NEMCO Motorsports

NEMCO Motorsports is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes part-time in the ARCA Menards Series.

NEMCO made its Winston Cup debut during the 1993 season at the Slick 50 300, where Nemechek started fifteenth and finished 36th in the No.

87 Bully Hill Vineyards Chevrolet Monte Carlo driven by Ron Fellows at Watkins Glen.

During the 2001 season, Fellows began running Watkins Glen as well the series' other road course at Sears Point International Raceway.

He led the most laps, but finished 38th after wrecking at Sears Point, and 42nd at Watkins Glen after suffering axle problems.

Nemechek secured sponsorship through England Stove Works for the Daytona 500 and succeeded in qualifying, but wrecked during the race.

NEMCO-JRR moved most of their Cup cars to Identity's shop, owned by Robinson, with Nemechek as primary driver for the new team.

87, with Nemechek driving, failed to qualify for the Daytona 500 and the Kobalt 400 at Las Vegas,[2] while Morgan Shepherd finished 43rd at Phoenix.

87 announced plans to return to the Cup Series in 2015, but withdrew for the Daytona 500 and hasn't run a race since.

97, was entered in the 2010 Daytona 500 as a safety net for Joe Nemechek, and was driven by Jeff Fuller, but did not qualify for the race.

Timmy Hill qualified the car at the fall Talladega race, starting and parking the machine.

LaJoie didn't win in 2002, but won a pole at Gateway International Raceway and posted fourteen top-tens on his way to an eleventh-place points finish.

Szegedy's qualifying run at Chicagoland was famously interrupted by a giant inflatable Tropicana orange, an advertisement at the track.

7 car ran more races in 2005 although it was still part-time and suffered from a lack of reliable equipment in comparison to the primary No.

After jumping to sixth in points the following year, Nemechek and the team won two races and the Busch Series championship in 1992.

After Nemechek failed to win the championship again in 1993, he left for Larry Hedrick Motorsports at the Winston Cup level.

The next year, Hendrick Motorsports development driver Kyle Busch climbed on board for a number of races with ditech sponsorship, posting two runner-up finishes.

Midseason, Hendrick development drivers Blake Feese and Boston Reid drove for a handful of races in the No.

87 for most of the season with Jarit Johnson, Antonio Perez, and Paulie Harraka driving in the races he did not take part in.

70 in 2013 when ML Motorsports was not entered, including Jeff Green, Brad Teague, Tomy Drissi, Derrike Cope and Tony Raines.

The events on the younger Nemechek's NCWTS calendar include Martinsville in March and October, Dover in May, Gateway Motorsports Park in June, Iowa in July, Eldora Speedway in July, Bristol in August, Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in August, New Hampshire in September and Phoenix in November.

[10] Joe and John Hunter will split the 8 now that the younger Nemechek has moved to a partial schedule driving for Chip Ganassi Racing in the Xfinity Series.

Financial problems hit the team in 2019, forcing the 8 to start and park several races when John Hunter was not entered, or Joe was unable to find sufficient sponsorship.

On March 20, 2023, it was revealed on the entry list for the XPEL 225 that NEMCO will return to the Truck Series for the first time since 2021, with Samuel LeComte as the driver.

It was announced in the fall 2013, that John Hunter Nemechek would make his NASCAR debut in the October Martinsville truck race in the No.

Fellows began racing the truck in 1999, finishing third in his debut at Portland International Raceway before winning the following week at Watkins Glen.

Nemechek did make an announcement in early June that later in the season, a second truck would be run with Joe driving.

87 truck would return part-time for the 2017 season, beginning with the NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona, and will be sponsored by Fleetwing.

It was announced that Tyler Ankrum would run select races in the 87 truck to maintain his playoff eligibility for 2019.

29 Toyota Camry in the ARCA Menards Series for vintage racer Ryan Gemmell at Watkins Glen.

Nemechek's 1996 car
The No. 87 in 2011
John Nemechek's 1996 truck