MB2 Motorsports

MB2 Motorsports
Owner(s)Nelson Bowers
Tom Beard
Read Morton
James Rocco (MBV)
Bob Sutton (MB Sutton)
Jay Frye (CEO and Team Director)
Bobby Ginn
Thomas Ginn (Ginn Racing)
BaseMooresville, North Carolina
SeriesNASCAR Cup Series, Xfinity Series
Race driversSterling Marlin, Mark Martin, Ken Schrader, Ernie Irvan, Scott Riggs, Boris Said, Regan Smith, Jerry Nadeau, Joe Nemechek, Johnny Benson Jr., Kraig Kinser, Bill Elliott
SponsorsUnited States Army, Waste Management, Inc., Mars Candy, Valvoline, Centrix Financial, Ginn Resorts, Panasonic, CertainTeed, USG Sheetrock
ManufacturerChevrolet, Pontiac
Opened1997 (as MB2 Motorsports)
2007 (as Ginn Racing)
Closed2007 (as Ginn Racing; merged with DEI)
Career
Drivers' Championships0
Race victories2
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MB2 Motorsports was a NASCAR Cup Series team based in Mooresville, North Carolina, near the sport's hub in Charlotte. The team was founded by Read Morton, Tom Beard, and Nelson Bowers, from which the original team name derived. Bowers was the longest tenured of the original owners, and the listed owner of the teams' entries when resort and real-estate developer Bobby Ginn bought out the team (with his family having 80% ownership; longtime team director Jay Frye owned the remaining 20% of the rebranded team)[1][2] in 2007, renaming it to Ginn Racing for that season only.[1][2] The Valvoline corporation co-owned the No. 10 (later the No. 14) car with the principal owners from 2001 to 2005 as MBV Motorsports, while the No. 36 entry (later the No. 13) was co-owned by Centrix Financial, LLC owner Robert Sutton as MB Sutton Motorsports in 2005.

Throughout the existence of the team in both MB2 Motorsports and Ginn Racing iterations, the organization ran General Motors brands.

The logo of Ginn Racing under Bobby Ginn ownership
  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference USA2Day-Ginn-Feb-2007 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Hinton, Ed (July 26, 2006). "Ginn buys NASCAR team: Real estate magnate Bobby Ginn says he will turn MB2 Motorsports into a winning outfit". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 14 March 2016.