FANTASY NASCAR Racin

TOMMY BALDWIN JR - 10/27/1966 -
Baldwin is the son of former NASCAR Modified driver Tom Baldwin. He started as a crew chief in 1997 for owner Junie Donlavey. In 1998 he moved to Bill Davis as the crew chief for Ward Burton. Burton and Baldwin won four races together, including the 2002 Daytona 500, until his departure late that season. In 2003, Baldwin became the crew chief of the #7 Sirius Satellite Radio Dodge Intrepid for Ultra Motorsports driven by Jimmy Spencer. He served as crew chief for several drivers and team through 2005. Baldwin announced on January 6, 2009 that he started his own Sprint Cup Series Team named Tommy Baldwin Racing and it will be running Toyota's. Scott Riggs was named to pilot the car for the 2009 season. Baldwin's cars for the Daytona 500 were mainly built and assembled by volunteer crew members who were laid off by other race teams affected by the economic crisis. On May 25, 2009, Sprint Cup Series driver Scott Riggs announced that he would leave Tommy Baldwin Racing following the Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe's Motor Speedway. TBR team owner Tommy Baldwin immediately announced that Mike Skinner, Patrick Carpentier and Brian Simo would be sharing driving duties in the No.36 Toyota for the remainder of the 2009 season. For much of the 2009 season, Tommy Baldwin Racing was a start and park operation, which was the reason Riggs left the team. In 2010 Tommy Baldwin Racing hired Mike Bliss to drive car #36. Wave Energy Drink returned as sponsor and the team also switched to Chevrolet. For 2011, Baldwin retained Blaney for a full season in the #36. The

team once again went to Daytona with an unsponsored vehicle, but earned sponsorship from Golden Corral at Daytona after the team made the race. Accell Construction, All Sport, and Big Red also supported the team throughout the season. Blaney led at Daytona and Talladega and nearly pulled off upset victories at both tracks before being involved in late race incidents just laps before the finish. After a 13th place finish at Richmond, the team moved into the Top 35 in owner's points for the first time in its three-year history. The #36 finished 33rd in owner's points, which guaranteed the team a starting spot in the 2012 Daytona 500. In January 2012, Baldwin sold the owner's points from the #36 to Stewart-Haas Racing to

allow the #10, driven by Danica Patrick, to be locked into the Daytona 500. In 2012 Baldwin was again mostly a start-n-park operation, but due to his reduced expense, and the decent pay-outs for the lower starting positions, he was able to make enough money to run a full racing schedule in 2013. His team also picked up some sponsorship, had several impressive runs, and for 2014 has expanded to a two car team. For 2014, Yeley was replaced by Reed Sorenson, and veteran crew chief Todd Parrott was brought in to improve the performance of the team. Golden Corral returned once again for the super speedways with their "Top 10 Kids Eat Free" promotion,

with Zing Zang, Flasr, Theme Park Connection, and the Delaware "Click It or Ticket" program sponsoring select races. The highlight of the season was when Sorenson qualified second at the July Daytona race after a rain-abbreviated qualifying session. Due to lack of consistent funding outside of restrictor plate races, the team's performance slumped significantly behind the No. 7 team, forced to use their Pro Motor Engines for multiple consecutive races and skipping practice sessions to save tires and part wear. Perhaps the team's most notable moment in 2014 came at the spring Richmond race. Sorenson blew a tire, which then unwound with the rubber cords striking various components inside the wheel well,

causing a small fire. However, the fire would eventually reach the fuel cell causing the car to burst into flames as Sorenson eased it onto pit road, he brought it to a stop, where crew members from GoFas Racing and Hendrick Motorsports rushed to quickly get Sorenson out of the car. Sorenson was uninjured. Sorenson finished the 2014 season in 34th in the final driver standings, with a best finish of 14th, while the 36 team finished 35th in the owner standings. In 2014, the #7 was driven by rookie Michael Annett, bringing his longtime sponsor Pilot Flying J up from the Xfinity Series. Part-time primary sponsors included longtime TBR sponsors Accell Construction for six races, Golden Corral at Loudon and Talladega in the fall, and new sponsor Allstate Peterbuilt. The #7 would also utilize an engine leasing program with ECR Engines. Annett finished

33rd in the 2014 final point standings with a best finish of 16th at Talladega Superspeedway in the Spring, with the team also finishing 33rd in final owners points. Annett and Pilot Flying J did not return for 2015, moving to a new second entry at HScott Motorsports. After the season, TBR sold the owner's points and equipment of the No. 36 team to Jay Robinson Racing (reorganized as Premium Motorsports) due to lack of sponsorship, and contracted to one full-time team. Because of the move, Reed Sorenson was released, and sponsor Zing Zang retracted their planned five race sponsorship for 2015 (due to their desire to sponsor Sorenson). In 2015 it was announced that Alex Bowman would depart BK Racing in order to join TBR. The

team got off to a rough start after failing to make the Daytona 500 after wrecking in the Duel, the first time that any TBR entry had failed to make The Great American Race. Since then they have qualified for every race having a pretty decent season with some finishes in the top 20. Bowman was signed to drive for 2016, but parted ways with the team on January 21. A few hours later, Regan Smith joined the team full-time driving the No. 7 Chevy, replacing Bowman. Smith had a good start, finishing 8th in the Daytona 500, thus allowing a "Kids Eat Free" campaign to happen the next day as the car had Golden Corral sponsorship. Regan Smith, after a dismal 2016 season, rebounded at the second Pocono event when he finished 3rd after not pitting during the final 28 laps. It was his season-best finish for both him and Tommy Baldwin Racing, as well as the best finish for the team in the

organizations history. Before the race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Tommy Baldwin announced on Facebook that Tommy Baldwin Racing would shut down after this season. Their charter was sold to Leavine Family Racing forcing Smith to qualify on speed. They did end up racing part time in 2017 in the Cup Series with various drivers. He fielded cars for 11 races using drivers: Joey Gase, Elliott Sadler, Justin Marks, JJ Yeley, and Hermie Sadler. Yeley was able to post the only finish inside the Top 30 as he finished 27th at Texas. For the organizations duration they ran in 403 Cup races. Posted two Top 5 finishes and four Top 10 finishes in the Cup series. During the Xfinity series they ran 50 races and Ted Musgrave posted their only Top 5 finish (third at Bristol 2003) and seven Top 10 results. Some info from Wikipedia