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EMS-61 It appears that the chassis’ first planned race was the 2004 spring Richmond race, until Kasey Kahne crashed it during qualifying (slide 1). It was fixed and returned at New Hampshire in July, starting 6th and finishing 8th. Next it returned to Richmond, starting 11th and finishing 24th (slide 2). The car was clean enough to race the following week in New Hampshire, leading 31 laps to a 4th place finish (slide 3). A month later in Martinsville, Kahne finished 13th with it after leading 17 laps (slide 4). Then its final race of 2004 came at Phoenix, starting 4th and finishing 5th with a black number 9 (slide 5). The car returned in 2005 in dominating fashion. Kahne won the pole at Richmond, led 242 laps, and won his 1st Cup Series race (slide 6). Two months later in New Hampshire, Kahne started 2nd, led 18 laps, and finished 6th (slide 7). In the car’s final Richmond race, Kahne led 6 laps to an 8th place finish (slide 8). A week later in New Hampshire, Kahne started 21st and was running 13th when contact with Kyle Busch sent Kahne hard into the turn 2 wall, bending the car enough that he drove back to the pits with the right-rear tire off the ground (slide 9). Amazingly the team fixed the car and it raced once more at Phoenix, starting 22nd and finishing 27th. It appears that this was the last race for EMS-61. In its 10 confirmed starts, it got 1 win, 3 T5’s, 6 T10’s, led 314 laps, had an Avg Start of 13.1, an Avg Finish of 13.4, and raced for over 2,914 miles. Sometime after Phoenix, the car was fixed up and given to Kasey Kahne in honor of his 1st win. Now the car lives at the Kasey Kahne Racing shop in Mooresville, NC (slide 10). #NASCAR #NRNChassis #KaseyKahne #EvernhamMotorsports

HMS-810 The chassis made its debut at the 2013 Brickyard 400, finishing 6th with Dale Jr (slide 1). Next it raced at Chicagoland where it led 2 laps but blew its motor, finishing 35th (slide 2). A month later in Charlotte, Dale started 6th, led 19 laps, and finished 15th in the car (slide 3). It returned in 2014 at Auto Club with a 12th place finish (slide 4). The car wouldn’t race again until June in Pocono. Dale started 8th and led 11 laps, scoring his first Pocono win (slide 5). Unsurprisingly, the team brought the car back for the August Pocono race. Finding similar success, Dale started 9th, led 14 laps, and won again, sweeping the Pocono races that year (slide 6). The next race on the car came at Kansas. Starting 8th and leading 45 laps, things were going well for the car until a blown tire put Dale in the wall hard, finishing 39th (slide 7). The car was repaired and brought to Texas, finding more solid speed and finishing 6th (slide 8). The car returned in 2015 at Las Vegas, starting 4th, leading 4 laps, and finishing 4th (slide 9). And in what appears to be the final start for the car, Dale started 15th in the Coke 600, finishing the night in 3rd (slide 10). In its 10 confirmed starts, HMS-810 got 2 wins, 4 T5’s, 6 T10’s, led 95 laps, had an Avg Start of 11, an Avg Finish of 12.2, and raced over 4,265 miles. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #DaleJr #HendrickMotorsports

HMS-357 The chassis was built to be the Bristol and Dover car for the 25 team. Brian Vickers started 17th with it in Bristol but finished 37th after being caught in a crash (slide 1). Next, Vickers drove it to a 23rd place finish in Dover (slide 2). The second Bristol and Dover races only gave Vickers a 33rd place finish (slide 3) and a 29th place finish. Casey Mears then drove the chassis in 2007 for the 25 team. His first ride in it didn’t go as planned, after Mears was caught up in a crash in Las Vegas, finishing 40th (slide 4). Luckily though, both Mears and 357 would soon reach the highlight of their Cup careers. It’s next race was the Coke 600 in Charlotte, where Mears started 16th and saved just enough gas to score his first and only Cup Series win (slide 5). From there on out, Mears and 357 almost always had good solid runs. Next up in Michigan, Mears started 13th, led a lap, and finished 4th (slide 6). A month later at Chicagoland, Mears scored his final Cup Series pole (slide 7), led 5 laps, and finished 5th. Then came a 15th place run in Fontana, followed by another 4th place finish in Kansas (slide 8). With the COT coming full time in 2008, HMS-357 made its final start in the fall Charlotte race, starting 9th and finishing 21st (slide 9). After then, the car was restored to its 2007 Coke 600 shape, even including the race winning engine. The car was given to Casey Mears, and after it spent a while in Ray Evernham’s collection, the car now resides at Mears’ home (slide 10). In its 11 confirmed starts, HMS-357 got 1 win, 1 pole, 4 T5’s, led 13 laps, had an Avg Start of 16.2, an Avg Finish of 19.3, and raced for over 4,205 miles. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #HendrickMotorsports #BrianVickers #CaseyMears

HMS-565 The chassis debuted during 2010 Speedweeks for Tony Stewart. He finished 2nd by inches in his Duel to Kasey Kahne (slide 1). In the Daytona 500, he started 6th but could only finish 22nd (slide 2). The car next went to Talladega, starting 13th and finishing 16th (slide 3). SHR chose a couple other chassis to take to superspeedways for the next year and a half, but 565 made its return for 2012 Speedweeks. In its Duel, Stewart started 6th and led 21 laps. As Danica Patrick crashed hard on the backstretch, Stewart scooted away and scored the win (slide 4). In the 500, Stewart survived a late race spin to finish 16th (slide 5-6). The chassis returned to Daytona in July. Tony started next to last in 42nd, but with a strong car he led 22 laps and managed to pass the Roush cars on the final lap to score the victory (slide 7). At Talladega in October the chassis rode once more. Stewart started 4th and was leading at the white flag. With a little over a mile to go, chaos struck as a late block led to Stewart and HMS-565 going airborne and crashing with almost the entire field (slide 8-10). It appears the crash might’ve killed the chassis, as I can’t find it racing again after that. In its 7 confirmed starts, HMS-565 got 2 wins, 3 T5’s, led 51 laps, had an Avg Start of 12.1, an Avg Finish of 11.4, and raced for over 2,757 miles. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #StewartHaasRacing #TonyStewart

HMS-267 This post took some piecing together, and to be honest I got my fingers crossed a bit that it’s all correct info. But if it isn’t, you didn’t hear this from me. This chassis was built in November 2002 and made its debut in the 2003 Budweiser Shootout. Jimmie Johnson started 2nd with if, led 4 laps, and finished 7th (slide 1). The next time I see it race was the 2004 Shootout. This time Johnson started way back in 17th but never made much noise, finishing 9th. I believe the car also ran in the spring Talladega race that year, having a solid day there. The 48 started 8th, led 25 laps, and finished 4th (slide 2). The next time I see the car race is the 2005 Bud Shootout. Johnson started back in 17th once again, but this time rose to the occasion, leading 16 laps and scored the win in his first Busch Clash victory (slide 3-6). The final time I see the car race was the 2006 Shootout. It started 2nd and led 13 laps, finishing 5th (slide 7). The car was eventually restored to its 2006 fashion and comes from the Hendrick Motorsports Certified Racecar Registry. Now in Toronto, Ontario, it will be put up for sale at auction by RM Sothebys, starting June 1, with the asking price starting at $150,000 (slide 8-10). #NASCAR #NRNChassis #HendrickMotorsports #JimmieJohnson

EMS-209 This was one of the first COT chassis built by Evernham Motorsports, in September 2006. It’s racing debut came with Kasey Kahne at the spring Martinsville race, starting 41st and climbing to 25th at the checkered (slide 1-2). Next it raced at Darlington, starting a solid 5th but slipping to finish 20th (slide 3). Its final race of 2007 came at New Hampshire in September, starting 25th and finishing 20th (slide 4). What appears to be its only race of 2008, also appears to be its final race as well as the pinnacle of its life. Kahne drove the car in the All Star Race, using the fan vote to make it in the show. In the afternoon’s Sprint Showdown, Kahne started 15th and climbed to 5th at the end, but failed to advance into the main. With the fan vote win, Kahne started the main event last in 24th. He’d spend all 150 miles climbing the ladder, eventually leading 17 laps and scoring Kahne’s lone All Star victory with the car (slide 5-7). Over the years the car swapped owners a few times, being sold at Mecum Auctions in 2018, then sold again in 2021. Now located in Osseo, Minnesota, the car is on the market once more. As of the time of this post, the car is being auctioned off on Bring A Trailer for the next 27 hours, with the current bid being $11,623 (slide 8-10). So act quick if you’d like this piece! #NASCAR #NRNChassis #KaseyKahne #EvernhamMotorsports

EMS-54 The first time I see the chassis race was the 2003 Southern 500, where Bill Elliott drove up from 22nd starting spot to finish 5th (slide 1). Three weeks later, the car returned to the track, this time finishing 14th in Dover (slide 2). Another three weeks passed before it raced again, now at Charlotte. Elliott had a solid car, starting 4th, leading 27 laps, and finishing 4th (slide 3-4). In the pinnacle of the chassis’ life, Elliott drove it to his final career win, in the penultimate race at Rockingham after starting 5th and leading 140 laps (slide 5-6). I don’t see the chassis race again until 2005, when Kasey Kahne drove it in the June Pocono race. Kahne started 15th but a flat tire and a spin pushed him back to finish 27th (slide 7-9). And in the final race that I can find on the chassis, Kahne drove it at Dover that September, starting 2nd but finishing 16th. In the 6 confirmed races on EMS-54, it got 1 win, 3 T5’s, led 167 laps, had an Avg Start of 10.5, an Avg Finish of 11.2, and raced for over 2,802 miles. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #EvernhamMotorsports #BillElliott #KaseyKahne

HMS 24-44 This chassis, built in October 1999, made its debut with Jeff Gordon, finishing 2nd in the Budweiser Shootout (slide 1). It’s next race came at Talladega where Gordon started 36th, led 25 laps, and ended his longest winless streak at that point in his Cup career, winning his 50th Cup race (slide 2). A 10th place finish followed with the same car in the July Daytona race (slide 3), followed by a 4th place finish in the Winston 500 (slide 4). The chassis returned to the track in 2001, but unfortunately I don’t know when or where it raced with Gordon (slide 5). We know that the chassis was converted to an ARCA car for 2004, meaning it was driven by Kyle Busch and/or Boston Reid, and/or Blake Feese. Kyle Busch drove in the Daytona season opener, starting 2nd and winning (slide 7). In victory lane, Busch revealed that David Green drove his car in the 2003 Cup Series. Green finished 32nd and 35th in the final two superspeedway races of 2003, failing to qualify for the first two (slide 6). At the 2004 ARCA season finale at Talladega, Boston Reid crashed with 17 to go, finishing 23rd. The other Hendrick car driven by Blake Feese would win the race however (slide 8). In February 2005, HMS sold the car to Gene Felton who restored it to 2001 spec with the 2000 paint scheme. Later it was sold to a buyer in Canada before eventually being added to the Dare to Dream Collection in 2013. Now in Toronto, Ontario, the car is for sale by RM Sothebys for $150k (slide 9-10). #NASCAR #NRNChassis #HendrickMotorsports #JeffGordon #DavidGreen #KyleBusch #BostonReid #BlakeFeese

JGR-44 The first time I see the chassis raced was the 2000 Brickyard 400, driven by Tony Stewart. He started 18th but climbed to finish 5th (slide 1). I don’t see the car race again until October 2001 at Martinsville. Stewart started 8th but was out early with engine troubles, finishing 41st (slide 2). A few weeks later, he finished 5th with it in Phoenix. For 2002, the car ran both Martinsville races, leading 152 laps and finishing 3rd in the spring (slide 3), then leading 2 laps and finishing 11th in the fall (slide 4). For 2003 its Pontiac sheetmetal was traded for a Chevy body, starting at New Hampshire in July, where Stewart finished 22nd (slide 5). Next came another solid run at The Paperclip, finishing 3rd (slide 6). In 2004, the car finished 14th at Martinsville, followed by an 8th at Phoenix in Stewart’s last race in the car (slide 7). In the offseason, the car was moved to the 11 team. Jason Leffler drove it to a 25th place finish in Richmond (slide 8), then 24th in New Hampshire. After Leffler left the ride late in 2005, Terry Labonte came in and drove the car to a great 9th place finish at Richmond after leading 7 laps (slide 9). In what appears to be the cars final driver change and race, Denny Hamlin raced it at Phoenix, 2006, to a 34th place finish after early mechanical troubles (slide 10). In its 13 confirmed races, JGR-44 got 4 T5’s, 6 T10’s, led 164 laps, had an Avg Start of 19.8, and Avg Finish of 15.7, and raced for over 3,665 miles. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #JoeGibbsRacing #TonyStewart #JasonLeffler #TerryLabonte #DennyHamlin

According to JDM’s X account, the car Garrett Smithley was driving this weekend is the same one that Brennan Poole nearly got his first career Xfinity Series win in, back in 2016. Unfortunately CGR never released the chassis number so I haven’t been able to track what other races the car has been in. Smithley had qualified the car 19th before his time was disallowed due to his roof hatch popping loose, leading to his disqualification. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #ChipGanassiRacing #BrennanPoole #GarrettSmithley #JDMotorsports

MWR-718 The short track chassis was new for 2012. However it started out as a backup car for Clint Bowyer’s team. It traveled to Phoenix, Bristol, and Richmond that spring as the backup but wasn’t raced until New Hampshire in July. It started off strong, starting 5th and finishing 3rd after leading a lap (slide 1-2). Next the car went to Richmond in September. Bowyer started 4th and led 88 laps en route to victory (slide 3-5). MWR cleaned the car off and brought it back to New Hampshire two weeks later. Bowyer started 12th but climbed to finish 4th that day (slide 6-7). Next came Phoenix in what would be the car’s most well known race. Bowyer started 16th that day and was looking for another solid finish, as they were in the hunt for the championship that season. Clint Bowyer had made contact with Jeff Gordon earlier in the day, cutting Gordon’s tire down. This turned out to be the straw that broke the camels back for Gordon, as he proceeded to wait on Bowyer and intentionally turn him into the wall, collecting others in the process (slide 8-10). The crash ended both of their days and all but ended Bowyer’s title hopes, in what would be the closest he’d ever come to hoisting the championship trophy. What ensued was a massive brawl between the crews with drama that is still marveled at today. Bowyer finished 28th that day but it appears the crash may have hurt his car beyond repair for MWR to deal with. I can’t find the car racing again after that, so perhaps it was scrapped or sold to someone else. In its 4 confirmed starts, MWR-718 got 1 win, 3 T5’s, led 89 laps, had an Avg Start of 9.3, and Avg Finish of 9, and raced for over 1,247 miles. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #MichaelWaltripRacing #ClingBowyer

RCR-493 The brand new chassis was brought to Daytona for 2015 Speedweeks. A solid qualifying effort started Austin Dillon 4th in his Duel with the car. But a late wreck would cause him to finish 15th (slide 1-2). The damage was bad enough that the team decided to roll out their backup car for the Daytona 500 (at least I think so). The car was fixed and returned to Talladega. Austin started 14th but had the motor blow up big time in the later stages of the race (slide 3-4). He’d finish 35th. All of the charred parts were removed from the car and repaired for its return to Daytona in July. The car seemed to have the best speed yet. Dillon started 2nd and led 8 laps. He crossed the finish line in 7th place before being sent to the crash of his life. Dillon launched off the front of Denny Hamlin’s car and flipped into the catchfence. After tumbling and then getting hit again by Brad Keselowski, Austin emerged from the car miraculously okay (slide 5-9). The chassis was destroyed, with basically the center section being all that was left of it. In its 3 confirmed races, RCR-493 got 1 T10, led 9 laps, had an Avg Start of 6.7, an Avg Finish of 19, and raced for over 980 miles. The remnants of 493 still exist today, at the Springfield, Missouri Bass Pro Shops (slide 10). #NASCAR #NRNChassis #RichardChildressRacing #AustinDillon

HMS 5-116 The first time I see the car race was in its most infamous race. At Bristol, August 1999, Terry Labonte was leading with it until a nudge from Dale Earnhardt in turn 2 sent Labonte around, crashing with several behind him down the backstretch. He had led 155 laps and was credited with finishing 8th (slide 1-6). The car was fixed and brought to Dover a month later. And of course, Terry began the race next to none other, than Dale Earnhardt. Unfortunately the speed wasn’t what they were looking for, finishing 7 laps down in 27th (slide 7). 116 returned to Bristol the next spring with a new paint scheme, having a solid day starting 7th and finishing 5th (slide 8). Back at Dover, the car was much better than last September, finishing the day in 11th (slide 9). In the final race that I can find the chassis racing in, Terry drove it once more in the Bristol night race. He climbed from 23rd to finish 16th at the finish. In its 5 confirmed starts, HMS 5-116 got 1 T5, 2 T10’s, led 157 laps, had an Avg Start of 22.8, an Avg Finish of 13.4, and raced for over 1,589 miles. #NASCAR #HendrickMotorsports #TerryLabonte #NRNChassis

RCR-15 The chassis was built in February 1995. It made its debut a month later in Atlanta, starting out strong with the pole, leading 62 laps, and finishing 4th (slide 10). Next, the car was painted in Dale Earnhardt’s iconic silver scheme, and brought to Charlotte to race in The Winston (slide 2-5). While going for the lead in the final 10 lap shootout, Earnhardt crashed hard in turn 4, ending his day and finishing 14th (slide 6). Starting the very next day, the car was repaired and repainted so it could quickly return to Charlotte and race in the Coke 600. Dale was running 3rd in the final few laps before having to stop for a few seconds of gas. He finished a lap down in 6th (slide 7). The car remained largely intact and was taken to Indianapolis a week later to test for the Brickyard 400. A few weeks later, Dale raced the car at Michigan. He started 7th and was having a solid day until a tap from Derrike Cope sent Dale hard into the turn 3 wall (slide 8-9). The wreck bruised Dale pretty bad and totaled the car, ending its racing career. The next month, the car was repaired enough to become a showcar, where it would receive its famous silver suit once more (slide 10). In its 4 confirmed races, RCR-15 got 1 pole, 1 T5, 2 T10’s, led 102 laps, had an Avg Start of 11.5, an Avg Finish of 14.8, and raced over 1,441 miles. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #RichardChildressRacing #DaleEarnhardt

HMS-628 The chassis debuted for the 2011 Daytona 500. Jimmie Johnson drove it to an 11th place finish in his Duel (slide 1). After starting 23rd, he was one of the cars involved in the lap 30 Big One in the Daytona 500. He’d finish several laps down in 27th (slide 2-3). Next up at Talladega, Johnson started 2nd and led 14 laps, before timing his run perfectly and winning the race to the checkered flag, in one of the closest finishes in NASCAR history (slide 4-5). In the July Daytona race, Jimmie avoided the chaos all night until the final lap, getting turned coming to the finish and crossing the line in 20th (slide 6). At Talladega that October, Johnson again started 2nd but couldn’t replicate his April success, finishing 26th (slide 7). 628 remained his primary speedway car for 2012. In an exciting finish to the Duel, Johnson finished 3rd (slide 8). In its 2nd Daytona 500, the chassis only survived one full lap before a hard crash took the car out of the race and out of service. The hard hit to the door likely ended the chassis’ life (slide 9-10). In its 7 confirmed starts, HMS-628 got 1 win, 2 T5’s, led 15 laps, had an Avg Start of 8.4, and Avg Finish of 18.6, and raced for over 2,205 miles. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #HendrickMotorsports #JimmieJohnson

RYR-704 I believe the 4th COT chassis built by Robert Yates Racing, the car made its debut with the COT, in the 2007 Food City 500. Ricky Rudd started 24th but a crash in the second half brought him to a 38th place finish (slide 1-2). The chassis would become Rudd’s road course chassis for the season. At Sonoma he’d start 28th and have a solid day, finishing 11th (slide 3). Next at Watkins Glen he started 27th and was looking for another top 15 run before electrical issues took him out late in the race, finishing 38th again (slide 4). As far as I can tell the chassis never raced in NASCAR again. In its 3 confirmed starts it had an Avg Start of 26.3, an Avg Finish of 29, and raced over 649 miles. Since then it’s traded hands and has ended up in Congress, Arizona. It’s been modified some and set up to be race ready in the NASA ST-1 class. The car and several other parts/accessories are available to sale for $22,000 (slide 5-10). #NASCAR #RobertYatesRacing #RickyRudd #NRNChassis

JGR-48 The chassis was built in later 2000, finally making its race debut at Sonoma, 2001. Tony Stewart started 3rd with it, led 11 laps with it, and won his first road course race that day (slide 1). Watkins Glen didn’t go as good, starting 11th, finishing 26th (slide 2). At Sonoma in 2002, Stewart won the pole and led 6 laps, coming up just short to Ricky Rudd (slide 3). The Glen was good to Tony, leading over a third of the race and scoring the win in August (slide 4). With a new Monte Carlo body, Stewart could only manage a 12th place finish at Sonoma (slide 5) followed by an 11th at Watkins Glen. Sonoma 2004 didn’t go much better, finishing just 15th. Finally the team changed course with a fast car at the Glen. This time Stewart would lead just over half the race, and win from the 4th starting spot (slide 6). 2005 was great for the chassis, leading 39 laps en route to victory lane once more in Sonoma (slide 7), then going back to Watkins Glen with a dominate car. Stewart won the pole for the race, then led all but 9 laps, and going home with the trophy once more, the third win in a row for the car (slide 8). 2006 Sonoma wasn’t so pretty, starting 12th but finishing 28th (worst finish for the chassis)(slide 9). With the COT coming in 2007 and racing at both road course races, Watkins Glen 2006 would be the final race for the car. Stewart started 8th and led 7 laps, nearly sending JGR-48 out on top. But he fell just short that day to Kevin Harvick, finishing 2nd (slide 10). In its 12 starts, JGR-48 got 5 wins, 2 poles, 7 T5’s, led 228 laps, had an Avg Start of 6.8, and Avg Finish of 8.4, and raced for over 2,646 miles. The car that won all but 3 of Stewart’s 8 road course wins (2nd all time) is now in Tony’s personal collection at his Indiana home. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #JoeGibbsRacing #TonyStewart

RCR-B148 This Xfinity Series chassis made its debut at Kentucky in June 2014 with Brian Scott’s team. Its first few runs were solid with top 10 starting and finishing positions. Brian finished 8th at Kentucky (slide 1), 7th in Indianapolis (slide 2), 2nd at Kentucky in September, and 9th at Kansas after leading 4 laps (slide 3). It returned in 2015, way back in September. Scott led 7 laps in Chicagoland with it but finished 17th with it (slide 4) followed by a 23rd in Kansas. Next in Texas, he started 11th and finished 7th. Brian Scott’s final race in the car came in the 2015 season finale at Homestead, starting and finishing 4th (slide 5). For 2016, the chassis was bought by the brand new Kaulig Racing team. It was raced by Blake Koch in the teams 2nd ever start, in Atlanta. He’d finish 20th with it (slide 6) then 12th at Auto Club in the same car. Unfortunately a crash in Texas resulted in a 34th place finish (slide 7). After the crash, the car returned to the RCR 2 team for a few months, being raced by Sam Hornish Jr to a 6th place finish in Iowa (slide 8) and a 9th place finish from Paul Menard at Chicagoland (slide 9). It returned to Kaulig once more and was sent to Texas. Unfortunately a blown right front tire resulted in the car crashing hard, sending the team to the backup. 2017 chassis selections aren’t available according to my research, but crash damage indicates the chassis very well may have been killed at Texas. In its 13 confirmed starts, it got 2 T5’s, 8 T10’s, led 11 laps, had an Avg Start of 9.5, an Avg Finish of 12.2, and raced over 3,634 miles. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #RichardChildressRacing #KauligRacing #BrianScott #BlakeKoch #SamHornishJr #PaulMenard

CGR-819 I see the chassis debut at Las Vegas 2008, where Dario Franchitti finished 33rd with it (slide 1). Its next two starts came with the legend, Sterling Marlin. He started a solid 14th in Darlington, but finished 34th (slide 2). Next in the Coke 600, he started 26th and finished 31st (slide 3). Back with Franchitti, he took it to Michigan and finished last due to engine failure (slide 4). The 40 on the door became a 42, and Juan Pablo Montoya took it to Homestead, finishing 2008 with a 17th place finish after leading 2 laps (slide 5). Evidently CHR worked on the car during the offseason, because it became a force to be reckoned in 2009. Montoya brought it to Indy, starting 2nd and leading 116 laps before a heartbreaking speeding penalty dropped him to an 11th place finish (slide 6). The team brought it back the next race to Pocono, starting 10th and finishing 2nd (slide 7). More impressive runs followed for the car, starting 3rd ending 19th in Michigan, leading 31 laps and finishing 3rd in Atlanta, as well as starting 4th, leading 78 laps, and finishing 3rd in Auto Club. Its final start of the season came in Texas, where a crash dropped him to a 34th place finish (slide 8). 819 returned in 2010 strong with a 3rd placing starting and finishing position in Atlanta (slide 9). Looking for Texas redemption, Montoya started 21st but was caught in the late Big One, slamming concrete hard, possibly killing the chassis (slide 10). After the wreck, I can’t find anymore races for what once was Juan Pablo Montoya’s most successful car. In its 13 confirmed races, it got 4 T5’s, led 373 laps, had an Avg Start of 16.8, and Avg Finish of 20.8, and raced over 5,577 miles. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #ChipGanassiRacing #DarioFranchitti #SterlingMarlin #JuanPabloMontoya

RK-817 The chassis debuted in the 2012 Brickyard 400 with a solid day and a 3rd place finish (slide 1). Next it went to Michigan where Biffle lead 26 laps and won the penultimate race of his Cup career (slide 2). Dressed in blue, it finished 13th in Chicago a month later (slide 3). At the fall Charlotte race, the car got its only pole, later leading 71 laps and finishing 4th (slide 4). The car was going to race the season finale in Miami before a practice crash with Denny Hamlin sent the team to the backup (slide 5). Its 2013 debut came at Auto Club with a solid day, starting 2nd and finishing 6th (slide 6). Next it went to Kansas and turned out a 19th place finish (slide 7). A month later, Biffle started 3rd and finished 15th in the All Star Race with 817 (slide 8). Back in Michigan looking for more success, Biffle and RK-817 started 19th but led 48 laps en route to the win, the final win of Biffle’s Cup career (slide 9). The car was taken back to Indy, but this time it was taken as a backup car. Luckily the team didn’t have to use it, so the chassis made one more appearance at Texas, finishing 12th (slide 10). In its 9 confirmed races, RK-817 got 2 wins, 1 pole, 4 T5’s, 5 T10’s, led 150 laps, had an Avg Start of 10.4, an Avg Finish of 8.2, and raced over 3,540 miles. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #GregBiffle #RoushFenwayRacing

HMS-725 This car has a short but pretty successful life. It only ran the two Pocono races in 2012, with Jeff Gordon behind the wheel. In the June race, Gordon started 12th but finished back in 19th with the Dupont colors. Now in AARP colors for the August race, Gordon started back in 27th but worked his way up throughout the race. With rain coming, tensions ran high on restarts. Gordon avoided the carnage and found himself with the lead when the skies opened up, leading to his record 6th win at Pocono Raceway. In its two starts, HMS-725 got 1 win, an Avg Start of 19.5, an Avg Finish of 10, and over 645 miles raced. The chassis is for sale from Hendrick Motorsports now. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #JeffGordon #HendrickMotorsports

Old Magic was a Wood Brothers chassis that was finished on October 13, 1989. Over the years of its service, it was raced by Neil Bonnett, Dale Jarrett, Morgan Shepherd, and eventually Elliott Sadler. I was able to find 3 races that Sadler for sure drove the chassis in. During the 1999 August Bristol race, Sadler got involved in an early pileup and finished many laps down in 35th (slide 5). It returned in 2000 at Rockingham, with a 21st place finish. A month later the Wood Brothers brought it back to Bristol. Sadler qualified 9th and was fastest in final practice. The young driver was still looking for his first Cup Series win, maybe some Old Magic would help him find victory lane? Unfortunately for Sadler, contact with Dale Earnhardt just 3 laps in sent Sadler spinning into the wall (slide 6). Various repairs later, he finished 41st. This is the final start for the chassis that I’ve been able to find. In its 3 confirmed starts, it got an Avg Start of 22, and Avg Finish of 34.7, and over 795 miles raced. But with over 10 seasons of service under its belt, there’s no telling what the true records indicate for Old Magic’s success. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #WoodBrothersRacing #NeilBonnett #DaleJarrett #MorganShepherd #MichaelWaltrip #ElliottSadler

RCR-212 This was one of the earlier COT chassis that RCR built, debuting at the fall Richmond race, helping Clint Bowyer get his spot in the Chase with a 12th place finish (slide 1). It was cleaned off and brought back next week to New Hampshire, where Bowyer was lighting fast, winning the pole, leading 222 laps, and winning his 1st Cup Series race (slide 2). RCR-212’s final race of 2007 came at Phoenix, finishing 11th. It returned in 2008 at Phoenix, finishing 2nd (slide 3). A month later in Richmond, Bowyer gained spots all night and survived the Earnhardt-Busch chaos and found himself in victory lane again with 212 for his 2nd Cup Series win (slide 4). Back in Loudon, Bowyer wound up in a late wreck before rain ended the race, he finished 22nd (slide 5). Next up were a pair of 12th place finishes in back-to-back weeks in Loudon and Richmond. Next, 212 had a solid day in its first race in Martinsville, starting 5th, finishing 9th. Its final race with Bowyer came in Phoenix, finishing 12th (slide 6). For 2009 the chassis remained with the 07 and Casey Mears, finishing 21st, followed by a 20th in Phoenix where Mears got into a shoving match with Dale Jr (slide 7). Amazingly, in less than 2 weeks the chassis was repaired and transitioned to the 29 team. Kevin Harvick’s Richmond race with the car didn’t go very well after a flat left rear put him in the turn 3 wall, finishing 34th (slide 8). Another uphill day came in Loudon, before getting in another crash, and finishing 34th (slide 9). The chassis disappeared until Martinsville spring 2010, where Harvick took the car to the pole (its first pole since Sept. ‘07). He led 57 laps and was running 3rd just past 100 laps in when he had brake issues and had to go to the garage to fix them, finishing 35th (slide 10). It appears this was the last time the chassis raced. In its 15 confirmed starts, it got 2 wins, 2 poles, 3 T5’s, 4 T10’s, 296 laps led, an Avg Start of 18.1, an Avg Finish of 15.9, and over 4,372 miles raced. As far as I know, Clint Bowyer is now in possession of the chassis. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #RichardChildressRacing #ClintBowyer #CaseyMears #KevinHarvick

HMS-716 It appears the chassis made its debut at Kansas, April 2012, having a solid weekend with a 7th place starting spot, and also finishing 7th (slide 2). Next it went to Michigan in June, where Dale Jr led 95 laps en route to his first victory in 4 years (slide 1). The chassis returned to Michigan in August, hoping to go 2 for 2. Unfortunately it wouldn’t see the race as Jr crashed the car in final practice (slide 3). It was fixed and brought to Kansas again that fall, where Regan Smith had a great drive in place of the injured Dale Earnhardt Jr. Smith started 39th and finished P7 (slide 4). The chassis capped off 2012 with its 2013 scheme in Homestead, finishing 10th (slide 5). Its 2013 debut came in Auto Club, where Dale survived the last turn carnage to finish 2nd (slide 6). Next, it returned to Kansas for a 3rd race, finishing 16th. 716 made its first start at Charlotte in the All Star Race, finishing the night in 7th (slide 7). Back at Michigan in June, the car had winning potential, leading 34 laps before blowing a motor, leading to a 37th place finish (slide 8). Well, surely the next Michigan race couldn’t go bad for the 3rd time in a row right? Well Dale had led 20 laps and was running 7th in the car, when the right front blew and sent him into the wall, ending the day in 36th place. Dressed in gold for Texas, Dale and 716 had a fast car, starting 7th and ending in 2nd (slide 9). The car returned in 2014 for the All Star Race, starting 6th and ending 4th in what was the final race for the chassis (that I can find). I don’t know its whereabouts but given its track record, maybe Dale has it in his possession. In its 11 confirmed races, HMS-716 got 1 win, 4 T5’s, 8 T10’s, led 150 laps, had an Avg Start of 14.9, an Avg Finish of 11.7, and raced for over 3,776 miles. #NASCAR #DaleJr #ReganSmith #HendrickMotorsports #NRNChassis

RK-665 The first time I see the chassis race, things were going pretty good. Jamie McMurray started 22nd but led 32 laps and won at Talladega in the fall of 2009 (slide 1-3). It would be McMurray’s final win with Roush. Despite the instant success, I don’t see the chassis racing in 2010. Next time it appears on records is being the backup car for David Ragan in Talladega, fall 2010. For 2011, the car was moved to the Xfinity Series shop to be driven by Ricky Stenhouse Jr. At Daytona, Stenhouse started 10th and overall had a solid day, finishing 8th (slide 4). Two months later in Talladega, Stenhouse started 14th but was taken out in a crash just past half way (slide 5-6). He’d finish 38th. Back at Daytona in July, Stenhouse started 12th and led 5 laps but fell back to 27th at the finish (slide 7-8). The chassis wouldn’t race in Daytona next February, but instead returned in Talladega. The car was fast that day, starting 2nd and finishing 3rd (slide 9-10). It was taken back to Daytona in July as a backup car, but after that day, I can’t find the car ever racing again. In its 5 confirmed starts, RK-665 got 1 win, 2 T5’s, 3 T10’s, led 44 laps, had an Avg Start of 12, an Avg Finish of 15.4, and raced over 1,563 miles. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #RoushFenwayRacing #JamieMcMurray #RickyStenhouseJr

EMS-30 The first race I can find the chassis racing in was the 2001 Homestead race. Bill Elliott and the car started off red hot, winning the pole, leading 59 laps, and winning the race (slide 1). The car reappeared next July in Pocono. Repeating its Homestead success, Elliott won the pole, led 35 laps, and won the race, AGAIN (slide 2). With the cars success, Evernham Motorsports decided to clean the rubber and champagne off, and take it to Indy the next week. Elliott started a measly 2nd, led 93 laps, and won the Brickyard 400 (slide 3). It was the 2nd win in a row for Elliott and 3rd in a row for EMS-30. A few weeks later in Michigan, Bill started 6th with the car, but finished 22nd (slide 4). Next up was Kansas, starting and finishing in 5th with an overall solid day. The chassis finished off the 2002 season with a 7th place in Homestead (slide 5, the first race for the chassis without a lap led). EMS-30’s 2003 debut came at Pocono in June, starting 8th but finishing 19th. With bricks in the paint scheme, EMS-30 crossed the yard of bricks once more, starting 3rd and finishing 8th (slide 6). In what may be the worst race for the chassis, it went to Michigan and started 32nd, finishing 15th (slide 7). The duo had a great day in Kansas, wearing The Lion King colors while starting 8th, leading 115 laps but coming up just short in 2nd (slide 8). In Winston sliver for Atlanta, Bill started 5th and finished 4th (slide 9). EMS-30 returned to Homestead to bring the checkered flag to 2003 and Bill Elliott’s final full time season. Bill started 20th and led 189 laps. He was well on his way to his 2nd consecutive win before a flat right rear tire on the final lap gave the win to Bobby Labonte. Elliott finished 8th (slide 10). In its 12 confirmed races, EMS-30 got 3 wins, 2 poles, 7 T5’s, 9 T10’s, led 510 laps, had an Avg Start of 8.4, and Avg Finish of 7.5, won just shy of $2.1M, and raced over 5,040 miles. #NASCAR #BillElliott #EvernhamMotorsports #NRNChassis

RCR-135 The chassis’ first documented time at the track was for 2005 Speedweeks. Jeff Burton started strong, leading 13 laps and finishing 2nd in his Duel (slide 2). He started 6th in the 500 and led 6 laps, but failed to finish the last 15 miles (slide 1). At Talladega, Burton managed to escape with a solid 10th place finish (slide 3). Unfortunately Burton started at the rear for the Pepsi 400 but climbed to finish 11th. That fall in Talladega, Burton and RCR-135 gave us one of the wildest onboard views in history, sliding into the flipping Scott Riggs. Burton was credited with finishing 35th (slide 4). Next spring in Daytona, Burton and RCR-135 won the pole for the Daytona 500 (slide 6). From his front starting spot, he finished 7th in the Duel (slide 5) and 32nd in the 500, the most watched NASCAR race ever. Burton returned to Talladega in April and left with a solid 4th place finish (slide 7). RCR-135 was actually the backup car at Daytona in July, until the primary crashed hard in practice. So out came the car once more, finishing 15th despite a spin (slide 8). At Talladega that fall, Burton was in contention for the win, and even leading the points, until a flat tire with 10 to go relegated him to a 27th place finish. That’s the final time I can find the car racing in NASCAR. Suddenly in May 2023, the car appeared for sale for $19,000 on Facebook up in Rochester, New York. The remaining paint/wrap indicate that its last race was the 2009 Daytona ARCA race, where Peyton Sellers started 26th in the car, but was taken out in the lap 30 Big One, finishing 36th (slide 9). Since it’s been off the track, the car has been given headlights, taillights, turn signals, and a windshield wiper to be made road legal in New York. The driver side door bars were cut apart to even give it an opening door. In its 11 confirmed races, the car got 2 poles, 1 T5, 4 T10’s, 55 laps led, an Avg Start of 21.9, an Avg Finish of 18.9, and over 3,877 miles raced. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #RichardChildressRacing #JeffBurton #PeytonSellers

CGR-1104 The chassis debuted with the 2011 All Star Race, where Jamie McMurray started 9th with it (tied for best start) and finished 17th (slide 1). The team decided to clean the car up and bring it back the following week for the Coke 600. Jamie led 5 laps with it (only known laps led for the car) before blowing a motor just 271 miles into the race (slide 2). A month later the car raced in Michigan, finishing 19th (slide 3). Fitted with a McDonalds paint job and pink numbers, McMurray drove it to a 15th place finish in Dover (slide 4). In Texas a month later, McMurray ran in troubles during the race, finishing 36th many laps down (slide 5). For its 2012 debut, 1104 returned to Texas looking for a better result. McMurray and the chassis started 9th and finishing a solid 14th that day (slide 6). Next on the list for the car was another Dover race, where it finished 19th (slide 7). In August, the car went to Bristol for the first time, ending up 17th in the night race (slide 8). 1104 capped off the 2012 season in Homestead, taking the checkered in 20th in the final race of the COT body style. Unfortunately I don’t know if the car raced in 2013 with CGR, since the team stopped releasing their chassis selections after 2012. In its 9 confirmed races, CGR-1104 got an Avg Start of 19.6, an Avg Finish of 21.6, and raced over 3,330 miles. Luckily, the car still is alive today, and is intended to be raced in the ARCA East Series this season (slide 10)! #NASCAR #NRNChassis #JamieMcMurray

PRS-628 Built in June 2009, the chassis was built for Sam Hornish Jr and the 77 team. Unfortunately the only way I know that is because the 77 team was the only Penske team that didn’t release their chassis selections every week at the time, and Kurt Busch, David Stremme, and Brad Keselowski are never logged as racing the chassis ever, meaning it must’ve been built for the 77. The oil tank being mounted so high makes me believe it might’ve been a superspeedway car, perhaps racing in the 2009 fall Talladega race where PRS-625 and PRS-626 also raced. However based on what’s left of the wrap on the car, we can see that its final race was Ross Kenseth’s final Xfinity race. Kenseth started 29th in the fall Phoenix race, finishing 33rd, many laps down. Currently the chassis is for sale in Gaffney, SC for just $1,000 #NASCAR #NRNChassis #SamHornishJr #RossKenseth

“Diana” was built by Laughlin Chassis and was one of 4 chassis built for Kyle Petty’s and his 1984 season. It’s presumed the speedway chassis saw competition in the ‘84 Daytona 500, finishing 8th in the Duel and 40th (engine) in the 500 (slide 1). It likely raced several times that year, though it’s unclear how much and where. Still at Petty Enterprises, the car was raced by Dick Brooks at the Daytona 500, finishing 3rd in its Duel and 22nd (wheel) in the 500 (slide 2). Morgan Shepherd then took it to Darlington, finishing 18th with it (engine). Sometime in the summer/fall of 1985, the car left Petty Enterprises and became a 22 Miller car for Bobby Allison. During the offseason, Blackie Wangerin bought the chassis, and used it as his Daytona 500 car from 1986 to the end of his career in 1991. While Blackie never qualified for the 500 during that time, he got a best finish of 19th with it in his Duel’s (slide 3-5). After 1991, the car was left basically fully intact and spent most of its time in a barn. After being hidden away for 26 years, the car was rescued in September 2017 (slide 6). Still with its paint scheme from 1991, and the same motor built by Steve Vermeer for Blackie and the 1991 Daytona 500. Currently, “Diana” is being sold for $20,000 by Chris George in Princeton, Wisconsin. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #KylePetty #DickBrooks #MorganShepherd #BobbyAllison #BlackieWangerin

KBM-011 The first race I see for the truck was Daytona 2012, where Jason Leffler started solid with a 6th starting spot, but an early wreck took him out, finishing 36th (slide 1). At Talladega that fall, Kurt Busch had a solid day, starting 7th, leading 2 laps (the first laps led for the chassis), and finishing 6th with the chassis (slide 2). For 2013, the 18 on the door was changed to a 54 with Bubba Wallace. At Daytona, Bubba finished 12th at Daytona (slide 3), then 17th at Talladega after being involved in the huge crash coming to the finish line (slide 4). 2014 didn’t start much better for Wallace and the chassis, when they were caught up in a wreck and finished 26th (slide 5). Luckily Wallace survived Talladega to finish 9th (slide 6). For 2015 the truck transitioned to the 51 team, for Daniel Suarez to drive it at Daytona, leading 5 laps (most ever for the chassis) and finishing 9th (slide 7). Matt Tifft hopped in for Talladega and started well in 6th. Unfortunately he was caught up in a crash and limped to a 23rd (slide 8). For 2016, the truck went to its 4th number, with Christopher Bell driving the No. 4. Bell started 8th and despite a few curveballs in the race, was running up front on the final lap when he was turned and proceeded to barrel roll into turn 1. Once it was over Bell was given a 16th place finish, but KBM-011 was dead, with the heavy roll cage damage. In its 9 confirmed starts, the chassis got 3 T10’s, led 11 laps, had an Avg Start of 13.7, an Avg Finish of 17.2, and over 1,988 miles raced. #NASCAR #KyleBuschMotorsports #NRNChassis

RCR-237 The chassis debuted at the 2008 Auto Club 400, where Clint Bowyer started 3rd but only finished 19th (slide 1). A month later in Atlanta, Bowyer and the chassis had a very solid day, starting 6th, leading 52 laps, and finishing 7th. More results followed with a 10th in Texas (slide 2), 10th in Auto Club, 12th in Kansas, and a 12th in Charlotte (slide 3). Two weeks later, the car returned in Atlanta, starting 5th and finishing its 2008 season with a 20th (slide 4). It would be the final intermediate track for the car as well. The car was completely taken apart and rebuilt in the offseason, now ready for the high banks of Daytona for 2009. Now being driven by Casey Mears, the car finished 14th in its Duel and 15th in the Daytona 500 (slide 5). At Talladega, Mears led 2 laps with in on the way to a 16th place finish. For the July Daytona race, the car was moved to the 29 team. Dressed in silver, Kevin Harvick finished 26th with it (slide 6). At Talladega that fall, Harvick led 21 laps but ended up with Ryan Newman landing on the hood of RCR-237 in the final few laps. Harvick survived to finish 21st (slide 7). 2010 would be a fantastic season for the chassis. Starting off rather odd however, Harvick was sick with the flu the weekend of the Shootout in Daytona. While he rested at home during practice, Clint Bowyer practiced the primary. Unfortunately he was involved in a practice crash. Out came the backup, RCR-237, leading to the 4th and final RCR teammate, Jeff Burton, to climb in and make some laps in the car. Harvick climbed in and proceeded to start 2nd, lead 21 laps, and win the race (slide 8). Next at Dega, in one of his most famous wins, Harvick nosed out McMurray at the line for the cars 2nd straight win (slide 9). And in its final race that I can find, Harvick finished 2nd at Talladega that fall by just a few feet to Bowyer after leading 12 laps. After that Im not sure if it ever raced again or what happened to it. In RCR-237’s confirmed 15 starts, it got 2 wins, 3 T5’s, 6 T10’s, led 117 laps, 15.2 Avg Start, 12.4 Avg Finish, over 6,569 miles raced. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #RichardChildressRacing

This Stewart-Haas chassis has been confirmed to run superspeedway races since 2023. If the chassis ran only superspeedway races, I would think that the chassis is one of the heaviest in the SHR lineup, or perhaps the chassis measures slightly more to the left rear than any other chassis. Regardless, Aric Almirola drove the car to victory lane in his Duel in Daytona (slide 1-2). For the 500, Almirola finished 21st after being caught up in the last lap crash (slide 3-4). At Talladega, he started 2nd and led 11 laps, but only finished 22nd (slide 5). Back at Daytona, he started 2nd again and finished 3rd after only leading 3 laps (slide 6). Back at Talladega last fall, Almirola finally won the pole with the car. He led 7 laps but finished 17th while being caught up in the Big One at the checkered flag (slide 7-8). Coming into 2024, the car was prepped as Noah Gragson’s backup car for the Daytona 500. No offense to this lovely chassis, but the 10 team were hoping that it wouldn’t see the light of day. Unfortunately for them, after Gragson’s primary got wrecked in his Duel, this car was brought out and prepared to race in the Daytona 500 again. From the 38th starting spot, Gragson led 5 laps and finished an impressive 9th in the backup. Perhaps this car will return again at Talladega. In its 6 confirmed races, this car has 1 win, 1 pole, 2 T5’s, 3 T10’s, led 59 laps, has an Avg Start of 8.2, an Avg Finish of 11.8, and raced over 2,606 miles. #NASCAR #StewartHaasRacing #AricAlmirola #NoahGragson #NRNChassis

RCR-479 A new chassis post, Vegas addition! This chassis was built in June 2014. It debuted a month later in the Brickyard 400. Ryan Newman started a solid 4th with it, but back to back Brickyard’s didn’t happen, and Newman finished 11th (slide 1-2). Next, the car was taken to Michigan in August, where Newman started 12th, led 14 laps, and finished 11th (slide 3). At Chicagoland, Newman started an impressive 2nd, but unfortunately only could get a 15th after a blown tire (slide 4). In Charlotte, Newman started 5th, led a lap, and crawled back to finish 7th despite a 2nd half spin during the race (slide 5-6). Next on the schedule for the chassis was its most infamous race in its life. RCR-479 was taken to Phoenix for the penultimate race of the year. Newman started 20th, on the outside looking in, trying to make it to the final 4 to fight for the championship. On the last corner of the race, Newman dove into turn 3 and shoved Kyle Larson out wide into the wall. The position gained for Newman was all he needed to secure the final spot in the Championship 4 for Homestead (slide 7-8). And he nearly won the championship a week later, finishing 2nd to Kevin Harvick. After that day in Phoenix, I can’t find any results involving the chassis, except for one. September 2016, the car was brought back to the track. Ryan Newman took it to a 3rd place starting position in New Hampshire, but only could get a 20th place finish that day (slide 9). Sometime after then the car was retired. Now a showcar, RCR-479 sits in the entrance to the South Point Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, courtesy of Brendan Gaughan. Apparently the car has an unplugged battery in the floorboard, leading us to believe it’s still drivable. In its 6 confirmed starts, RCR-479 got 1 T10, led 15 laps, had an Avg Start of 7.7, an Avg Finish of 12.5, and raced for over 2,330 miles. #NASCAR #RichardChildressRacing #RyanNewman #SouthPoint #NRNChassis

WC-32 Debuting at the 2001 fall Richmond race, Ricky Craven drove the car from 15th to 11th. Cal Wells didn’t have too many chassis, so they were often used every few races. It was taken to Kansas next, finishing 21st, then 9th in Phoenix in its final race of 2001. WC-32’s first race of 2002 was an impressive showing at The Rock. Craven won pole with the car, led 116 laps and finished 5th. A few weeks later the car went to Darlington, winning its 2nd consecutive pole. Unfortunately Craven was caught in an early wreck and finished 41st (slide 2). The car was repaired and promptly returned to race, getting 9th in Richmond, 7th in Dover, 21st in New Hampshire (slide 3), 16th in the Southern 500 (slide 4), 9th at Dover, and another 9th at Rockingham (slide 5). WC-32 closed the 2002 curtain in Homestead, finishing 24th in its final race in Ford sheetmetal. For 2003, the car debuted at Rockingham, with new Pontiac sheetmetal placed on it. Craven had a solid day, finishing in 4th place (slide 6). Next for the car was Darlington, the race where the chassis became famous. Craven led only the final lap, beating and banging their way to the win by .002 seconds over Kurt Busch, in maybe the greatest finish in NASCAR history (slide 1, 7). Unfortunately it would be the final lap led by the chassis. The next to races produced solid results with 8th place finishes at Dover and Darlington. A blown engine ended the day early at fall Dover, finishing 40th. At Charlotte, Craven pulled out a 19th place finish. In the chassis’ final race of 2003, Craven finished 39th at Rockingham after a crash with Ricky Rudd (slide 8). Now in a Chevy body, WC-32 returned for 2004 at Rockingham, unfortunately finishing 35th. And in what appears to be its final race, the car returned to Darlington hoping for more speed. Craven started 36th and wrecked out about halfway in, after getting run over from behind while slowing down for a spin. Ricky finished 36th. In its 21 confirmed starts, WC-32 got 1 win, 2 poles, 3 T5’s, 10 T10’s, 212 laps led, an Avg Start of 14.9, an Avg Finish of 17.7, and over 7,581 miles raced. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #RickyCraven

RYR-102 It appears the chassis debuted June 2002 at Pocono. Dale Jarrett 13th, but led 35 laps en route to victory lane (slide 1). Yates brought the car to Michigan a week later, winning the pole and leading 71 laps, but falling just short and finishing 2nd to Matt Kenseth (slide 2). 102 returned to Michigan in August looking for redemption. However it didn’t look likely after Dale Jarrett spun early coming out of turn 4 (slide 3-4). Amazingly Dale came back to lead the final 5 laps and take the win (slide 5). Next the car went to Darlington to race in the Southern 500. It had a solid day in the top 10, finishing 5th (slide 6). At Dover, Dale had an even better day, starting 2nd and finishing 3rd with RYR-102 (slide 7). The team cleaned the car up and took it to Kansas next. Starting 6th, they didn’t make it long in the race before the engine blew up, leading to a 39th place finish. A month later the car raced in Atlanta. With the motor intact, Jarrett got to 3rd at the finish (slide 8). RYR-102’s 2003 debut was at Texas with a 13th place finish (slide 9). Next, it made it to 9th in the Coke 600 before rain stopped the race for good. The car returned to Michigan that August, but unlike 2002, only led 5 laps and finished 23rd. Once again at the Southern 500, Jarrett started 19th and was involved in an early crash. He’d finish many laps down in 34th. And back at Atlanta once more, Jarrett and the chassis started 31st but climbed to a respectable 12th at the checkered flag. After this race, I can’t find any record of RYR-102 racing again. In its 12 confirmed races, RYR-102 got 2 wins, 1 pole, 6 T5’s, 7 T10’s, an Avg Start of 14.7, an Avg Finish of 12.1, 134 laps led, and over 4,868 miles raced. #NASCAR #RobertYatesRacing #DaleJarrett #NRNChassis

This might just be the oldest chassis post I ever make. 1975 Talladega 500. Dick Brooks is driving Junie Donlavey’s #90 1973 Ford Torino. Brooks had started 21st and was running pretty good when Donnie Allison made contact with Brooks coming off turn 2. Initially Brooks was heading toward the outside wall before he cut it left and spun to the inside. Donnie watched in awe as Brooks spun backwards and the tail of the car began to reach for the sky. In what may be the first ever blow over in NASCAR history, Dick Brooks flew into the backstretch grass and barrel rolled thousands of feet, finally landing at the inside wall at the entrance of turn 3. As Allison watched the car take off and tumble, he radioed in to his crew “You are not gonna believe what I just saw. You are not gonna believe what I just saw.” The flips remove all the windows from the car. With each tumble, more and more mud and clay were thrown inside the car, due in part to the recent rain at the track. Dick, initially thinking he could be dead, was eventually helped out of the car through the windshield and taken to the infield hospital. Once he cleaned up most of the mud off himself, he returned to pit road to tell his crew about his short flight. Brooks even played a full game of golf the next day. As for the car, Donlavey took it back to their shop and began to work on it, rather than scrap what was left. Both Junie Donlavey and Dick Brooks swear that they ran the exact same car from Talladega, just THREE RACES LATER in the Delaware 500 at Dover. How did the Torino manage? Brooks and the car started 10th and finished 2nd that day, just 1.3 seconds behind Richard Petty. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #DickBrooks #JunieDonlavey

RCR-333 This Clint Bowyer chassis first pops up in the 2011 Auto Club 400, where Bowyer led a lap and finished 7th with it (slide 1). Next, Bowyer took it to the All Star Race where he started 2nd but finished back in 16th (slide 2-3). Next the car was taken to Pocono in August, where Bowyer started 14th, and finished 18th (slide 4-5). It appears sometime after Pocono, the car was bought by Tommy Baldwin Jr’s team, and transformed into a superspeedway car. NASCAR rookie, Danica Patrick, would drive it at Daytona, intending on racing it in her first Daytona 500 start. Unfortunately the car wouldn’t make it past its Thursday Duel. On the final lap, contact off turn 2 sent Patrick and RCR-333 spinning, resulting in incredibly hard contact with the inside wall (slide 6-10). The wreck resulted in a 16th place finish. And it appears the wreck might’ve killed the car too, since I haven’t been able to find any evidence of the chassis racing after then. In its 4 confirmed starts, RCR-333 led 1 lap, had an Avg Start of 12.5, and Avg Finish of 14.25, and raced over 1,297 miles. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #RichardChildressRacing #TommyBaldwinRacing #ClintBowyer #DanicaPatrick

KBM-035 It appears the truck debuted with Cody Coughlin in Las Vegas, 2016. He drove it to a 17th place finish (slide 1). A month later, Daniel Suarez took it to Phoenix, starting 2nd, leading 34 laps, and winning the race (slide 2). Next up, Myatt Snider drove it to a 16th place finish at Kentucky, 2017 (slide 3). Another race, and another new driver, this time being Harrison Burton. At Bristol, he finished 18th with it (slide 4). Todd Gilliland took it for a spin at Phoenix, finishing 7th that night (slide 5). I don’t see it race again until June 2018, where Harrison Burton drove it from the pole to a 3rd place finish in Iowa. A month later, Christopher Bell brought another pole for the chassis, but finished 28th (slide 6). From the end of 2018 through 2019, the truck was a Harrison Burton chassis, bringing three 3rd place finishes in a row, a 23rd, and an 18th. For 2020, it became a 4 truck for Raphael Lessard, racing twice that year at Richmond (finished 26th) and Martinsville (finished 20th)(slide 7). It doesn’t appear the truck raced in 2021, but it was turned to a dirt track truck for 2022. John Hunter Nemechek drove it to a 3rd at Bristol, then a 2nd in Knoxville (slide 8). Remaining with the 4 team, the truck ran its most recent race with Chase Purdy at Bristol, finishing 28th. In its 17 confirmed starts, KBM-035 got 1 win, 2 poles, 7 T5’s, 8 T10’s, 173 laps led, and over 2,376 miles raced. It’s currently sitting in the former Spire Motorsports Cup shop in Concord, NC, awaiting to be sold in an online auction (slide 10). #NASCAR #KyleBuschMotorsports #NRNChassis

KBM-012 The first time I see the chassis race was way back in June 2012 at Texas, driven by Jason Leffler to a 6th place finish (slide 1). He finished 8th at Kentucky before handing it over to Kyle Busch for Atlanta, when he finished 2nd with it (slide 2). David Mayhew took it for one more run in 2012, finished 9th in Vegas. Joey Coulter drove the truck 5 times in 2013, with a best finish of 8th at Dover. The first race of 2014 for the truck was Iowa in July, where Erik Jones had a great day starting 2nd, leading 131 laps, and winning, the first win for the chassis (slide 3). A few weeks late, Jones started on pole with the truck at Eldora, but finished 6 laps down in 29th. A month later, Kyle Busch drove it to another pole at Bristol, but finishing 24th. Justin Boston and Matt Tifft split the truck in 2015, with a best finish of 8th at Pocono and Phoenix (slide 4). For 2016, the chassis became a dirt only truck. Cody Coughlin drove it at Eldora, followed by Harrison Burton in 2017. Logan Seavey had a solid Eldora showing in 2018, leading 53 laps and finishing 8th (slide 5). Harrison Burton drove it at Eldora again in 2019. The truck wasn’t raced again until the inaugural Bristol Dirt truck race, where Martin Truex Jr ran a surprisingly good race, leading 105 laps and winning (slide 6). Brian Brown took it for a spin in the inaugural Knoxville truck race, finishing 8th (slide 7). Buddy Kofoid races both dirt races in it for 2022, with a best result of 11th in Knoxville (slide 8). And for one final dirt race, William Byron drove it to a 3rd place finish at Bristol (slide 9). The truck is being auctioned off by Spire Motorsports, and currently sits in Spire’s former shop in Concord, NC (slide 10). In its 27 confirmed races, KBM-012 has 2 wins, 2 poles, 4 T5’s, 15 T10’s, 478 laps led, an Avg Start of 13.3, an Avg Finish of 12.5, and over 3,790 miles raced. #NASCAR #KyleBuschMotorsports #NRNChassis

HMS-850 The chassis was built by Hendrick, but made for Stewart-Haas. It went to Kevin Harvick and his new number 4 car, debuting at Auto Club. Harvick started 4th but finished 2 laps down after blowing a tire (slide 1-2). Next it appeared in Charlotte at the All Star Race. Harvick had a pretty strong night, starting 3rd, leading 5 laps, but finishing 2nd to Jamie Mac (slide 3-4). A few months later, SHR took HMS-850 to Bristol for the night race. Harvick won the pole with the car, led 75 laps, and finished 11th, after getting a Hans Device thrown at it by Denny Hamlin (slide 5-7). For Harvick’s final 4 appearance in Homestead, HMS-850 was chosen as the car to bring. Starting from 5th, Harvick led 54 laps, beating Ryan Newman in the final sprint to win the race and the championship (slide 8-9). In its 4 races, HMS-850 got 1 win, 1 pole, 2 T5’s, 134 laps led, an Avg Start of 3.25, an Avg Finish of 12.5, and over 1,210 miles raced. The car still exists today in its raced state, I believe sitting at the Stewart-Haas Racing shop in Kannapolis (slide 10). #NASCAR #KevinHarvick #StewartHaasRacing #NRNChassis

RCR-4 Built in the summer of 1989, the car was quick to find success. While I don’t know every race the car entered, I do know of some of the highlights in its life. From the 10th starting position, Dale Earnhardt won the 1989 Southern 500 in the car (slide 1-2). The next win for the car came in the 1989 season finale in Atlanta, where Dale lead an impressive 249 laps, but still fell just shy of Rusty Wallace in the final points (slide 3-4). Next spring, Earnhardt and RCR-4 returned to Atlanta, looking for another win. After leading 216 laps, that’s exactly what they did (slide 5). The final win for the car came in June. It went to Michigan, starting 5th and leading only 22 laps on the path to victory (slide 6). In the 1990 season finale in Atlanta, this was the car Earnhardt finished 3rd with that day, winning his 4th championship (slide 7-8). A year later, the car returned to the season finale, finishing 5th and winning Earnhardt’s 5th championship (slide 9). In 1993, the car was moved to RCR’s showcar division and retired from racing. It had a Monte Carlo body put on it in 1995, and currently has Earnhardt’s 1999 Wrangler All-Star race scheme on it (slide 10). In just its 6 confirmed races, RCR-4 got 4 wins, 1 pole, 721 laps led, an Avg Start of 5, an Avg Finish of 2, and over 2,898 miles raced.As of a couple years ago, the car sat at RCR in the pit crew training building. #NASCAR #RichardChildressRacing #DaleEarnhardt #NRNChassis

JR-B43 The only race I can find the chassis for sure competing in was the 2004 Busch Series opener at Daytona. Matt Kenseth qualified 29th in the car. Even with minor right front damage, he managed to finish 5th with it, the day after the Daytona 500 (slide 1-2). I don’t see the car at the track again until the same race in 2005, again with Kenseth behind the wheel. For whatever reason, Kenseth and B43 failed to qualify for the event (slide 3). After that day, the chassis goes dark and didn’t seem to return to the track again (as far as my research indicates). Despite the little history on the car, it survives today still. William Fields in Conway, South Carolina is trying to sell the car for $16,000. It runs and drives and is wrapped with a Carl Edwards Office Depot scheme (slide 4-8). #NASCAR #CarlEdwards #RoushFenwayRacing #NRNChassis

RCR-43 The first race I can find for the chassis was the 1998 Winston 500, where Dale Earnhardt led 12 laps but finished 32nd, 13 laps down after a rear gear failure (slide 1). The car became the 1999 superspeedway primary, heading to Daytona and leading 43 laps in its Duel, en route to victory lane in classic Earnhardt fashion (slide 2). Despite starting 4th in the Daytona 500, Earnhardt settled for another 2nd in the race to Jeff Gordon (slide 3). At Talladega, Dale started 14th, led 70 laps, and won (slide 4). Back at Daytona in July, Earnhardt started 10th, but again came up just short, this time to Dale Jarrett (slide 5-6). In what appears to be the chassis’ final race, Dale went back to Talladega in October, qualified 27th, led 18 laps, and held off Jarrett at the end to win, sweeping the 1999 Dega races, and winning the Winston Million (slide 7-9). In its 6 confirmed races, RCR-43 got 3 wins, 5 T5’s, led 161 laps, had an Avg Start of 12.8, and Avg Finish of 6.5, and over 2,490 miles raced. The car has been restored since then, and still resides on the RCR campus (slide 10). #NASCAR #RichardChildressRacing #DaleEarnhardt #NRNChassis

PRS-69 Built in August 2003, PRS-69 became Ryan Newman’s Martinsville car for a few years. Debuting at the 2004 fall Martinsville race, the car started off strong, winning the pole and breaking the track record. Newman led 9 laps and finished 3rd (slide 1-2). The next spring, Newman started 2nd, led 25 laps, and finished 4th (slide 3), followed by a 10th place finish in the fall of 2005 (slide 4). In the 2006 spring race, some troubles caused the car to finish 2 laps down in 18th (slide 5). The results only got marginally better that fall, with a 13th place finish (slide 6). The car disappeared for some time and got some work done to it. Suddenly it reappeared as Newman’s car for the 2007 Brickyard 400. Unfortunately its race only lasted 20 laps before crashing in turn 4, finishing 42nd (slide 7-8). In its 6 confirmed races, the car got 1 pole, 1 T5, 2 T10’s, led 34 laps, had an amazing Avg Start of 3, and Avg Finish of 15, and over 1,364 miles raced. But that was only the beginning of this cars story. Eventually it was sold to Cunningham Motorsports who raced it for several years, before selling it again to Brad Smith in 2018. It’s become one of the cars that Brad frequently races. Over its life, the car is reported to have started over 150 races across NASCAR and ARCA. Amazingly it’s still in use today, Brad Smith and his team stripped the car this offseason and are giving it some love to freshen it up and race it again in 2024 (slide 9-10). They’ve even nicknamed the car “JT” in honor of James Hylton and his son, James “Tweety” Jr. PRS-69 was one of the last cars the father-son duo worked on before their untimely passing. Watch for the 48 this season, it may be PRS-69, celebrating its 21st birthday this year. #NASCAR #TeamPenske #RyanNewman #BradSmith #ARCA #NRNChassis

HMS-473 It appears HMS-473’s debut came in the 2008 Sam’s Town 300. With Mark Martin behind the wheel, the duo led 81 laps and won the race, the very first win for JR Motorsports (slide 1-3). A month later, Dale Jr drove it in Texas to a 7th place finish (slide 4). Another month goes by before Martin and 473 return looking for another win, this time at Darlington. Mark was running 2nd on a late race restart, but ended up wrecked after the motor stumbled on low fuel (slide 5-6). He finished 23rd. Amazingly, the car was fixed in less than 2 weeks, and returned to the track. In the only race ever where Dale Jr ran the number 83, he drove HMS-473 to a 4th place finish at Charlotte after leading 3 laps (slide 7). Martin hopped back in at Michigan in August, leaving with another 4th place finish (slide 8). In what would appear to be the car’s final race, Mark Martin drove it once more at Kansas in September. He was running 2nd early in the race when his left rear tire exploded, sending him hard into the turn 2 wall. The heavy impact likely hurt the car beyond repair, ending its career. In its 6 confirmed races, HMS-473 got 1 win, 3 T5’s, 4 T10’s, led 84 laps, had an Avg Start of 10.5, and Avg Finish of 12.8, and raced over 1,417 miles. I would think there’s a good chance the car still exists somewhere today, since it’s the first JRM win car. But unfortunately I don’t know for sure. #NASCAR #MarkMartin #DaleJr #JRMotorsports #NRNChassis

PRS-58 The first race I can find with the car was the 2003 Pepsi 400, where Rusty Wallace finished 28th in the fuel saving finish (slide 1). Talladega that fall went better, with the car leading 11 laps and finishing 9th (slide 2). For 2004, the car didn’t return until the Pepsi 400, starting and finishing 27th (slide 3). For 2005, the car was given Rusty’s Last Call colors for the Budweiser Shootout, finishing 14th (slide 4). It was the Daytona 500 backup car, until Rusty’s primary was wrecked in the Duel. So PRS-58 was raced by Rusty in his final Daytona 500 to a solid 10th place finish (slide 5). The car took one final trip to Daytona that July, starting 9th (the best for the car) and finishing 4th (the best for the car)(slide 6). The car was taken out of storage and brought to the 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed, driven by Rusty Wallace as a celebration to the 50th Daytona 500 (slide 7). The car was bought from Georgia for $70,500 in May 2021. Now located in West LA, it’s up for sale again on BringATrailer.com. I also can’t help but wonder if this is the car that Rusty ran his infamous unrestricted Talladega test. In its 6 confirmed races, the car got 1 T5, 2 T10’s, 11 laps led, an Avg Start of 26.3, an Avg Finish of 15.3, and over 2,370 miles raced #NASCAR #TeamPenske #RustyWallace #NRNChassis

RYR-35 The first race I can find evidence of the car racing in was (likely) the 1998 ARCA season opener, where Kenny Irwin started 2nd, led 41 laps, and won (slide 2). Later that year it became a full blown Cup car, being raced by Dale Jarrett to the win in the Winston 500, also winning the Winston Million (slide 3). The car returned to Talladega in 1999, finishing 2nd in both races (slide 4). However at the July Daytona race, RYR-35 led 40 laps en route to victory lane (slide 5). For 2000, the car won the pole for the Daytona 500, and finished 2nd in its Duel. From the pole, Jarrett led 89 laps and won his final Daytona 500 with the car (slide 1). The car sat in Daytona USA for a year and was returned to RYR. Eventually they brought the car back to life. It was Elliott Sadler’s 2003 Daytona 500 primary, but was unfortunately wrecked in Tuesday practice (slide 6). Bobby Jones’ ARCA team bought it, and it was raced by Greg Sacks in the 2004 Daytona race, leading 12 laps but finishing 28th after a late crash (slide 7). Eddie Mercer drove it in the 2005 race but was taken out in an early wreck, finishing 40th (slide 8). The car disappears from results until 2010, raced by Tommy Joe Martins at Daytona, finishing an impressive 8th (slide 9). Martins and RYR-35 came back in 2011, finishing 14th that day (black car with red numbers in slide 10). That’s the final race on the car that I can find. In its (mostly) confirmed races, RYR-35 got 4 wins, 2 poles, 7 T5’s, 8 T10’s, 256 laps led, an Avg Start of 14.5, an Avg Finish of 9.1, and over 3,327 miles raced. #NASCAR #RobertYatesRacing #DaleJarrett #ElliottSadler #GregSacks #EddieMercer #TommyJoeMartins #NRNChassis

This is sorta a part 2 to the chassis post from earlier this morning. Also recently being sold in Midland, NC, was this car formerly raced by Jon Wood. I believe its final race was the 2007 Nicorette 300 in Atlanta, where Jon started 11th, but a lap 141 crash with Steven Wallace took them both out of the race. Wood was given a 36th place finish after racing just over 214 miles. Unfortunately without any chassis information listed, I wasn’t able to find anymore history on the car. However as nature slowly peeled away the Armor All colors, the Clorox scheme underneath was revealed as well, indicating that the car possibly traveled to Auto Club or Las Vegas in the weeks prior as a primary or backup car #NASCAR #JonWood #AtlantaMotorSpeedway #NRNChassis

Might be the first chassis post I have little to no info on. Joey Clanton drove the 09 truck for much of 2007. In the fall Martinsville race, the Kroger 200, Joey made it to the final 5 laps before being involved in a massive pileup. Contact between Todd Bodine, Travis Kvapil off turn 4 started the melee. Clanton was further back, creating a great run from the outside lane. As he came off the corner, the wreck was dumped in his lap, and Clanton slammed into Tim Sauter before getting hit by Jason Leffler in the door. Joey tried to drive away but the damage was too much. He would be given a 28th place finish after starting 6th that day, completing about 101 miles (slide 1-6). The truck was damaged too far to repair, and was eventually sold off. The truck still exists today in the same shape as it was sold in. Brandon Johnson was just selling it and a few more from Midland, NC (slide 7-8). #NASCAR #JoeyClanton #MartinsvilleSpeedway #NRNChassis

KBM-077 Maybe the most recent chassis post you’ll see from me. Best I can tell, KBM-077 was one of the final KBM chassis built (if I’m not mistaken, the final KBM built chassis was 079). 077 debuted with William Byron behind the wheel at Darlington, May 2023. Byron had a good day in the truck, starting 8th, leading 7 laps, and finishing 4th (slide 1-3). Next bossman, Kyle Busch, took the truck to Pocono. Kyle started 12th but crept forward toward the end. Busch only led 7 laps, but won the race, in what was KBM’s 100th and final victory before the team was sold off (slide 4-7). The truck was raced once more, by Jack Wood at Kansas. Wood started a solid 4th but dropped to finish 16th. In the truck’s 3 confirmed races, KBM-077 got 1 win, 2 T5’s, 16 laps led, an Avg Start of 8, an Avg Finish of 7, and over 565 miles raced. The way I understand it, the truck was restored with as many Pocono-original parts as possible, and given to Kyle Busch for his teams’ final win. #NASCAR #KyleBusch #KyleBuschMotorsports #NRNChassis

RCR-347 Built in January 2011 and debuting in March, Paul Menard drove the car for most of its life, starting with a 16th place finish at Auto Club (slide 1). Next at Dover, he left with a 24th place finish (slide 2). The car returned at Pocono with a front row start, but finishing 14th (slide 3). It returned to Pocono in August, one week after Menard’s miraculous Brickyard 400 victory, starting 7th and finishing 10th (slide 4). For the only time in the chassis’ life, it wore a new number, with Austin Dillon driving RCR-347 in the number 98, during Austin’s Cup Series debut that October in Kansas. The duo started and finished 26th (slide 5). The car returned in 2012 at Bristol, having a pretty solid day and finishing 10th (slide 6). In the car’s only crown jewel race, Menard started the Southern 500 14th, and finished 13th (slide 7). In its final confirmed race, RCR-347 started the Bristol night race 7th, and finished a solid 10th (slide 8). In its 8 confirmed starts, RCR-347 got an Avg Start of 12.75, an Avg Finish of 15.4, and over 3,237 miles raced. The chassis is currently owned by Parker DeAtley in Lillington, NC, who has it for sale at $1,750 (slide 9-10). Parker believes the car ran in the Xfinity Series as well, but in my little research, I unfortunately couldn’t find any evidence to back that up. #NASCAR #RichardChildressRacing #PaulMenard #AustinDillon #NRNChassis

TMS-111 The chassis debuted in the 2011 season opener, with Kasey Kahne behind the wheel of the 38. Kahne started 20th and finished 11th that day (the best finish for the chassis)(slide 1). For Talladega the car switched teams within Turner Scott Motorsports and became a 30 car, being driven by James Buescher. Buescher started 15th but was involved in a late wreck with his teammates where he nosed into the wall, ending his day early (slide 2-3). TMS-111 was repaired for Daytona that July and was raced by none other than Ricky Carmichael. Carmichael started 20th but a crash ended his day early, finishing 39th (slide 4-5). TMS brought new superspeedway chassis to 2012 but 111 returned in the 2013 season opener. With its third number, Kyle Larson drove the 32 car in TMS-111. Larson started 21st and led 1 lap (the only lap led by the chassis). Coming to the checkered flag, Larson was near the front when a crash broke out. He was t-boned hard and sent airborne, flying into the catch fence and leaving only the center section and some of the rear clip remaining. Despite the mangled legboards and pedals and the open firewall, Larson’s feet escaped injury and he immediately hopped out of the car. Debris became lodged in the fence and sent into the stands, injuring several fans. Luckily nobody was killed in the incident and Larson was credited with a 13th place finish. In its 4 races, TMS-111 had an Avg Start of 21 and an Avg Finish of 19.5, racing over 998 miles. Today, Kyle Larson has the remnants of TMS-111 in his personal shop. #NASCAR #TurnerScottMotorsports #KaseyKahne #JamesBuescher #RickyCarmichael #KyleLarson #NRNChassis

RYR-54 The chassis debuted in the fall of 2005, and it got busy quick. Its debut race was Atlanta in October, where Dale Jarrett started 9th and finished 14th (slide 1). With new colors, it was brought to Texas a week later where it finished 12th (slide 2). Two weeks later, it finished 17th in the season finale at Homestead (slide 3). Its 2006 debut was at Texas that April, only managing a 17th (slide 4). Next up at Darlington, the car finally lead its first lap en route to a 24th place finish, 2 laps down (slide 5). 54 raced again a month later in Dover, but again could only get to 24th (slide 6). The very next week, it traveled to Pocono, where issues led to a 38th place finish, 19 laps down (slide 7). The car was fixed up for the next Pocono race a month later, where it led 3 laps but dropped to finish 28th (slide 8). RYR-54’s final Cup race came 2 weeks later in the Brickyard 400 where again it could only finish 28th (slide 9). The car changed ownership a few times over the years, and apparently was amongst the first cars to get tested with composite bodies in ARCA. Since 2006, the car has been converted to superspeedway style. Now under the ownership of Kimmel Racing, Gage Rodgers drove it in 2023 Daytona preseason test, then during the 2023 season opener at Daytona, starting 37th and finishing 26th. By the look of things, it’s very possible RYR-54 was one of the Kimmel Racing cars that tested the last few days in Daytona. Look for it to return next month to race, and maybe later to Talladega. In its 10 confirmed starts, RYR-54 has led 4 laps with an Avg Start of 28.6, an Avg Finish of 25.2, and over 4,351 miles raced. #NASCAR #RobertYatesRacing #KimmelRacing #DaleJarrett #NRNChassis

RCR-88 RCR-88 debuted at Chicagoland 2002. Even though Kevin Harvick and the car started 32nd, they led in the closing laps and won the race that day (slide 1). Solid finishes followed at Pocono, a week later at Indy, and another 2 weeks later at Michigan where Harvick started 2nd, led 42 laps, and finished 3rd (slide 2). The car finished 11th at Kansas, then later went to Phoenix, finishing 17th in its first finish not on the lead lap. A week later, RCR-88 closed the 2002 season with a 20th place finish in Miami. Starting off its 2003 at Las Vegas, RCR-88 only could get a 13th place finish (slide 3). It sat all the way until heading back to Indy in August. The chassis was a man on a mission that weekend, taking the pole, leading 33 laps, and winning the Brickyard 400 before doing a memorable burnout down the frontstretch (slide 4). The remainder of 2003 was real solid for the car, finishing 2nd at Michigan, 6th at Kansas (slide 5), and finishing off the season with a 2nd in Miami (slide 6). 2004 for RCR-88 started off with a 9th in California before heading to Charlotte for the All Star Race. Things had hardly begun before they were over, as Harvick was involved in a large pileup just 15 laps in (slide 7). Amazingly the car was quickly fixed and raced in the Coke 600 a week later. But the car was never the same after that, finishing 23rd at Charlotte (slide 8), 20th at Pocono after a on track tussle with Matt Kenseth (slide 9), and a 21st at Michigan in the cars final race (slide 10). In its 17 races, RCR-88 got 2 wins, 1 pole, 6 T5’s, 9 T10’s, an Avg Start of 18.7, an Avg Finish of 10.5, 212 laps led, and over 6,757 miles raced. The car now sits at the RCR Museum with its Brickyard trophy and burnout tires next to it. #NASCAR #KevinHarvick #RichardChildressRacing #NRNChassis

HMS-1017 This one will be short and sweet. Yes, Stewart-Haas were still racing Hendrick made chassis at the beginning of 2017. They wouldn’t begin making their own Cup chassis until later in 2017 I believe. HMS-1017 made its debut in the 2017 Can-Am Duel with Kurt Busch, starting 11th and finishing 3rd (slide 4). The finish lead to a 8th place starting spot in the Daytona 500. Kurt Busch and 1017 survived a wreck and found themselves towards the front at the finish. As drivers dropped out running out of fuel, Busch found himself in the lead right at the end. Leading only the final lap, Kurt Busch and HMS-1017 won the 2017 Daytona 500 together. For HMS-1017’s two starts, it’s stat line reads as 1 win, 2 T5’s, 1 lap led, and 650 miles raced. The car is now on display in the front lobby of Stewart-Haas Racing. #NASCAR #KurtBusch #StewartHaasRacing #NRNChassis

JGR-193 It appears JGR-193 debuted in the biggest race of its life, the 2008 Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta. With Kyle Busch driving it, 193 won the race in the very first Cup Series win for Toyota after leading 173 laps (slide 1-2). A month later it went to Texas, beginning and ending in 3rd and leading 50 laps (slide 3). Next for the Coke 600, the car started on pole but again could only manage a 3rd (slide 4). Another month goes by and JGR-193 is sent to Michigan where again it won the pole but finished 13th (slide 5). It remained in Michigan spec and went back there in August, finishing 2nd that day (slide 6). Wearing some spooky colors, 193 went back to Atlanta hoping for more success. Unfortunately it never led the race for the first time ever in the car, and could only get a 5th (slide 7). JGR-193 returned in 2009 for some shorter tracks. At Bristol it started 19th but led an impressive 378 laps and won the race (slide 8-9). It’s final documented start came at Dover that May. Busch started 6th but finished 23rd in the cars only race not ended on the lead lap. In its 8 confirmed starts, JGR-193 got 2 wins, 2 poles, 6 T5’s, an Avg Start of 7.4, an Avg Finish of 6.4, 701 laps led, and over 3,582 miles raced. #NASCAR #JoeGibbsRacing #KyleBusch #NRNChassis

HMS-202 The chassis debuted with Johnson in the Cup Series, first driven in Johnson’s Cup debut at Charlotte, October 2001 (slide 1). The duo finished 39th after crashing just past halfway. They started 2002 solid with top 10’s at Atlanta and Texas followed by a 15th at Phoenix that Fall, while leading 1 lap (the first for the chassis). 2003 began poorly with a blown engine in Atlanta, but was immediately followed with the cars first victory in its first crown jewel, in the rain shortened Coke 600 (slide 2). Next the car went to Charlotte, Atlanta, and Miami at the end of the season, getting three third places finishes in a row. 2004 started solid with top 10’s in Atlanta and Texas before an incredible Coke 600, leading 334 laps from the pole and winning (slide 3). It’s first Michigan race brought a top 5 before a blown engine ended the 2nd Michigan race early, after winning the pole. The end of the season was amazing for HMS-202, winning 3 races in a row for it at Charlotte (slide 4), Atlanta a week after the Hendrick plane crash (slide 5), and Darlington in the Southern 500 (slide 6), then finishing the season a week later with a 2nd in Miami (slide 7). In it’s final season, the car returned for a famous finish, just barely losing to Carl Edwards for his first win (slide 8). A 3rd place followed in Texas before returning to the Coke 600 and winning its 3rd in a row, barely beating Bobby Labonte (slide 9). In its final race, HMS-202 went to California that September, started 5th, and finished 16th (slide 10). In its 22 confirmed starts, HMS-202 got 6 wins, 2 poles, 15 T5’s, 17 T10’s, an Avg Start of 11.7, an Avg Finish of 8.6, 832 laps led, and raced over 10,073 miles. Just a remarkable machine. #NASCAR #JimmieJohnson #HendrickMotorsports #NRNChassis

PRS-70 The chassis debuted with its most memorable race. Rusty Wallace took it to Martinsville, started 17th, led 45 laps, and won the race, in what would be his 55th and final NASCAR win (slide 1-4). That fall, the car returned at Richmond, starting 12th but finishing 10th (slide 5). Penske brought the car back to Martinsville hoping for another win. They started 2nd and led 34 laps but only finished 10th (slide 6). For 2005, the car returned at Martinsville again with another solid day. Wallace started 4th and led 47 laps en route to a 5th place finish (slide 7). A month later at Richmond, Wallace started 8th but finished a lap down in 19th (slide 8). At Richmond again, a 5th place finish helped Rusty get into the Chase (slide 9). In PRS-70’s final race, the team took the car back to Phoenix, where Rusty started 26th and finished 2 laps down in 29th, just before Rusty retired from full time racing. In its 7 starts, PRS-70 got 1 win, 3 T5’s, 5 T10’s, an Avg Start of 12, an Avg Finish of 11.3, led 126 laps, and raced over 1,998 miles. Currently PRS-70 resides at the Team Penske shop in its restored condition. #NASCAR #TeamPenske #RustyWallace #NRNChassis

EMS-206 One of the first COT cars built by Ray Evernham’s team, it debuted in the first COT race, the 2007 Food City 500. It started off strong, driven by Kasey Kahne and starting 2nd, but incidents resulted in a 19th place finish, 3 laps down (slide 1-2). Next the car went to Dover that June, with another solid start of 4th, leading 28 laps, and finishing 11th (slide 3). Now wearing McDonald’s colors, 206 returned to Bristol that August with its best race yet. Kahne won the pole for the race, led an amazing 305 laps, and finished 2nd (slide 4-5). Evernham brought the car back to Dover that fall starting 14th but was involved in a late race pileup, ending Kahne’s race early bringing a 32nd place finish (slide 6-7). The chassis returned for 2008 to the spring Bristol race, starting 20th but running up to a 7th place finish (slide 8-9). After then, the Evernham 9 team would hardly ever release the chassis numbers, ending the trail that I could find for EMS-206. In its 5 confirmed races, the car got 1 pole, 1 T5, 2 T10’s, an Avg Start of 8.2, an Avg Finish of 14.2, and over 1,821 miles raced. Luckily, the car still exists today, and was recently bought by Rob Santore, who also says the car raced at more tracks than Bristol and Dover (slide 10). #NASCAR #KaseyKahne #EvernhamMotorsports #NRNChassis

HMS-538 The first time I see HMS-538 appear on record is for the 2009 spring Phoenix race, and it appeared with a bang! Mark Martin drove the car to the pole, led just over half the race, and drove straight to victory lane with it (slides 1-2). A few weeks later, Hendrick brought the car to Richmond where Martin started 7th and finished 5th after a spin(slide 3). A month later, 538 took a swing at the big tracks and headed to Pocono. But a 19th place finish quickly diminished that thought (the worst finish for HMS-538, slide 4). Three weeks later the car went back north, now to New Hampshire. Unfortunately a 14th place finish is all they could do (slide 5). Back at Richmond that September, Martin took the car and won its 2nd pole, as well as finishing a solid 4th (slide 6-7). Everyone was pleased with the cars performance, so they cleaned it up and brought it to New Hampshire the very next week, where Martin took it from 14th, led 68 laps, and won the race, the final win for HMS-538 and the final Cup win for Mark Martin (slide 8-9). For one final race in their drive for the championship, 538 made one last start at Phoenix, starting 10th, and finishing 4th (slide 10). Unfortunately after that day, I can’t find race history involving the chassis, and I don’t know where it lives today if it still exists. HMS-538 was paramount in Mark Martin’s historic surprise final run at the title, with its 2 wins, 2 poles, 4 T5’s, 230 laps led, an Avg Start of 8, an Avg Finish of 6.8, and over 2,330 miles raced. UPDATE: Mark Martin says he now owns HMS-538, and is having work done on it to be restored #NASCAR #NRNChassis #HendrickMotorsports #MarkMartin

DEI-064 Unfortunately public chassis records for DEI chassis are a little spotty, so I’ve pieces together as much as I could find. I believe DEI-064 debuted in 2008 after being built in late ‘07 or early ‘08. Lucky for the chassis, it was built in a time where DEI was still producing some pretty solid superspeedway cars. The first guaranteed race for the chassis was the Aaron’s 499, where Menard started 22nd, led 3 laps, spun, and brought it home 14th (slide 1-3). It’s next confirmed race was the fall Talladega race that year, starting 5th, leading 6 laps, and crossing the finish line 3rd before his teammate, Regan Smith, was penalized from the series of events leading to the checkered flag, leading to 064 getting credited with a 2nd place finish (slide 4-7). From there the chassis disappears off records, that is until a recent Twitter post shows one of the cars from the short lived Keyed-Up Motorsports, still around today sitting in someone’s shop. The post lists the chassis as DEI-064, leading us to assume Raymond Key bought the car from DEI for his team and anticipated to use it in their attempt to make the 2010 Daytona 500. Casey Mears drove the car to a 16th place finish in their Duel, but it wasn’t enough to make the field (slide 8-10). The team only made one start in the first 6 races, shutting their doors after that. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #DaleEarnhardtIncorporated #KeyedUpMotorsports #PaulMenard #CaseyMears

HMS-361 Built in 2005, the car debuted in 2006 speedweeks with Brian Vickers in the seat. He started 9th in his Duel and finished 20th but went on to lead 21 laps in the 500 and finish 7th (slide 1-2). The car became the team’s Daytona primary, returning for the July race, leading 13 laps and finishing 18th (slide 3-4). Back in Daytona next February, now driven by Casey Mears to a 9th place finish in the Duel and a 20th place finish in the 500 (slide 5). In the July race, Mears led 11 laps but only could manage a 19th place finish, in the final superspeedway race in the Gen 4 Cup car (slide 6). Eventually the car was sold and it appears on record again in 2012 driven by Chad Hackenbracht in ARCA, who drove it to a 14th place finish at Daytona (slide 7), and a 3rd in its first recorded race at Talladega (slide 8). Hackenbracht didn’t race the 2013 superspeedway races and 361 disappears again until 2017, when Kyle Weatherman drove it to an 8th place finish at Daytona (slide 9) and led 4 laps before being involved in a heavy crash ending their race. It’s possible that the wreck killed HMS-361. Since then I haven’t been able to find records of the car racing again. In its 10 confirmed starts, HMS-361 got 1 T5, 4 T10’s, led 87 laps, had an Avg Start of 10.4, an Avg Finish of 15, and raced over 2,871 miles. #NASCAR #HendrickMotorsports #BrianVickers #CaseyMears #ChadHackenbracht #KyleWeatherman #NRNChassis

RK-491 Greg Biffle tested 491 at Road America in summer 2007 before debuting at Sonoma. They started 17th but finished a strong 5th (slide 5-7). Next it went to Watkins Glen, wearing a bright Wii paint scheme. Biffle started 16th and finished a solid 10th that day (slide 8-10). As far as I can see, those are the only two races for the chassis. Sounds like it became a showcar for some time after that and eventually changed owners. Now, the car is located in Kingman, Arizona and is for sale for $15,000. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #GregBiffle #RoushFenwayRacing

HMS-478 Debuting in the 2008 Budweiser Shootout, Dale Earnhardt Jr started 7th with it, led 47 laps, and won the race in his very first start for Hendrick Motorsports (slide 1-3). After that, 478 became Dale’s speedway primary, returning at Talladega, starting 9th, led 46 laps, and finished 10th (slide 4-5). Back at Daytona for the July race, Jr started 3rd (best start for the chassis), led 51 laps, and finished 8th (slide 6-7). Hoping to keep its top 10 streak alive, the team brought the car back to Talladega that fall. Things were going good in practice up until the right rear tire exploded, taking the car with it (slide 8-10). Unfortunately the car doesn’t appear to race again in the Cup Series and I don’t know where it currently lies today. Perhaps it sits in Dirty Mo Acres on Dale’s property. It had just 3 starts, with 1 win, 1 T5, 3 T10’s, an Avg Start and Finish of 6.3, 144 laps led, and over 1,080 miles driven. #NASCAR #HendrickMotorsports #DaleJr #NRNChassis

PRS-46 The first time I see the car racing was the 2003 spring Bristol race. It took off like a rocket with a track record qualifying time of 14.90 seconds, unfortunately finishing 4 laps down in 22nd (slide 1). I don’t see it race again until Rockingham next February, where it also sat on the pole, led 12 laps, and finished 6th (slide 2). 3 weeks later it returned at Atlanta, again, winning the pole, led 43 laps and finished 5th (slide 3). Another 2 weeks later, it returned to Bristol and won ANOTHER pole, led 25 laps, and finished 7th (slide 4). At Dover it just missed out on its 5th pole in a row, starting 2nd and finishing 24th after being involved in a pileup. In August it returned to Bristol and got its best finish yet of 2nd. PRS-46 capped off 2004 with it’s only win, coming at the September Dover race. It started 2nd and led an incredible 325 laps en route to victory (slide 5). PRS-46 debuted ‘05 at its first crown jewel in the Coke 600, again winning the pole and finishing 5th (slide 6). Next, it had a solid day at Pocono, starting 4th, finishing 5th again (slide 7). That September, the car won its final pole at Dover, gathering another 5th place finish as well (slide 8). It’s last race of the season came at Kansas, it’s worst race yet, starting 11th and finishing 23rd. Back for more in 2006, it went on the hunt for a million dollars in the All Star race, only leaving with a 5th place finish (slide 9). It didn’t return until September in Atlanta, where in its last race that I can find, it started 17th and finished 4 laps down in 30th in the car’s worst performance (slide 10). In its 13 races, PRS-46 got 1 win, 6 poles, 7 T5’s, 9 T10’s, an insane Avg Start of 3.9, an Avg Finish of 10.8, led 488 laps, and raced for over 5,013 miles. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #TeamPenske #RyanNewman

DEI-020 The car first appears on records at the spring 2007 Darlington race, where Martin Truex Jr started 25th but finished a solid 11th (slide 1). A month later it returned at Dover, where Truex led over half the race and won his first career Cup race at his home track (slide 2-7). Next it raced at New Hampshire, putting on another solid race, starting 9th and finishing 3rd (slide 8). Now wearing a silver suit at Richmond, the 15th place finish helped put Truex in the Chase for 2007 (slide 9). The last race I can find for the car was the 2008 June Dover race, one year removed from DEI-020’s peak of its career. Truex and 020 started 20th and were able to climb to a 6th to finish the day. DEI’s public chassis records were a little spotty, so I’d be willing to bet the car raced more than what I can find. Currently I don’t know what happened to the car after that 2008 race, or where it may be at today. In its 5 confirmed races, DEI-020 got 1 win, 2 T5’s, 3 T10’s, led 262 laps, had an Avg Start of 24, an Avg Finish of 7.2, and raced over 1,918 miles. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #DaleEarnhardtIncorporated #MartinTruexJr

HMS-188 The first time I see HMS-188 racing, is in the 2001 spring Atlanta race, when Jeff Gordon drove it to 2nd place, losing by inches to the young star, Kevin Harvick (slide 1). Next it raced at Fontana, finishing 2nd again. For its first crown jewel race, 188 raced in the Coke 600, starting 2nd but finishing 3 laps down in 29th (the worst finish for HMS-188). A few weeks later, Gordon raced it in Michigan, starting from the pole and winning the race after beating Ricky Rudd in a late race duel (slide 2-3). Next the car went to it’s final crown jewel, the Brickyard 400, where Gordon won again with the car (slide 4). I don’t see the car race again until 2002 with the young rookie, Jimmie Johnson behind the wheel. His first race with it was Vegas, finishing 6th and leading his first laps in the Cup Series with the car (slide 5). Next, the car returned to Fontana, started 4th and won the race, Johnson’s first career Cup win (slide 6-7). Johnson raced both Michigan races with the car, or he intended to, finishing 14th in the June race but crashing it in practice for the August race. 188 was repaired and raced again at Kansas (slide 8). Despite starting 2nd and finishing 10th, it was the first race that HMS-188 ran without leading a lap. A solid 8th place finish capped off it’s season in Miami (slide 9). It appears the car returned twice more in 2003, racing both Michigan races. But a 16th and 27th was the best it could do (slide 10). In its 12 races, HMS-188 got 3 wins, 1 pole, 5 T5’s, 7 T10’s, an Avg Start of 11.3, an Avg Finish of 9.75, led 529 laps, and raced over 5,291 miles. Currently, the car lives in the Hendrick Motorsports museum, with its 2002 Jimmie Johnson body on it. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #HendrickMotorsports #JeffGordon #JimmieJohnson

CGR-632 I believe built in fall/winter of 2006, it was the 32nd chassis CGR built in ‘06. The first time I see it racing is the spring Richmond race. With David Stremme driving, it started 21st but finished 38th after crashing with about 40 to go (slide 1, 9-10). Next it appears at New Hampshire that July, starting 24th and finishing 27th (slide 7-8). I can’t find any record of it racing in NASCAR again. Apparently CGR used the car as a Reed Sorenson Target showcar during 2008, then donated to a Virginia vocational school, used mainly as just a display car. It changed owners and got rebuilt/restored as a road course car. It was raced several times in endurance racing, even finding some success (slide 2-6). Currently the car is for sale on Race Cars For You, for a cool price of $49,500. #NASCAR #NRNChassis #DavidStremme #ChipGanassiRacing

CGR-006 Many people know of CGR-005, that has been racing superspeedway races since 2000 and still survives in ARCA, but often forgotten is it’s sister car, CGR-006. The earliest race I can find of the car is the spring Talladega race in 2001, driven by Jason Leffler that season for the final 3 superspeedway races. It’s best finish was a 15th at Talladega that fall, after leading 6 laps (slide 1-2). Jimmy Spencer took over the car in 2002, driving it in the Bud Shootout as well as the final Daytona and Talladega races, with a best finish of 4th in July at Daytona (slide 3). Casey Mears took over the ride for 2003, racing into the 500 in his Duel, before wrecking the car with less than 10 minutes to go in final practice (slide 4). It returned in July to Daytona but could only manage a 37th, 17 laps down. The car looked fast in its 2004 Duel; but an early wreck in the 500 resulted in a 36th place finish. Racing the last two superspeedway races of ‘04, it’s best result was 17th. Jamie McMurray took over 006 in 2005, and the car looked decent again in its Duel before another wreck in the 500 put it back to another DNF. McMurray raced it in both Talladega races that year, looking solid with 5th and 12th place finishes. I don’t see the car appear again until the fall Talladega race in 2006, when Casey Mears brought it home 30th after further late race crash damage. And for its final race that I can find, CGR-006 was passed down to Juan Pablo Montoya. In the spring 2007 Talladega race, Montoya finished a lap down in 31st with the now old car. From there the car disappears from Cup racing, perhaps it was sold, maybe crushed, who knows. Over its 18 races, CGR-006 got 3 T5’s, 4 T10’s, led 46 laps, had an Avg Start of 19.6, and an Avg Finish of 20.2. #NASCAR #ChipGanassiRacing #NRNChassis

KHI-T053 The truck debuted in 2011, and started off with a pair of 2nd place finishes, with Elliott Sadler and Ron Hornaday pushing Michael Waltrip and Mike Wallace to victories (slide 1-2). Now an RCR truck, Brendan Gaughan and Tim George Jr split the truck in 2012, with a 20th at Daytona after a crash and a 9th at Talladega. Gaughan solely drove it in 2013, with a best finish of 11th at Talladega (slide 3). I can’t find the truck racing again until 2016, now in the hands of GMS Racing. Grant Enfinger won the pole with it at Daytona but finished 20th after a late crash (slide 4). Ben Kennedy nabbed a top 5 at Talladega before Grala took it over for 2017. T053 won the pole for the second year in a row at Daytona, and Grala missed the final lap chaos to win his first career Truck race, as well as the first win for the chassis (slide 5). But an early wreck took him out at Talladega (slide 6). Dalton Sargeant finished 8th at Daytona with it (slide 7) before Timothy Peters took the truck to its 2nd win that fall (slide 8). T053 went into Sheldon Creed’s hands starting in 2019. Creed led laps every time he drove the truck, as well as winning the pole for the 2020 Talladega race (slide 9). The best he finished in it was 6th at Daytona 2021. It’s final race was Talladega 2021, Creed started 9th and finished 12th (slide 10). I can’t find KHI-T053 racing again since, perhaps GMS sold it, perhaps BMR bought it since GMS shut down. Maybe, just maybe, we will see T053 race again in 2024. In its 18 starts, it got 2 wins, 3 poles, 5 T5’s, 10 T10’s, 121 led, an Avg Start of 6.7, and an Avg Finish of 11.2. #NASCAR #NRNChassis

This weekend Richard Childress will pace the field in the car that Kevin Harvick famously won the 2001 Cracker Barrel 500 at Atlanta, chassis RCR-70. The car debuted in the 2000 season finale, the NAPA 500, also at Atlanta. With Dale Earnhardt behind the wheel, RCR-70 started 8th and finished 2nd to Jerry Nadeau after leading 12 laps (slide 1). Earnhardt was scheduled to drive it again for the next Atlanta race until his untimely death, when Harvick was put into the seat. Harvick went to Atlanta with RCR-70, starting 5th, leading 18 laps, and winning his first career race by inches over Jeff Gordon (slides 2-7). If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, and RCR-70 was anything but broke for Harvick. I couldn’t 100% confirm it, but I think RCR-70 returned a few weeks later to Texas in the Harrah’s 500, where Harvick started 33rd but finished 7th. -The car returned for Memorial Day weekend, racing in the Coca-Cola 600, starting 6th, leading 1 lap, and finishing an impressive 2nd in his first Coke 600 attempt (slide 8). It wouldn’t race again until the next race in Charlotte, the UAW-GM Quality 500 that October, where it started 14th and finished 8th, the worst finish ever for RCR-70. And finally RCR-70 returned to the location of the peak of its life, at the fall Atlanta race, the Napa 500. 363 days ago, Dale Earnhardt wheeled it in its debut, Harvick would start 38th with it but finish 3rd. (slide 9; again another one I can’t 100% confirm the car raced in this race, but I believe it did). From my research, I believe the 2001 Napa 500 was the final race in the cars career, before it became a museum piece for RCR. In total, it made 6 starts, getting 1 win, 4 T5’s, 6 T10’s, 31 laps led, an Avg Start of 17.3, and an Avg Finish of 3.8. Truly an impressive machine. #NASCAR #RichardChildressRacing #DaleEarnhardt #KevinHarvick #NRNChassis