Furniture Row Racing
| owner | Barney Visser |
| Racing series | Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series |
| Championships | 1 - (2017) |
| Start number (s) | 77, 78, 87 |
| driver | 78. Martin Truex Junior |
| Manufacturer | Toyota |
| Place of the workshop | Denver |
| Homepage | http://www.furniturerowracing.com/ |
Furniture Row Racing is a professional stock car racing team currently participating in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series . After a year as a team with two drivers (No. 77 Erik Jones and No. 78 Martin Truex jr.), It is back in the 2018 season as a single team and currently operates the No. 78 Camry for Martin Truex junior .
The team is owned and sponsored by Furniture Row, an American furniture chain. It is located in Furniture Row's hometown of Denver , Colorado , making it the only NASCAR team located west of the Mississippi.
The team was the first individual vehicle team that has ever reached the Chase for the Cup . It achieved this in 2013 with Kurt Busch , and again in 2015 and 2016 with Truex.
Furniture Row Racing has a partnership with Toyota Team Joe Gibbs Racing , from 2010 until the end of 2015 the team had a partnership with Richard Childress Racing under the Chevrolet banner.
history
2005-2008
The team made its NASCAR debut in 2005 in the Busch Series at the Nashville Superspeedway with Jerry Robertson as driver, who started 24th and finished in 33rd. Robertson drove ten races for the team that year, his best result being 22nd place at California Speedway . The team was also twice the Monster Energy Cup NASCAR with, Kenny Wallace drove at Dover International Speedway and Robertson on Phoenix International Raceway .
In 2006 it was planned that Wallace would drive the first five races and Robertson the remaining races. At the 2006 Daytona 500 , Wallace failed to qualify the # 78 car for the race. But he managed to qualify in the next two races at California Speedway and Las Vegas Motor Speedway and reached positions 41 and 28. Because the team's performance was not enough to get into the top 35 of the points classification, the team drove with different drivers over the rest of the season. Including Jimmy Spencer , who drove in both Pocono races and Travis Kvapil who drove in the Road Courses. The team partnered with PPI Motorsports to share equipment and materials throughout the season. In 2006 Robertson drove in selected events of the Busch Series, his best result was 29th place.
Wallace was hired to continue to be the full time driver in the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup . He reached sixth place on the grid twice but was released in August 2007. After Scott Wimmer and Sterling Marlin failed to qualify the vehicle for the next few weeks, Joe Nemechek was announced as permanent driver. Furniture Row Racing signed a 3-year deal with Nemechek (2008-2010) at the end of the season. In early 2008, Wallace returned to Furniture Row to participate in the Daytona 500 as a safety net should Nemechek's team fail to qualify. Instead, Nemechek managed to qualify third in the qualifying runs. Wallace got a spot in the Gatorade Duels . In the spring Talladega race, Nemechek gave the team their first pole. In the autumn race on this track, Nemechek Furniture Row Racing gave its best result to date in eleventh place.
2009–2012
For 2009, the team announced that it would cut to a part-time schedule due to financial restrictions. Joe Nemechek was designated as a permanent driver, but since he refused to run a part-time schedule, the remainder of his contract was paid off and fired. In 2009, Regan Smith drove 18 races in the # 78 vehicle.
The team continued the full-time schedule in 2010. The team teamed up with Richard Childress Racing and got the top 35 status in the first five races by buying the Owner Points of Richard Childress Racing's # 07 vehicle. Childress has been listed as the official owner of the No. 78.
On November 15, 2010, the Furniture Row Racing van and coach on Interstate 25 , approximately 40 miles from the team's headquarters in Denver, was wrecked in an accident. Richard Childress Racing provided the team with a fully equipped van for Furniture Row.
At the Daytona 500 2011 , Smith achieved seventh place, the first top ten for Furniture Row Racing. On May 7, 2011, Smith achieved the top five and the first win for Furniture Row on Darlington Raceway at the Southern 500 . In 2012 the team struggled a little and Pete Rondeau was replaced as team leader with Todd Berrier , former Richard Childress Racing team leader, ahead of the race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway . The move to Berrier led to the first consecutive top ten finishes (both 9th place) for Furniture Row Racing and Smith.
2013
Although Smith achieved two top ten placements and a top five placement, manager Joe Garone announced that Smith will be replaced by Kurt Busch at Charlotte at the beginning of the Bank of America 500 in 2012.
In the 2013 season, Busch improved Furniture Row's status as a team by making the vehicle more competitive and able to keep up with the other drivers more often. In the first 26 races, Busch made it eight times in the top five and 13 times in the top ten, and in May he also finished first in Darlington. These results were comparable to driving in stronger teams. The team also had its lows, such as Busch's accident during the May race at Talladega, in which he overturned at Turn 3 six laps before the end of the race and landed on Ryan Newman . Some bad race results, as well as mistakes like accidents in Hampshire and Martinsville and a dead battery under the leadership of the Coca-Cola 600 kept the team in the chase. A string of top ten finishes from Busch in August and a runner-up in Richmond earned the team entry into the Chase. For Busch, this was the eighth entry into the chase. This also made Furniture Row the first single vehicle team to make it into the chase.
The vehicle was sponsored by Furniture Row for most of the season, with the exception of Talladega, where it was sponsored by Wonder Bread , in honor of Ricky Bobby - King of Racing Drivers . This was the second time that Busch had driven a vehicle with a Talladega Nights -based paint in Talladega, the other time was during his time at Phoenix Racing , where his vehicle had an "ME" paint in May 2012.
2014
In August 2013 it was announced that Busch will not be returning to Furniture Row Racing in 2014 as he has signed a contract with Gene Haas and will drive for Stewart-Haas Racing from the 2014 Daytona 500 . The team also extended their partnership with Richard Childress Racing. For a period of two months, it was speculated that Juan Pablo Montoya was the most likely candidate to replace Busch at Furniture Row, as Montoya in his # 42 at Chip Ganassi Racing will be replaced by Kyle Larson . Other potential candidates were Jeff Burton and Bobby Labonte . But Montoya announced that he would join Team Penske in the IndyCar Series . In early October, after Michael Waltrip Racing , by the loss of NAPA Auto Parts as a sponsor as a result of the spin gate scandal in Richmond, announced her no. To cut 56 team to a part-time team, Furniture Row was talking junior Martin Truex to take under contract .
Before the November race in Texas, it was confirmed that Truex has signed a multi-year contract and will be racing for Furniture Row Racing from the 2014 Daytona 500. The announcement also added that all members of Truex's old team were also hired to make the transition easier, as Busch had lost a few races due to slow pit stops.
Truex had a bad year in 2014 with only 5 top ten finishes, only one lead and 24th place overall. After Truex failed to live up to expectations, team boss Todd Berrier was fired and beginner Cole Pearn was hired.
2015
In the 2015 season, Truex's performance improved through the new driver-team principal relationship with Cole Pearn. During the Daytona 500, Truex had a lead lap and finished eighth. In the first ten races, Truex made it into the top ten nine times. After taking the most lead laps in four consecutive races, Truex and Furniture Row made it into Victory Lane with a win in the Pocono 400 at Pocono Raceway . This brought Furniture Row Racing its first Sprint Cup victory since the Southern 500 in 2011 and brought Truex's 69-race winless streak to an end. The win put Truex and the team in the 2015 Chase for the Sprint Cup and finished second in the points classification. With a third place finish in the rain-shortened race at Michigan International Speedway the next week, Truex became the first driver since Richard Petty in 1969 to get 14 top ten finishes in the first 15 races of the season. Truex wouldn't make it to Victory Lane for the rest of the year, but scores a total of 22 top ten finishes, including 8 top five finishes, and ends the season in fourth place in the championship standings.
2016
On September 27, 2015, it was confirmed that Truex has been re-signed for 2016 and beyond. The team also announced a move to Toyota , which brought them a partnership with Joe Gibbs Racing and Motors from Toyota Racing Development . Truex wins its second race for Furniture Row on May 29, 2016 after completing a record-breaking 392 of 400 laps of the Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte. Truex achieved his first multiple-win season when he won the Southern 500 in Darlington and then took a win in Chicagoland when he overtook leader Ryan Blaney with four laps to go. He took his fourth win of the season two races later at Dover, but the No. 78 lost its engine in Talladega, so the car had no chance for the Chase.
On August 7, 2016, it was announced that Erik Jones had signed a deal with Furniture Row Racing to drive the new # 77 vehicle sponsored by 5-hour Energy for the 2017 season. This marked the number 77's first return since Charlotte in the fall of 2014, then under Randy Humphrey Racing .
In December 2016, Furniture Row Racing bought the charter of No. 98 Premium Motorsports Chevrolet from Jay Robinson and used this charter for No. 77, which guaranteed her a place in every race of the 2017 season.
2017
For 2017, the team was expanded to include two cars; Erik Jones was the rookie for the full season in the second car with the starting number 77 .
Martin Truex Jr. dominated the 1.5 mile routes in the regular season, where he won by far the most racing segments.
In the decisive playoff race in Homestead , FL he had to assert himself with a victory against his competitors Kyle Busch , Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski to win his and Furniture Row Racing's first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup.
Monster Energy Cup statistics
| year | Vehicle no. | driver | run | Victories | Top five | Top ten | Poles | Average position | Owners Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | No. 78 | Kenny Wallace | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37.5 | 64. |
| Jerry Robertson | |||||||||
| 2006 | Kenny Wallace | 17th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34.2 | 41. | |
| Jimmy Spencer | |||||||||
| 2007 | Kenny Wallace | 21st | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32.1 | 42. | |
| 2008 | Joe Nemechek | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 34.0 | 42. | |
| 2009 | Regan Smith | 18th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27.7 | 40. | |
| 2010 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24.5 | 29 | ||
| 2011 | 36 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 21.5 | 26th | ||
| 2012 | Regan Smith | 36 | 0 | 1 | 6th | 0 | 20.5 | 24. | |
| Kurt Busch | |||||||||
| 2013 | Kurt Busch | 36 | 0 | 11 | 16 | 1 | 14.7 | 10. | |
| 2014 | Martin Truex junior | 36 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 20.2 | 24. | |
| 2015 | 36 | 1 | 8th | 22nd | 0 | 12.2 | 4th | ||
| 2016 | 36 | 4th | 7th | 15th | 5 | 12.1 | 11. | ||
| 2017 | 36 | 8th | 19th | 26th | 3 | 9.4 | |||
| total | 335 | 6th | 30th | 69 | 7th | 25.37 | 31.45 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Furniture Row Racing Feeling Upbeat About RCR Alliance, Early Results. (No longer available online.) Furniture Row Racing, March 10, 2010, archived from the original on April 17, 2016 ; accessed on May 7, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Furniture Row Racing transporter severely damaged in crash. Fox Sports, November 15, 2010, accessed May 7, 2017 .
- ^ Todd Berrier Named Crew Chief For The No. 78 Furniture Row Chevrolet. Furniture Row Racing, July 24, 2012, accessed May 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Kurt Busch to Drive No. 78 Furniture Row Chevy in 2013. (No longer available online.) In: furniturerowracing.furniturerow.com. Furniture Row Racing, September 24, 2012, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on May 19, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Talladega Flashback: Kurt Busch Totally Flips (His Car). Fox Sports, October 15, 2013, accessed May 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Bob Pockrass: Kurt Busch pretends he's Ricky Bobby with Wonder bread sponsor. Sporting News, September 25, 2013, accessed May 8, 2017 .
- ^ Al Pearce: Juan Pablo Montoya appears likely to land Furniture Row NASCAR Sprint Cup ride. autoweek, September 11, 2013, accessed May 8, 2017 .
- ^ Montoya going back to IndyCar. Fox Sports, September 16, 2013, accessed May 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Truex to join Furniture Row team. Fox Sports, October 16, 2013, accessed May 8, 2017 .
- ^ Furniture Row Racing Announces New Crew Chief. Furniture Row Racing, December 3, 2014, accessed May 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Holly Cain: FURNITURE ROW WILL FIELD TOYOTA CAMRYS IN 2016. NASCAR , September 27, 2015, accessed May 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Truex Jr. rewrites history, breaks records with Coca-Cola 600 win. NASCAR , May 29, 2016, accessed May 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Holly Cain: FURNITURE ROW ADDS ERIK JONES TO GROWING TEAM. NASCAR , August 7, 2016, accessed May 8, 2017 .
