCH
29		 BRI
12		 DAR
33		 RCH
25		 CHI
23		 NHA
39		 DOV
27		 CLT
40		 KAN
26		 TAL
42		 MAR
13		 TEX
28		 PHO
17		 HOM
36		30th588
2016 Clint Bowyer 15 DAY
33		 ATL
35		 LVS
22		 PHO
31		 CAL
18		 MAR
25		 TEX
38		 BRI
8		 RCH
33		 TAL
7		 KAN
19		 DOV
12		 CLT
23		 POC
18		 MCH
23		 SON
40		 DAY
9		 KEN
23		 NHA
24		 IND
21		 POC
26		 GLN
18		 BRI
31		 MCH
40		 DAR
22		 RCH
22		 CHI
22		 NHA
22		 DOV
24		 CLT
17		 KAN
26		 TAL
18		 MAR
28		 TEX
25		 PHO
24		 HOM
23		28th628

Car No. 46 history

It was announced prior to the 2014 season that former Phoenix Racing owner James Finch would return to field a part-time entry numbered 52 with HScott for Bobby Labonte, beginning with the Daytona 500. [13] Labonte ran the second HScott car during preseason Daytona testing using Scott's TSM number style, [14] then used Finch's traditional Phoenix Racing number style and paint scheme during the Daytona 500. The team picked up sponsorship from the Florida Lottery, and Labonte finished a solid 15th. [15] The team did not run the rest of the season.

Michael Annett's No. 46 at Martinsville Speedway in 2016 Michael annett (27338674540).jpg
Michael Annett's No. 46 at Martinsville Speedway in 2016

In late January 2015 Michael Annett brought his longtime primary sponsor Pilot Flying J, as well as sponsors Cypress Associates, Allstate Peterbilt, Northland Oil & Lubricants, Switch Hitch, Sherwin-Williams, TMC Transportation, Multiprens USA and EFS (Electronic Funds Source), to drive a second HSM car full-time after running his rookie season with Tommy Baldwin Racing. The car number was later revealed to be No. 46 [16] and Jay Guy was announced as crew chief. [17] Annett finished 13th at the season-opening Daytona 500. He failed to qualify for next race at Atlanta, one of 13 drivers to not pass inspection and set a time during qualifying. Shortly after, HScott was given a second chance after Xfinity Series regular Brian Scott gave up his seat in the No. 33 Circle Sport Racing Chevrolet. The car was wrapped in Pilot Flying J colors, and Circle Sport owner Joe Falk was credited with owner's points under NASCAR rules. [18] During the 2015 season, Annett had a rough season and he also missed the fall Talladega race. Other than Daytona, Annett's best finish was 23rd at Bristol, Kansas and Martinsville. Annett finished 36th in points with the 46 finishing 38th in Owner points.

Annett returned for 2016, with primary sponsorship from Pilot Flying J and sponsorship from Allstate Peterbilt, Northland Oil & Lubricants, Multiprens USA and EFS (Electronic Funds Source). At Watkins Glen, the 46 featured the St. Jude Iowa Tournament of Hope. HScott entering into an agreement for a short-term lease of Premium Motorsports' charter, guaranteeing a starting spot for the team and Annett in every race. [19] In July, HSM in an attempt to improve performance hired Mike Hillman Jr. as the 46's crew chief. [20] Annett missed the August Bristol race due to flu-like symptoms and was replaced by Justin Allgaier, who finished 40th after a crash. [21] Annett and HSM struggled all season with a best finish of 20th in July at Daytona and they finished 36th in points. On November 5, Annett and his sponsors announced that they were leaving HSM for JR Motorsports in 2017. [22] HScott Motorsports would shut down in December. [12]

Car No. 46 results

YearDriverNo.Make123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536OwnersPts
2014 Bobby Labonte 52 Chevy DAY
15		 PHO LVS BRI CAL MAR TEX DAR RCH TAL KAN CLT DOV POC MCH SON KEN DAY NHA IND POC GLN MCH BRI ATL RCH CHI NHA DOV KAN CLT TAL MAR TEX PHO HOM 46th54
2015 Michael Annett 46 DAY
13		 ATL
DNQ		 LVS
39		 PHO
42		 CAL
38		 MAR
39		 TEX
40		 BRI
23		 RCH
33		 TAL
29		 KAN
23		 CLT
32		 DOV
41		 POC
34		 MCH
30		 SON
33		 DAY
37		 KEN
30		 NHA
36		 IND
30		 POC
26		 GLN
31		 MCH
35		 BRI
43		 DAR
39		 RCH
43		 CHI
34		 NHA
29		 DOV
37		 CLT
25		 KAN
34		 TAL
DNQ		 MAR
23		 TEX
31		 PHO
32		 HOM
30		38th398
2016 DAY
27		 ATL
30		 LVS
30		 PHO
33		 CAL
29		 MAR
35		 TEX
32		 BRI
31		 RCH
36		 TAL
38		 KAN
32		 DOV
37		 CLT
36		 POC
38		 MCH
28		 SON
36		 DAY
20		 KEN
26		 NHA
38		 IND
28		 POC
29		 GLN
37		 MCH
33		 DAR
28		 RCH
31		 CHI
33		 NHA
40		 DOV
33		 CLT
24		 KAN
32		 TAL
33		 MAR
35		 TEX
32		 PHO
26		 HOM
28		36th329
Justin Allgaier BRI
40

Xfinity Series

HScott Motorsports with Chip Ganassi

Car No. 42 history

The No. 42, driven by Justin Marks, at Road America in 2015 42 Justin Marks 2015 Road America.jpg
The No. 42, driven by Justin Marks, at Road America in 2015

Following financial issues with co-owner Steve Turner that led to the dissolution of Turner Scott Motorsports, Scott found a new partner in the team, Chip Ganassi (whose drivers Kyle Larson and Dylan Kwasniewski drove for TSM), to field a single Xfinity Series entry under the name HScott Motorsports with Chip Ganassi. The team (led by crew chief Mike Shiplett) ran out of the Chip Ganassi Racing shop, with Larson, [23] Brennan Poole, [24] and Justin Marks sharing the ride. Kwasniewski did not return to the team due to lack of sponsorship. [25] Larson began with an eighth-place finish at the season opener at Daytona. Poole made his Xfinity Series debut at Las Vegas, finishing 9th. The team had some struggles during this season, but Larson managed to win the season finale at Homestead, after leading 118 laps and passing Austin Dillon with four laps to go. [26] Larson had sponsorship during the season from Eneos (8 races), ParkerStore (2 races), Crest (2 races), Accu-Doc Solutions and Dixie Chopper/Big Machine Records. Larson would also finish the season with four Top 5s and nine Top 10s while leading 175 laps. Poole would run 17 races with DC Solar sponsorship and he had Top 10s at Las Vegas (9th) and Loudon (10th). Marks would run the road course races at Mid-Ohio (Linksys sponsored, finished 15th) and Road America (Ganassi Sound Garage sponsored, finished 7th). The 42 would finish 15th in Owners points.

The team became fully operated by Ganassi for 2016. [27]

K&N Pro Series

William Byron at Sonoma in the K&N Pro Series West in 2015. Carneros 200 - William Byron - 2 - Sarah Stierch.jpg
William Byron at Sonoma in the K&N Pro Series West in 2015.

For 2015, Harry Scott Jr. took control of the K&N Pro Series East operation of the now-defunct Turner Scott Motorsports. Scott partnered with Justin Marks to field five Chevrolet teams under the name HScott Motorsports with Justin Marks with returning driver Scott Heckert (#34 Project Lifesaver) and rookies William Byron (#9 Liberty University), J. J. Haley (#5 Braun Auto), and Dalton Sargeant (#51 Galt). [23] Following his win at the Chili Bowl Midget Nationals, 22-year-old Rico Abreu was signed to drive the team's 98 car (Accu-Doc Solutions/GoPro Motorplex) in January 2015. [28] [29] Byron scored four wins and three poles en route to the 2015 series championship. [30] Heckert (2 wins/2 poles) finished 2nd in points, Sargeant finished 4th in points, Abreu (1 win/3 poles) finished 5th in points and Haley finished 6th in points.

2015 featured HScott Motorsports with Justin Marks sending three Chevrolet teams (#52 Galt- Dalton Sargeant, #91 Liberty University- William Byron, #05 Braun Auto Group- J.J. Haley) to compete in the K&N Pro Series West at Sonoma and Phoenix. Respectively Sargeant would finish 2nd/4th, Byron would finish 5th/2nd and Haley would finish 3rd/21st along with winning the pole at Phoenix. [31]

In 2016, the East program added Harrison Burton, the son of NASCAR on NBC commentator and former driver Jeff Burton, who began driving the No. 12 DEX Imaging/Konica Minolta Chevrolet for the team. [32]

The team added Tyler Dippel (#38 East West Marine/TyCar) and Hunter Baize (#13 Bicycle Playing Cards/Pine Mountain Firelogs), who competed for Rookie of the Year alongside Burton. Haley (#5 Braun Auto Group) returned in 2016 [33] and ended the year as the 2016 series champion after winning two races, two poles with 13 Top 5s and finishing in the top ten in all 14 races, the only driver to do so in series history. [34] Dippel (1 win) finished 3rd in points, Baize finished 4th in points and Burton (1 pole) finished 7th in points.

On December 5, 2016, HScott Motorsports announced that with no viable driver/sponsor options for 2017 that it was closing its Cup operation. In conjunction with that the K&N operation also shut down. [35] [36]

ARCA Racing Series

In 2015, HSM would field J.J. Haley in a limited schedule in the No. 74 Braun Auto Group/BraunAbility Chevrolet in the ARCA Racing Series. He would run at IRP and twice at Salem Speedway. The team's best start was a 2nd at Salem with a best finish of 4th happening at Salem and IRP.

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The NASCAR operation of Chip Ganassi Racing was established in 1989 by Cuban-American businessman Felix Sabates. The team was known as SABCO Racing, formed after Sabates purchased an R&D team from Hendrick Motorsports. The team was renamed Team SABCO in 1996. In 2001, Ganassi bought 80% of the ownership interest in the then-two-car team to form Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates; the same year the team switched from Chevrolet to Dodge. In 2009, Ganassi partnered with Dale Earnhardt, Inc. owner Teresa Earnhardt to merge their NASCAR operations into Ganassi's shop and entered under the Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates banner, while returning to Chevrolet equipment. The NASCAR team dropped the Earnhardt name in 2014, and Ganassi revealed that Teresa was never truly involved with the team. Rob Kauffman, chairman of the Race Team Alliance, purchased a stake in the team in 2015. The NASCAR program has fielded full-time entries for notable drivers including Kyle Petty, Joe Nemechek, Sterling Marlin, Jimmy Spencer, Juan Pablo Montoya, Jamie McMurray, Kyle Larson, Kurt Busch, and Ross Chastain. After already having his name removed from the team previously, at the end of the 2019 season, Sabates announced his retirement as a co-owner from the team, taking effect after the 2020 season.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series</span> 40th season of second-tier NASCAR Xfinity Series

The 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series was the 40th season of the NASCAR Xfinity Series, a stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States. The season began at Daytona International Speedway with the Beef. It's What's for Dinner. 300 on February 13. The regular season ended with the Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway on September 17. The NASCAR playoffs ended with the NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway on November 6.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mike Shiplett</span> NASCAR crew chief

Michael G. Shiplett is an American NASCAR crew chief who works for Richard Childress Racing as the NASCAR Xfinity Series competition director.

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