HScott Motorsports was an American professional stock car racing team that last competed in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, the Xfinity Series, the K&N Pro Series East and the ARCA Racing Series. The organization was owned by North Carolina businessman Harry Scott Jr., a former owner of the defunct Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series team Turner Scott Motorsports (TSM). Scott was the owner of team sponsor AccuDoc Solutions.[1]
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Owner(s) | Harry Scott Jr. |
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Base | Mooresville, North Carolina |
Series | Sprint Cup Series Xfinity Series K&N Pro Series East ARCA Racing Series |
Race drivers | Sprint Cup Series: Clint Bowyer, Michael Annett, Bobby Labonte, Justin Allgaier, Kyle Larson, Brennan Poole, Justin Marks, Dylan Kwasniewski, Justin Haley, Harrison Burton, Hunter Baize, Tyler Dippel, William Byron, Ben Rhodes |
Sponsors | Sprint Cup Series: 15. 5-Hour Energy, Aaron's, Visine, PEAK, AccuDoc Solutions 46. Pilot Flying J, Allstate Peterbilt, Northland Oil & Lubricants K&N Pro Series East: 5. Braun Auto 12. DEX Imaging/Konica Minolta 13. Bicycle Playing Cards/Pine Mountain Firelogs 38. East West Marine/TyCar |
Manufacturer | Chevrolet |
Opened | 2013 |
Closed | 2016 |
Career | |
Debut | Sprint Cup Series: 2013 Federated Auto Parts 400 (Richmond) Xfinity Series: 2015 2015 Alert Today Florida 300 (Daytona) |
Latest race | Sprint Cup Series: 2016 Ford EcoBoost 400 (Homestead) Xfinity Series: 2015 Ford EcoBoost 300 (Homestead) |
Races competed | Total: 351 Sprint Cup Series: 189 Xfinity Series: 33 K&N Pro Series East: 126 ARCA Racing Series: 3 |
Drivers' Championships | Total: 2 Sprint Cup Series: 0 Xfinity Series: 0 K&N Pro Series East: 2 |
Race victories | Total: 11 Sprint Cup Series: 0 Xfinity Series: 1 K&N Pro Series East: 10 |
Pole positions | Total: 11 Sprint Cup Series: 0 Xfinity Series: 0 K&N Pro Series East: 11 |
The Sprint Cup Series team was founded in 1990 as Phoenix Racing by Florida businessman James Finch, and named for his business Phoenix Construction. The organization as currently constituted was formed when Harry Scott purchased Finch's Cup Series team in late 2013, and then took over the Xfinity and K&N Pro Series operations of TSM following the 2014 season. In the Sprint Cup Series, the team last fielded the No. 15 5-Hour Energy/Aaron's/Visine/PEAK Chevrolet SS full-time for Clint Bowyer and the No. 46 Pilot Flying J SS full-time for Michael Annett. Scott also fielded several teams in the K&N Pro Series East in a partnership with driver Justin Marks, winning the 2015 and 2016 Championships. The Xfinity Series program has since been moved to Chip Ganassi Racing.
The team sold their charter in December 2016 and eventually shut down the Cup and K&N teams for 2017.[2] Months later, on August 2 of 2017, Harry Scott Jr. died.[3]
Sprint Cup Series
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Car No. 15 history
Following sponsorship struggles, longtime Phoenix Racing owner James Finch sold his Spartanburg, South Carolina-based operation to Harry Scott Jr. in mid-2013,[1] with Finch's last race as an owner at the Atlanta Labor Day Event in September. Scott continued to use the No. 51, Finch's longtime car number.
Ryan Truex, who had driven for Phoenix at Bristol earlier in the year, drove Scott's first race as owner at Richmond, finishing 35th (With sponsor SeaWatch Intl.). Although the team used the old Phoenix Racing number font for the first race, for his second race Scott's ownership was displayed by changing the paint scheme and number style of the car to match those used by Turner Scott Motorsports (Scott's Xfinity series team at the time). In addition, on February 5, 2014, Scott announced that Phoenix Racing would be renamed HScott Motorsports.[4]
Scott's Nationwide Series driver Justin Allgaier drove the car with Brandt Agricultural sponsorship at Chicagoland, Kansas, Talladega and Phoenix.[1][5]
Kyle Larson, Allgaier's teammate at Turner Scott who was set to take over the No. 42 car the next year at Chip Ganassi Racing, drove the car at Charlotte, Martinsville and Homestead with an inverted white and red Target scheme.[6] He also drove at Texas with Visitdallas.com on the car.
Larson started 21st at Charlotte, but a late engine failure relegated him to a 37th-place finish.[7] Michael McDowell would run the car at New Hampshire (Finished 30th with sponsor SEM Products), and Truex made his third start for the team at his home track Dover (Finished 32nd with sponsor Shooters Sporting Center). Allgaier would have a best finish of 24th at Talladega, while Larson would have the team's best finish a 15th at Homestead, while also leading the team's first lap.
The team announced following the season that Allgaier would drive the No. 51 and compete for Rookie of the Year honors in 2014 with crew chief Steve Addington. Allgaier finished third in the ROTY standings behind Kyle Larson and Austin Dillon and 29th in the standings. His best finish was 15th at Charlotte and Homestead. The team failed to qualify for a single race, the GEICO 500 at Talladega in the fall, due to an unusual qualifying session that also saw another full-time driver also miss the race. The team had Brandt as the primary sponsor for 22 races with Scott's Accu-Doc Solutions being the sponsor for 5 races. The team had sponsors Auto-Owners Insurance, Sherwin-Williams, SEM Products, HendrickCars.com, Carcoon Airflow, Collision Cure Body Werks and Visitdallas.com filling in the rest of the schedule.
Allgaier returned to the team in 2015, with Brandt continuing to sponsor the team. He successfully qualified for the first two races of the season. Allgaier crashed during the 2015 Daytona 500 but rebounded a few weeks later at Phoenix. He was lapped on lap 56 during the 2015 Camping World.com 500 at Phoenix. Despite this, thanks to a strategy call by crew chief Addington, Allgaier got back onto the lead lap and raced his way into the top ten by the time there were 35 laps to go. After contact with Tony Stewart, Allgaier faded in the final 5 laps, finishing 18th. The next week at Fontana, he repeated his Phoenix performance, running as high as 8th and finishing 12th-his best finish at the time. A few weeks later, at Bristol, Allgaier ran well all race, even up in the top 5 at one point. Allgaier ended up finishing 8th, his first Cup top 10, and the first for HScott Motorsports as well. The team's good performance started to fade during the summer and Allgaier finished 30th in points. Also sponsoring the 51 that season was Auto-Owners Insurance, FOE.com, Switch Hitch, Accu-Doc Solutions, SEM products, TradeMark Nitrogen, Flipping Ships, and Texas Lottery.
Parting ways with HScott Motorsports after the 2015 season, Allgaier took Brandt and returned to the Xfinity Series for JR Motorsports in 2016. Clint Bowyer, who had lost his ride when Michael Waltrip Racing folded with a year remaining on his contract and was already signed to Stewart-Haas Racing for 2017, was signed to a one-year contract to replace him. Carrying over with him was his car number, 15, and his sponsorship deals from 5-hour Energy, Visine, Aaron's and PEAK as per the terms of his original contract at MWR.[8] Scott's own Accu-Doc Solutions was on the car for 4 races.
The team struggled early in the season when the expected help from SHR never materialized.[9] Despite having a rough start to the season, Bowyer turned things around in April when he finished 8th at Bristol. He then finished 7th at Talladega, the best finish for HSM and later followed that with a 9th at Daytona. Even with the terrible start to the season, Bowyer would finish 27th in points (The 15 was 28th in Owner points).
After the season ended, Bowyer announced that he would be suing HScott Motorsports for $2.2 million in prize money and commission.[10] Both parties would settle the dispute a week later.[11] On December 5, with no viable sponsor/driver options for 2017, Harry Scott announced that he had sold the No. 15 charter to Premium Motorsports and closed his operation.[12] One of HScott's cars from the No. 15 team was later purchased by MBM Motorsports in the off-season, in which MBM would use it to participate as a part-time team in the 2017 season.
Car No. 15 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 | 35 | 36 | Owners | Pts |
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2013* | Ryan Truex | 51 | Chevy | DAY | PHO | LVS | BRI | CAL | MAR | TEX | KAN | RCH | TAL | DAR | CLT | DOV | POC | MCH | SON | KEN | DAY | NHA | IND | POC | GLN | MCH | BRI | ATL | RCH 35 |
DOV 32 |
30th | 633 | |||||||||
Justin Allgaier | CHI 27 |
KAN 39 |
TAL 24 |
PHO 31 |
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Michael McDowell | NHA 30 |
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Kyle Larson | CLT 37 |
MAR 42 |
TEX 23 |
HOM 15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014 | Justin Allgaier | DAY 27 |
PHO 30 |
LVS 31 |
BRI 17 |
CAL 28 |
MAR 23 |
TEX 24 |
DAR 23 |
RCH 21 |
TAL 27 |
KAN 36 |
CLT 37 |
DOV 26 |
POC 27 |
MCH 16 |
SON 33 |
KEN 24 |
DAY 25 |
NHA 37 |
IND 27 |
POC 16 |
GLN 17 |
MCH 42 |
BRI 19 |
ATL 26 |
RCH 28 |
CHI 27 |
NHA 20 |
DOV 29 |
KAN 41 |
CLT 15 |
TAL DNQ |
MAR 17 |
TEX 20 |
PHO 37 |
HOM 15 |
29th | 636 | ||
2015 | DAY 37 |
ATL 20 |
LVS 31 |
PHO 18 |
CAL 12 |
MAR 42 |
TEX 39 |
BRI 8 |
RCH 18 |
TAL 23 |
KAN 30 |
CLT 43 |
DOV 42 |
POC 20 |
MCH 27 |
SON 35 |
DAY 18 |
KEN 24 |
NHA 40 |
IND 37 |
POC 24 |
GLN 19 |
MCH 29 |
BRI 12 |
DAR 33 |
RCH 25 |
CHI 23 |
NHA 39 |
DOV 27 |
CLT 40 |
KAN 26 |
TAL 42 |
MAR 13 |
TEX 28 |
PHO 17 |
HOM 36 |
30th | 588 | |||
2016 | Clint Bowyer | 15 | DAY 33 |
ATL 35 |
LVS 22 |
PHO 31 |
CAL 18 |
MAR 25 |
TEX 38 |
BRI 8 |
RCH 33 |
TAL 7 |
KAN 19 |
DOV 12 |
CLT 23 |
POC 18 |
MCH 23 |
SON 40 |
DAY 9 |
KEN 23 |
NHA 24 |
IND 21 |
POC 26 |
GLN 18 |
BRI 31 |
MCH 40 |
DAR 22 |
RCH 22 |
CHI 22 |
NHA 22 |
DOV 24 |
CLT 17 |
KAN 26 |
TAL 18 |
MAR 28 |
TEX 25 |
PHO 24 |
HOM 23 |
28th | 628 |
- 2013 stats started after Scott complete took the ownership of No. 51 from Phoenix Racing before Richmond (fall) race.
Car No. 46 history
It was announced prior to the 2014 season that former Phoenix Racing owner James Finch would return to field a part-time entry numbered 52 with HScott for Bobby Labonte, beginning with the Daytona 500.[13] Labonte ran the second HScott car during preseason Daytona testing using Scott's TSM number style,[14] then used Finch's traditional Phoenix Racing number style and paint scheme during the Daytona 500. The team picked up sponsorship from the Florida Lottery, and Labonte finished a solid 15th.[15] The team did not run the rest of the season.
In late January 2015 Michael Annett brought his longtime primary sponsor Pilot Flying J, as well as sponsors Cypress Associates, Allstate Peterbilt, Northland Oil & Lubricants, Switch Hitch, Sherwin-Williams, TMC Transportation, Multiprens USA and EFS (Electronic Funds Source), to drive a second HSM car full-time after running his rookie season with Tommy Baldwin Racing. The car number was later revealed to be No. 46[16] and Jay Guy was announced as crew chief.[17] Annett finished 13th at the season-opening Daytona 500. He failed to qualify for next race at Atlanta, one of 13 drivers to not pass inspection and set a time during qualifying. Shortly after, HScott was given a second chance after Xfinity Series regular Brian Scott gave up his seat in the No. 33 Circle Sport Racing Chevrolet. The car was wrapped in Pilot Flying J colors, and Circle Sport owner Joe Falk was credited with owner's points under NASCAR rules.[18] During the 2015 season, Annett had a rough season and he also missed the fall Talladega race. Other than Daytona, Annett's best finish was 23rd at Bristol, Kansas and Martinsville. Annett finished 36th in points with the 46 finishing 38th in Owner points.
Annett returned for 2016, with primary sponsorship from Pilot Flying J and sponsorship from Allstate Peterbilt, Northland Oil & Lubricants, Multiprens USA and EFS (Electronic Funds Source). At Watkins Glen, the 46 featured the St. Jude Iowa Tournament of Hope. HScott entering into an agreement for a short-term lease of Premium Motorsports' charter, guaranteeing a starting spot for the team and Annett in every race.[19] In July, HSM in an attempt to improve performance hired Mike Hillman Jr. as the 46's crew chief.[20] Annett missed the August Bristol race due to flu-like symptoms and was replaced by Justin Allgaier, who finished 40th after a crash.[21] Annett and HSM struggled all season with a best finish of 20th in July at Daytona and they finished 36th in points. On November 5, Annett and his sponsors announced that they were leaving HSM for JR Motorsports in 2017.[22] HScott Motorsports would shut down in December.[12]
Car No. 46 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 | 35 | 36 | Owners | Pts |
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2014 | Bobby Labonte | 52 | Chevy | DAY 15 |
PHO | LVS | BRI | CAL | MAR | TEX | DAR | RCH | TAL | KAN | CLT | DOV | POC | MCH | SON | KEN | DAY | NHA | IND | POC | GLN | MCH | BRI | ATL | RCH | CHI | NHA | DOV | KAN | CLT | TAL | MAR | TEX | PHO | HOM | 46th | 54 |
2015 | Michael Annett | 46 | DAY 13 |
ATL DNQ |
LVS 39 |
PHO 42 |
CAL 38 |
MAR 39 |
TEX 40 |
BRI 23 |
RCH 33 |
TAL 29 |
KAN 23 |
CLT 32 |
DOV 41 |
POC 34 |
MCH 30 |
SON 33 |
DAY 37 |
KEN 30 |
NHA 36 |
IND 30 |
POC 26 |
GLN 31 |
MCH 35 |
BRI 43 |
DAR 39 |
RCH 43 |
CHI 34 |
NHA 29 |
DOV 37 |
CLT 25 |
KAN 34 |
TAL DNQ |
MAR 23 |
TEX 31 |
PHO 32 |
HOM 30 |
38th | 398 | |
2016 | DAY 27 |
ATL 30 |
LVS 30 |
PHO 33 |
CAL 29 |
MAR 35 |
TEX 32 |
BRI 31 |
RCH 36 |
TAL 38 |
KAN 32 |
DOV 37 |
CLT 36 |
POC 38 |
MCH 28 |
SON 36 |
DAY 20 |
KEN 26 |
NHA 38 |
IND 28 |
POC 29 |
GLN 37 |
MCH 33 |
DAR 28 |
RCH 31 |
CHI 33 |
NHA 40 |
DOV 33 |
CLT 24 |
KAN 32 |
TAL 33 |
MAR 35 |
TEX 32 |
PHO 26 |
HOM 28 |
36th | 329 | ||||
Justin Allgaier | BRI 40 |
Xfinity Series
HScott Motorsports with Chip Ganassi
Car No. 42 history
Following financial issues with co-owner Steve Turner that led to the dissolution of Turner Scott Motorsports, Scott found a new partner in the team, Chip Ganassi (whose drivers Kyle Larson and Dylan Kwasniewski drove for TSM), to field a single Xfinity Series entry under the name HScott Motorsports with Chip Ganassi. The team (led by crew chief Mike Shiplett) ran out of the Chip Ganassi Racing shop, with Larson,[23] Brennan Poole,[24] and Justin Marks sharing the ride. Kwasniewski did not return to the team due to lack of sponsorship.[25] Larson began with an eighth-place finish at the season opener at Daytona. Poole made his Xfinity Series debut at Las Vegas, finishing 9th. The team had some struggles during this season, but Larson managed to win the season finale at Homestead, after leading 118 laps and passing Austin Dillon with four laps to go.[26] Larson had sponsorship during the season from Eneos (8 races), ParkerStore (2 races), Crest (2 races), Accu-Doc Solutions and Dixie Chopper/Big Machine Records. Larson would also finish the season with four Top 5s and nine Top 10s while leading 175 laps. Poole would run 17 races with DC Solar sponsorship and he had Top 10s at Las Vegas (9th) and Loudon (10th). Marks would run the road course races at Mid-Ohio (Linksys sponsored, finished 15th) and Road America (Ganassi Sound Garage sponsored, finished 7th). The 42 would finish 15th in Owners points.
The team became fully operated by Ganassi for 2016.[27]
K&N Pro Series
For 2015, Harry Scott Jr. took control of the K&N Pro Series East operation of the now-defunct Turner Scott Motorsports. Scott partnered with Justin Marks to field five Chevrolet teams under the name HScott Motorsports with Justin Marks with returning driver Scott Heckert (#34 Project Lifesaver) and rookies William Byron (#9 Liberty University), J. J. Haley (#5 Braun Auto), and Dalton Sargeant (#51 Galt).[23] Following his win at the Chili Bowl Midget Nationals, 22-year-old Rico Abreu was signed to drive the team's 98 car (Accu-Doc Solutions/GoPro Motorplex) in January 2015.[28][29] Byron scored four wins and three poles en route to the 2015 series championship.[30] Heckert (2 wins/2 poles) finished 2nd in points, Sargeant finished 4th in points, Abreu (1 win/3 poles) finished 5th in points and Haley finished 6th in points.
2015 featured HScott Motorsports with Justin Marks sending three Chevrolet teams (#52 Galt- Dalton Sargeant, #91 Liberty University- William Byron, #05 Braun Auto Group- J.J. Haley) to compete in the K&N Pro Series West at Sonoma and Phoenix. Respectively Sargeant would finish 2nd/4th, Byron would finish 5th/2nd and Haley would finish 3rd/21st along with winning the pole at Phoenix.[31]
In 2016, the East program added Harrison Burton, the son of NASCAR on NBC commentator and former driver Jeff Burton, who began driving the No. 12 DEX Imaging/Konica Minolta Chevrolet for the team.[32]
The team added Tyler Dippel (#38 East West Marine/TyCar) and Hunter Baize (#13 Bicycle Playing Cards/Pine Mountain Firelogs), who competed for Rookie of the Year alongside Burton. Haley (#5 Braun Auto Group) returned in 2016[33] and ended the year as the 2016 series champion after winning two races, two poles with 13 Top 5s and finishing in the top ten in all 14 races, the only driver to do so in series history.[34] Dippel (1 win) finished 3rd in points, Baize finished 4th in points and Burton (1 pole) finished 7th in points.
On December 5, 2016, HScott Motorsports announced that with no viable driver/sponsor options for 2017 that it was closing its Cup operation. In conjunction with that the K&N operation also shut down.[35][36]
ARCA Racing Series
In 2015, HSM would field J.J. Haley in a limited schedule in the No. 74 Braun Auto Group/BraunAbility Chevrolet in the ARCA Racing Series. He would run at IRP and twice at Salem Speedway. The team's best start was a 2nd at Salem with a best finish of 4th happening at Salem and IRP.
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