BACE Motorsports is a former championship-winning NASCAR team. It was owned by entrepenuer Bill Baumgardner, who also founded Staff America. Baumgardner was inspired to start his own team after Staff America was a sponsor in the Busch Series for two years. The team was famous during its tenure for always running its familiar #74. The NASCAR Championship is the championship held in NASCARs top stock car racing series. ... NASCAR Busch Series logo The Busch Series is a stock car racing series owned and operated by NASCAR. It is NASCARs second division (often compared to Triple-A baseball), and is a proving ground for drivers who wish to step up to the organizations top level, the Nextel... Johnny Benson, Jr. ... Randy LaJoie from Norwalk, CT was born August 28, 1961. ... A tin of Lipton Finest Earl Grey Lipton is the worlds biggest tea brand, selling both hot and ice tea around the world. ... Fina may refer to: Fina is the name of Belgian petroleum company Petrofina. ... Chevrolet, or Chevy for short, is a brand of automobile that completely sucks eggs, now a division of General Motors. ... County Mecklenburg Mayor Pat McCrory, (R) Area  - Total  - Water 629. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup season began on Saturday, February 12. ... The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. ...

Beginnings

BACE made its debut in 1993 at the season opening race at Daytona International Speedway. Jack Sprague was the driver, and he finished 44th after the engine expired. After that less-than-stellar debut, Sprague and BACE made a good turn around, and they soon became a consistent top-20 contendor, and had three top-10 finishes. After the fall race at Dover International Speedway, BACE and Sprague parted ways, and Winston Cup star Ernie Irvan occupied the car for one race, but another driver took the reins as well, a young short-track driver named Johnny Benson. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Daytona International Speedway is a superspeedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. ... Jack Sprague from Spring Lake, MI born August 8, 1964. ... Dover International Speedway is a NASCAR race track located near Dover, Delaware. ... Ernie Irvan (born January 13, 1959 in Salinas, California) is a former race car driver in NASCAR. Wife: Kim Baker Irvan Married: November 21, 1992 Children: Jordan (August 12, 1993), Jared (February 9, 1998) Parents: Vic & Jo Irvan Career highlights 15 career NASCAR Winston Cup victories 22 career NASCAR Winston... Johnny Benson, Jr. ...

Championship Years

Benson's rookie year with BACE started off slow, as he originally didn't finish higher than 16th. After a long string of finishes 22nd or worse, Benson put together two consecutive top-5 finishes at The Milwaukee Mile and South Boston Speedway, then had three more top-ten finishes before winning his first race at Dover. At the end of the year, Benson was named the NASCAR Busch Series Rookie of the Year and was sixth in points. Benson's momentum carried over into the following year. Along with Lipton Tea coming onboard as sponsor, Benson won twice early in the season, and finished outside of the top-ten only nine times. The consistency was enough for him to clinch that year's championship. When Benson signed on with Bahari' Racing for 1996, wily veteran Randy LaJoie was tabbed his replacement along with a new sponsor in Fina. LaJoie had no problem adjusting, and won five times as well as a second straight championship for BACE, then repeated the performance the in 1997. 1997 also the appearance of a second BACE car, the #33 Kleenex team driven by Tim Fedewa. In two seasons, Fedewa won twice and finished 7th in points in 1998. After a seemingly disapointing 1998 season that saw just one victory and a fourth place finish in points, LaJoie bolted for Phoenix Racing, while Fedewa signed with Cicci-Welliver Racing, as well as the departure of Kleenex to Progressive Motorsports. The Milwaukee Mile is a race track in West Allis, Wisconsin. ... South Boston Speedway or SoBo is a race track located in South Boston, Virginia, approximately sixty miles east of another area familiar to most NASCAR fans, Martinsville. ... The NASCAR Rookie of the Year award is presented to the first-year driver that has the best season. ... A tin of Lipton Finest Earl Grey Lipton is the worlds biggest tea brand, selling both hot and ice tea around the world. ... Randy LaJoie from Norwalk, CT was born August 28, 1961. ... Fina may refer to: Fina is the name of Belgian petroleum company Petrofina. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For information about the musical band of the same name, see Kleenex (band). ... Tim Fedewa (born May 9, 1967 in Holt, Michigan) is a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... ppc Racing is a NASCAR racing team based in Mooresville, North Carolina, which is near Charlotte. ...

Later Years

BACE had an entirely different look in 1999. Alka-Seltzer and Bayer sponsored the 33 car driven by Jason Jarrett, while the rookie Tony Raines drove the unsponsored #74. The results were mixed. Raines showed consistency and came out of left field to win Rookie of the Year, while Jarrett was released after the race at California Speedway, and was replaced by a series of rotating drivers including Mike Wallace, Hermie Sadler, and Benson returning to the team briefly. For 2000, Raines slid over to the #33, while rookie P.J. Jones signed to drive the 74 car. Raines finished second at South Boston, and finished 15th in points, while the 74 team disappeared briefly due to operating expenses, before Chad Little became the driver towards the end of the year. This combo stayed the same in 2001, and both drivers finished in the top ten in points (Raines-6th, Little-9th). Unfortunately the #74 car was sent packing once again because of financial problems in early 2002. After Raines finished 12th in points in that year, BACE finally made a full-time leap to Winston Cup for 2003. Raines got a sixth place finish at North Carolina Speedway, but was left in the dust for the Rookie of the Year running. BACE returned to the Busch Series for 2004, but this time, Raines was not their original driver until later in the year, when he replaced Damon Lusk. BACE was forced to cut back to a part-time schedule because of their decreasing finances, and put Jimmy Spencer in the car with a few races to go in the season. In 2005, BACE announced they would temporarily suspend operations but return as soon as sponsorship was found. As of November 2005, none has been found and it is believed that all team members have resigned for better opportunities, leaving BACE Motorsports a mere memory in NASCAR. Alka-Seltzer is a brand name owned by the German Bayer Corporation for a line of medications sold over the counter and taken by means of rapidly dissolving tablets that form an effervescent solution in water. ... Bayer AG (German pronunciation BYE-er, in US usually pronounced BAY-er) (NYSE: BAY, TYO: 4863 ) is a German chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in 1863. ... hes a freakshow ... Tony Raines (born April 14, 1964) was a NASCAR driver. ... The California Speedway is a two-mile, low-banked, D-shaped oval superspeedway in Fontana, California, approximately 40 miles east of Los Angeles on the site of the former Kaiser Steel mill. ... Mike Wallace (born March 10, 1959) is a NASCAR race car driver. ... Hermie Sadler (born April 24, 1969) is a race car driver from Emporia, Virginia, USA. Hermie currently drives the 92 Taco Bell Chevrolet in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series part time (But the #92 is a full time team with multiple drivers). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... P.J. Jones is a racing car driver. ... Chad Little is a former NASCAR driver born in 1963 in Spokane, Washington. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup began on Saturday February 8 and ended on Sunday November 16. ... The North Carolina Speedway, affectionately known as The Rock, was home to NASCAR racing from 1966 to 2004. ... The 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup season began on Saturday, February 7 and ended on Sunday, November 21. ... Damon Lusk(born September 18, 1977, in [Kennewick, Washington|Kennewick, WA]]), is a stock car racer. ... Jimmy Spencer (born February 15, 1957) is a NASCAR race car driver. ... The 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup season began on Saturday, February 12. ...

External links

• Official Website
• JaySki section on BACE