Fantasy NASCAR Racing

races they had five Top 10 finishes.  They team looked for a good season in 1996; but Elliott had a bad crash at Talladega and broke his leg.  The following season Elliott had a decent season as Beam led him to five Top 5 and 14 Top 10 finishes; with a second place at Michigan.  In 1998 Beam was out of a job; but the following year he joined the Wood Brothers team and driver Elliott Sadler.  Beam would lead Sadler for two seasons, but the team would have little success and Beam was cut lose before the end of the year.  However as 2001 dawned, he would again have a job; working with owner Cal Wells and driver Ricky Craven.  They won at Martinsville but after going win-less the next season he went to head up Jeff Greens efforts at Richard Childress Racing.  After 11 races at RCR; Childress made a move to try and shake up the team as he swapped Beam and Tony Gibson. Gibson was put with Green; and Beam assumed crew chief duties for Steve Park. The swap didn't produce and positive results and both drivers finished worse than 30th in the points.  This would be the final season that Beam would have a full time job in the Cup Series.  2004 saw him call the shots for a total of 17 races with drivers Ricky Craven, Bobby Hamilton Jr and Kenny Wallace.  He also headed up Hamilton Jr for 15 events in 2005.  In 2006 Beam pulled double duty as he dropped down and he was the crew chief on both the Truck Series and the Xfinity Series.  He worked with Mark Martin for seven races in the Xfinity Series; posting five Top 5's.  In the Truck Series he guided Martin to six series wins in 14 starts. From 2007-2009  Beam was hired by Jack Roush to head up his drivers.  Travis Kvapil was under the leadership of Bean in 2007.  He won four races and finished fifth in the points.  The next two years would see Beam lead Colin Braun.  He would go win-less in 2008, but win once in 2009.  Beam was moved to the Xfinity Series in 2010 and in just six starts in 2010 Beam led Carl Edwards to two wins. He paired with Edwards full time in 2011 and they had an amazing eight wins; but missed one race so he was not in the hunt for the Xfinity Championship.  In 2012 Kyle Busch had an Xfinity Series team; and the ride was split between him and brother Kyle.  Beam led the team and Kurt won the race at Richmond.  In 2013 He was the crew chief for John Wes Townley driving for Red Horse racing in the NASCAR Truck Series.  Townley posted seven Top 10 finishes and was 11th in the season points.  Townley and Beam partnered up for 2014.  Beam led Townley for seven Xfinity races and ten Truck Series races.  He was only able to get one Top 10 finish.  In 2018, Beam became president of GMS (Gallagher Motor Sports) and they placed a bid for the Charter of bankrupt BK Racing in the summer of 2018. They were looking to start a new Cup team; but their bid fell short.  Gallagher Motorsport ran in the Truck Series for the next several years, and proved to be very competitive.  In all, from 2017 through 2021 GMS collected 40 wins and Sheldon Creed won the Truck Series Championship in 2020 while Zane Smith was second in 2021.  Late 2021 saw GMS finally be able to secure a Charter for the Cup Series and make plans to move up to the premier division.  Then is a surprising move Gallagher bought a majority interest in Richard Petty Motorsports.  This game then a second Charter and they will have Erik Jones remain as their driver for the #43.  They will also have the #42 and Ty Dillon will drive that car in 2022.  To this point in his career Beam had three Cup Series wins including the Southern 500.  He had 11 Xfinity Series wins along with 11 Truck Series victories.