Cale Yarborough Motorsports

Cale Yarborough Motorsports was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series team that ran from 1987 to 2000. The team accomplished 13 top fives, 32 top 10s and three poles in total.

Cale Yarborough Motorsports

Owner(s)	Cale Yarborough
Base	Concord, North Carolina
Series	Winston Cup Series
Race drivers	Cale Yarborough, John Andretti, Jeremy Mayfield, Lake Speed, Dick Trickle
Sponsors	RCA, Phillips 66, Hardee's
Manufacturer	Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Ford
Opened	1987
Closed	2000
Career
Drivers' Championships	0
Race victories	1

Ownership

In 1986, the Race Hill Farms owner Jack Beebe sold his No. 47 Team to Cale Yarborough, who wanted to drive part-time. He bought the team and switched car numbers from 47 to 29.

During the 1988 season, Yarborough split time in the 29 car with Dale Jarrett, who had one top-ten finish in nineteen starts. Following Yarborough's retirement, Jarrett was named the full-time driver for 1989, as he posted two top-five finishes and finished 24th in points. Hardee's left at the end of the season, and was replaced by Phillips 66/TropArtic and Jarrett was replaced by Dick Trickle in the now No. 66 car.^[1] Trickle posted two top-fives and won his only career pole at Dover International Speedway, finishing 24th in points. Trickle began 1991 with Yarborough, but left after four races. Lake Speed took over as his immediate replacement, and had three top-ten qualifying efforts. Despite an eleventh-place run at the Busch 500, Speed left and was replaced for the duration of the season by Dorsey Schroeder, Chuck Bown, and Randy LaJoie.

Yarborough hired Chad Little to be his driver in 1992.^[2] After six races and no finishes better than 22nd, Little was replaced by Bobby Hillin Jr. for one race, before Jimmy Hensley took over for the rest of the season, posting four top-ten finishes and winning Rookie of the Year honors.^[3][4] In 1993, the team switched to the No. 98 Ford Thunderbird with Bojangles' sponsorship and Derrike Cope driving. Cope had an eighth-place finish at Talladega Superspeedway and finished 26th in points. Cope began 1994 with Fingerhut sponsorship, but after no top-tens, he was replaced by Jeremy Mayfield, whose best finish was a nineteenth at North Carolina Speedway,

The No. 98 car in 1997.

RCA became the team's new primary sponsor in 1995, and Mayfield had an eighth-place run at Pocono Raceway, finishing 31st in points despite missing four races. In 1996, Mayfield had two top-five finishes and won the pole at the DieHard 500. Towards the end of the season, Mayfield left to drive for Michael Kranefuss, whose previous driver John Andretti moved to 98, finishing fifth at Martinsville Speedway. Andretti won the pole at Talladega again in 1997, and at the Pepsi 400, he led 113 laps and won Yarborough's only race as a car owner.^[5][6]

Despite the win and a 23rd-place points finish, RCA left the sport and Andretti signed with Petty Enterprises. Yarborough signed Greg Sacks to drive his Thorn Apple Valley Ford in 1998, but Sacks suffered a neck injury at the Texas 500 and was unable to race for the rest of the year. Rich Bickle took his place, and had three top-five qualifying runs and a fourth-place finish at Martinsville. Bickle resigned to drive for Tyler Jet Motorsports and Thorn Apple departed due to financial problems within the organization. Due to the lack of financing, Yarborough originally closed his team up, but soon reopened and hired Rick Mast as its driver and car dealer Wayne Burdett as a co-owner. Despite having no primary sponsor, Yarborough and his team ran the full schedule, picking up short-term deals with Sonic Drive-In and Hobas Pipe. Soon after, Burdette left the team and the team signed Universal Studios/Woody Woodpecker as its primary sponsor. At the end of the season, Mast posted two top-tens and did not have a DNF all season, the second driver since Yarborough to accomplish that feat. Despite rumors of a second team with Mike Ciochetti driving, Mast departed for Larry Hedrick Motorsports and Universal left for Team Gordon. Yarborough attempted to sell the team to various businessmen, none of the deals going through. In January 2000, Yarborough closed the team until a buyer could be found.^[7] He sold the team in the summer of 2000 to Atlanta area developer Chip MacPherson, who debuted the new team at Lowe's Motor Speedway with Jeff Fuller, finishing 41st after suffering engine failure. Geoffrey Bodine ran the Pennzoil 400 later that year, but wrecked. The team soon disappeared from the Cup circuit.

Car results

Year	Driver	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	Owners	Pts
1987	Cale Yarborough	29	Olds	DAY 10	CAR 28	RCH	ATL 8	DAR 15	NWS	BRI	MAR	TAL 37	CLT 42	DOV	POC 4	RSD	MCH 33	DAY 24	POC	TAL 5	GLN	MCH 40	BRI	DAR 13	RCH	DOV 36	MAR	NWS	CLT 24	CAR 37	RSD	ATL 40						29th	1450
1988				DAY 38			ATL 32					TAL 18	CLT 38				MCH 9	DAY 41		TAL 9		MCH 18						CLT 22				ATL 10						26th	2622
	Dale Jarrett				RCH 26	CAR 16		DAR 12	BRI 28	NWS 21	MAR 13			DOV 20	RSD 8	POC 13			POC 25		GLN 11		BRI 26	DAR 34	RCH 15	DOV 28	MAR 32		NWS 23	CAR 32	PHO 31
1989			Pontiac	DAY 32	CAR 11	ATL 9	RCH 23	DAR 40	BRI 22	NWS 19	MAR 15	TAL 40	CLT 28	DOV 11	SON 42	POC 7	MCH 22	DAY 31	POC 18	TAL 23	GLN 23	MCH 38	BRI 10	DAR 20	RCH 35	DOV 23	MAR 5	CLT 24	NWS 27	CAR 39	PHO 5	ATL 16						24th	2789
1990	Dick Trickle	66		DAY 12	RCH 5	CAR 23	ATL 14	DAR 22	BRI 13	NWS 24	MAR 9	TAL 27	CLT 12	DOV 3	SON 39	POC 25	MCH 24	DAY 19	POC 15	TAL 36	GLN 30	MCH 32	BRI 17	DAR 11	RCH 7	DOV 23	MAR 22	NWS 29	CLT 30	CAR 36	PHO 40	ATL 37						22nd	2863
1991				DAY 11	RCH 15	CAR 29	ATL 28																															31st	2048
	Lake Speed							DAR 40	BRI 25	NWS 13	MAR 18	TAL 31	CLT 29	DOV 22	SON 12	POC 17	MCH 18	DAY 38	POC 30	TAL 36	GLN 33	MCH 15	BRI 11	DAR 34	RCH 17	DOV 35	MAR 32
	Chuck Bown																											NWS 26
	Dorsey Schroeder																												CLT 41
	Randy LaJoie																													CAR 24	PHO 32	ATL 31
1992	Chad Little		Ford	DAY 39	CAR 22	RCH 23	ATL 23	DAR 33	BRI 23																													27th	2610
	Bobby Hillin Jr.									NWS 25
	Jimmy Hensley										MAR 15	TAL 25	CLT 11	DOV 8	SON 30	POC 9	MCH 29	DAY 15	POC 14	TAL 31	GLN 26	MCH 29	BRI 7	DAR 15	RCH 17	DOV 13	MAR 17	NWS 25	CLT 18	CAR 18	PHO 21	ATL 8
1993	Derrike Cope			DAY 29																																		26th	2787
		98			CAR 18	RCH 19	ATL 17	DAR 17	BRI 12	NWS 30	MAR 25	TAL 8	SON 18	CLT 36	DOV 31	POC 33	MCH 27	DAY 24	NHA 22	POC 29	TAL 36	GLN 11	MCH 21	BRI 27	DAR 17	RCH 28	DOV 32	MAR 20	NWS 20	CLT 39	CAR 19	PHO 23	ATL 19
1994				DAY 21	CAR 29	RCH 29	ATL 34	DAR 16	BRI 27	NWS 27	MAR 28	TAL 31	SON 43	CLT 18	DOV 23	POC 40	MCH 37	DAY 23	NHA 35																			34th	2277
	Jeremy Mayfield																			POC 21	TAL 32	IND 26	GLN DNQ	MCH 23	BRI 21	DAR 33	RCH DNQ	DOV 24	MAR DNQ	NWS 27	CLT 20	CAR 19	PHO 20	ATL DNQ
1995				DAY 35	CAR 18	RCH 17	ATL 36	DAR 31	BRI DNQ	NWS DNQ	MAR 16	TAL 14	SON DNQ	CLT 22	DOV 17	POC 25	MCH 22	DAY 32	NHA 26	POC 8	TAL 13	IND 29	GLN 25	MCH 12	BRI 30	DAR 30	RCH 23	DOV 19	MAR 16	NWS DNQ	CLT 29	CAR 11	PHO 20	ATL 18				31st	2637
1996				DAY 19	CAR 19	RCH 28	ATL 5	DAR 18	BRI 21	NWS 20	MAR 4	TAL 32	SON 32	CLT 41	DOV 12	POC 15	MCH 30	DAY 27	NHA 36	POC 12	TAL 16	IND 25	GLN 22	MCH 20	BRI 17	DAR 37												26th	2721
	John Andretti																										RCH 36	DOV 14	MAR 5	NWS 24	CLT 39	CAR 26	PHO 19	ATL 24
1997				DAY 25	CAR 34	RCH 31	ATL 15	DAR 25	TEX 12	BRI 24	MAR 28	SON 30	TAL 4	CLT 30	DOV 29	POC 40	MCH 37	CAL 21	DAY 1*	NHA 14	POC 24	IND 17	GLN 20	MCH 35	BRI 11	DAR 37	RCH 22	NHA 17	DOV 15	MAR 29	CLT 32	TAL 3	CAR 31	PHO 39	ATL 22			23rd	3019
1998	Greg Sacks			DAY 39	CAR 36	LVS 25	ATL 31	DAR 42	BRI 36	TEX 38																												36th	2173
	Rich Bickle										MAR 41	TAL DNQ	CAL DNQ	CLT 24	DOV 31	RCH 27	MCH 27	POC 32	SON 31	NHA 38	POC 28	IND 39	GLN 22	MCH 28	BRI 18	NHA 40	DAR 19	RCH DNQ	DOV 19	MAR 4	CLT 17	TAL DNQ	DAY 39	PHO 11	CAR 18	ATL DNQ
1999	Rick Mast			DAY 10	CAR 35	LVS 19	ATL 16	DAR 13	TEX 30	BRI 19	MAR 42	TAL 24	CAL 31	RCH 16	CLT 34	DOV 34	MCH 37	POC 12	SON 23	DAY 32	NHA 30	POC 19	IND 36	GLN 23	MCH 12	BRI 21	DAR 30	RCH 41	NHA 9	DOV 34	MAR 29	CLT 25	TAL 26	CAR 38	PHO 36	HOM 28	ATL 41	32nd	2845

References

1. Moses, Sam (December 11, 1989). "DICK TRICKLE IS NASCAR'S NEWEST GOOD OL' BOY". Sports Illustrated Vault | SI.com. Retrieved February 7, 2024.
2. ZELLER, BOB (November 16, 1991). "ARCA WIN REVIVES TRICKLE'S CAREER". Greensboro News and Record. Retrieved February 7, 2024.
3. "YARBOROUGH'S RACING TEAM DROPS LITTLE". Greensboro News and Record. April 8, 1992. Retrieved February 7, 2024.
4. "Lack of funds may sideline rookie of year". Spartanburg Herald Journal. November 23, 1992. Retrieved February 7, 2024.
5. McFadin, Daniel (June 30, 2017). "Flashback: 1997 Pepsi 400 at Daytona when John Andretti won for Cale Yarborough". NBC Sports. Retrieved February 7, 2024.
6. Taranto, Steven (January 1, 2024). "Cale Yarborough remembered: Top moments, highlights from the NASCAR Hall of Famer's illustrious career". CBSSports.com. Retrieved February 7, 2024.
7. "Yarborough Closes Doors for Now". us.motorsport.com. February 1, 2000. Retrieved February 7, 2024.

External links

• Cale Yarborough Motorsports owner statistics at Racing-Reference