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Joe Gibbs Racing (also known as JGR) is a group of NASCAR racing teams owned by Joe Gibbs, who first started racing on the NASCAR circuit in 1991. The 2006 lineup of drivers associated with Joe Gibbs Racing includes NASCAR Championship winner Tony Stewart, J. J. Yeley, and Denny Hamlin. Image File history File links JoeGibbsRacingLogo. ...
Joe Jackson Gibbs (born November 25, 1940, in Mocksville, North Carolina) is a Hall of Fame American football coach and NASCAR Championship team owner. ...
J.D. Gibbs (born February 21, 1969; resides in Mocksville, NC) is the son of Joe Gibbs, owner of NASCARs Joe Gibbs Racing and head coach of the NFLs Washington Redskins. ...
The NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series is NASCARs top 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...
The NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series is NASCARs top 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...
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series presented this logo for the 2006 season. ...
Denny Hamlin is a race car driver currently contracted to Joe Gibbs Racing. ...
Christopher Beltram Hernandez (J. J.) Yeley (born October 5, 1976) is an NASCAR racecar driver from Phoenix, Arizona. ...
Anthony Wayne Tony Stewart (born May 20, 1971) is an auto racing driver who has won championships in sprint cars, Indy cars, and stock cars. ...
The Federal Express was a passenger train operated on the Poughkeepsie Bridge Route. ...
Interstate Battery System of America, Inc. ...
The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products. ...
Vigoro appears to be somewhat similar to outdoor cricket, incorporating some of the pace of baseball. ...
Banquet Foods was a company that sold food products - primarily frozen chicken - and still exists as the brand name on many prepared chicken products sold by ConAgra Foods. ...
Rockwell Automation NYSE: ROK is a leading industrial automation company focused to be the most valued global provider of power, control and information solutions. ...
Huntersville is a town located in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. ...
The National Association for Stock Car Automobile Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. ...
Joe Jackson Gibbs (born November 25, 1940, in Mocksville, North Carolina) is a Hall of Fame American football coach and NASCAR Championship team owner. ...
The National Association for Stock Car Automobile Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. ...
1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2006 (MMVI), a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
NASCAR Nextel Cup logo NEXTEL Cup trophy, adopted in 2004 4-time champion Jeff Gordon poses with the Winston Cup trophy (used prior to 2004) The NASCAR Championship is the championship held in NASCARs top stock car racing series. ...
Anthony Wayne Tony Stewart (born May 20, 1971) is an auto racing driver who has won championships in sprint cars, Indy cars, and stock cars. ...
Christopher Beltram Hernandez (J. J.) Yeley (born October 5, 1976) is an NASCAR racecar driver from Phoenix, Arizona. ...
Denny Hamlin is a race car driver currently contracted to Joe Gibbs Racing. ...
The team is headquartered in Huntersville, North Carolina, which is near Charlotte. Huntersville is a town located in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. ...
Nickname: The Queen City, Hornets Nest Location in Mecklenburg County in the state of North Carolina Coordinates: Country United States State North Carolina Counties Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Mayor Pat McCrory, (R) Area - City 280. ...
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Car #11 History Previously JGR's research and development car, what is now the #11 car debuted at the 2003 Pepsi 400 as #80, driven by Mike Bliss and sponsored by Advair and finishing 26th. The car reamained idle until the 2004 Tropicana 400, when Bliss finished 31st in the ConAgra/Slim Jim machine. After a fourth place finish in the fall race at Richmond International Raceway, The team switched to #11, and Ricky Craven finished 30th at Talladega, and J.J. Yeley running two races in the car. The car went full-time in 2005, receiving sponsorship from FedEx and Jason Leffler driving. Leffler was released after struggling in 19 starts and Yeley, Terry Labonte, and Denny Hamlin finished out the season. Hamlin had the most starts (7) and finished in the top 10 three times. He was awarded the #11 FedEx Kinko's full-time ride in 2006 in addition to his full-time Busch schedule in the #20 Rockwell Automation Chevrolet. By the end of July 2006, Hamlin had three poles and three victories (the Budweiser Shootout and both Pocono Raceway races). The phrase research and development (also R and D or R&D) has a special commercial significance apart from its conventional coupling of scientific research and technological development. ...
The 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup began on Saturday February 8 and ended on Sunday November 16. ...
The Pepsi 400 is the current name for the 400 mile (approx. ...
Mike Bliss (born April 5, 1965, in Milwaukie, Oregon) is a NASCAR driver. ...
Fluticasone Propionate The Diskus device Advair® (known in the United Kingdom as Seretide®) is a medicine prescribed for individuals suffering from asthma and COPD. Rather than being a single drug, Advair is actually a combination of two drugs. ...
The 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup season began on Saturday, February 7 and ended on Sunday, November 21. ...
The USG Sheetrock 400 is a NASCAR Nextel Cup stock car race held at the Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois. ...
ConAgra Foods, Inc. ...
Slim Jim is a popular brand of beef snack made by ConAgra Foods, Inc. ...
Richmond International Raceway (RIR) is a A 3/4 mile, D shaped, asphalt race track located outside Richmond, Virginia. ...
Ricky Craven is a NASCAR driver. ...
Talladega Superspeedway is a motorsports complex located north of Talladega, Alabama. ...
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The 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup season began on Saturday, February 12. ...
FedEx (NYSE: FDX), properly FedEx Corporation, is a courier company offering overnight courier, ground, heavy freight, document copying and logistics services. ...
Jason Leffler (born September 16, 1975) is a NASCAR driver from Long Beach, California. ...
Terry Labonte, right, shows the frame of a race car in 2005, courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard. ...
Denny Hamlin is a race car driver currently contracted to Joe Gibbs Racing. ...
FedEx Kinkos storefront FedEx Kinkos is a chain of stores that provide printing, copying, and binding services. ...
The 2006 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup season started at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday, February 12 with the Bud Shootout and will end on Sunday, November 19 with the Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. ...
Rockwell Automation NYSE: ROK is a leading industrial automation company focused to be the most valued global provider of power, control and information solutions. ...
The Budweiser Shootout is an annual NASCAR Nextel Cup Series exhibition event held at Daytona International Speedway in February, the weekend before the Daytona 500. ...
Pocono Raceway is a superspeedway located in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania at Long Pond; it is the site of two annual NASCAR Nextel Cup races held just a few weeks apart in June and July. ...
Car #18 History The #18 Interstate Batteries Chevrolet has been a part of JGR since its inception. It debuted at the 1992 Daytona 500 with Dale Jarrett driving the car to a 36th place finish after a crash. The team improved dramatically the next year, when Jarrett won the Daytona 500, and finished a then career-high 4th in points. After Jarrett slipped to 16th in points in 1994, Bobby Labonte took over, and drove the car until the end of 2005. Labonte has won 21 races in the car, and won the Winston Cup championship in 2000. Since then, Labonte has slipped, as his best finish in the points since then is 6th in 2001, and has not won since 2003. The team was progressing in 2004 until the team made a midseason firing of crew chief Michael McSwaim. McSwaim's firing affected the team greatly, as the team lost its playoff-contending status while Brandon Thomas was leading the team with just two races remaining in the 2004 regular season. Steve Addington, a Gibbs Busch Series crew chief, was named new crew chief for the 2005 season, but a rash of troubles, some caused by mechanical problems, continued to daunt the team, including a heart-breaking loss in the final turn at the Coca-Cola 600, and a poor finish in the 2005 season led to a split between Labonte and JGR after 11 successful seasons. Interstate Battery System of America, Inc. ...
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1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
The Daytona 500 is a 200-lap, 500 mile (805 km) NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. ...
Dale Jarrett prior to the Pepsi 400 at Daytona International Speedway. ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
Bobby Labonte Bobby Labontes former JGR car on display at the Joe Gibbs Racing headquarters. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The NASCAR Championship is the championship held in NASCARs top stock car racing series. ...
The 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Season began on Sunday February 13 and ended on Sunday November 20. ...
The 2001 NASCAR Winston Cup season began on February 11 and ended on November 23. ...
The 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup began on Saturday February 8 and ended on Sunday November 16. ...
The Coca-Cola 600 (formerly World 600) is a six hundred mile (966 km) stock car race held annually at Lowes Motor Speedway (formerly Charlotte Motor Speedway) in Charlotte, North Carolina on Memorial Day weekend. ...
JGR announced on November 12 that Busch Series driver J. J. Yeley would replace Labonte in the #18 for 2006 and beyond. [1] November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 49 days remaining. ...
Christopher Beltram Hernandez (J. J.) Yeley (born October 5, 1976) is an NASCAR racecar driver from Phoenix, Arizona. ...
The team has consistently been sponsored by the partially Johnson Controls owned Interstate Batteries brand since 1992, although in recent years, GlaxoSmithKline and MBNA have alternated sponsorships for selected races. During the 2005 Coca-Cola 600, a Magdagascar-themed car was removed after qualifying when the #11 team failed to qualify, and for the race, the car bore FedEx colours. Johnson Controls, Inc. ...
Interstate Battery System of America, Inc. ...
GlaxoSmithKline plc (LSE: GSK NYSE: GSK) is a British based pharmaceutical, biologicals, and healthcare company. ...
MBNA logo, 2004-2006 MBNA Corporation was a bank holding company headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, prior to being acquired by Bank of America in 2005. ...
(The Madagascar-themed car was eventually raced two weeks later, at the Pocono 500.) The Pocono 500 is the first of two stock car races held at the Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania, on the NASCAR Nextel Cup schedule, the other being the Pennsylvania 500. ...
Car #20 History Tony Stewart trotted out the #20 Home Depot car at the 1999 Daytona 500, qualifying on the outside pole. He won three races as well as the NASCAR Rookie of the Year honors. Since then, the car has seen very few changes, as Stewart has won 29 races as well as the 2002 championship. He won his second championship in 2005. Home Depot has been the primary sponsor of the car since it's debut. Anthony Wayne Tony Stewart (born May 20, 1971) is an auto racing driver who has won championships in sprint cars, Indy cars, and stock cars. ...
The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products. ...
The 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup began on Sunday February 7 and ended on Sunday November 21. ...
The NASCAR Rookie of the Year Award is presented to the first-year driver that has the best season in a NASCAR season. ...
The 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup began on Saturday February 10 and ended on Sunday November 17. ...
The 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup season began on Saturday, February 12. ...
Tony Stewart picked the #20 for this car, as a way to honour a former car owner in sprint car action, Glen Neibel, whose yellow #20 sprint cars were known for having six-cylinder engines instead of eight-cylinder engines in order to run a lighter car. Anthony Wayne Tony Stewart (born May 20, 1971) is an auto racing driver who has won championships in sprint cars, Indy cars, and stock cars. ...
Sprint cars are small, high-powered race cars designed primarily for the purpose of running in short races (generally, five to fifty miles) on short tracks, which are often not paved (dirt tracks). The high power-to-weight ratio makes sprint car racing exciting; it often also makes it very...
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Car #18 History The current 18 car came under Gibbs control when he purchased the #44 Shell Oil Pontiac from Labonte, who had been operating the team under his control. The team made its debut under the Gibbs banner at the 1998 NAPA Auto Parts 300 with Stewart driving, he qualified 9th but finished 31st after a crash. At the next week at Rockingham Speedway, Stewart qualified on the pole, led 60 laps and finished 2nd. Stewart ran a total of 22 races that year, with five top-five finishes and winning two pole positions. Labonte ran five races that year in that car in 1998, winning the Diamond Hill Plywood 200. The team switched to #18 with sponsorship from MBNA for 1999, but Labonte ran only one race before he suffered shoulder injuries in a qualifying crash at Darlington. Late in the year, Jason Leffler ran four races in the car that year, his best finish being a 20th at Memphis Motorsports Park. Image File history File links 18b. ...
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A Shell petrol station sign in the UK The Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies (called Shell Oil in North America), has its headquarters split between the Shell Centre in London, United Kingdom and The Hague, Netherlands. ...
This article concerns the automobile; for the Native American leader, see Chief Pontiac, for other uses see the disambiguation page. ...
The Hersheys Kissables 300 is the first race of the NASCAR Busch Series season. ...
The North Carolina Speedway, affectionately known as The Rock, was home to NASCAR racing from 1966 to 2004. ...
The Diamond Hill Plywood 200 is a NASCAR Busch Series race that takes place at Darlington Raceway. ...
MBNA logo, 2004-2006 MBNA Corporation was a bank holding company headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, prior to being acquired by Bank of America in 2005. ...
See also: 1999 in NASCAR The 1999 NASCAR Busch Series season began on February 13 and ended on November 13. ...
Memphis Motorsports Park is a race track located in Millington, Tennessee, approximately twenty miles north of downtown Memphis. ...
Leffler ran the car full-time in 2000, winning a pole at Texas Motor Speedway, and posting three top-ten finishes. After that season, he left for Chip Ganassi Racing, and Jeff Purvis took his place. Purvis started off strong and was seventh in points but was released after the GNC Live Well 200 because of sponsorship issues. Mike McLaughlin took his place, and finished seventh in points that season. Despite not winning again in 2002, he moved up to fourth place in points. However, Gibbs wanted his son Coy a ride in the car, and forced McLaughlin out. In his rookie season, Gibbs had two top-ten finishes and finished runner-up to David Stremme for Rookie of the Year. Despite new sponsorship from Vigoro and The Home Depot, the team decided to run a part-time schedule in 2004, with Labonte returning for two races and J. J. Yeley running seventeen races, garnering four top-ten finishes. Yeley ran the car full-time in 2005, finishing in the top-ten twelve times and finishing 11th in points. Yeley continued to run full-time in 2006, finishing 5th in the points standings with 3 poles, 9 top 5's, 22 top 10's and 27 top 15's. Yeley announced in Daytona that he would be driving in the #1 Miccosukee Gaming and Resorts Chevrolet for Phoenix Racing in the 2007 NASCARBusch Series. Yeley later stated that unfortunately things didn’t work out for him to drive a Busch car for JGR, but that he would continue to drive in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series for Joe Gibbs Racing in 2007, competing in the No. 18 Interstate Batteries Chevrolet. Texas Motor Speedway is a superspeedway located in the northernmost portion of the U.S. city of Fort Worth, Texas -- the portion located in Denton County, Texas. ...
Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates is a racing organization with teams in NASCAR, Champ Cars, and the IRL. It is owned by businessmen Chip Ganassi and Felix Sabates. ...
Jeff Purvis (born February 19, 1959 in Clarksville, Tennessee) is a race car driver in NASCARs Busch Series. ...
The Zippo 200 is a NASCAR Busch Series race that takes place at Watkins Glen International. ...
Mike McLaughlin (born October 6, 1956 in Waterloo, New York) is a former NASCAR Busch Series driver. ...
Coy Gibbs (born December 9, 1972) is a former NASCAR driver and currently an assistant coach with the Washington Redskins. ...
David Stremme, was born in South Bend, Indiana on June 19, 1977 is a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup racecar driver. ...
Vigoro appears to be somewhat similar to outdoor cricket, incorporating some of the pace of baseball. ...
Christopher Beltram Hernandez (J. J.) Yeley (born October 5, 1976) is an NASCAR racecar driver from Phoenix, Arizona. ...
2005 in Nascar Busch Series // Hersheys TAKE 5 300 The Hersheys TAKE 5 300 was held February 19 at Daytona International Speedway Top Ten Results Tony Stewart Kevin Harvick Dale Earnhardt Jr. ...
The Busch Series is celebrating its 25th season with this special logo. ...
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Phoenix Racing is a NASCAR team owned by James Finch. ...
The National Association for Stock Car Automobile Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. ...
NASCAR Nextel Cup logo The NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series is NASCARs top racing series. ...
Interstate Battery System of America, Inc. ...
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In late November, Brad Coleman signed a contract to drive for Joe Gibbs Racing. Coleman is scheduled to drive 17 of the 35 NASCAR Busch Series races during the 2007 season, sharing the #18 Chevy with Tony Stewart and Aric Almirola. Anthony Wayne Tony Stewart (born May 20, 1971) is an auto racing driver who has won championships in sprint cars, Indy cars, and stock cars. ...
Aric Almirola(born March 14, 1984 in Tampa, Florida) is a racecar driver, and is a member of Joe Gibbs Racing/Reggie Whites [[driver development program. ...
Car #19 history The 19 car debuted at the CarQuest Auto Parts 300, driven by Labonte and sponsored by Banquet Foods. Labonte ran seven races that year, with three top-tens. With Labonte moving to Petty Enterprises, JGR development driver Aric Almirola will run the car in seven races in 2006. The Carquest Auto Parts 300 is a NASCAR Busch Series race that takes place at Lowes Motor Speedway. ...
Banquet Foods was a company that sold food products - primarily frozen chicken - and still exists as the brand name on many prepared chicken products sold by ConAgra Foods. ...
Petty Enterprises is a NASCAR racing team based in Randleman, North Carolina. ...
Aric Almirola(born March 14, 1984 in Tampa, Florida) is a racecar driver, and is a member of Joe Gibbs Racing/Reggie Whites [[driver development program. ...
2006 (MMVI), a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Car #20 history - Main article: Diamond Ridge Motorsports
After JGR purchased the team from Gary Bechtel in 2000, the team got sponsorship from Porter-Cable. Despite missing three races, driver Jeff Purvis had eleven top-tens and one pole, finishing 11th in points. The team switched to #20 for 2001, and Mike McLaughlin was named the driver. Without a major sponsor, McLaughlin was able to win the NASCAR Subway 300 and was sixth in points when Gibbs decided to shut down his team because of sponsorship problems. He moved to the 18, and finished seventh in points that year. Coy Gibbs ran five races in the #20 in 2002, with sponsorship from ConAgra Foods. His best finish was a 14th at Kentucky Speedway. Diamond Ridge Motorsports is a former NASCAR team that competed in the Winston Cup and Busch Series from 1990 to 1999. ...
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Kentucky Speedway is a relatively new superspeedway located in Sparta, Kentucky, approximately halfway between Louisville, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio, with easy interstate highway access to both cities, and is additionally less than 100 miles from another fairly sizable market, Lexington, Kentucky. ...
After he moved to the 18, Gibbs was replaced by Mike Bliss and Rockwell Automation came aboard as sponsor. Bliss had fourteen top-tens and finished tenth in points. In 2004, he pulled off a win at Lowe's Motor Speedway and had three poles. In 2005, Denny Hamlin came aboard, and posted eleven top-ten's and finished fifth points, the third-place finisher in rookie points. He will run the full schedule in the #20 in 2006. Mike Bliss (born April 5, 1965, in Milwaukie, Oregon) is a NASCAR driver. ...
Rockwell Automation NYSE: ROK is a leading industrial automation company focused to be the most valued global provider of power, control and information solutions. ...
Lowes Motor Speedway (formerly Charlotte Motor Speedway) is a superspeedway in Concord, North Carolina, a few miles north of Charlotte. ...
2005 in Nascar Busch Series // Hersheys TAKE 5 300 The Hersheys TAKE 5 300 was held February 19 at Daytona International Speedway Top Ten Results Tony Stewart Kevin Harvick Dale Earnhardt Jr. ...
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