Stewart-Haas Racing
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| owner | Gene Haas , Tony Stewart |
| Racing series |
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Xfinity Series |
| Championships | 2009–2014 Sprint Cup 2014 Truck Series |
| Start number (s) | Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series: # 4, # 10, # 14, # 41 Xfinity Series: # 00 |
| driver | Clint Bowyer , Kurt Busch , Danica Patrick , Kevin Harvick , Cole Custer |
| Manufacturer | ford |
| Place of the workshop | Kannapolis, NC 28081 |
| Homepage | www.stewarthaasracing.com |
Stewart-Haas Racing is a NASCAR motorsport team based out of Kannapolis , North Carolina . The team, which only competes in Ford cars , is technically supported by Hendrick Motorsports . The team is owned by the three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup winner Tony Stewart and the mechanical engineer Gene Haas , owner of Haas Automation . The team's cars are currently being purchased from Hendrick Motorsports as customer cars for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series.
Sprint Cup Series
Starting number 70
This car was run before the merger of Haas and Stewart; but is part of the team's history as he was part of the previous Haas CNC Racing team. The debut of today's number 14 car was made in 2006 by Johnny Sauter . Back then, he drove a number 70 car at the Coca-Cola 600 and kept it in the top ten for most of the race before a blown tire ended the race prematurely for him. In 2007 the car was used with Sauter at the wheel throughout the season. In 2008 it was driven by Jeremy Mayfield, Johnny Sauter, Jason Leffler and Tony Rains. The car with the number 70 has not been used since then. The fact that the car is listed as number 70 is due to the fact that all the equipment was sold to Jay Robinson Racing and the team and the base for the later number # 14 were completely rebuilt.
Start number 14
The number 70 Chevrolet was given starting number 14 for the 2009 season - and when the collaboration with Tony Stewart began . With Stewart, Office Depot also switched to Stewart-Haas as a sponsor of Roush Fenway Racing. Old Spice, who previously supported Stewart at Joe Gibbs, shared the primary sponsorship of the # 14 from that point on. The team finished the 2009 season with four wins (without winning the All-Star Race) in 6th place overall. In October 2010, Mobil 1 announced that they would replace Old Spice as the second primary sponsor. The year ended with a 7th place and two victories. With a tie to Carl Edwards , but with the larger number - or five race wins - Stewart won the Sprint Cup in 2011 in an exciting final. Despite the success for the team with the # 14, it was announced at the end of November that Steve Addington will replace the master crew chief Darian Grubb .
2012 was a well-started, but otherwise not conspicuous season for the defending champions. With the car sponsored by Office Depot and Mobil 1 this year, he finished the season in ninth place overall.
For 2013, Bass Pro Shops was introduced as the new main sponsor, replacing Office Depot. After a win at the FexEx 400, the season was interrupted on August 4th. Stewart broke his right leg in a sprint car accident and was initially represented in the remaining races by Max Papis and Austin Dillon and later regularly replaced by Mark Martin .
After a changeable first half of 2014, Regan Smith and Jeff Burton drove the # 14 car after Stewart decided to skip two races - Cheez-It 355 and Pure Michigan 400. The reason was again a sprint car accident in which the young driver Kevin Ward Jr. died and Stewart was involved.
Start number 4
Gene Haas used the number 4 in the 2003 Winston Cup as a partner team of Hendrick Motorsports. In 2009 Ryan Newman was used as a driver and finished the season in 9th place in his first year with Stewart-Haas. With him, the starting number changed to 39. In 2010 Newman missed the Chase for the Sprint Cup and finished 15th with a race win. In the following year he was able to qualify for the Chase, but in this he did not record any great successes, so that the balance was enough for 10th place and a race win. Since 2009 the car has been sponsored by the US Army.
Although Newman was in the 2013 Chase for the Sprint Cup with this car and won the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis International Speedway, he switched to Richard Childress Racing for the 2014 season. Kevin Harvick , an old friend of Stewart's, who also brought along his sponsors Budweiser and Jimmy John's from Childress, swapped cockpit with Newman . Harvick won in Phoenix on its second start. Another victory in Darlington followed and with it the Chase entry.
Start number 10
In the last quarter of 2011 Stewart-Haas Racing announced that Danica Patrick will be used temporarily in the 2012 season; the planning amounted to ten races, including Darlington, Bristol, Atlanta, Chicagoland, Dover, Texas and Phoenix. The debut was set for February 29, 2012, the Daytona 500 . Unrestricted use of Patrick in the NASCAR Sprint Cup 2013 should be in prospect. Greg Zipadelli was assigned to her as crew chief . Patrick continued to drive # 10 in the 2014 season.
Start number 41
In 2013, the general consensus of the Stewart-Haas Racing team was that there was no funding and no logistical basis for the deployment of a fourth vehicle in the Sprint Cup. Nevertheless, Gene Haas had another team built with the # 41 after he recognized the potential of the revitalized and rehabilitated Furniture Row Racing driver Kurt Busch . Stewart, who had had some arguments with the older of the two Busch brothers, nevertheless agreed. In the sixth race at the end of March, Busch won the STP 500 2014 at Martinsville Speedway and was soon in the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
Camping World Truck Series
Start number 00
For the 2014 season, 16-year-old Cole Custer was required to drive 9 races in the number 00 car. The trucks were supplied by Turner Scott Motorsports and the engines, as usual, by Hendrick Motorsports . Custer crossed the finish line in twelfth place on his Martinsville debut. In the race at Gateway Motorsports Park, he became the youngest pole position winner in the history of the Truck Series. He finished the race in sixth.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/2013/08/27/stewart-haas-racing-kurt-busch-2014-sprint-cup-season.html
- ↑ http://www.sportingnews.com/nascar/story/2013-09-04/tony-stewart-co-owner-gene-haas-dispute-kurt-busch-deal
- ↑ http://motorsportstalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/14/cole-custer-masters-gateway-becomes-youngest-driver-16-years-old-to-ever-win-truck-series-pole/
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