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Owner(s) | Cal Wells |
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Base | Charlotte, North Carolina |
Series | Winston/Nextel Cup Series |
Race drivers | Ricky Craven, Travis Kvapil, Andy Houston, Bobby Hamilton Jr., Scott Pruett, Ron Fellows |
Sponsors | Tide, McDonald's |
Manufacturer | Ford, Pontiac, Chevrolet |
Opened | 1979 |
Closed | 2006 |
Career | |
Drivers' Championships | 0 |
Race victories | 2 |
PPI Motorsports was an American racing team which competed in CART, NASCAR and various off-road racing circuits. The team had one of the few remaining single car operations in NASCAR until 2006.
PPI, short for Precision Preparation, Inc. [1] , was a company founded by team owner Cal Wells in 1979 in Westminster, California. [2]
At the time, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. needed to promote their tough, reliable technology driven line of trucks through participation in Off-Road Championships, the Score Desert Series, including the Baja 500 and Baja 1000, and the Mickey Thompson Off-Road Championship Grand Prix (MTEG Stadium Series). Wells had already been successful in winning Off-Road races in the U.S. and Mexico and Toyota selected him to personally lead their foray into truck racing in the American market. With Off-Road legend Ivan "Ironman" Stewart, internationally successful brothers Steve and Rod Millen and Off Road, IndyCar and NASCAR winner Robby Gordon, PPI and Toyota won 88 races, 11 manufacturer championships including three Baja 1000s, 11 Baja 500s and five mint 400s.[ citation needed ]
The company provided parts for off-road racing teams. [2] Over time, PPI eventually began its own off-road team, with help with Toyota Racing Development. [3] PPI fielded off-road trucks for Mickey Thompson's SCORE series and then later fielded trucks which competed in outdoor events such as the Baja 1000. [4] Notable drivers for PPI include Ivan Stewart [4] and a young Robby Gordon (who also drove in CART for the team in 1998). [5]
In 1995, Wells formed a CART team with Frank Arciero, signing with Toyota in 1996. [6] Their initial driver was Hiro Matsushita. Known as Arciero-Wells, the CART team lasted for 5 years but only a managed a best finish of 4th in 1999 with rookie Cristiano da Matta.[ citation needed ] In 1996, they began the CART season with Jeff Krosnoff driving, but he died in a tragic accident during the Toronto street race. [7] All PPI cars subsequently carried a decal commemorating Krosnoff's memory.[ citation needed ]
After Arciero left in 2000, the team was rebranded as PPI Motorsports, and da Matta gave the team its first (and only) career victory in CART. [8] During this time, the team also ran a program in the Toyota Atlantic series, and had success in 2000 with rookie of the year Dan Wheldon. [9] Following the 2000 season, however, PPI shut down its open-wheel and off-road programs,[ citation needed ] ended its relationship with Toyota, [8] and shifted its focus exclusively on NASCAR.[ citation needed ]
PPI also competed in Toyota Atlantic from 1998 to 2000, winning races with Anthony Lazzaro, Andrew Bordin, and Dan Wheldon. [9] Lazzaro won the championship for the team in 1999. [9]
PPI Motorsports was notable in being the first NASCAR team to require pit crew members to wear helmets before the series mandated wearing helmets starting with the 2002 season.
PPI Motorsports started its first Cup team during the 2000 season with open-wheel and Trans Am standout Scott Pruett behind the wheel of the No.32 Tide-sponsored Ford. The team was hardly a success in its first year, finishing in 37th place and failing to qualify for six races. Pruett was released at the end of the season. [10]
With the team focusing exclusively on NASCAR in 2001, PPI fielded a two-car Winston Cup effort, with Ricky Craven taking over in the 32. [10] Craven had a number of strong races, which he capped giving the team its first career victory at Martinsville in October. He finished 21st in the points standings that year.
Craven ran strong in 2002 and, although he failed to win a race for the team, he managed to improve his point championship standing and finishing 15th overall. This was the team's last season in a Ford, as they switched to Pontiac the next season. [11]
Craven started 2003 the same way, with a strong Top 5 at Rockingham and a famous victory at Darlington, in which he beat Kurt Busch to the finish by 0.002 seconds, which still stands today as one of the smallest margins of victory in NASCAR Cup Series history. It also turned out to be Pontiac's last win in the Winston Cup Series. However, a series of DNF's dropped Craven to 27th in points.
PPI showed clear signs of struggling in 2004 as Craven was unable to give the team a single Top 10 finish through the first 24 races. Wells and Craven parted ways due to lack of results and Busch Series driver Bobby Hamilton Jr. took Craven's place. Hamilton Jr. drove the car for the entire 2005 season. However, he failed to score a Top 10 during the year, and eventually finished 36th. Wells did have some success after replacing Hamilton with road course ringer Ron Fellows at Infineon, with Fellows giving the team an eighth-place finish. Hamilton was replaced by Travis Kvapil, who drove the car for the 2006 season, only to have five DNQ's. Ron Fellows competed in the two road course races at Sonoma and Watkins Glen. After originally finishing 10th at the Glen, Fellows was penalised for skipping a portion of the track and dropped to 32nd.
At the end of the 2006 season, Tide left NASCAR as a full-time sponsor. Unable to find a new sponsor, Wells shut down the team before the 2007 season and sold his owner points to Michael Waltrip Racing.
Later in 2000, PPI started a second Cup Series team with backing from Ronald McDonald House Charities. Truck Series driver Andy Houston was to drive the #96 Ford for five races toward the end of the 2000 season, with the intent being for the team to run the full 2001 schedule.
Houston finished no better than 26th in his five starts, but the team still entered the 2001 season having picked up sponsorship from McDonald's, which had been sponsoring Bill Elliott for the previous several years in his owner-driver venture.
The #96 struggled to find its footing. After qualifying ninth for the Daytona 500, Houston fell two laps down before being collected in a massive wreck on lap 175. He then failed to qualify for the next two races at Rockingham and Las Vegas.
Houston would record his best finish at Martinsville in April, where he finished 17th and was the last car running on the lead lap. Two races later he recorded his second top twenty finish, a 19th place run at California Speedway.
After that, Houston's performance declined significantly. He failed to qualify for the races at Michigan, Pocono, and Sears Point in June, and the #96 was entered in neither the July New Hampshire or Pocono races nor the road course event at Watkins Glen. Houston also missed the Southern 500 at Darlington, having failed to qualify for either event there, and the fall race at Richmond.
In the races he did manage to qualify for, Houston also struggled to perform. Although he qualified well again at Daytona in July, he was again collected in a crash. He qualified in the top 15 at both Chicagoland and Indianapolis, but Houston's engine blew three laps into the former event and he crashed on the opening lap in the latter. In all three of these races, Houston finished 43rd and last. In fact, after his top 20 run at California, Houston finished 40th or worse seven times.
McDonald's eventually cooled to the idea of continuing to sponsor Houston because of his poor performances and during the week leading up to the race at Indianapolis, they announced that they would be dropping their full-time sponsorship of the #96 after the inaugural race at Kansas in the fall. Houston finished eighteenth in that race, failing to finish on the lead lap. He was released following the event as no sponsor signed on to replace McDonald's, resulting in the team being shut down.
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Year | Chassis | Engine | Drivers | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Pts Pos | Pos |
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Arciero Racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1982 | PHX | ATL | MIL | CLE | MCH | MIL | POC | RIV | ROA | MCH | PHX | ||||||||||||||||
Eagle 81 | Chevy V8 | ![]() | 66 | 24 | 19 | 24 | 43 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
1983 | ATL | INDY | MIL | CLE | MCH | ROA | POC | RIV | MDO | MCH | CPL | LAG | PHX | ||||||||||||||
Penske PC-10/82 | Cosworth DFX | ![]() | 66 | 4 | DNQ | 9 | 2 | 33 | 14 | 14 | 27 | 24 | 14 | 5 | 20 | 7 | 11th | 48 | |||||||||
![]() | 22 | 50th | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
1984 | LBH | PHX | INDY | MIL | POR | MEA | CLE | MCH | ROA | POC | MDO | SAN | MCH | PHX | LAG | CPL | |||||||||||
Penske PC-10/82 | Cosworth DFX | ![]() | 11 | 8 | 14 | DNQ | DNQ | 9 | 29th | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
March 84C | 22 | 26 | 14 | 18 | 13 | 24 | 18 | 18 | 26 | ||||||||||||||||||
1985 | LBH | INDY | MIL | POR | MEA | CLE | MCH | ROA | POC | MDO | SAN | MCH | LAG | PHX | MIA | ||||||||||||
Lola T900 | Cosworth DFX | ![]() | 12 | 16 | DNS | 26 | 16 | 24 | DNQ | 21st | 15 | ||||||||||||||||
March 85C | 14 | 24 | 5 | 17 | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Lola T900 | ![]() | 17 | 41st | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | 24 | DNQ | 22 | 22 | 20 | 14 | 20 | 13 | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
1986 | PHX | LBH | INDY | MIL | POR | MEA | CLE | TOR | MCH | POC | MDO | SAN | MCH | ROA | LAG | PHX | MIA | ||||||||||
March 86C | Cosworth DFX | ![]() | 12 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 21 | 19 | 20th | 21 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 22 | 15 | 13 | DNQ | 37th | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
![]() | 17 | 44th | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() | 27 | 49th | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
1987 | LBH | PHX | INDY | MIL | POR | MEA | CLE | TOR | MCH | POC | ROA | MDO | NAZ | LAG | MIA | ||||||||||||
March 87C | Cosworth DFX | ![]() | 12 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 16 | 24 | 11 | 6 | 14 | 8 | 24 | 13 | 12th | 42 | |||||||||
![]() | 23 | DNQ | 34th | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1988 | PHX | LBH | INDY | MIL | POR | CLE | TOR | MEA | MCH | POC | MDO | ROA | NAZ | LAG | MIA | ||||||||||||
March 88C | Cosworth DFX | ![]() | 12 | 20 | 12 | DNQ | 14 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 11th | 44 | |||||||
![]() | DNQ | NC | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
March 87C | ![]() | 43 | 17 | 40th | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1989 | PHX | LBH | INDY | MIL | DET | POR | CLE | MEA | TOR | MCH | POC | MDO | ROA | NAZ | LAG | ||||||||||||
Penske PC-17/88 | Cosworth DFX | ![]() | 12 | 20 | 23 | 20 | 17 | 21st | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
![]() | 20 | 21 | 26 | 24 | 8 | 20 | 12 | 21 | 24th | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
![]() | 28 | 25th | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
1990 | PHX | LBH | INDY | MIL | DET | POR | CLE | MEA | TOR | MCH | DEN | VAN | MDO | ROA | NAZ | LAG | |||||||||||
Penske PC-17/88 | Buick 3300 V6 tc | ![]() | 12 | 21 | 22 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 16 | 21 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 16 | 17 | 28 | 21 | 20 | 28th | 2 | |||||||
Cosworth DFX | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Buick 3300 V6 tc | ![]() | DNQ | NC | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | DNQ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cosworth DFX | ![]() | 24 | 25 | 42nd | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Buick 3300 V6 tc | ![]() | 26 | 30th | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1991 | SFR | LBH | PHX | INDY | MIL | DET | POR | CLE | MEA | TOR | MCH | DEN | VAN | MDO | ROA | NAZ | LAG | ||||||||||
Penske PC-17/88 | Buick 3300 V6 tc | ![]() | 12 | 20 | 21 | 15 | DNQ | 38th | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
![]() | 24 | 20 | 31st | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() | 14 | 26th | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lola T89/00 | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() | 21 | 19 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 21 | 21 | 13 | 21 | 18th | 10 | |||||||||||||||
1992 | SFR | PHX | LBH | INDY | DET | POR | MIL | NHA | TOR | MCH | CLE | ROA | VAN | MDO | NAZ | LAG | |||||||||||
Lola T90/00 | Buick 3300 V6 tc | ![]() | 30 | 12 | 20 | 21 | DNQ | 35th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
![]() | DNQ | NC | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lola T91/00 | ![]() | 34 | DNQ | 34th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | 13 | 19 | 19 | 15 | 13 | 12 | |||||||||||||||||||||
![]() | 22 | 22 | 52nd | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() | 12 | 23 | 22 | 36th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() | 28 | 58th | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
1993 | SFR | PHX | LBH | INDY | MIL | DET | POR | CLE | TOR | MCH | NHA | ROA | VAN | MDO | NAZ | LAG | |||||||||||
Penske 21/92 | Chevrolet 265B | ![]() | 25 | 18 | 9 | 10 | DNQ | 27 | 29 | 15 | 23 | 24 | 22 | 19 | 12 | 17 | 22nd | 8 | |||||||||
1994 | SFR | PHX | LBH | INDY | MIL | DET | POR | CLE | TOR | MCH | MDO | NHA | VAN | ROA | NAZ | LAG | |||||||||||
Lola T94/00 | Ford XB V8 t | ![]() | 25 | DNQ | 16 | 23 | 27 | 20 | 24 | 20 | 26 | 15 | 11 | DNQ | 16 | 16 | 21 | 17 | 24 | 29th | 2 | ||||||
Arciero-Wells Racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1995 | MIA | SFR | PHX | LBH | NAZ | INDY | MIL | DET | POR | ROA | TOR | CLE | MCH | MDO | NHA | VAN | LAG | ||||||||||
Reynard 94i | Ford XB | ![]() | 25 | 26 | 11 | 22 | 19 | DNS | 10 | 19 | 14 | 17 | 13 | 19 | 13 | 20 | 15 | 22 | 17 | 22 | 28th | 5 | |||||
1996 | MIA | RIO | SFR | LBH | NAZ | 500 | MIL | DET | POR | CLE | TOR | MCH | MDO | ROA | VAN | LAG | |||||||||||
Reynard 96i | Toyota | ![]() | 25 | 22 | 26 | 18 | 26 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 15 | 17 | 16 | 16 1 | 35th | 0 | |||||||||||
![]() | 24 | 9 | 22 | 27th | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1997 | MIA | SFR | LBH | NAZ | RIO | GAT | MIL | DET | POR | CLE | TOR | MCH | MDO | ROA | VAN | LAG | FON | ||||||||||
Reynard 97i | Toyota | ![]() | 24 | 21 | 25 | 20 | 25 | 23 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 15 | 20 | 22 | 9 | 19 | 24 | 14 | 28 | 23 | 27th | 4 | |||||
![]() | 25 | 19 | 14 | 25 | 22 | 13 | 26 | 19 | 11 | 28 | 27 | 15 | 8 | 14 | 15 | 20 | 14 | 12 | 24th | 8 | |||||||
1998 | MIA | MOT | LBH | NAZ | RIO | GAT | MIL | DET | POR | CLE | TOR | MCH | MDO | ROA | VAN | LAG | HOU | SFR | FON | ||||||||
Reynard 98i | Toyota | ![]() | 24 | 23 | 16 | 19 | 15 | 30th | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
![]() | 7 | 13 | 20 | 14 | 23 | 23 | 13 | 27 | 11 | 12 | 23 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 23rd | 13 | ||||||||||
![]() | 25 | 26 | 13 | 24 | 14 | 28 | 22 | 16 | 18 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 16 | 21st | 25 | |||||
1999 | MIA | MOT | LBH | NAZ | RIO | GAT | MIL | POR | CLE | ROA | TOR | MCH | DET | MDO | CHI | VAN | LAG | HOU | SRF | FON | |||||||
Reynard 99i | Toyota | ![]() | 24 | 22 | 21 | 15 | 10 | 24 | 14 | 17 | 24 | 17 | 25 | 7 | 14 | 8 | 17 | 20 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 22 | 19th | 28 | ||
![]() | 25 | 14 | 25 | 20 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 11 | 11 | 20 | 21 | 24 | 17 | 19 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 22 | 11 | 13 | 23 | 18th | 32 | ||||
PPI/Wells Racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2000 | MIA | LBH | RIO | MOT | NAZ | MIL | DET | POR | CLE | TOR | MCH | CHI | MDO | ROA | VAN | LAG | GAT | HOU | SRF | FON | |||||||
Reynard 2Ki | Toyota RVA | ![]() | 96 | 19 | 6 | 25 | 24 | 9 | 19 | 3 | 8 | 23 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 17 | 5 | 9 | 9 2 | 20 | 15th | 60 | ||
![]() | 97 | 12 | 25 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 23 | 5 | 3 | 4* | 17 | 1 | 17 | 13 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 14 | 4 | 25 | 10th | 112 | ||||
Arciero-Blair Racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2000 | MIA | LBH | RIO | MOT | NAZ | MIL | DET | POR | CLE | TOR | MCH | CHI | MDO | ROA | VAN | LAG | GAT | HOU | SRF | FON | |||||||
Reynard 2Ki | Mercedes-Benz IC108E V8 t | ![]() | 25 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 23 | 15 | 21 | 22 | 14 | 20 | 12 | 11 | 17 | 25 | 24 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 22 | 12 | DNS | 27th | 6 | ||
2001 | MTY | LBH | TEX | NAZ | MOT | MIL | DET | POR | CLE | TOR | MCH | CHI | MDO | ROA | VAN | LAU | ROC | HOU | LAG | SRF | FON | ||||||
Lola B2K/00 | Phoenix | ![]() | 25 | 28 | 21 | C 3 | 17 | 25th | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
Ford XF V8 t | 23 | 23 | 4 | 19 | 25 | 15 | 25 | 25 | 18 | 21 | 16 | 24 | |||||||||||||||
![]() | 13 | 9 | 29th | 4 |
# | Season | Date | Sanction | Track | No. | Winning Driver | Chassis | Engine | Tire | Grid | Laps Led | Victory Margin |
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1 [12] | 2000 | July 30 | CART | Chicago Motor Speedway | 97 | ![]() | Reynard 2Ki | Toyota RVA | Firestone | 5 | 51 | 1.690 sec |
NASCAR Winston/Nextel Cup Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Driver | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | NSCC | Pts! | |||
2000 | Scott Pruett | 32 | Ford | DAY 19 | CAR DNQ | LVS 42 | ATL 41 | DAR DNQ | BRI DNQ | TEX 27 | MAR 32 | TAL 20 | CAL 34 | RCH 27 | CLT 41 | DOV 38 | MCH 19 | POC 31 | SON 39 | DAY 40 | NHA 30 | POC 36 | IND 10 | GLN DNQ | MCH 17 | BRI 38 | DAR 24 | RCH 16 | NHA 41 | DOV 42 | MAR DNQ | CLT DNQ | TAL 39 | CAR 30 | PHO 34 | HOM 43 | ATL 32 | 37th | 1929 | |||||
2001 | Ricky Craven | DAY 23 | CAR 5 | LVS 41 | ATL 13 | DAR 27 | BRI 23 | TEX 27 | MAR 28 | TAL 15 | CAL 41 | RCH 43 | CLT 31 | DOV 4 | MCH 35 | POC 43 | SON 16 | DAY 33 | CHI 21 | NHA 38 | POC 10 | IND 9 | GLN 35 | MCH 2 | BRI 38 | DAR 18 | RCH 11 | DOV 26 | KAN 21 | CLT 35 | MAR 1* | TAL 24 | PHO 8 | CAR 12 | HOM 30 | ATL 38 | NHA 38 | 21st | 3379 | |||||
2002 | DAY 17 | CAR 5 | LVS 31 | ATL 5 | DAR 41 | BRI 13 | TEX 14 | MAR 30 | TAL 18 | CAL 37 | RCH 9 | CLT 3 | DOV 7 | POC 14 | MCH 15 | SON 19 | DAY 23 | CHI 20 | NHA 21 | POC 17 | IND 33 | GLN 34 | MCH 17 | BRI 16 | DAR 14 | RCH 21 | NHA 6 | DOV 9 | KAN 38 | TAL 15 | CLT 36 | MAR 7 | ATL 21 | CAR 9 | PHO 34 | HOM 24 | 15th | 3888 | ||||||
2003 | Pontiac | DAY 26 | CAR 4 | LVS 36 | ATL 12 | DAR 1 | BRI 15 | TEX 21 | TAL 4 | MAR 27 | CAL 15 | RCH 38 | CLT 38 | DOV 8 | POC 10 | MCH 15 | SON 21 | DAY 43 | CHI 25 | NHA 21 | POC 40 | IND 17 | GLN 28 | MCH 40 | BRI 8 | DAR 8 | RCH 30 | NHA 38 | DOV 40 | TAL 8 | KAN 41 | CLT 19 | MAR 32 | ATL 35 | PHO 38 | CAR 39 | HOM 29 | 27th | 3334 | |||||
2004 | Chevy | DAY 23 | CAR 35 | LVS 25 | ATL 22 | DAR 36 | BRI 22 | TEX 28 | MAR 16 | TAL 43 | CAL 18 | RCH 26 | CLT 24 | DOV 16 | POC 34 | MCH 29 | SON 16 | DAY 38 | CHI 38 | NHA 38 | POC 20 | IND 24 | GLN 32 | MCH 35 | BRI 34 | NHA 17 | 34th | 2309 | ||||||||||||||||
Bobby Hamilton Jr. | CAL 38 | RCH 11 | DOV 29 | TAL 43 | KAN 23 | CLT 15 | MAR 36 | ATL 38 | PHO 16 | DAR 31 | HOM 21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2005 | DAY 35 | CAL 20 | LVS 11 | ATL 38 | BRI 39 | MAR 40 | TEX 39 | PHO 35 | TAL 40 | DAR 30 | RCH 36 | CLT DNQ | DOV 21 | POC 23 | MCH 31 | DAY 38 | CHI 21 | NHA 28 | POC 23 | IND 39 | MCH 35 | BRI 35 | CAL 23 | RCH 43 | NHA 29 | DOV 33 | TAL DNQ | KAN 43 | CLT 41 | MAR 30 | ATL DNQ | TEX 38 | PHO 35 | HOM 36 | 37th | 2348 | ||||||||
Ron Fellows | SON 8 | GLN 25 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006 | Travis Kvapil | DAY 27 | CAL DNQ | LVS 39 | ATL DNQ | BRI 40 | MAR 34 | TEX 27 | PHO 21 | TAL 19 | RCH 27 | DAR 30 | CLT 22 | DOV 29 | POC 19 | MCH 21 | DAY 30 | CHI 37 | NHA 35 | POC 27 | IND 25 | MCH 21 | BRI 20 | CAL 34 | RCH 28 | NHA 27 | DOV 39 | KAN 19 | TAL DNQ | CLT 20 | MAR 40 | ATL 32 | TEX 28 | PHO 30 | HOM 27 | 37th | 2648 | |||||||
Ron Fellows | SON 37 | GLN 32 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source: [13] |
NASCAR Winston Cup Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Driver | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | NWCC | Pts | |||
2000 | Andy Houston | 96 | Ford | DAY | CAR | LVS | ATL | DAR | BRI | TEX | MAR | TAL | CAL | RCH | CLT | DOV | MCH | POC | SON | DAY | NHA | POC | IND | GLN | MCH 35 | BRI | DAR | RCH | NHA | DOV | MAR | CLT 26 | TAL | CAR 28 | PHO 36 | HOM 42 | ATL | 55th | 314 | |||||
2001 | DAY 38 | CAR DNQ | LVS DNQ | ATL 21 | DAR DNQ | BRI 39 | TEX 32 | MAR 17 | TAL 21 | CAL 19 | RCH 42 | CLT 41 | DOV 23 | MCH DNQ | POC DNQ | SON DNQ | DAY 43 | CHI 43 | NHA | POC | IND 43 | GLN | MCH 31 | BRI 40 | DAR DNQ | RCH DNQ | DOV 40 | KAN 18 | CLT | MAR | TAL | PHO | CAR | HOM | ATL | NHA | 46th | 1187 | ||||||
Source: [13] |
# | Season | Date | Track | No. | Winning Driver | Chassis | Grid | Laps Led | Victory Margin | Report |
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1 [14] | 2001 | October 15 | Martinsville Speedway | 32 | Ricky Craven | Ford | 6 | 94 | 0.141 sec | report |
2 [15] | 2003 | March 16 | Darlington Raceway | 32 | Ricky Craven | Pontiac | 31 | 1 | 0.002 sec | report |
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Shigeaki "Shige" Hattori is a Japanese professional race car driver and team owner based in the United States. As a driver, he competed in the CART and IndyCar Series, and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. He is not related to Naoki Hattori, whom he briefly raced against in CART.
Alex Joseph Barron is an American former race car driver. He began racing CART FedEx World Series Championship cars in 1998 and made his first Indy Racing League Northern Lights Series start in 2001.
Patrick Carpentier is a retired Canadian professional auto racing driver. In the Champ Car World Series and the IndyCar Series, he achieved five wins and 24 podiums, as well as two third place championship finishes in 2002 and 2004. The long-time Champ Car driver switched to the IndyCar Series in 2005, and moved on to Grand Am Road Racing in 2007. After a few NASCAR races in 2007, he moved full-time into the series in 2008. Since 2009, he has only had part-time drives, so became a contractor and renovator in Montreal, trading in real estate in Las Vegas, as well as being a color commentator for television coverage of various racing series. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, driving the No. 32 Ford Fusion for Go FAS Racing. Carpentier is now the president of a home construction firm in Quebec.
Andrew Houston is an American stock car racing spotter and former driver. He is a veteran of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, scoring three wins.
Parnell Velko "P. J." Jones is an American professional racing driver. He has contested in multiple disciplines, including NASCAR, IndyCar, IMSA GT Championship, the American Le Mans Series, USAC, the Chili Bowl, and the Stadium Super Trucks.
Anthony Lazzaro is a NASCAR and sports car racing driver. He is usually classified as a NASCAR road course ringer; however, he has made other starts in the Nextel Cup Series. He also has open-wheel oval racing experience.
The 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 52nd season of professional stock car racing in the United States, and was the 29th modern-era Cup series. The season began on February 13 and ended on November 20. Joe Gibbs Racing driver Bobby Labonte was crowned champion at season's end. The NASCAR Manufacturers' Championship was won by Ford as they captured 14 wins and 234 points to better Pontiac's 11 wins and 213 points. Chevrolet finished third with nine wins and 199 points.
Claude Bourbonnais, is a former driver in the Toyota Atlantic, Indy Lights, and CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1994 CART series with 5 starts. He also raced in the 1997 Indianapolis 500, which by then had become part of the Indy Racing League, completing 9 laps and finishing in 30th position.
Calvin "Cal" Wells III is a businessman and CEO of Legacy Motor Club. The former owner of PPI Motorsports, he later served as the executive vice president of operations at Michael Waltrip Racing, overseeing the day-to-day operations of the organization's three NASCAR Cup Series teams and one Nationwide Series team, until July 2011.
Since its introduction to motorsport in the early 1970s, Toyota has been involved in a number of motorsport activities, most notably in Formula One, NASCAR, IndyCar, sports car racing, various off-road rallies and the WRC. Currently, Toyota participates in the Toyota Racing Series, Super Formula, Formula Three, Formula Drift, NHRA, USAC, Super GT, NASCAR, the WRC and the WEC.
The 1999 Marlboro 500 Presented by Toyota was held on October 31, 1999, at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California as the final showdown of the 1999 CART World Series season. The race was marred by an accident in the early stages of the race which killed Forsythe Racing driver Greg Moore.
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 full-works Dodge and received a same partnership treatment as Penske Racing, Evernham Motorsports, Bill Davis Racing, Melling Racing and Petty Enterprises teams. 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.