Michael Waltrip Racing Holdings LLC , doing business as Michael Waltrip Racing ("MWR"), is a professional stock car racing team focused on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The company is as a 50-50 partnership between Robert "Rob" Kauffman, the 44-year-old founder and managing partner of Fortress Investment Group, and Michael Waltrip, who first established the team in 1996. The team was the first full-time three-car team to field Toyota Camrys when Toyota entered Sprint Cup racing in 2007, and is now one of two three-car teams under the Toyota banner (along with Joe Gibbs Racing), while occasionally fielding a four-car lineup.
Currently, MWR fields the #00 Aaron's Rent Toyota Camry for David Reutimann, the #56 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota Camry for Martin Truex, Jr., and the #51 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota Camry part-time for owner Michael Waltrip in the Sprint Cup Series. In addition, MWR has a technical alliance with JTG Daugherty Racing to field a third full-time Sprint Cup car, the #47 Kroger Toyota Camry for Marcos Ambrose, which competes as a part of the MWR team.
Also, under a technical alliance with Prism Motorsports, MWR supplies up to two additional Toyota Camrys for the Sprint Cup series, the #66 and the #55, along with technical support, although these cars do not compete as part of MWR. Under a separate technical alliance with Germain Racing, MWR supplies the #13 Toyota Camry for Max Papis. Thus, in total, MWR is preparing at least six and maybe up to seven cars for any one Sprint Cup race. In addition, MWR partners with Diamond Ridge Motorsports to sponsor development driver Trevor Bayne in the #99 Toyota Camry in the Nationwide Series.
In addition, MWR fields the #00 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota Camry for Ryan Truex, Martin's younger brother, in the Camping World East Series and development entries in the ARCA RE/MAX Series with Eddie Sharp Racing and USARacing for Ken and Brett Butler. Ryan Truex won the Camping World East Series championship in 2009, MWR's first series championship.
History
Michael Waltrip Racing began racing in the Winston Cup series in 2002, making its debut at the 2002 Aaron's 499. The car was the #98 Aaron's Chevrolet Monte Carlo driven by Kenny Wallace. Wallace qualified 27th and finished 21st. Following that first race, Waltrip sold the #98 and its owner points to Innovative Motorsports.
After that, MWR fielded one Winston or Nextel Cup series car, the #00, on an intermittant basis through 2005. In 2006, MWR, in partnership with Bill Davis Racing, added a second car, Waltrip's #55, but neither car had manufacturer support.
In 2006, MWR signed an agreement with Toyota to field multiple Toyota Camrys in the Nextel Cup series for 2007. Waltrip was then able to add a third car driven by Dale Jarrett to his team for 2007, along with new sponsors. However, the MWR cars experienced a disastrous 2007 season, with the three teams failing to qualify for 39 races between them while winning only one pole with no top-5 finishes. Waltrip was forced to add Rob Kauffmann as a 50% partner in MWR to get the financing to improve the operation. After the season, major sponsors Burger King and Domino's Pizza pulled out. Also after the season, an ugly controversy emerged with Jack Roush of Roush Fenway Racing, who accused MWR of stealing one of his team's sway bars after a September 2007 race. While Waltrip and some other drivers, such as Jeff Gordon, argued that parts are often inadvertently swapped during post-race inspection, Roush held a lengthy news conference in March 2008 to accuse "the non-descript Toyota team" (MWR) of deliberately stealing the bar and threatened legal action. However, Roush, who had previously accused Toyota teams of being "ankle-biting Chihuahuas" and brought up Pearl Harbor in his effort to keep Toyota out of NASCAR, did not pursue such a lawsuit.
For 2008, MWR once again added Aaron's as a sponsor and ran competitively, but again managed only one pole and just one top-5 finish, and UPS withdrew as a sponsor after Jarrett retired and transferred its sponsorship to MWR's archrivals Roush Fenway. In 2009, MWR was forced to form a technical alliance with JTG Daugherty Racing to have sponsorship for its third car. However, during this season, MWR finally achieved success as a Sprint Cup team, including winning a race and placing two cars in the top six two weeks later. Both of those cars ended up in the top 20 for the year. For 2010, MWR has added Martin Truex Jr. as a full-time Sprint Cup driver. Michael Waltrip has also continued as a part-time driver in 2010, which brings MWR up to the maximum four cars per team when he competes.
Sprint Cup Teams
Car #00 History
The first race for the MWR #00 was in 2002 at the Tropicana 400, with Jerry Nadeau driving. Nadeau qualified 34th but finished 37th after suffering a steering failure. MWR attempted another race that season, the NAPA 500 with Buckshot Jones driving with sponsorship from Charter Pipeline, but he failed to qualify. Jones ran the EA Sports 500 the following season, where he started sixteenth and led nineteen laps before being relegated to 40th due to a crash. He attempted Atlanta again, but failed to qualify. Mike Skinner closed out the year for MWR at the Ford 400, qualifying 17th, but finishing 39th after a wreck.
In 2004, Kenny Wallace returned to MWR in the #00. Running four races for the team, his best finish was a 22nd at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Wallace ran two races in 2005, finishing 27th at Darlington Raceway. Johnny Benson ran a pair of races that season as well, but did not finish higher than 42nd. David Reutimann, who drove for Waltrip's brother Darrell in the Craftsman Truck Series, made his Cup debut at Lowe's Motor Speedway that season, qualifying 26th and finishing 22nd. In 2006, the #00 ran under two separate entries. The first ran with listed owners Mike and Bonnie Anderson under the name MBA Racing . It campaigned Ford Fusions with Hermie Sadler driving. He made only three starts, with his best finish 40th at the Daytona 500. The other was the MWR car with Waltrip as the listed owner. Bill Elliott drove the Monte Carlo in five races in 2006 with sponsorship from Burger King.
David Reutimann was tapped to drive the #00 Toyota Camry in 2007, with full-time primary sponsorship from Burger King and Dominos Pizza. He competed for the Rookie of the Year title as well as the Nextel Cup championship. However, the team struggled to qualify for races, as did other Toyota teams, making only 26 of 36 races in the season. Reutimann experienced one of the hardest crashes ever recorded at the 2007 Auto Club 500 at California Speedway. Because of the struggles, the team finished 39th in points and had a best finish of 13th. Sponsors Burger King and Dominos then pulled their sponsorship for 2008.
Reutimann opened 2008 in the #00 with backing from Aaron's. After the first five races Reutimann moved to MWR's #44 UPS Toyota and Michael McDowell took over the #00. However, McDowell struggled to keep the car in the Top 35 in owner points, which is necessary for automatic qualification into each race, and was replaced near the end of the season by Mike Skinner in an effort to reclaim a Top 35 spot. In October 2008, MWR transferred its third team to the #47 Toyota of JTG Daugherty Racing, driven by Marcos Ambrose, and discontinued the #00 team for the balance of the season.
In 2009, the #00 was once again driven by Reutimann with Aaron's sponsorship for the entire 2009 season. This became Reutimann and MWR's breakthrough season, as Reutimann won a rain-shortened Coca-Cola 600 on May 25, 2009, giving Michael Waltrip Racing its first victory in a Sprint Cup race, which was considered vindication for a team that had struggled for years. After a strong start to the season, Reutimann ranked among the top-12 drivers (who qualify for the Chase for the Sprint Cup) after finishing third at the Pocono 500 in race #14. He was caught by an early wreck at Daytona in race #18 that dropped him to 14th, however, and he narrowly finished outside the Chase. He also won his second pole at Texas Motor Speedway in April and his third pole at Dover International Speedway in the race after his first victory.
For 2010, Reutimann and the #00 team returned with minimal changes.
Car #56 History
The #56 car began running in Sprint Cup in 2006 as a partnership between Bill Davis Racing and Michael Waltrip Racing running the #55 Dodge. The partnership allowed Bill Davis to return his second team to full-time status while Michael Waltrip and his sponsor NAPA Auto Parts would have a car to race while expanding Michael Waltrip Racing. The agreement allowed for the transfer of owner points from BDR to MWR following the season. Soon afterwards, Jasper Motorsports closed down, and Waltrip purchased that team's owners points to be guaranteed a starting spot in the first five races of the 2006 season, with former Jasper owner Doug Bawel being listed as owner. Davis and Waltrip ran the 2006 season without manufacturer support, although running Dodge Chargers, due to a bitter lawsuit between Daimler-Chrysler and Davis. In a dismal 2006 season, the team failed to register a finish higher than 14th and finished 37th in the points.
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