Wednesday, September 24, 2014

9/15/85: Maurice Randall Scores Chrysler’s Final NASCAR Last-Place Finish

SOURCE: Howie Hodge - www.thechromehorn.com
On September 15, 1985, during the Delaware 500 at the Dover Downs International Speedway, Maurice Randall picked up the 3rd last-place finish of his NASCAR Winston Cup Series career when his #93 MRE Racing Chrysler fell out with overheating problems after he completed 1 of the race’s 500 laps.

The finish was Randall’s second of the 1985 season and his first since Michigan, eight races ago.

Randall, a 32-year-old owner-driver from Charlotte, Michigan, made his fourth Cup Series start at Dover.  Just like in the other three, he ran a long-bodied Chrysler Imperial, a car that by 1985 was fielded only by him and fellow independent drivers Buddy Arrington (#67) and Phil Good (#76).  Randall’s best Cup finish was a 30th-place finish in his Cup debut at Nashville - ironically, it was also his first last-place finish.  The only race where Randall did not finish last was at Rockingham in early 1985, when he came home 35th in a field of 40.

Randall, Good, and Arrington all made the field for the Delaware 500, though Arrington did so in a Ford Thunderbird, a change he made after the season’s fifth race at Bristol (save for one last run in the Chrysler at Riverside).  Arrington timed in 27th, Good in 34th, and Randall trailed the field in the 39th spot.

After just one lap, Randall slowed in Turns 3 and 4 and was passed by polesitter Bill Elliott.  He pulled behind the wall, ending his race.  Phil Good, now the only Chrysler in the field, finished under power in 18th while Arrington’s Ford finished 11th.  Both were laps down to Harry Gant, who led 216 laps on his way to a dominating victory in the Hal Needham-owned #33 Skoal Bandit Chevrolet.

Behind Randall in the Bottom Five was 38th-place Chuck Walton, who made his first and only Cup Series start driving an unsponsored black #63 Chevrolet fielded by his own team.  In 37th was Roanoke, Virginia driver Tommie Crozier, whose fourth of eight career Cup starts ended when his Pontiac also overheated.  36th-place Earle Canavan had been racing in Cup since 1969, but the Dover race was to be the next-to-last of his 68 starts - the 46-year-old from Fort Johnson, New York was the 1977 LASTCAR Cup Series Champion.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was 44-year-old Buddy Baker, who was in the closing stages of his first season as both owner and driver.  Partnered with Danny Schiff, Baker was still searching for his first Cup victory since 1983.  His #88 Bull Frog Knits Oldsmobile slammed the Turn 4 wall after 85 laps, ending his race.  Although Baker did not win another race by his retirement in 1994, he became a well-known broadcaster for CBS in the years that followed.

Neither Maurice Randall nor Chrysler competed in another Cup Series race after Dover, but it was not the end of the line for both driver and car.  With the ARCA Racing Series accepting entries from Cup underdogs, Randall made 46 starts from 1986 through 1993.  Surprisingly, Randall drove a Chrysler in all but three of those events, using not only the Imperial, but also a Cordoba and a LeBaron coupe.  In fact, Randall’s Chryslers carried him to his best career finishes in the series - a pair of 14th-place runs at Owosso Speedway in 1986 and Perry County Speedway in 1988.

In the spring of 2012, Randall participated in this thread at Randy Ayers’ NASCAR Modeling Forum, providing details on the Mopar products he ran.  Among them are some excellent pictures of his old stock cars sitting in his garage - including his Imperial.

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first last-place finish for the #93 in a Cup race at Dover since September 14, 1975, when Dick May quit after 8 laps while driving his 1973 Ford, a second Truxmore-sponsored entry fielded by the late Junie Donlavey.  Dick Brooks, driving Donlavey’s primary #90, finished 2nd that day to race winner Richard Petty after Petty passed Brooks for the lead with nine laps to go.
*This was the 29th and final last-place finish for Chrysler in NASCAR competition and its first last-place run at Dover.  Chrysler’s first last-place finish in Cup competition took place on at North Wilkesboro Speedway on March 30, 1952 when Harold Mays’ 1951 Chrysler was involved in a crash after the opening lap of the Wilkes County 200.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
39) #93-Maurice Randall / 1 lap / overheating
38) #63-Chuck Walton / 5 laps / handling
37) #85-Tommie Crozier / 30 laps / overheating
36) #01-Earle Canavan / 53 laps / brakes
35) #88-Buddy Baker / 83 laps / crash

1985 LASTCAR CUP SERIES DRIVER’S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) J.D. McDuffie, Maurice Randall, Tim Richmond, Ronnie Thomas (2)
2nd) Buddy Baker, Eddie Bierschwale, Trevor Boys, Delma Cowart, Cecil Gordon, Jeff Hooker, Jimmy Means, Benny Parsons, Phil Parsons, David Pearson, Mike Potter, Ken Schrader, Morgan Shepherd, Rusty Wallace (1)

1985 LASTCAR CUP SERIES OWNER’S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) #27-Blue Max Racing, #41-Thomas Racing, #70-McDuffie Racing, #93-Randall Racing (2)
2nd) #0-H.L. Waters, #2-Cliff Stewart, #6-U.S. Racing, #21-David Pearson, #51-Arnie Sacks, #52-Means Racing, #53-Jeff Hooker, #55-Jackson Brothers, #66-Jackson Brothers, #68-Jimmy Walker, #88-Baker-Schiff Racing, #90-Donlavey Racing, #98-McCaig Racing, #00-Helen Rae Smith (1)

1985 LASTCAR CUP SERIES MANUFACTURER’S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Chevrolet (9)
2nd) Pontiac (6)
3rd) Ford (3)
4th) Chrysler, Oldsmobile (2)

Sunday, September 21, 2014

CUP: Clay Rogers’ Cup Debut Ends Early At Loudon

SOURCE: NASCAR
Clay Rogers picked up the 1st last-place finish of his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career in Sunday’s Sylvania 300 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway when his #93 Iowa City Capital Partners Toyota fell out with overheating problems after he completed 45 of the race’s 303 laps.  The finish came in Rogers’ series debut.

Rogers is the fourth different driver this season to trail a Cup field in the #93 BK Racing entry, joining Mike Bliss (Loudon in July), Johnny Sauter (Pocono in August), and J.J. Yeley (Richmond in September).  The team now takes a one-finish lead in the LASTCAR Cup Series Owner’s Championship over the #37 Tommy Baldwin Racing entry, which did not compete Sunday.

Sunday was Rogers’ first Cup start, but not his first in NASCAR.  The 33-year-old from Mooresville, North Carolina excels at the short tracks.  He’s competed in the X-1R Pro Cup Series since the age of 18, scoring 36 wins and five championships in 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, and 2013.  He’s also the 2006 winner of the Snowball Derby.

At Rockingham in 2001, Rogers finished 18th in his first NASCAR start - the Nationwide Series race at Rockingham - driving the Robbie Reiser-owned car previously driven by Matt Kenseth.  Late that season, he’d improve to a career-best 12th at Memphis.

When Reiser turned his attention to Kenseth’s Cup career, Rogers branched out into ARCA and the Camping World Truck Series.  In 36 Truck starts, he’s scored two top-fives and three top-tens, including a career-best 3rd in the 2011 race at Daytona.  And in just thirteen ARCA starts, Rogers has scored two top-five finishes and four top-tens, including a career-best 4th at Iowa in his most recent start in 2012.

More than half of Rogers’ ARCA starts have come driving for longtime car owner Mark Beard, who had also entered a handful of Nationwide Series races from 1982 through 1991.  This year, Rogers and Beard teamed up once more with designs on entering a white #75 Beard Oil Chevrolet the Sprint Cup Series.  The team’s first race was supposed to be Loudon in July, but the team withdrew before qualifying.  They returned to the track at Richmond earlier this month, but came just three spots shy of bumping their way into the field.

Surprisingly, neither Rogers nor the #75 team were on the preliminary entry list for NASCAR’s return to Loudon.  However, by Tuesday, a shake-up at BK Racing presented another opportunity.  Struggling rookie Ryan Truex, the original driver of BK’s #83 Burger King Toyota, was replaced by Travis Kvapil, originally slated to run BK’s “start-and-park” #93.  With the #93 ride freed-up, Rogers was announced as the replacement.  And with only 43 cars showing up for 43 spots, Rogers would this time be guaranteed his first Sprint Cup start.

Rogers turned in the 37th-fastest time in the opening practice, then timed in 33rd with an average speed of 136.560 mph.  He was the only driver to not participate in Saturday’s opening practice, but returned to the track in Happy Hour to put up the 38th-fastest time.

On Sunday, Timmy Hill started last in Frankie Stoddard’s #32 U.S. Chrome Ford, and was making his first Cup start since the July race at the New Hampshire track.  Two laps later, Hill was passed by the flat white #66 Royal Teak Collection Toyota of Mike Wallace, who was making his first Cup start since this same race in 2009.  On the 16th circuit, Wallace was the first driver to be lapped.

Hill again took the last spot when the competition caution on Lap 36, then after pit stops lost it to Corey LaJoie.  LaJoie, son of two-time Nationwide champion Randy LaJoie, was also making his Cup debut.  He drove the #77 Fochler Veterans Law Ford owned by Randy Humphrey, whose team was making just its third start since suspending operations in June.  Hill briefly retook 43rd on the restart before Rogers pulled behind the wall on Lap 44.

The remainder of the Bottom Five shuffled for much of the remainder of the race.  On Lap 94, LaJoie’s Ford pulled behind the wall after trailing smoke in Turn 3.  Around twenty laps later, David Stremme’s black #33 Little Joe’s Autos Chevrolet had a similar problem and crept onto the access road entering the same corner.  Both returned to the track 102 and 74 laps down, respectively - just in time for a series of late-race wrecks involving Chase contenders.

Finishing 42nd was David Ragan, who snared the spot from LaJoie with just twenty laps to go.  On Lap 181, Ragan was involved in a four-car accident that steered his #34 Taco Bell Ford head-on into the outside wall before being tagged by the lapped machine of Denny Hamlin.  Hamlin, himself as low as 41st after a broken fuel probe, had clawed his way to 36th before slipping back to 39th.  Hamlin ended up 37th at the checkers, passing Cole Whitt, damaged in the Ragan wreck, and Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., involved in two tangles in the final 100 laps, the last being a hard shot to the Turn 1 wall after a cut right-front tire.  LaJoie and Stremme finished between Stenhouse and Ragan, completing the Bottom Five.  LaJoie brought out the eleventh caution on Lap 258 when he spun in Turn 2, but still finished under power.

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*The BK Racing #93 team swept both last-place finishes at Loudon in 2014 - the first team to sweep a track this season.  This has not happened since 2011, when Jeff Green and Travis Kvapil finished last at Loudon driving Front Row Motorsports’ #55 Ford.
*Rogers is the first driver to finish last at Loudon due to overheating problems since September 20, 2009, when Tony Raines’ #37 Long John Silvers Dodge fell out after 8 laps.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
43) #93-Clay Rogers / 45 laps / overheating
42) #34-David Ragan / 177 laps / crash
41) #77-Corey LaJoie / 201 laps / running
40) #33-David Stremme / 228 laps / running
39) #17-Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. / 263 laps / crash

LASTCAR CUP SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Dave Blaney, Mike Bliss (3)
2nd) A.J. Allmendinger, Aric Almirola, Trevor Bayne, Clint Bowyer, Landon Cassill, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., David Gilliland, Denny Hamlin, Timmy Hill, Travis Kvapil, Kyle Larson, Michael McDowell, Joe Nemechek, Clay Rogers, Johnny Sauter, Morgan Shepherd, Tony Stewart, Martin Truex, Jr., Ryan Truex, Brian Vickers, Cole Whitt, J.J. Yeley (1)

LASTCAR CUP SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) #93-BK Racing (4)
2nd) #37-Tommy Baldwin Racing (3)
3rd) #77-Randy Humphrey Racing (2)
4th) #11-Joe Gibbs Racing, #14-Stewart-Haas Racing, #15-Michael Waltrip Racing, #21-Wood Brothers Racing, #26-BK Racing, #32-Go FAS Racing, #33-Circle Sport, #38-Front Row Motorsports, #40-Hillman Racing, #42-Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, #43-Richard Petty Motorsports, #47-JTG-Daugherty Racing, #55-Michael Waltrip Racing, #66-Michael Waltrip Racing / Identity Ventures Racing, #78-Furniture Row Racing, #83-BK Racing, #87-Identity Ventures Racing, #88-Hendrick Motorsports, #95-Leavine Family Racing (1)

LASTCAR CUP SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Toyota (11)
2nd) Chevrolet (10)
3rd) Ford (7)

N’WIDE: Jeff Green Scores Third Last-Place Finish In Four Kentucky Races

SOURCE: @KPokrefky
Jeff Green picked up the 59th last-place finish of his NASCAR Nationwide Series career in Saturday’s VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300 at the Kentucky Speedway when his #10 Heroes Behind the Camo / SupportMilitary.org Toyota fell out with a vibration after he completed 3 of the race’s 200 laps.

The finish was Green’s sixth of the 2014 season, his first since Atlanta, two races ago, and his third in five races.  With six races to go, Green now stands two finishes behind teammate Blake Koch for the LASTCAR Nationwide Series title.

Green was one of three drivers who did not participate in Friday’s opening practice at the Kentucky Speedway, but he ran a solid 30th in final practice, more than enough to best the one team that was going to miss the race.  In qualifying, Green backed up his run by timing in 32nd at an average speed of 166.857 mph.  Missing the race by a half-second was Carl Long, whose #13 OCR Gaz Bar Dodge ended up with its third DNQ in the last five races.

Starting in last on Saturday was Mike Harmon, who after his crash at Richmond now drove a white #74 WCIParts.com Dodge in place of his typical black.  After the first lap, Harmon was passed by Josh Reaume, whose #87 Lilly Trucking of Virginia Chevrolet started 39th.  On Lap 3, Green pulled behind the wall, just two laps before the first caution fell for Harrison Rhodes’ Turn 4 spin in James Carter’s #72 Chevrolet.  Under the caution, Ryan Ellis pulled out of the race in The Motorsports Group’s #46 Chevrolet.

One lap after the restart, both Harmon and Reaume pulled out, followed eight laps later by Morgan Shepherd in his #89 Racing With Jesus / Courtney Construction Chevrolet, his second bottom-five finish in the last three races.

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*This is Green’s third last-place finish in the last four Nationwide Series races at Kentucky, a track he swept last season.  It is also the fourth in five races for TriStar’s #10 team, which includes Charles Lewandoski’s finish in the 2012 running.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
40) #10-Jeff Green / 3 laps / vibration
39) #46-Ryan Ellis / 6 laps / vibration
38) #74-Mike Harmon / 9 laps / transmission
37) #87-Josh Reaume / 9 laps / rear gear
36) #89-Morgan Shepherd / 17 laps / vibration

LASTCAR N'WIDE SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Blake Koch (8)
2nd) Jeff Green (6)
3rd) Kevin Lepage (3)
4th) Matt DiBenedetto (2)
5th) Tanner Berryhill, Ryan Ellis, Matt Frahm, Roger Reuse, Robert Richardson, Jr., Tim Schendel, Jimmy Weller, Josh Wise (1)

LASTCAR N'WIDE SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) #10-TriStar Motorsports (11)
2nd) #46-The Motorsports Group (5)
3rd) #91-TriStar Motorsports (3)
4th) #74-Mike Harmon Racing (2)
5th) #17-Vision Racing, #23-R3 Motorsports, #55-VIVA Motorsports / SS Green Light Racing, #77-Mike Harmon Racing, #87-Rick Ware Racing, #93-JGL Racing (1)

LASTCAR N'WIDE SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Toyota (14)
2nd) Chevrolet (8)
3rd) Dodge (5)

TRUCKS: Ted Minor Trails Loudon Field In Benning’s Second Truck

SOURCE: Rubbin's Racin' Forums
Ted Minor picked up the 1st last-place finish of his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career in Saturday’s UNOH 175 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway when his unsponsored #57 Norm Benning Racing Chevrolet fell out with a broken clutch without completing a lap of the 175-lap race.  The finish came in Minor’s third series start.

A 40-year-old businessman from Weatherford, Texas, Minor has had his sights set on becoming a NASCAR driver since his first short track race in 2001.  After nine years of persistence, Minor made his ARCA debut in 2010 at Indiana’s half-mile Salem Speedway, where he drove Truck Series owner-driver Chris Lafferty’s #89 Chevrolet to a 25th-place finish in the 33-car field.  It took another four years for Minor to secure his first NASCAR ride - the #12 Chevrolet owned by Joey Cefalia.

Minor and Cefalia were to make their first attempt at Martinsville this past March, but after struggling in the opening pactice, the team withdrew before qualifying.  Five races later, team and driver rebounded at Gateway, where Minor finished a career-best 25th in his first-ever NASCAR start.  The duo made their next race last week at Chicagoland, where he fell out on the first lap due to electrical issues.

At Loudon, Minor climbed aboard the bright red #57 Chevrolet once fielded by Norm Benning and subsequently run by Benning’s part-time teammate Adam Edwards.  Minor’s truck was one of the 30 entered in the race, an entry list shortened by one after the withdrawal of Mike Harmon, who edged Minor for last at Chicagoland.  Minor was the slowest of the 27 trucks in the first practice, then did not participate in the other two sessions.  He qualified 29th at an average speed fo 94.168 mph, besting Matt Crafton, who failed to complete a timed lap.

Seconds after the start of Saturday’s race, Minor and the #57 were behind the wall.  Three laps later came Mike Mittler’s #36 Chevrolet, driven for the second time in three races by Justin Jennings.  Jennings, the team’s primary driver, stepped into the team’s second truck as J.R. Heffner took the controls of the #63 ad came home 23rd after a late crash.

Finishing 28th was Caleb Roark, another two-time last-place finisher in 2014, making his third-straight start in Jennifer Jo Cobb’s #0 Grimes Irrigation & Construction Chevrolet.  27th went to Minor’s car owner Norm Benning, whose #6 Crossey Plumbing Chevrolet exited the same lap as Roark with rear gear issues.  Rounding out the Bottom Five was B.J. McLeod, his first start since Bowmanville ending with rear gear issues on the #07 Geneva-Liberty Steel / ThunderExhaust.com Chevrolet.

For more about Ted Minor, including a videotaped feature on a local news station, check out his website at http://www.tedminor.com/

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*This is the first last-place finish for the #57 in a Truck Series race since June 10, 2011, when Norm Benning lost the engine on his Norm Benning Racing Chevrolet after 3 laps of the Winstar World Casino 400k at the Texas Motor Speedway.  It is also the number’s first last-place run in a Truck race at Loudon since September 13, 2008, when Benning’s Chevrolet lost the rear end after 1 lap of the Camping World RV Rental 200 Driven by Winnebago.
*For the third-consecutive Truck Series race, the last-place finisher failed to complete the opening lap.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
30) #57-Ted Minor / 0 laps / clutch
29) #36-Justin Jennings / 3 laps / vibration
28) #0-Caleb Roark / 4 laps / brakes
27) #6-Norm Benning / 4 laps / rear gear
26) #07-B.J. McLeod / 8 laps / rear gear

LASTCAR TRUCK SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Ryan Ellis, Justin Jennings, Caleb Roark (2)
2nd) Mike Affarano, Bryan Dauzat, Alex Guenette, Mike Harmon, Blake Koch, Charles Lewandoski, Ted Minor, Tommy Regan, Scott Stenzel, Jason White (1)

LASTCAR TRUCK SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) #0-Jennifer Jo Cobb (4)
2nd) #36-Mike Mittler, #63-Mike Mittler / Randy Young (2)
3rd) #28-FDNY Racing, #42-Randy Young, #45-Regan Motorsports, #57-Norm Benning, #74-Mario Gosselin, #74-Mike Harmon, #93-RSS Racing, #03-Mike Affarano Motorsports (1)

LASTCAR TRUCK SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Chevrolet (14)
2nd) RAM (2)

Sunday, September 14, 2014

CUP: Bliss Ties Blaney, Ends McDowell’s Chicagoland Last-Place Streak At Three

SOURCE: @TBR_Racing
Mike Bliss picked up the 17th last-place finish of his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career in Sunday’s MyAFibStory.com 400 at the Chicagoland Speedway when his #37 Accell Construction, Inc. Chevrolet fell out with a vibration after he completed 13 of the race’s 267 laps.

The finish was Bliss’ third of the 2014 season and his first since Atlanta, two races ago.  With nine races to go, Bliss and Dave Blaney are now tied for the most last-place finishes this season.  However, since no other driver has finished last more than once, the 2014 LASTCAR Cup Series Championship is still anyone’s to claim.

At Chicagoland, 43 cars showed up for as many spots, and when qualifying was rained-out, Bliss’ practice speed secured him the 40th starting spot.  Bliss remained 40th in Saturday’s opening practice, then along with Joe Nemechek in the #66 Royal Teak Toyota, did not turn a lap in Happy Hour.

On Sunday, Joey Gase, who trailed all three of the weekend’s practice sessions, made his Cup debut from the 43rd spot in Frank Stoddard’s #32 Zimmer Ford.  He was joined before the start by Kyle Larson, who after securing the 10th spot on the grid wrecked his backup car on Saturday, sending him to the back.  Larson rocketed through the field early, and Gase lost 43rd to Bliss by Lap 4.  Ten laps later, Bliss pulled behind the wall, securing the 43rd spot.

Finishing 42nd on Sunday was Ryan Truex, whose #83 Burger King Toyota slowed in Turn 3 during the Lap 181 caution for loosened styrofoam blocks in the Turn 4 wall.  He returned to the track on the Lap 186 restart only to pull out soon after with brake issues.  In 41st was a very frustrated Aric Almirola, who was running 6th in the middle stages.  Just after taking the lead during pit stops on Lap 299, Almirola lost the engine on his #43 Eckrich Ford, leaving him the lowest-finishing Chase driver.

In 40th was Michael Annett, who slipped beneath Joe Nemechek and Joey Gase near the middle part of the race when mechanical woes sent his #7 TMC / Allstate Chevrolet behind the wall on Lap 148.  Annett returned to the track thirty laps later to climb past Truex and Almirola, but couldn’t catch 39th-place Clint Bowyer, who brought out the next-to-last yellow after his #15 Peak Radiator Guarantee Toyota smacked the wall in Turn 2.

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was Bliss’ first last-place finish in a Cup race at Chicagoland.
*This was the first last-place finish for the #37 in a Cup race at Chicagoland since July 11, 2004, when Chad Blount’s Carter’s Royal Dispos-All Dodge left the track with electrical issues after 3 laps of the Tropicana 400 Presented by Meijer.
*Bliss’ finish ends a streak of three-consecutive last-place finishes by Michael McDowell in this event - all three of which earned while driving for Phil Parsons.  On Sunday, McDowell ran the race for Leavine Family Racing in the #95 Thrivent Financial Ford and came home 32nd, five laps down.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
43) #37-Mike Bliss / 13 laps / vibration
42) #83-Ryan Truex / 184 laps / brakes
41) #43-Aric Almirola / 230 laps / engine / led 2 laps
40) #7-Michael Annett / 233 laps / running
39) #15-Clint Bowyer / 244 laps / crash

LASTCAR CUP SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Dave Blaney, Mike Bliss (3)
2nd) A.J. Allmendinger, Aric Almirola, Trevor Bayne, Clint Bowyer, Landon Cassill, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., David Gilliland, Denny Hamlin, Timmy Hill, Travis Kvapil, Kyle Larson, Michael McDowell, Joe Nemechek, Johnny Sauter, Morgan Shepherd, Tony Stewart, Martin Truex, Jr., Ryan Truex, Brian Vickers, Cole Whitt, J.J. Yeley (1)

LASTCAR CUP SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) #37-Tommy Baldwin Racing, #93-BK Racing (3)
2nd) #77-Randy Humphrey Racing (2)
3rd) #11-Joe Gibbs Racing, #14-Stewart-Haas Racing, #15-Michael Waltrip Racing, #21-Wood Brothers Racing, #26-BK Racing, #32-Go FAS Racing, #33-Circle Sport, #38-Front Row Motorsports, #40-Hillman Racing, #42-Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, #43-Richard Petty Motorsports, #47-JTG-Daugherty Racing, #55-Michael Waltrip Racing, #66-Michael Waltrip Racing / Identity Ventures Racing, #78-Furniture Row Racing, #83-BK Racing, #87-Identity Ventures Racing, #88-Hendrick Motorsports, #95-Leavine Family Racing (1)

LASTCAR CUP SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Chevrolet, Toyota (10)
2nd) Ford (7)