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The 2001 season welcomes two BACE Motorsports teams, the championship winning No. 74 and the No. 33. 1999 NASCAR Busch Series "Rookie of the Year" Tony Raines will be piloting the No. 33, while Chad Little returns to the series to be in the drivers seat of the No. 74. 

BACE Motorsports dedicates itself to the highest caliber if competition. The team was the first to accrue three Busch Series Championships, with Johnny Benson (1995) and Randy LaJoie (1996, 1997); and two NASCAR Busch Series Rookie of the Year titles with Johnny Benson (1994) and Tony Raines (1999). Among stockpiling these accolades, the BACE condor has clutched twelve wins, forty-four top fives, seventy-five top tens, and eight poles under the wings of Busch Series favorites Tony Raines, Tim Fedewa, Randy LaJoie, Jason Jarrett, and Johnny Benson. 

BACE Motorsports is also noted for being the first team to exceed $1 million in winnings in a single season (1997), the first NASCAR Busch Series team to compete internationally with Winston Cup in Japan, finishing fourth (1997), earning primary sponsor over $8 million in television exposure, breaking their own previous record (source: Joyce Julius Sponsor's report) (1997), being awarded one of five world-wide annual achievement awards by General Motors Corporation (1997), and the only mulit-car team to have all teams finish in the top ten in points and have each team win a race in the same season (1998). 

A RECORD OF PERFORMANCE

1994
  • First NASCAR Busch Series win - Dover, Delaware
  • First Busch Series driver to win a race at a speedway in his rookie season
  • Claimed Rookie of the Yew honors with driver Johnny Benson, who BACE recruited to NASCAR from the ASA Series.
1995
  • Won two races - Atlanta and Hickory
  • Earned 12 top-five finishes, 19 top-ten finishes, one pole.
  • Average start was 121", Average finish was 9"'.
  • Completed 95% of the total possible laps run.
  • Won Busch Series Championship.
1996
  • Won five races-Nazareth, Dover - twice, Loudon, Indianapolis Raceway Park
  • Earned 11 top-five finishes, 20 top-ten finishes 2 poles.
  • Average start was 13th. Average finish was 9th.
  • Completed 97% of the total possible laps run.
  • Earned primary sponsor a record $6M in television exposures
  • Won second Busch Series Championship.
  • First team ever to win two consecutive national championships with different drivers.
1997
  • Won five races- Daytona, Darlington, South Boston, Milwaukee, and Indianapolis Raceway Park.
  • Earned 19 top-five Finishes, 32 top-ten finishes. 5 poles.
  • Average start was 13th.   Average finish was 8th.
  • Completed 99% of the total possible laps run.
  • Led 17% of total laps, averaging in excess of leading one lap of every five laps run during the entire season.
  • Won third Busch Series Championship.
  • First team to win three consecutive national championships.
  • First team to exceed $1 M in winnings in a single season.
  • First NASCAR Busch Series team to compete internationally with Winston Cup in Japan, finishing fourth.
  • Earned primary sponsor over $8 M in television exposures, breaking our own previous record. (source: Joyce Julius Sponsor's Report)
  • First multi-car team to have all teams finish in the top ten in points.
  • Awarded one of five world-wide annual achievement awards by General Motors Corporation.
1998
  • Won three races-Nazareth, South Boston, and Myrtle Beach.
  • 11 top-five finishes. 22 top-ten finishes, one pole.
  • Only multi-car team to have all team finish in the top ten in points.
  • Only multi-car team to have each team win a race.
1999
  • Claimed Rookie of the Year honors with driver Tony Raines.
Other Achievements
  • Established 17 different Busch Series records during this period.