Biagi-DenBeste Racing
| Owner(s) |
Fred & Greg Biagi (Biagi Brothers) Bill & Lori DenBeste |
|---|---|
| Base | Mooresville, North Carolina |
| Series | Xfinity Series |
| Car numbers | 4, 98 |
| Race drivers | 98. Aric Almirola, Casey Mears |
| Sponsors | 98. Fresh From Florida, Shelby American (Almirola), GEICO Military (Mears) |
| Manufacturer | Ford |
| Opened | 2001 |
| Career | |
| Debut | 2001 Auto Club 300 (Fontana) |
| Latest race | 2016 Mid-Ohio Challenge (Mid-Ohio) |
| Races competed | 199 |
| Drivers' Championships | 0 |
| Race victories | 2 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
Biagi-DenBeste Racing, originally Biagi Brothers Racing, is an American professional team that currently competes in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. The team is based in Mooresville, North Carolina. The team currently fields the No. 98 Ford Mustang part-time for Aric Almirola and Casey Mears.
The team debuted in 2001 at the Auto Club 300 as the No. 4 car, qualifying 41st and finishing 31st with Mike Wallace driving their Chevrolet. Wallace made eight starts total that season, his best finish a tenth at Richmond International Raceway. Wallace returned in 2002, running seventeen races. He finished in the top-twenty seven times, including two fourteenth-place finishes.
In 2003, Biagi moved up to the Busch Series full-time with Wallace. They opened the season with a fourth-place finish at the Koolerz 300. Despite missing a race where Rick Carelli filled in, Wallace finished thirteenth in points that year, one position shy of matching his career-best. The following season, Biagi switched from Chevrolets to Fords, and at the Winn-Dixie 250, Wallace took the lead on the last lap to score Biagi's first career Busch victory. He led eighteen laps the following week at Chicagoland Speedway, but ran out of fuel on the last lap, costing him the victory. After posting three more top-tens, Wallace finished seventeenth in points.
After Wallace departed in 2005, Biagi formed a partnership with Chip Ganassi Racing and hired Ganassi development driver Ryan Hemphill. After he failed to qualify for two consecutive races, Hemphill was briefly replaced by Jeff Green, who finished sixth at Richmond. Hemphill returned for three races and had a twelfth-place run at Nashville Superspeedway before he was permanently removed from the ride. Green took over for three races, before Kevin Hamlin took over for the balance of the season. In fourteen starts, his best finish was fourteenth at Memphis Motorsports Park.
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