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Davis & Weight Motorsports was a former Busch Series team. They competed in the series from 1999-2001.
Selling of the Team[]
Fil Marcotti sold his former Winston Cup team (see FILMAR Racing) to an originization called the Pinnacle Motorsports Group. The team planned to run that year's Daytona 500 with Morgan Shepherd driving, but failed to qualify. The group was sold again to Davis & Weight Motorsports late in the season.
History[]
The team made its Busch debut at the Food City 250 with Brandon Sperling driving the #55 Pontiac Grand Prix with sponsorship from the University of Florida. He started and finished 27th. Michael Ritch ran a pair of races for D&W that year, at Rockingham and Memphis Motorsports Park, his best finish a 35th.
D&W hired Ritch to compete full-time in the Busch Series in 2000 competing for Rookie of the Year honors. In addition, they announced they would run the #81 in Cup in five races that season to move up full-time in 2001. Ritch made 21 starts that season and had five top-twenty finishes in the UoF/Kleenex Ford Taurus, and finished 33rd in points, but the team did not attempt any Cup races. In 2001, Mark Green took over, and had a best finish of sixteenth at Darlington Raceway when the team announced it was closing it's Busch program to focus on Cup. After announcing they would attempt the Brickyard 400, the team layed off all of its employees and did not attempt a race again.