tim richmond drove the number 17 car in nascar.
who drove the number 17 car in nascar?
tim richmond
the team actually was not part of roush racing until 2002; reiser, the team owner, ran chevrolets through the 2001 season and since then, the no. 17 car has run part-time with a variety of different sponsors, with kenseth at least co-driving each time. in 2006, the car ran on a limited basis with sponsorships from ameriquest and pennzoil. that year, kenseth won three races. in 2007, the no. 17 car carried sponsorships from arby's, dish network, and weyerhauser and kenseth continued driving it, along with danny o'quinn, and michel jourdain jr.. the car took two wins at california and texas. still in the car, kenseth finishing 10th in points despite competing only 23 races. for 2008, the car's sponsorship was expected to be the same, with citigroup coming on board for a few races. in 2009, kenseth raced it in the camping world 300 at daytona with a sponsorship form ritz. ricky stenhouse jr. was tapped to drive the car in the dollar general 300 at charlotte in october with save-a-lot as the main sponsor. the team did not run again until kansas in october 2010, when trevor bayne drove it in six of the remaining 7 races of the 2010 season after he left michael waltrip racing. the team shut down again for 2011.
roush fenway racing in the xfinity series
the weather dawned cloudy and cold for the 48th running of the "great american race", when jeff burton led the field to the green at 2:45 pm, which at the time was the latest scheduled start in the history of the race (the reason for this was that nbc chose it as its lead-in program to the primetime portion of its day's coverage of the winter olympic games from turin). there were several lead changes in the early part of the race going, with a race record of 32. the first caution flew on lap 18 when martin truex, jr. hit the wall. during this caution, burton was passed by elliott sadler for the lead a lap later. the race restarted on lap 20 and 4 laps later, jeff gordon took the led away from sadler. carl edwards, a popular "dark horse candidate" for the nextel cup championship, had his day end early, as he was involved in a five-car pileup on lap 80 that collected dale jarrett, kyle petty, jeff green, j. j. yeley and joe nemechek. this was the biggest crash of the day, since the "big one" never occurred. this would also bring out the third caution flag. because of this, edwards finished 43rd. tony stewart was a "magnet for controversy", tangling with jeff gordon on lap 48 and matt kenseth on lap 106. the first incident (which left debris on the track) brought out the second caution, which ended when the race restarted four laps later, and the second one would bring out the fifth caution. stewart was penalized for aggressive driving after the incident with kenseth, in which he blocked the no.17 car into the grass, causing it to spin and hit the wall in turn 3. kenseth took matters into his own hands and was black flagged for hitting stewart's car in retaliation on pit road. the three drivers involved in these two incidents would repair their cars and get back into contention. kenseth at first failed to answer the black flag, which resulted in nascar no longer continuing to score the 17 car for 1 lap. kenseth would make up the lost lap and catch up to lead lap traffic.
2006 nascar nextel cup series