ppc Racing

ppc Racing
Owner(s)	Greg Pollex
Base	Mooresville, North Carolina
Series	Nextel Cup Series, Busch Series, Craftsman Truck Series
Race drivers	Jeff Green, Jason Keller, Kenny Wallace, Terry Cook, John Andretti
Sponsors	Auto Zone, Nesquik, Albertsons, Excedrin, Miller High Life
Manufacturer	Ford, Chevrolet
Opened	1993
Closed	2007
Career
Drivers' Championships	1 (Busch Series)
Race victories	34 (Total): ; 33 (Busch Series) and 1 (Craftsman Truck Series)

ppc Racing is a former NASCAR team based in Mooresville, North Carolina. The team was owned by Greg Pollex. ppc Racing came about from a merger of Pollex's Busch Series team with a car owned by Steve DeSouza and Ted Campbell in 1999. The team won the 2000 Busch Series championship with driver Jeff Green and they finished second in the standings four times.^[1] The team shut down during the 2007 NASCAR Busch Series season due to a lack of funding. Pollex later joined CJM Racing as a shop foreman before departing late in the season.

NEXTEL Cup Series

ppc made its Winston Cup Series racing debut in 1993 at the Mello Yello 500. Chad Little was the driver of the No. 19 Kleenex Ford, and finished 33rd. They would also run the 1994 Daytona 500 in the No. 97 Ford with sponsorship from Tracy Lawrence, where they finished 29th. In 1995, they had their best finish at Talladega Superspeedway, their second of two races. After making five 1996 races in the Sterling Cowboy Pontiac Grand Prix, ppc moved to the Cup Series full-time with Little in the John Deere car. Despite an eighth-place finish at Bristol Motor Speedway, the team had trouble qualifying for races, and Pollex would sell the operation to Jack Roush in the final weeks of the season. (The team would eventually become Kurt Busch's 2004 Nextel Cup winning team, only to be sold to Latitude 43 Motorsports six years later and then folded.)

In 2004, ppc Racing return to the Cup series with John Andretti driving the No. 14 Ford to attempt five of the last six races with sponsorship from Victory Brand Tobacco and APlus at Sunoco with Dave Charpentier as the crew chief. The 14 team made its debut in that year's UAW-GM Quality 500 at Lowe's Motor Speedway, after qualifying 20th, they finished 22nd, four laps down.

After taking the next race off at Martinsville, the team returned to run the final four races, but missed the field at Darlington. The team's best finish was a 20th in the finale at Homestead.

Andretti, Charpentier, Victory Brand and APlus returned to the 14 team in 2005 with the plan that they will run the full season. The team made the first three races at Daytona, Fontana, and Las Vegas, with their best finishing being a 28th-place effort in the 2005 UAW Daimler-Chrysler 400 at Las Vegas, but they missed the field at Atlanta. Then VB Brand shut down, culminating in the team being forced to dissolve, as there was no other sponsorship to be found.

Busch Series

Car No. 10 History

ppc debuted at Darlington Speedway in 1993. It was No. 23 Ford sponsored by If Its Paper and driven by Chad Little. At the time, Pollex co-owned the team with NFL quarterback Mark Rypien. Little competed in 12 races with the team that season, posting three top-ten finishes. Going full-time with Bayer Select sponsoring in 1994, Little finished third in the Busch Series points, finishing in the top-ten in half of the races run that season. The next season was even better, as Little collected six victories and a runner-up finish in the points. When Pollex moved Little and the team up to the Cup Series in 1997, the team did not run the Busch Series.

Pollex returned in 1999 with a new operation. This time it was the No. 32 Kleenex Chevy driven by Jeff Green. Despite failing to qualify for the spring Rockingham race, Green won three races and finished second in the points in what was a comeback season for both Green and the team. For 2000, the team underwent some changes, as it bought the No. 57 car driven by Jason Keller, and Green's car was now No. 10 and sponsored by NesQuik. Green won six races and the championship by a then-record 616 points over Keller. After yet another successful 2001 season where Green visited Victory Lane four times and wound up second in the points in the team's new Fords, he departed for Richard Childress Racing's Winston Cup team. His replacement was Scott Riggs, an up-and-coming driver from the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Riggs won twice and finished 10th on his way to winning the Busch Series Rookie of the Year standings. After two more wins and a sixth-place finish in points, Riggs left for MB2/MBV Motorsports, and the team disappeared briefly, before coming back in 2005. Rookie driver Michel Jourdain Jr. was tabbed the car's pilot, and he posted one-top ten finish before being replaced by Brent Sherman with sponsor Serta Mattresses midway through the season.

In 2006, Sherman left ppc and went to the Nextel Cup Series with BAM Racing, being replaced by John Andretti. Andretti had limited success in his rookie season and came into the season finale tied with Danny O'Quinn in rookie points. Although Andretti finished 16th and O'Quinn 36th, O'Quinn still edged Andretti by 1 point to win Rookie of the Year.

For the 2007 season, ppc Racing announced an alliance with Biagi Brothers Racing and Braun Racing. The No. 10 would become part of the Braun stable keeping the No. 10's owner points and running equipment from the recently shut down Biagi Brothers team, switching from Ford to Toyota. The sponsorship, number, and driver were to remain the same however Andretti would leave the team following the first race of the 2007 season When funding for the team became questionable. Dave Blaney's No. 32 team for Braun would switch to the number No. 10 that following week at Fontana.

Car No. 10 History

Ppc Racing No. 10
NASCAR Busch Series results
Year	Team	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	Owners	Pts
1993	Chad Little	23	Ford	DAY	CAR	RCH	DAR 33	BRI	HCY	ROU	MAR	NZH	CLT 7	DOV 2	MYB	GLN	MLW	TAL 29	IRP 37	MCH 33	NHA 37	BRI 22	DAR 3	RCH	DOV	ROU	CLT 14	MAR	CAR 41	HCY	ATL 23								32nd	1171
1994				DAY 3	CAR 15	RCH 22	ATL 14	MAR 27	DAR 18	HCY 22	BRI 24	ROU 15	NHA 5	NZH 11	CLT 34	DOV 17	MYB 5	GLN 8	MLW 7	SBO 5	TAL 6	HCY 8	IRP 5	MCH 2	BRI 12	DAR 5	RCH 14	DOV 15	CLT 4	MAR 5	CAR 5								3rd	3662
1995				DAY 1	CAR 1*	RCH 32	ATL 29*	NSV 2	DAR 4	BRI 3	HCY 23*	NHA 1	NZH 19	CLT 1	DOV 9	MYB 32	GLN 2*	MLW 8	TAL 1	SBO 1*	IRP 20	MCH 21	BRI 4	DAR 40	RCH 16	DOV 13	CLT 34	CAR 35	HOM 26										2nd	3284
1996			Pontiac	DAY 19	CAR 33	RCH 20	ATL 15	NSV 15	DAR 37	BRI 12	HCY 11	NZH 11	CLT 13	DOV 29	SBO 8	MYB 16	GLN 8	MLW 21	NHA 32	TAL 21	IRP 27	MCH 11	BRI 25	DAR 12	RCH 3	DOV 9	CLT 4	CAR 10	HOM 7										5th	2984
1999	Jeff Green	32	Chevy	DAY 2	CAR DNQ	LVS 8	ATL 17	DAR 25	TEX 3	NSV 1*	BRI 23	TAL 17	CAL 32	NHA 2*	RCH 5*	NZH 7*	CLT 10	DOV 7	SBO 2	GLN 40	MLW 2	MYB 1	PPR 4*	GTY 4	IRP 3	MCH 16	BRI 12	DAR 17	RCH 29	DOV 3	CLT 15	CAR 2	MEM 1	PHO 11	HOM 5				2nd	4367
2000		10	Chevy	DAY 42	CAR 2	LVS 6	ATL 13	DAR 4	BRI 2	TEX 5	NSV 12*	TAL 5	CAL 3	RCH 1	NHA 2	CLT 3	DOV 4	SBO 1*	MYB 1*	GLN 10	MLW 1*	NZH 4	PPR 1*	GTY 5	IRP 3*	MCH 14	BRI 3	DAR 4	RCH 2	DOV 42	CLT 4	CAR 1	MEM 3*	PHO 4	HOM 3				1st	5005
2001			Ford	DAY 4	CAR 8	LVS 5	ATL 4	DAR 1	BRI 38	TEX 32	NSH 8	TAL 3	CAL 3	RCH 6	NHA 4	NZH 3	CLT 1	DOV 29	KEN 31	MLW 9	GLN 31	CHI 6	GTY 5	PPR 2	IRP 6	MCH 36	BRI 2	DAR 9	RCH 22	DOV 1	KAN 1	CLT 10	MEM 2*	PHO 2	CAR 9*	HOM 9			2nd	4689
2002	Scott Riggs			DAY 6	CAR 4	LVS 34	DAR 20	BRI 9	TEX 4	NSH 1	TAL 19	CAL 1	RCH 27	NHA 7	NZH 2	CLT 3	DOV 11	NSH 20	KEN 4*	MLW 37	DAY 15	CHI 30	GTY 27	PPR 16	IRP 11*	MCH 6	BRI 18	DAR 10	RCH 34	DOV 14	KAN 23*	CLT 39	MEM 36	ATL 4	CAR 18	PHO 40	HOM 17		10th	4023
2003	Scott Riggs			DAY 31	CAR 17	LVS 20	DAR 3	BRI 23	TEX 2	TAL 24	NSH 11	CAL 20	RCH 2*	GTY 1	NZH 15	CLT 3	DOV 2	NSH 1*	KEN 30	MLW 7*	DAY 6	CHI 7	NHA 14	PPR 3	IRP 5	MCH 5	BRI 9	DAR 17	RCH 29	DOV 3	KAN 13	CLT 13	MEM 12	ATL 6	PHO 6	CAR 38	HOM 41		6th	4462
2005	Michael Jourdain Jr.			DAY 25	CAL 25	MXC 37	LVS 40	ATL 10	NSH 22	BRI 32	TEX 20	PHO 37	TAL 30	DAR 41	RCH 21	CLT 15	DOV 41	NSH 40	KEN 23	MLW 30	DAY 39	CHI DNQ																	26th	2015
	Brent Sherman																						NHA 23	PPR 27	GTY 30	IRP 18	GLN 29	MCH 29	BRI DNQ	CAL 24	RCH DNQ	DOV DNQ	KAN 22	CLT 13	MEM 27	TEX DNQ	PHO 26
	John Andretti																																					HOM DNQ
2006				DAY 34	CAL 19	MXC 23	LVS 42	ATL 20	BRI 9	TEX 19	NSH 28	PHO 34	TAL 16	RCH 19	DAR 15	CLT 17	DOV 19	NSH 18	KEN 15	MLW 12	DAY 10	CHI 25	NHA 18	MAR 7	GTY 26	IRP 27	GLN 5	MCH 30	BRI 14	CAL 29	RCH 16	DOV 19	KAN 23	CLT 25	MEM 35	TEX 15	PHO 25	HOM 16	12th	3562
2007			Toyota	DAY 39	CAL	MXC	LVS	ATL	BRI	NSH	TEX	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY	IRP	CGV	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT	MEM	TEX	PHO	HOM	147th	46

Car No. 22 History

The No. 22 car debuted in 1991 as the No. 14 at Lanier Speedway as the No. 54 Air Products and Chemicals Buick owned by driver Jason Keller and his father. Keller started eighth but finished 29th after a crash. The next year, Keller ran five races, but only finished one. In 1993, the team switched to No. 57 and ran 12 races. Despite the abbreviated schedule, Keller had one top-ten finish and finished 33rd in points. In 1994, Keller and his team signed Budget Gourmet to sponsor his Chevrolets, and posted three poles and had a seventeenth-place finish in the points. In 1995, Keller won his first race at the Kroger 200 and finished fourth in points. Despite not visiting victory lane again in 1996, Keller drove his Slim Jim-sponsored Chevy into a sixth-place points finish. Keller struggled the next two seasons, as he did not finish in the top-ten in points, and was forced to run 1998 without major sponsorship. After that year, owner Steve DeSouza bought his operation, and signed IGA as sponsor. It was the right combination, as Keller won at Bristol and IRP, and climbed to eighth in points.

In 2000, the team merged with ppc and got new sponsorship from Excedrin. While Keller's teammate Jeff Green dominated the Busch Series that year, Keller quietly had a strong season, winning one race and finishing a career-best second in points. Albertsons was the next sponsor to climb on board, and Keller won another race and finished third in points while switching to Fords, before winning four more races and returning to second in points in 2002. After a respectable 2003 season, the team switched to No. 22 and brought Miller High Life on board to sponsor. Keller went winless for the first time since 1998, and departed for Team Rensi Motorsports at the end of the year. He was replaced by Kenny Wallace and sponsor Stacker 2. Wallace had five top-fives and finished seventh in points. He continued to run with ppc with Autozone backing the car in 2006, but Autozone departed at the end of the season and Wallace took a full-time Cup ride with Furniture Row Racing. After a number switch with Fitz Motorsports, the team was merged with Carl A. Haas Motorsports in order to run Kyle Krisiloff in the No. 14 Clabber Girl car.

Car No. 22 History

Ppc Racing No. 22
NASCAR Busch Series results
Year	Team	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	Owners	Pts
1998	Jason Keller	57	Chevy	DAY 16	CAR 10	LVS 33	NSV 5	DAR 33	BRI 5	TEX 26	HCY 10	TAL 11	NHA 12	NZH 7	CLT 38	DOV 9	RCH 6	PPR 33	GLN 10	MLW 36	MYB 33	CAL 27	SBO 33	IRP 16	MCH 28	BRI 38	DAR 41	RCH 20	DOV 20	CLT 33	GTY 37	CAR 22	ATL 22	HOM 35					16th	2971
1999				DAY 22	CAR 33	LVS 10	ATL 15	DAR 12	TEX 6	NSV 3	BRI 1*	TAL 40	CAL 29	NHA 6	RCH 30	NZH 16	CLT 11	DOV 10	SBO 28	GLN 5	MLW 36	MYB 8	PPR 33	GTY 5	IRP 1*	MCH 27	BRI 21	DAR 23	RCH 10	DOV 28	CLT 29	CAR 8	MEM 29	PHO 40	HOM 26				8th	3537
2000				DAY 12	CAR 4	LVS 34	ATL 43	DAR 14	BRI 9	TEX 11	NSV 22	TAL 22	CAL 7	RCH 5	NHA 3	CLT 19	DOV 1	SBO 7	MYB 4	GLN 11	MLW 5	NZH 3	PPR 12	GTY 4	IRP 5	MCH 23	BRI 2	DAR 6	RCH 11	DOV 2	CLT 6	CAR 3	MEM 15	PHO 8	HOM 4				2nd	4389
2001			Ford	DAY 7	CAR 10	LVS 3	ATL 7	DAR 3	BRI 11	TEX 24	NSH 2	TAL 25	CAL 15	RCH 18	NHA 1	NZH 4	CLT 3	DOV 13	KEN 14	MLW 5	GLN 9	CHI 5	GTY 2	PPR 4	IRP 5	MCH 8	BRI 29	DAR 6	RCH 13	DOV 25	KAN 5	CLT 2	MEM 7	PHO 6	CAR 4	HOM 19			3rd	4642
2002				DAY 4	CAR 1	LVS 22	DAR 4	BRI 29	TEX 13	NSH 5*	TAL 1*	CAL 5	RCH 1	NHA 32	NZH 1*	CLT 13	DOV 28	NSH 5	KEN 34	MLW 2	DAY 4	CHI 10	GTY 6	PPR 3	IRP 2	MCH 35	BRI 9	DAR 2	RCH 5	DOV 5	KAN 30	CLT 18	MEM 10	ATL 7	CAR 27	PHO 4	HOM 15*		2nd	4644
2003				DAY 27	CAR 5	LVS 5	DAR 10	BRI 3	TEX 18	TAL 28	NSH 27	CAL 7	RCH 21	GTY 3	NZH 11	CLT 17	DOV 11	NSH 14	KEN 2	MLW 1	DAY 14	CHI 6	NHA 7	PPR 2	IRP 2	MCH 23	BRI 11	DAR 7	RCH 21	DOV 8	KAN 4	CLT 10	MEM 2	ATL 15	PHO 17	CAR 13	HOM 24		5th	4528
2004		22		DAY 9	CAR 12	LVS 8	DAR 13	BRI 8	TEX 12	NSH 13	TAL 12	CAL 19	GTY 3	RCH 5	NZH 4	CLT 31	DOV 13	NSH 33	KEN 5	MLW 3	DAY 18	CHI 2	NHA 26	PPR 13	IRP 19	MCH 16	BRI 8	CAL 22	RCH 39	DOV 12	KAN 7	CLT 30	MEM 6	ATL 35	PHO 29	DAR 16	HOM 13		6th	4088
2005	Kenny Wallace			DAY 37	CAL 13	MXC 8	LVS 23	ATL 12	NSH 2	BRI 14	TEX 9	PHO 16	TAL 35	DAR 2	RCH 20	CLT 9	DOV 9	NSH 2	KEN 14	MLW 8	DAY 4	CHI 29	NHA 11	PPR 3	GTY 24	IRP 11	GLN 28	MCH 18	BRI 35	CAL 8	RCH 31	DOV 11	KAN 24	CLT 26	MEM 18	TEX 20	PHO 14	HOM 29	7th	4068
2006	Kenny Wallace			DAY 13	CAL 34	MXC 19	LVS 32	ATL 19	BRI 8	TEX 27	NSH 8	PHO 28	TAL 13	RCH 23	DAR 16	CLT 13	DOV 16	NSH 11	KEN 20	MLW 8	DAY 14	CHI 29	NHA 27	MAR 13	GTY 9	IRP 20	GLN 31	MCH 18	BRI 29	CAL 36	RCH 24	DOV 14	KAN 22	CLT 19	MEM 14	TEX 16	PHO 31	HOM 26	11th	3626

Craftsman Truck Series

The No. 10 Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International truck is driven by Terry Cook in the Craftsman Truck Series. Cook joined the team in 2003 leaving K Automotive Racing with 4 wins, 9 top 5s, 17 top 10s, and an 8th-place points finish. During the first 3 years with ppc, Cook would go on a winless slump, like the one he suffered from 1998 to 2002. Between the 2003 and 2005 seasons, Cook would amass a total of 3 poles, 4 top 5s, and 28 top 10s. Although the 10 team's first year together was slightly successful, 2004 and 2005 would be complete disasters for the team, with 2 consecutive years finishing outside the top 10 in points.

In 2006, Cook would receive his first victory in 4 years at Kansas Speedway and finish 8th in the points. He would leave for HT Motorsports at season's end. The following year, ppc's truck equipment was purchased by Circle Bar Racing with International's Maxx Diesel sponsoring David Starr in the No. 10 truck.

References

^ "Carolina's ppc Racing Gets the Green Light". Multiquip Inc. Retrieved September 16, 2020.

External links

[1] "Carolina's ppc Racing Gets the Green Light". Multiquip Inc. Retrieved September 16, 2020.

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