Ranier Racing
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| Owner(s) |
Lorin Ranier Mike Hillman Doug Fuller |
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| Base | Mooresville, North Carolina |
| Series |
Camping World Truck Series K&N Pro Series East ARCA Racing Series |
| Car numbers | 8, 10, 15, 20, 28, 31, 32, 40, 41, 54, 68, 71, 88, 99 |
| Race drivers |
Camping World Truck Series: 99. Tommy Joe Martins, Austin Dillon, Ty Dillon, Brandon Jones K&N Pro Series East: 12. Harrison Burton 40. Kyle Benjamin 41. Spencer Davis ARCA Racing Series: 28. Michael Self |
| Sponsors | 99. Sun Frog, Overkill Motorsports Motorcoaches |
| Manufacturer | Chevrolet, Toyota |
| Opened | 1967 |
Ranier Racing with MDM is an American professional team that currently competes in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. The team formerly competed in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing team until 1987, fielding Cale Yarborough during the 1980s late in its operations. The team later became Robert Yates Racing after Yates, an engine builder and crew chief with the operation, bought the team in 1988. The team largely fielded General Motors vehicles for its various drivers until switching to Fords in 1985.
The team won the 1980 Daytona 500 with Buddy Baker and 1983 and 1984 Daytona 500 with Yarborough.
The team was based in Charlotte and co-operated by Harry Ranier (c. 1930s – July 21, 1999) and J.T. Lundy. who left in 1987 Ranier was a Kentuckian coal mining magnate. Ranier's entry into the sport predates magnates such as J.D. Stacy and Billy Hagan.
Harry Ranier started entering racecars into NASCAR's top division sporadically starting in 1967 and consistently starting in 1978 with driver Lennie Pond and later Buddy Baker.
In 1978, Ranier's team won its first race at the Talladega 500 with Pond after other key leading cars were slowed when Bill Elliott's car blew a tire and spreading debris.
Buddy Baker drove for the team starting in 1979. In 1980, Waddell Wilson was crew chief and engine builder. Baker won the 1980 Daytona 500 for the team in a famous paint scheme known as the "gray ghost". The car set the record for fastest Daytona 500 ever run by average speed, a record that still stands.
In 1983, Yarborough moved to the No. 28 Hardee's Chevrolet owned by Harry Ranier, competing in 16 events. He won four races, including his third Daytona 500, his sixth Atlanta Coca-Cola 500, and swept both events at Michigan, along with three poles. In 1984 he repeated by winning his fourth Daytona 500, becoming the second driver to score back-to-back wins, the Winston 500 at Talladega, a race that featured 75 lead changes, and the Van Scoy Diamond Mine 500, along with four poles. In 1985 after his team switched to a Ford, he won his first Talladega 500 and scored his final win in the Miller High Life 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
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