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[coimbrabertone]

NASCAR Numerology: How NASCAR's Current Teams Got Their Number: Part Two.

Hello all, this is part two of my little mini-series on how and why NASCAR teams have their current numbers. Last time we did Trackhouse, Team Penske, and I tacked on Wood Brothers because it was topic. Today we're continuing down the list - we covered the teams with the #1 and the #2 yesterday, now to talk about the team with the #3.

Quite possibly the most iconic number in all of NASCAR, when someone says the #3, NASCAR fans always think of Dale Earnhardt in the black intimidator GM Goodwrench Chevrolet...but that's not quite how the #3 car started.

In fact, it started in the early 70s with team owner Richard Childress himself, who would go part time with numbers like #13, #96, and #98 in those early starts. In 1976, however, Richard Childress would go full time in his self-owned car, and the number he chose was the #3.

Why? Well, Richard said it was in tribute to Junior Johnson, who ran the #3 49 times from 1961 and 1964, and won 9 races with it. Junior Johnson owned the #11 and the #27 for his own team, so the #3 was the most notable Junior Johnson available.

Thus, in 1976, the #3 car began.

In mid-1981, Richard Childress was considering retirement. At the same time, Dale Earnhardt in the #2 Osterlund Racing car saw his team get sold to JD Stacy, and thus the partnership that won the 1980 championship collapsed just half a season later.

Dale Earnhardt took over RCR's #3 and brought sponsor Wrangler with him. The #3 wasn't quite to Dale's level though, so for 1982 and 1983, Dale switched to Ford and ran the #15 Bud Moore Engineering car. Ricky Rudd took over the #3 for two years and managed to get RCR's first and second wins, at Riverside and Martinsville.

This was the same number of wins that Dale got at Bud Moore Engineering in the #15, thus, Dale felt it was time to return to RCR and the #3.

Thus, the most famous partnership in NASCAR began, with Wrangler sponsorship through 1987, and then in 1988, the car gained the famous black, silver, white, and red GM Goodwrench sponsorship. It gained a thousand names: the intimidator, the man in black, Darth Vader...this was the most famous car in stock car racing.

And in the 2001 Daytona 500, as the DEI #15 and #8 - numbered after Dale's Bud Moore car and Dale's Busch series car - finished one-two in NASCAR's biggest race, Dale Earnhardt was killed in a turn four wall impact.

A legend had died.

Kevin Harvick was drafted in to replace him, but the paint scheme was changed, and RCR changed the number immediately. The #13 and the #23 were available, but RCR did not want to burden Harvick with a number associated with the #3 at all, thus, RCR chose the #29 instead.

This meant that, for a time, RCR had the #29, the #30, and the #31, a set of consecutive numbers.

In 2014, however, Kevin Harvick moved to SHR (more on that in a moment) and Austin Dillon took over his car...and it was renumbered the #3 again.

Why? Well, Richard Childress once famously announced that the #3 would only come back in the hands of an Earnhardt or a Childress, and Austin Dillon was Richard's grandson via his daughter. Needless to say, this has been controversial.

Lots of people feel that Austin Dillon isn't there on merit, instead he's there by nepotism. They feel that after Dale's death, the #3 should've been retired outright.

Well, they didn't do that and the #3 is back.

And RCR's second car...well, it's not the #30 or the #31 anymore, nor the #07, the #27, the #33, or any other number that RCR has run in the past.

Rather it is the #8...that number Dale Earnhardt ran in Busch and later Dale Earnhardt Jr. made famous at DEI. Why the #8? Well, it was used by Ralph Earnhardt (Dale's father) in his racing days. So how the heck did RCR end up with such an intimately Earnhardt number?

Well, it should be noted that Richard Childress and Dale Earnhardt were close friends.

Furthermore, when RCR brought back the #8, it was initially for Daniel Hemric, who is from Kannapolis, North Carolina - the same town that the Earnhardts are from.

That doesn't quite explain why they kept the #8 for Tyler Reddick and now Kyle Busch, but that's why they brought it back.

Like I said, Earnhardt nostalgia.

Now, onto SHR, who run the #4, the #10, the #14, and the #41.

When Tony Stewart bought into Haas CNC Racing (who had been running numbers like #60, #0, #66, and #70) they completely overhauled the numbering scheme.

Tony Stewart - who had originally come from an Indy Racing League background - wanted the #14 for himself, as that had been the number of his racing hero, AJ Foyt. Stewart succeeded, and he'd pass that number down to Clint Bowyer and now Chase Briscoe, the current driver.

Meanwhile, he wanted the #4 for his teammate, as that had been Tony's karting number. Unfortunately, Morgan-McClure Motorsports still owned the #4 at this time, so Tony's 2009 teammate instead had to settle for running the #39 at the time. It should be noted that Newman had run the #39 Dodge in the second-tier Busch series before at this point, so he did have an association with this number.

Once Ryan Newman left the team at the end of 2013, the team brought in Kevin Harvick and his Anheuser-Busch sponsorship (initially with Budweiser, later with Busch Light) for 2014, and finally managed to change the number to #4. They were rewarded with an immediate championship in 2014.

The #10 car came next, with SHR bringing Danica Patrick over from the world of Indycar. They initially wanted Danica's Indycar number with the #7, but that was unavailable, so they went with the #10 instead, with was one of Danica's karting numbers.

When Danica retired at the end of the 2017 season, they kept the #10 for Aric Almirola (and now Noah Gragson for 2024).

Presumably they felt that since 4+10=14, the number suited their numbering scheme.

Also suiting the numbering scheme is the #41, which is #41 backwards. Despite being Tony's number inverted, the #41 has traditionally been seen as Gene Haas' car in the Stewart-Haas pairing, with Gene bringing in Tony's rival Kurt Busch in for the 2014 season (announcing this while Tony was out injured, no less).

Daniel Suárez would drive the car in 2019, and then Cole Custer (the son of Joe Custer, who manages Gene Haas' racing operations) would drive it from 2020 to 2022.

Tony then managed to get Ryan Preece - a more grassroots kind of driver, the kind of driver Tony likes - in the car for 2023 and 2024, with results staying about the same.

Gene will get the last laugh though, because even as Stewart-Haas Racing is closing its doors, Gene Haas will keep the #41 as Haas Factory Racing, and Cole Custer will return to the NASCAR Cup Series for 2025.

Guess the #41 really was Gene's car all along, huh?

Anyway, that's six cars down today. The next car on the list would be the #5...Hendrick is a four-car team with a ton of history, and they've played a lot of number roulette over the years, so we'll handle them tomorrow. Hendrick, Roush, and maybe Spire to knock out the #5, the #6, and the #7. We did #8 here, #9 is with Hendrick, and the #10 we also covered here, so...it looks like we'll pick up with Joe Gibbs Racing and the #11 on Thursday.

Sounds good?

[th21w]

Ford F-150 "NASCAR" '98

[cybertrad]

98 f150 nascar package.

[likeadevils]

2006 Lover Diaries Transcripts

May 27, 2006- Las Vegas, NV

This morning me and Mom got up (we’re in Vegas staying at the MGM Grand) and I got dressed in that light green strapless butterfly dress and boots and went to do a radio interview and it was fun. Then I went down to the radio remote where all the artists and radio people are and did about a hundred interviews. It’s cool. John Rich came up to me and made me tell him who I was. And Dierks Bentley introduced himself to me. I felt awesome. Then we were walking out and all these fans wanted their pictures with me and were calling out my name and stuff and I loved it. now I’m about to go out and do another show. Taylor Swift

Jun 3, 2006- Nashville, TN

weather: stormy on the radio today: ME what’s going on? I’ve been on WSIX 98 SO much lately and it’s unbelievable. I am excited about: Being on the radio! I’ve been winning song challenges across the country my concerns: Dude. I just want things to keep being amazing. I feel: Great. Feel like all the work is finally paying off. Tomorrow: Lunch w/ Abigail Monday: Phoenix, open for Hootie + The Blowfish at a huge radio event. Oh Gosh. Today was great. I got up early and went to Love Shack, a studio downtown with mom. There I had an ISDN phone interview for Westwood One radio. Then one for NASCAR radio. Then we broke for lunch. Then went to Sirius Radio and that went amazing. Then an interview at CMT radio. Then went to the label to label envelopes of singles. Then went home and me and Abigail watched GAC Nights. Then went to the v-ball courts. Then answered like 100 emails over myspace. Then my friend called me and said they heard “Tim McGraw” on the radio! And I couldn’t believe it! I’m so excited. This is such an unbelievable life. I’m so happy. God I’m so lucky to be doing this. I really just hope things keep going great, and OH MY GOD This is all I’ve been waiting for! Taylor Swift

Oct 12, 2006

Come In With The Rain lyrics

Oct 19, 2006

Mediabase: 14 Billboard: 17 OH MY GOD I am on the RASCAL FLATTS TOUR. I got the call yesterday and screamed louder than i can ever remember screaming before. I'm opening up for the last nine dates of their tour. I'm SO excited. My first Rascal show is tomorrow night in Omaha, Nebraska. I am SO excited. Taylor Swift

Nov 29, 2006- Nashville, TN

Mediabase: 9 BB: 11 Hey, So I just got in from Idaho Falls, I did a sold out show in Ogden, UT ?? 2 nights ago and then another in Idaho Falls last night. It was snowing in both places and FREAKING cold. MAN it was cold. So today we all piled in this huge van and drove to the airport in Salt Lake City (4 hr. drive) and ??? ?? me and mom were supposed to be flying to St. Louis for WIL JingleFest, and but Scot called me at the airport and said "St. Louis is supposed to get 15 inches of snow, they're cancelling the show. You have a day off." SO we hopped on a flight to Vegas, and we're supposed to have a 4 hour layover, but we found a flight that was just about to leave for Nashville, and it was barely full ?? so we ran and caught that one and here I am in my own comfy bed. I have tomorrow off so I'm gonna go out to eat with Abigail. Oh and I'm dieting again. Over the holidays I didn't watch what I ate and man its so weird how fast I can gain or lose weight... It's crazy. So I'm going to lose some now. <3 Taylor

Dec 2006

White Horse lyrics

Dec 27, 2006- Hendersonville, TN

So I got to check off my first life goal today. My album sold 61,000 copies last week!!! My goal was to sell 50,000 in one week. We flew by that. How CRAZY is that? How crazy is this, I'm playing the Wild Horse Saloon tomorrow night and I'm SO excited. All of my friends are coming. Cannot WAIT. It's gonna be a fun show. So I've been home since Christmas. Let's see, life is pretty good. I'm now obsessed with Law + Order. Completely obsessed. And my albums about to go gold. Havent kissed a boy in 209 days. <3 Taylor

(2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 & 2008 • 2009 • 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 & 2017)

[racing-is-passion]

After the Hyperpole of the 24h of Le Mans, Ferrari will start from P1 and P2 into the race on saturday. Toyota was more than a second slower than the fastest Ferrari and is only starting from P3 and P5. Also the #3 Cadillac had to retire 5 minutes before the end of the Hyperpole because there was a fire on the car, but I think they should be able to repair the car for the race on Saturday. Here is the full starting order:

Starting order for the 24h of Le Mans 2023:

#50 Ferrari (Hypercar)

#51 Ferrari (Hypercar)

#8 Toyota (Hypercar)

#75 Porsche (Hypercar)

#7 Toyota (Hypercar)

#2 Cadillac (Hypercar)

#5 Porsche (Hypercar)

#3 Cadillac (Hypercar)

#6 Porsche (Hypercar)

#93 Peugeot (Hypercar)

#94 Peugeot (Hypercar)

#708 Glickenhaus (Hypercar)

#311 Action Express Racing (Cadillac) (Hypercar)

#709 Glickenhaus (Hypercar)

#4 Floyd Vanwall Racing (Hypercar)

#38 Hertz JOTA (Porsche) (Hypercar)

#48 Idec Sport (LMP2)

#28 JOTA (LMP2)

#41 WRT (LMP2)

#47 Cool Racing (LMP2)

#63 Prema Racing (LMP2)

#14 Nielsen Racing (LMP2)

#9 Prema Racing (LMP2)

#10 Vector Sport (LMP2)

#45 Algarve Pro Racing (LMP2)

#22 United Autosports (LMP2)

#923 Racing Team Turkey (LMP2)

#65 Panis Racing (LMP2)

#34 Inter Europol Competition (LMP2)

#23 United Autosport (LMP2)

#31 WRT (LMP2)

#37 Cool Racing (LMP2)

#80 AF Corse (LMP2)

#43 DKR Engineering (LMP2)

#35 Alpine (LMP2)

#30 Duqueine Team (LMP2)

#32 Inter Europol Competition (LMP2)

#39 GRAFF Racing (LMP2)

#36 Alpine (LMP2)

#13 Tower Motorsports (LMP2)

#33 Corvette Racing (GTE)

#25 ORT by TF (Aston Martin) (GTE)

#54 AF Corse (Ferrari) (GTE)

#21 AF Corse (Ferrari) (GTE)

#83 Richard Mille AF Corse (Ferrari) (GTE)

#57 Kessel Racing (Ferrari) (GTE)

#55 GMB Motorsport (Aston Martin) (GTE)

#74 Kessel Racing (Ferrari) (GTE)

#77 Dempsey-Proton Racing (Porsche) (GTE)

#86 GR Racing (Porsche) (GTE)

#100 Walkenhorst Motorsport (Ferrari) (GTE)

#85 Iron Dames (Porsche) (GTE)

#60 Iron Lynx (Porsche) (GTE)

#72 TF Sport (Aston Martin) (GTE)

#56 Project 1 (Porsche) (GTE)

#911 Proton Competition (Porsche) (GTE)

#16 Proton Competition (Porsche) (GTE)

#98 Northwest AMR (Aston Martin) (GTE)

#66 JMW Motorsport (Ferrari) (GTE)

#88 Proton Competition (Porsche) (GTE)

#777 D'Station Racing (Aston Martin) (GTE)

#24 Hendrick Motorsports (Chevrolet) (NASCAR)

[darksouls2yuri]

ive mentioned this before but my timeline for video games and consoles is so fucked up because i had exclusively a ps1 until 2010 when i got my ds lite, which was already "old" by then and i had no clue. i was playing spyro the dragon 1998 and tetris plus and nascar 98 exclusively on my ps1 until i was 9yrs old and i thought when my parents got me a ps2 for christmas 2012 that was the coolest newest shit ever. we got a wii in 2014. i got a ps4 in 2018. i had no clue any of this wasnt the newest shit on the block the most current console thats at least close to when it came out was the ps4. i didnt even know abt the ps3 i was just like yeah i guess its 4 now!

[benjaminftw]

Journeyman Appreciation: Greg Sacks

Today’s driver appreciation is the first one I’ve done for primarily a Cup driver, but I thought that Greg Sacks was worthy. Coming out of the northeast modified scene that at that time was a rare stepping stone to the bigger series except for the likes of Geoff Bodine or the Bouchard Brothers, Greg won just about every big event you could win in a modified at that time before moving up into Cup for his family-owned team. 

After running 5 races in ‘83, he embarked on his first full-time season for the family team in 1984 where the basically unsponsored team suffered a number of mechanical issues but also had a number of top 20 runs when they got to the finish and top 10 finish at Bristol on their way to a pretty solid 19th place finish in points. Despite starting the year with a career best 6th in the Daytona 500 and a 13th and 10th in the following races, the family owned team shut down just 3 into season and Sacks was left to hop around which led to his most famous and infamous race, when DiGard entered a second research & development car at the July Daytona race with one of the most notorious cheaters (and later man in charge of catching cheaters) Gary Nelson as his crew chief, where he was bad fast leading over 30 laps to win his one and only Cup race. Famously, this was the race that made Bobby Allison quit DiGard Racing which was the ultimate downfall of a once dominant team, but not before Greg replaced Bobby in the car and collected a couple more top 10s. 

The next 4 seasons would see Greg running only part-time schedules for a variety of different teams including DiGard, the Dingman Brothers, Buddy Baker and Tom Winkle, collecting 6 top 10s along the way. It was in 1990 though that Greg got his best opportunity, hooking up with Hendrick Motorsports initially as one of the drivers for Days of Thunder, entering both Busch and Cup races in cars from the movie. This led to the opportunity to race for the short-lived third Hendrick team co-owned by Paul Newman with Slim Fast sponsorship, earning a pole and nearly winning at Talladega and earning the opportunity to fill in for an injured DW later in the season where he had yet another 2nd place finish, finishing the season with the most top 10 finishes (4) he’d had since that ‘85 year. However, the Slim Fast deal fell apart and soon did the Hendrick-Newman effort, leaving Greg with just a part-time effort in ‘91 before scoring his first full time ride in nearly a decade in 1992 for Larry Hedrick’s start-up effort though that was derailed by an injury, hooking on with Mark Smith part way through ‘93 and driving what would prove to be his last full-time season in 1994 for longtime independent DK Ulrich, finishing 31st in points but scoring 3 top 10s which would also prove the last of his Cup career.

That wasn’t the end of his career though. In 1995 alone he ran races for 4 different car owners, from ‘96 through ‘98 he was the go-to phone call for many teams who needed an injury or performance replacement for a few races or a research & development driver, and in ‘96 also continued to show what a great superspeedway racer he was by earning his lone Busch win for Diamond Ridge at Talladega. After going fairly quiet in the late 90s/early 00s Sacks returned around 03-04 in his early 50s to run a handful of lowbudget efforts in Cup down through ARCA, having a couple good ARCA runs and qualifying as a field filler for some Cup races. Finally, at the track which made his career, he effectively ended it in style getting a one off in good equipment in Xfinity at the age of 57 for JR Motorsports where he qualified 5th and finished 21st on the lead lap. 

Greg only twice ran a full season in any NASCAR season, despite being a winner he ended his career with only 3 finishes inside the top 5. However, when sometimes very good owners like Rick Hendrick and Felix Sabates let alone any number of smaller teams wanted a dependable driver who could give good feedback and bring the car home in one piece with pretty solid speed, Greg was often at the top of many rolodexes. He really strikes a prototypical figure as a journeyman, and for this I salute him.

[maxcollectoruniverse]

Limited edition 1:4 scale diecast replica of NASCAR driver Kenny Irwin’s Texaco helmet with DC Comics Joker artwork that comes in a display case. Get it at https://collectiblesandmoreinstore.com/shop/98-mini-irwin-joker-helmet/

[animezinglife]

I was very late to the Skyrim/TES bandwagon and can't remember if I was 19 or older, so I'm going to include it anyway.

Skyrim

Tekken series (been playing that series since I was 8, maintained relevance through teen years)

Soul Calibur series (except V, it sucked)

ATV Offroad Fury (childhood)

NASCAR '98. I was always Dale. And yes, I cranked Molly Hatchet last time I drove through the Deep South because of that game's influence. (childhood)

[capyphoenix]

Just cause we are on the topic, F1 wag culture needs to die like since yesterday, I watch Nascar and indycar and the wag culture isn’t bad at all // i just came into the f1 world end of 2023 season, this was my first real season of F1 ans wag culture is insane in this sport 😭 i mainly watch hockey and the wags are 98% all private other than a handful of famous ones or ones that allow a small following as long as its not creepy. F1 wag culture is creepy, like how ive seen recently with charles and alex and doxxing their hotel??

I think it's because there are only 20 drivers and therefore very few wags.

[motorsportverso]

Quais são os finalistas da Nascar 2024

Na principal CUP Series , Joey Logano(Ford #22) , Tyler Reddick(Toyota #45) e William Byron (Chevrolet #24) e Christopher Bell(Toyota #20) , na Xfinity Series , Austin Hill(Chevrolet #21), A.J. Almendinger(Chevrolet #16), Cole Custer(Ford #00) , na Truck Series, Grant Enfinger(Chevrolet #9), Christian Eckes(Chevrolet #74) , Ty Majeski(Ford #98) e Corey Heim (Toyota #11)

[coimbrabertone]

NASCAR Numerology: How NASCAR's Current Teams Got Their Numbers: Part Five.

Alright guys, we've gotten to the last part of this little miniseries.

Today we're covering:

Front Row Motorsports, who run the #34 Ford for Michael McDowell and the #38 for Todd Gilliland in the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series.

Legacy Motor Club, who run the #42 Toyota for John Hunter Nemechek and the historic #43 for Erik Jones.

and JTG Daugherty Racing, who run the #47 Chevrolet for Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

Fittingly, we get to end on representation for all three brands.

Front Row Motorsports debuted in 2004, running the #92 Ford on a partial schedule with drivers like Brad Teague, Tony Raines, and Stanton Barrett, but they would fail to qualify for any races. Furthermore, the Mach 1 Motorsports team ran the #98/#96 car that year, splitting time between Ford and Dodge, and running drivers such as Todd and Geoff Bodine, Larry Gunselman, Derrike Cope, Chad Chaffin, and Randy LaJoie.

This team did manage to make some races (keyword: some) and in 2005, Mach 1 would attempt the full schedule with a #34 Chevrolet while another slew of drivers (mainly LaJoie, Chaffin, and PJ Jones) but by the end of 2005, the team was up for sale. Front Row Motorsports would buy this #34 car, as well as Mach 1's shop, and build their team around it.

Often running as a start-and-park team with a revolving door of drivers, Front Row finally got some stability in 2009, with John Andretti driving the #34, and dragging it up to three top twenty finishes, at Daytona, Loudon, and Fontana.

Andretti left after the 2010 Daytona 500, but the top twenty streak remained, with Travis Kvapil scoring an 18th at Talladega and Kevin Conway a 14th at the summer Daytona race.

David Gilliland (Todd's father) ran the full 2011 season and scored a third place at the Daytona 500, building on the results of the last three years to make Front Row Motorsports a proper contender on the superspeedways.

For 2012, Gilliland was moved to the #38 (more on that later) while David Ragan took over the #34. This car would top off FRM's superspeedway streak by winning the 2013 Aaron's 499 at Talladega.

Ragan would leave FRM after the 2015 Daytona 500 to get the opportunity to fill in for the injured Kyle Busch, so that season was a bit of a revolving door for the #34 yet again. Yet, for 2016, they got a technical alliance with Roush Fenway Racing in exchange for running Roush development driver Chris Buescher.

And Chris Buescher would win the 2016 Pennsylvania 400 for them on a Monday after a rainy weekend followed by a foggy weekend led to a segmented and ultimately shortened race. It took a bit of luck, but it got FRM its second win, and the first that wasn't on a superspeedway.

Chris Buescher went to JTG Daugherty of all places for 2017 (more on that later), so FRM hired Landon Cassill, without much success, before signing Michael McDowell for 2018.

McDowell has seen FRM become a legitimate team, winning the 2021 Daytona 500 and the 2023 Verizon 200 at the Brickyard at the IMS Road Course. Furthermore, in 2024, now in alliance with Team Penske, Front Row Motorsports is no longer an ironic name, as McDowell has started first or second multiple times this season, including at Daytona, Atlanta, and even Gateway, the latter two being pole positions.

Michael McDowell, however, will be moving to the Spire Motorsports #71 for 2025.

FRM has built their numbering scheme off of the #34, running other cars such as the #35, #37, and most commonly the #36, but its second full time car has been the #38.

Driven by David Gilliland from 2012-2015 and son Todd Gilliand ever since 2022, the car has also seen drives from Landon Cassill, David Ragan (in a return to FRM), John-Hunter Nemechek, Anthony Alfredo, and Zane Smith. With four top tens and a further ten top twenties, 2024 has thus far been the most successful season to date for the #38.

FRM will run a third full time car in 2025, having bought a charter from SHR, and has signed SHR's Noah Gragson, but it is unknown was number he will run. FRM ran the #36 this season for Kaz Grala, but Bob Jenkins says he's not married to this numbering scheme. Still, even numbers in the mid-30s are as close to consistent numbering as FRM has ever gotten, so I hope they do decide to stick with the #36.

Onto Legacy Motor Club.

First things first, this team is a Frankenstein's Monster mess of forgotten NASCAR teams in hilarious fashion. Petty Enterprises, officially ran from 1949 to 2008, when sponsorship could not be found, leading to the team merging with Gillett-Evernham Motorsports for 2009. Gillett-Evernham Motorsports consisted of Evernham Motorsports, the former Dodge factory team that ran the #9 and the #19, MBV Motorsports (which was essentially the #10 car owned by Valvoline at this point), and money from George Gillett, who was at the time the controversial owner of the Montreal Canadiens and Liverpool FC.

So already, you had the Petty #43, Petty #45, Evernham #9, Evernham #19, and Valvoline #10 merging into one team, but for 2010, they also bought Yates Racing to take over Paul Menard and his #98 Ford. This allowed the entire team to switch from Dodge to Ford.

So come 2010, the team is running the #9, #19, #43, and #98 with relics from three different numbering schemes remaining in the team. It's freaking awesome.

The #19 and #98 went away after 2010, leaving the team with the #9 and the #43.

The #9 was initially their most successful car, with Kasey Kahne winning Sonoma 2009 and Fall Atlanta 2009 with the team, before Australian Marcos Ambrose won Watkins Glen for the team in 2011 and 2012.

The #43 would, to its credit, with the 2014 Coke Zero 400 at Daytona with Aric Almirola, and it would become the team's only car after 2016.

After the 2021 season, GMS Racing, a truck team, bought into Petty, becoming Petty GMS. Ahead of the 2023 season, the team became Legacy Motor Club, with Jimmie Johnson buying in, Richard Petty chasing out, and Maury Gallagher of GMS becoming majority owner. Petty remained involved a spokesman for the team, however.

So, finally, onto their numbers. They run the #43 and have since practically the beginning of time, because that was Richard Petty's number? Why, well, that actually takes us to their second car, the #42, which was Lee Petty's number.

Why did Lee Petty pick the #42? Legend has it was the first two numbers in his license plate.

So, Lee Petty ran the #42, his son Richard ran the #43, Richard's son Kyle would eventually run the #44, and Kyle's son Adam would run the #45. Each generation building on the last. When Adam died, Kyle took over the #45 in his memory.

Thad Moffitt in the Truck series is a grandson of Richard Petty through Petty's youngest daughter Rebecca, and he continues this trend by running the #46.

In any case, when Petty GMS bought a second car in 2022, they chose to run the #42 - recently vacated by Chip Ganassi - reuniting the original two Petty numbers.

This arrangement continued as Petty became Legacy and eventually switched to Toyota for 2024. Currently the #43 is driven by Erik Jones, who won Darlington in it in 2022, and the #42 by John Hunter Nemechek.

Also, fun fact, Kyle Petty drove the #42 at Team SABCO (which would eventually become Chip Ganassi Racing) from 1989 to 1996, so it was a Petty number even when it wasn't.

And now JTG Daugherty Racing. It started in 2007, running a second car (#47) in alliance with the Wood Brothers. I cannot find any specific reason for the #47, only that Tad Geschickter ran a #47 Busch car ever since 1996, so maybe it was an availability thing. In any case, they ran the #47 and made their Cup debut in 2007, with Ken Schrader and Jon Wood each trying and failing to qualify for a race.

The #47 managed a few starts in 2008 with Marcos Ambrose, finishing third at the Glen, which prompted JTG to split with the Wood Brothers to try and go full time for the 2009 season with Ambrose in a #47 Toyota. This lasted two years before Mabrose moved to the aforementioned Richard Petty Motorsports, with JTG instead drafting in Bobby Labonte.

They would sign AJ Allmendinger in 2013 as Labonte began scaling back his races, and with AJ full time in 2014, they'd win at Watkins Glen. Allmendinger would last until 2018, when Ryan Preece was hired for that car, but then Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was chosen for 2020. Ricky would win the 2023 Daytona 500 with the team.

JTG Daugherty also briefly has a second car, the #37 - ten less than #47, also apparently Tad used this number in college sports - the #37 ran with Chris Buescher for 2017, 2018, and 2019, before running with Ryan Preece for 2020 and 2021.

This brings up another interesting aspect of JTG Daugherty Racing - despite the fact that they're a Chevy team, they kinda have this unique relationship with RFK Racing. First of all, Chris Buescher was a Roush development driver. Second of all, that #37 car for Buescher was run on the charter for Roush's #16.

Third, was that when Roush took Chris Buescher back for the 2020 season, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. then went the other way, going from the Roush #17 to the JTG Daugherty #47.

Oh, and as recently as 2023, JTG Daugherty's pit crew was on loan from Roush. Yeah, odd.

So yeah, that is all 36 chartered teams for the 2024 NASCAR Cup series and the story of a couple other numbers that are relevant to the story. I hope you guys enjoyed all that, but I think I'm gonna write about some other motorsports for a little while. The blog has been a bit NASCAR heavy lately and this week added a whole five extra blogposts to it.

I do enjoy blabbing on about NASCAR, but I also enjoy blabbing on about MotoGP and Indycar. Formula One is also a sport that exists.

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Layne Riggs (Ford #38) wins the 2024 #LiUNA175 over at #MilwaukeeMile. Ty Majeski (Ford #98 in the Playoffs) finished 2nd in that @NASCAR_Trucks Race. #NCTS

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The chassis is tubular in chrome-molybdenum, with a transmission tunnel in the middle, as this car is rear-wheel drive, using a Hewland VGC five-speed manual transaxle gearbox and a carbon axle.

The interior is entirely focused on competition, with an alcantara steering wheel, carbon fiber dashboard, fiberglass and aluminum panels and cooling pipes for the driver with filter. The dials only show the essentials, including the slightly inclined rev counter, oil pressure and temperature, water temperature and speedometer, all developed by Nippondenso and TRD.

The bodywork was widened, mainly in the area of the wheel arches, to increase the track width and thus increase stability, all studied in a wind tunnel, keeping only the roof and doors of the original model. At the rear there were also ducts behind the wheels and under the bodywork, to channel the air in order to achieve the best aerodynamic efficiency, also helped by the rear spoiler, producing downward force. The exhaust comes out just behind the front wheel. It uses 16” MOMO wheels, with the same look as those used in NASCAR, with Goodyear Eagle slick tires.

These Celicas, with numbers 98 and 99, achieved several victories in the category, winning the championship in the GTO class in 1987, with driver Chris Cord. They competed from 1986 to 1989, when the project focused on the development of prototypes.

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¿Ganará el número 24 todo en el '24? ¡Te tengo cubierto, amigos amantes de los coches! Así que estás aquí, buscando la numerología de NASCAR y preguntándote si el número 24 lo ganará todo este año, ¿verdad? Ya sabes, esas peculiaridades numéricas que te hacen rascarte la cabeza y decir "¡Huh!". Vamos a desglosarlo. Primero, vamos a entender la importancia del número 24. En NASCAR, el número 24 es literalmente legendario. ¿Por qué? ¡Piensa en Jeff Gordon! Sin embargo, eso era antes y estamos hablando del presente. Con William Byron ahora detrás del volante del coche #24, las expectativas son altas. Sin embargo, la pregunta sigue siendo: ¿Puede el número #24 hacer una reaparición triunfal en 2024? A pesar de que los fanáticos de NASCAR son a menudo superticiosos, quiero que te lo tomes con ligereza. Me encanta analizar los coches y sus peculiaridades, después de todo, este es el tipo de cosas aparentemente insignificantes pero verdaderamente curiosas que hacen que el mundo de los automóviles sea tan fascinante. La numerología NASCAR es divertida. Piensa en esto: El número 24 ha ganado 98 carreras en la historia de la Copa NASCAR. De estas, 93 fueron ganadas por Jeff Gordon. ¿Casualidad o presagio? Depende de cómo mires los números. Luego está la cuestión de las fechas y los números que siguen al 24. Por ejemplo, la primera victoria de William Byron llegó el 24 de agosto. Oh, y no olvidemos que está pilotando un Chevrolet Camaro, el cual disfruté profundamente cuando tuve la oportunidad de revisar. ¿Es este un indicio de su próximo triunfo? Mira las cosas curiosas que suceden en este deporte: Las victorias de Hendrick Motorsports en 2024? Eso es correcto, 24 exactamente. Ahora parece que el número 24 acecha a este equipo de una manera positiva. ¿Puede ser esto una señal de que Byron romperá con todo y saldrá victorioso? En resumen, todo esto es especulación y diversión. No creo que sea prudente ceñirse a estos números. Al final, se trata del rendimiento del conductor, el coche y el equipo. Pero, es innegable que estas coincidencias numéricas hacen que las cosas sean un poco más interesantes. Así que sin importar lo que suceda en 2024, estoy seguro de que será emocionante. Y este es el resumen de que la numerología es una de esas sutilezas cómicas en la cultura del automovilismo, algo que encuentro absolutamente fascinante. Asegúrate de seguir la temporada de NASCAR 2024. ¡No te lo pierdas y mantente al volante! Sigue así amigos, porque como siempre digo, las mejores partes de un coche están en sus detalles más pequeños y a veces más extraños. ¡Hasta la próxima! #NASCARlove #coincidenciasnuméricas

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2023 William Byron #24 Axalta '98 Nascar 50th Anni. Darlington Throwback RCCA Elite vs 1998 Jeff Gordon #24 DuPont Automotive Finishes/NASCAR 50th Anni. Chromalusion RCCA Elite. Who did it better? Which is most accurate?