Yates Racing
Yates Racing, until 2007 known as Robert Yates Racing, was an active in the U.S. NASCAR motorsport team. For a short time it acted under the name of Yates / Newman / Haas / Lanigan Racing after signing a partnership agreement with the Newman / Haas Racing team, which is active in the Champ Car. Doug Yates, son of the former owner Robert Yates took over the team in the 2008 season, so the Robert was dropped from the team name. After a merger with Richard Petty Motorsports, the team was disbanded.
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Sprint Cup
Car # 28/38/98
The start number 28 has been used since 1989 by Robert Yates. From 1989 to 1993, the car with the number 28, which was sponsored by Havoline was driven by Davey Allison, who died in a helicopter accident in 1993 killed. Robby Gordon, Lake Speed and Ernie Irvan shared the car # 28 for the remainder of the 1993 season, with Irvan won twice in just nine races, the Goody's 500 at Martinsville Speedway and in the Mello Yello 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, today is known as Lowe 's Motor Speedway. The good performance Irvans resulted in the fact that he was a regular place in the starting number 28 for the 1994 season. This seemed to have paid off for Robert Yates, because Irvan drove a good season, won three races, came 13 times in the top 5 and 15 times in the top 10, but then he injured himself hard in training for 21 races of the season, the GM Goodwrench dealer 400 at Michigan International Speedway. In the GM Goodwrench Dealer 400, the team was then no driver one, for the subsequent race of the season took over the number 28 Kenny Wallace Wallace, however, was not able to the success of Irvan to tie and came only twice in the top 10.
At the start of the 1995 season took over Dale Jarrett, who drove before Joe Gibbs Racing, the wheel of car number 28, as Ernie Irvan had still not fully recovered from his accident. Jarrett won the Miller Genuine Draft 500 at Pocono International Raceway, who is known today under the name of Pocono Raceway. He finished the season in 13th place in the driver standings. Ernie Irvan returned at the end of the season, while driving a car with the start number 88 He reached in three races twice the top 10. In the season 1996 Irvan and Jarrett exchanged the cars so Irvan again sat in the # 28 and Jarrett in the # 88, which was used from 1996 in the season. Irvan drove to the end of season 1997 for Robert Yates in the number 28 in the 1996 season, he finished tenth overall, 14th in the 1997 season overall.
Kenny Irwin Jr. then took over in the 1998 season the car. He remained until the end of the 1999 season, however, was not to achieve good results in the situation. Only ten top - 10 finishes he could retract. In the 2000 season, Ricky Rudd took over the car and immediately drove 19 times in his first season in the top 10. Even in the years 2001 and 2002 drove Rudd the start number 28 and was there three times victorious. At the end of the 2002 season left Robert Yates Racing Rudd. He was in every season that he drove for Robert Yates Racing, in the top 10 of the driver standings. In 2000, he was fifth, fourth in 2001 and 2002 Tenth the driver standings.
Presented a Robert Yates Elliott Sadler for the 2003 season. But not only the driver was new, but also the number and the main sponsor changed. M & M's took over the sponsorship of the car, as the starting number 38 was on the way from now on. Sadler left the team during the 2006 season and joined Evernham Motorsports. In his Robert Yates Racing Sadler won two races. He was also in the Chase for the Nextel Cup in 2004, the play-off system of NASCAR. David Gilliland, who was victorious in the NASCAR Nationwide Series recently took over the GFS Marketplace 400 race number 38 So far, he started twice from the pole position. In the UAW Ford 500 in 2006, giving the team announced the launch permissions for the Budweiser Shootout 2007 where he finished second, and at the Daytona 500 in 2007. Due to the fact that the team has a pole position in the 2007 season, it was also during the Budweiser Shootout in 2008 it again. Gilliland also denied in the 2008 season all the races in the # 38 The following season the team in the start number 98 has been renumbered. Paul Menard drove the start number 98 until the closure of the team at the end of the season.
Car # 88
The start number 88 has been used since the year 1996 in the full season. Dale Jarrett, who the year before even the start number 28 has been returned to the fit-again Ernie Irvan in 1996, drove, drove this car in the 1996 season. In 1999, Jarrett won the Winston Cup in the # 88, then still with Quality Care / Ford Credit as sponsors on the car. With the start of the 2001 season before taking over UPS sponsorship of the car with the start number 88 during his time at Robert Yates Racing Jarrett won a total of 29 races, no other riders in the team won as many races as he. Besides, he always was in 1996-2002 in the top 10 of the driver standings. At the end of the 2006 season he left the team in the direction of Michael Waltrip Racing. His sponsor followed him. For the 2007 season, Robert Yates Racing Ricky Rudd brought back. He brought the car in the Coca- Cola 600 in the top 10. On 20 August 2007, he officially announced his retirement as an active racer at the end of the season known. About two weeks later, on 2 September 2007, he was injured in the Sharp AQUOS 500 at California Speedway and had to Bank of America 500, which at Lowe 's Motor Speedway was held on 13 October 2007 pause. In the 2008 season Travis Kvapil drove the car, which was traveling with the start number 28 again, since Hendrick Motorsports starting number 88 uses for the car of Dale Earnhardt junior. After the first five races of the 2009 season the team was disbanded.
Nationwide Series
Car # 90
The Nationwide Series team with the # 90 started the 2005 season with Citifinancial as a sponsor. Dale Jarrett and Elliott Sadler, who were active at the time in the Nextel Cup for Robert Yates Racing, the car drove into a part-time schedule. Jarrett and Sadler brought it together on six Top 5 finishes. In the season 2006, Sadler shared the cockpit with Stephen Leicht, Matt McCall and Justin Diercks, and Marc Goossens, who drove the road course races. In the NASCAR Busch Series season in 2007 Stephen Leicht is the sole driver of the # 90, which is still sponsored by Citifinancial. Easily winning the Meijer 300 of 2007 on the Kentucky Speedway. Since due to lack of sponsors, an insert of the team in the 2008 season has not been possible, it was sold to Germain Racing.
Partnership with Newman / Haas / Lanigan Racing
In the course of the race weekend of the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard 2007 Robert Yates announced that his team will be Robert Yates Racing and Newman / Haas Racing, a team from the Champ Car series work together. Since Robert Yates but then announced to retire at the end of the season, the contract did not take place.