21 Facts About JR Motorsports

JR Motorsports is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series, CARS Tour, and occasionally in the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series.

JR Motorsports began in a shed on the property of Dale Earnhardt, Inc in 1998 with just one employee, as the marketing division of Dale Earnhardt Jr.

In early 2019 it was announced that JR Motorsports had formed a driver development program with GMS Racing, Drivers Edge Development, to train young drivers.

JR Motorsports started the season with a 30th place finish at Daytona and scored four top-five finishes in the first 10 races.

On Monday, October 14,2013, JR Motorsports announced that Kevin Harvick would begin driving the No 5 car in at least 12 races for the 2014 season.

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Patrick departed JR Motorsports to compete full-time in the Cup Series for the 2013 season.

JR Motorsports finished 4th in the final points standings after finishing 14th at Homestead.

JR Motorsports would make the final four and would finish 2nd in points to Austin Cindric.

JR Motorsports began the season with a 16th place finish at Daytona.

JR Motorsports's run that season was marred by six DNFs, but back-to-back wins at Darlington and Richmond put him in the playoffs for the third season in a row.

JR Motorsports was fined 35,000 and docked 30 driver and owner points for the incident.

JR Motorsports won the next three races at Kansas, Bristol, and Texas, becoming the first driver since Sam Ard in 1983 to win four straight Xfinity Series races.

JR Motorsports was involved in a hard crash at Fontana, in which he was tagged by a spinning car, collided head first and then driver side with the turn 1 wall, temporarily was airborne, and then rode the guardrail while his car was on fire before coming to a stop.

JR Motorsports won his first race at Nashville Superspeedway and later picked up another win at Bristol Motor Speedway, finishing third in points but lost the Navy sponsorship for 2009.

On January 12,2015, JR Motorsports announced that Haas Racing Development driver Cole Custer would drive a truck for the team in 10 races in 2015, marking the team's first foray into the Camping World Truck Series.

In 2016, JR Motorsports entered a second truck in collaboration with Contreras Motorsports for Chase Elliott in the Texas Roadhouse 200 at Martinsville Speedwaywith NAPA and Valvoline as co-sponsors.

However, JR Motorsports did not end up moving their team to Sprint Cup and has remained in the Xfinity and Camping World Truck Series, partially due to NASCAR's Cup Series limit of four cars per team owner.

JR Motorsports returned at Talladega but finished 39th due to a crash.

JR Motorsports returned at the first Pocono race but finished 24th due to an axle problem.

JR Motorsports then returned for the second Pocono race, started 5th, and won the race, after leading 18 laps.

JR Motorsports has fielded a regional late model program since 2002.