Roehrig Motorsports

Roehrig Motorsports
Owner(s)	Kurt Roehrig
Series	Winston Cup Series ; Craftsman Truck Series
Manufacturer	Chevrolet ; Ford ; Dodge ; Pontiac
Opened	1995
Closed	2000
Career
Debut	1995 Skoal Bandit Copper World Classic (Phoenix)
Latest race	1999 Save Mart/Kragen 350 (Sonoma)
Races competed	96
Drivers' Championships	0
Race victories	4 (Truck Series)
Pole positions	3

Last updated April 09, 2024

Roehrig Motorsports is a former auto racing team that competed part-time in the NASCAR Winston Cup and full-time in the Craftsman Truck Series from 1995 to 1999. It was owned by longtime automotive engineer Kurt Roehrig and his wife Carmela. In 1999 and 2000, the team entered a partnership with track star Jackie Joyner-Kersee and her husband to field a Winston Cup team in a venture called Joyner-Kersee-Roehrig Motorsports.

Winston Cup Series

Roehrig Motorsports entered Winston Cup competition at the inaugural 1998 Las Vegas 400, entering the #19 Yellow Freight Ford Taurus with Tony Raines driving, but did not qualify.^[1]^[2] The combination made two more attempts at California Speedway and Michigan International Speedway but also failed to qualify for both events.^[2] Roehrig Motorsports made its official race debut at the Save Mart/Kragen 350 at Sears Point Raceway with team shop foreman Tom Hubert driving and Bradford White sponsoring. They qualified tenth but finished forty-first after dropping out with transmission issues after seventy-eight laps.^[2]^[3] Following this race, Roehrig made two more Cup attempts with Yellow Freight sponsorship, with Robby Gordon at the Brickyard 400 and with Raines at Michigan, but failed to qualify for both events.^[2]

Roehrig returned to Cup competition in 1999 at the Las Vegas 400 with Hubert and Bradford White, qualifying fourth but finishing twenty-eighth, five laps down.^[4]^[5] Their next appearance came at Sonoma, this time fielding a Pontiac Grand Prix for Hubert, starting thirtieth and finishing thirty-third.^[6]^[5] At the next road course race at the 1999 Frontier @ the Glen, the team leased the #19 to Paul Gentilozzi after he wrecked the #92 Homelink Ford he originally planned to enter, but the effort did not qualify. Roehrig made his final Cup attempt of 1999 with Hubert the following week but Michigan, but failed to qualify.

Late in 1999, Roehrig formed a partnership with trainer Bob Kersee and his wife Jackie Joyner-Kersee to field a Winston Cup team for the 2000 season. The effort, known as Joyner-Kersee-Roehrig Motorsports, made its only appearance at the 2000 Bud Shootout, running the #34 Chevrolet with David Green driving and Kendall Motor Oil and Sunoco sponsoring, finishing twelfth. Green and the team were entered in the 2000 Daytona 500 but withdrew their entry after time trials, and after the team was unable to find sponsorship, did not make an appearance in Winston Cup again.

Car No. 19 Results

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	NWCS	Pts
1998	Tony Raines	19	Ford	DAY	CAR	LVS DNQ	ATL	DAR	BRI	TEX	MAR	TAL	CAL DNQ	CLT	DOV	RCH	MCH DNQ	POC													CLT DNQ	TAL	DAY	PHO	CAR	ATL		53rd	152
	Tom Hubert																		SON 41	NHA	POC
	Robby Gordon																					IND DNQ	GLN	MCH	BRI	NHA	DAR	RCH	DOV	MAR	CLT	TAL	DAY	PHO	CAR	ATL
1999	Tom Hubert			DAY	CAR	LVS 28	ATL	DAR	TEX	BRI	MAR	TAL	CAL	RCH	CLT	DOV	MCH	POC																				53rd	187
	Tom Hubert		Pontiac																SON 33	DAY	NHA	POC	IND		MCH DNQ	BRI	DAR	RCH	NHA	DOV	MAR	CLT	TAL	CAR	PHO	HOM	ATL
	Paul Gentilozzi		Pontiac																					GLN DNQ
2000	David Green	34	Chevy	DAY Wth	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	BRI	TEX	MAR	TAL	CAL	RCH	CLT	DOV	MCH	POC	SON	DAY	NHA	POC	IND	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	NHA	DOV	MAR	CLT	TAL	CAR	PHO	HOM	ATL	N/A	-

Craftsman Truck Series

Truck #18 History

Roehrig Motorsports debuted in the inaugural Craftsman Truck Series race, the 1995 Copper World Classic. Johnny Benson qualified the #18 Hella Lights/Performance Friction Chevrolet C/K fourth and finished tenth. Benson made six more starts that season with Performance Friction sponsorship, his best being a second at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Wally Dallenbach Jr. and Davy Jones made starts at Sonoma and Heartland Park Topeka, respectively, with Dallenbach finishing second in his lone start. Roehrig made another attempt at a part-time schedule with the #18 in 1996, starting with Benson who brought along Pennzoil sponsorship and finished in the top ten in all four of his starts, winning one pole. Along with Benson, David Green, Steve Park, and Robby Gordon all made a series of one-off starts in the truck, with Park and Gordon each earning a top-ten finish.

In 1997. Roehrig attempted a full-time schedule in the #18 with Michael Dokken driving with sponsorship from Dana Corporation. Despite a pole position early in the season and two top-five finishes, Dokken struggled with consistency and was released midway through the season. He was replaced with a rotation of replacement drivers including Tom Hubert, Kevin Cywinski, Ted Christopher, and Jerry Marquis along with Benson and Gordon. Hubert recorded the highest finish of the year with a 2nd place finish at Sonoma Raceway. The #18 team did not return for 1998.

Truck No. 18 results

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
1995	Johnny Benson Jr.	18	Chevy	PHO 10	TUS	SGS	MMR	POR	EVG	I70	LVL	BRI	MLW 7	CNS		IRP 2	FLM	RCH 11	MAR 3	NWS DNQ		MMR 10	PHO 17
	Davy Jones														HPT 28
	Wally Dallenbach Jr.																				SON 2
1996	Johnny Benson Jr.			HOM	PHO	POR	EVG	TUS	CNS	HPT 6	BRI	NZH 6	MLW	LVL	I70								NWS 7	SON	MMR	PHO 2
	David Green															IRP 34	FLM	GLN	NSV	RCH
	Steve Park																				NHA 4
	Michael Dokken																					MAR 15
	Robby Gordon																										LVS 6
1997	Michael Dokken			WDW 35
	Michael Dokken		Dodge		TUS 13*	HOM 35	PHO 28	POR 29	EVG 3	I70 26	NHA 31	TEX 24	BRI 23	NZH 5	MLW 32	LVL 17				FLM 22
	Tom Hubert																CNS 23	HPT 31			NSV 28				SON 2			PHO 11
	Kevin Cywinski																		IRP 20							MMR 15			LVS DNQ
	Ted Christopher																					GLN 7
	Jerry Marquis																						RCH 28
	Johnny Benson Jr.																							MAR 34
	Robby Gordon																										CAL 30

Truck #19 History

Roehrig Motorsports debuted the #19 Dodge Ram in 1997 with rookie Tony Raines and sponsorship from Pennzoil. After failing to qualify for two of the first four races, Raines won his first career race at I-70 Speedway and had seven top-ten finishes, ending the season fifteenth in the championship standings and third in the Rookie of the Year competition. The team switched to Ford in 1998, and Raines won three additional races and finished a career-best fifth in points. Following the team's decision to focus on its Winston Cup operation, the Craftsman Truck team closed its doors.

Truck No. 19 results

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	NCTC	Pts
1997	Tony Raines	19	Dodge	WDW DNQ	TUS 15	HOM 30	PHO DNQ	POR 7	EVG 18	I70 1^*	NHA 34	TEX 32	BRI 22	NZH 10	MLW 7	LVL 4	CNS 9	HPT 10	IRP 27	FLM 16	NSV 11	GLN 33	RCH 22	MAR 23	SON 24	MMR 11	CAL 13	PHO 36	LVS 11
1998	Tony Raines	19	Ford	WDW 16	HOM 25	PHO 9	POR 5	EVG 18	I70 1^*	GLN 12	TEX 1	BRI 6	MLW 15	NZH 7	CAL 17	PPR 2	IRP 4	NHA 5	FLM 17	NSV 2	HPT 14	LVL 1	RCH 28	MEM 25	GTY 32	MAR 7	SON 3	MMR 10	PHO 10	LVS 22

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References

↑ "1998 Las Vegas 400." Racing-Reference.info. Web. 1 Nov. 2015.
1 2 3 4 "Car Number 19 in 1998." Racing-Reference.info. Web. 1 Nov. 2015.
↑ "1998 Save Mart / Kragen 350." – Racing-Reference.info. Web. 1 Nov. 2015.
↑ "1999 Las Vegas 400." – Racing-Reference.info. Web. 1 Nov. 2015.
1 2 "Car Number 19 in 1999." Racing-Reference.info. Web. 1 Nov. 2015
↑ "1999 Save Mart / Kragen 350." – Racing-Reference.info. Web. 1 Nov. 2015.

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[1998LasVegasResults-1] "1998 Las Vegas 400." Racing-Reference.info. Web. 1 Nov. 2015.

[Car19Results1998-2] 1 2 3 4 "Car Number 19 in 1998." Racing-Reference.info. Web. 1 Nov. 2015.

[1998SonomaResults-3] "1998 Save Mart / Kragen 350." – Racing-Reference.info. Web. 1 Nov. 2015.

[1999LasVegasResults-4] "1999 Las Vegas 400." – Racing-Reference.info. Web. 1 Nov. 2015.

[Car19Results1999-5] 1 2 "Car Number 19 in 1999." Racing-Reference.info. Web. 1 Nov. 2015

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