Beard Motorsports

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Beard Motorsports
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Owner(s)Linda Beard [1]
Mark Beard Jr.
Annie Beard
Base Mooresville, North Carolina
Series NASCAR Cup Series
Race drivers62. Anthony Alfredo, Parker Retzlaff (part-time)
Sponsors62. Death Wish Coffee, Dude Wipes
Manufacturer Chevrolet
Opened2009
Career
Debut 2017 Daytona 500 (Daytona)
Races competedTotal: 46
Cup Series: 28
Xfinity Series: 11
ARCA Racing Series: 7
Drivers' Championships 0
Race victories0
Pole positions 0

Beard Motorsports is an American professional stock car racing team that competes part-time in the NASCAR Cup Series with the No. 62 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE for Anthony Alfredo and Parker Retzlaff. The team was created in 2009 by Mark Beard for competition in the ARCA Menards Series. Beard Motorsports attempted two races in the Cup Series in 2014, with driver Clay Rogers, making none. After going dormant in 2015 and 2016, the team returned part-time in 2017 with Brendan Gaughan.

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History

Early years

During his driving career, Mark Beard raced for his own team in ARCA and the NASCAR Busch Series as an owner-driver, but also fielded cars in the 1990s for drivers like Gary Neice, Dana Patten, Bobby Dotter, L. D. Ottinger, Richard Lasater, Butch Miller, and Jim Brinkley Jr. [2] The owner of the oil business Beard Oil, he founded Beard Motorsports in 2009 and began racing in ARCA with Clay Rogers; Beard acquired equipment from Hendrick Motorsports. [3] [4] The team split time between the numbers 42 and 45 and scored a best finish of fourth at Iowa Speedway. [5]

Cup Series

Brendan Gaughan in the No. 62 at Talladega Superspeedway in 2019 Brendan gaughan (47701302772).jpg
Brendan Gaughan in the No. 62 at Talladega Superspeedway in 2019

Mark Beard founded the team during the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The race team's engine was built with old Hendrick Motorsports parts and with tests at various east coast tracks, including at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

The team was on the entry list for the July race at Loudon but withdrew their car before attempting to qualify. [6] The team then attempted to run at Richmond International Raceway two months later with Clay Rogers in the No. 75 Beard Oil Chevrolet; [7] however, they failed to qualify for the race. The last time Beard Motorsports attempted to qualify for a race was at Phoenix International Raceway with Rogers, but weren't able to make the race. [8]

The team did not attempt any races in 2015 or 2016. [9]

In 2017, Beard Motorsports announced it would run the Daytona 500 with Brendan Gaughan in the No. 75 Beard Oil Chevrolet. [10] Gaughan's Richard Childress Racing Xfinity Series pit crew serviced the car and the team used a Childress engine. The team also bought a car from Leavine Family Racing, a Childress satellite; the car had finished 15th in the previous year's Daytona 500 with Michael McDowell. [11] The team does not possess a NASCAR charter. [12] As one of the two fastest non-charter cars in qualifying, Gaughan was able to make the field.

Gaughan then secured an 11th-place finish in the Daytona 500, the first race in the Cup Series for the team. [13] The team announced it would enter the other three 2017 restrictor plate races. Gaughan and the team returned at Talladega, finishing 27th. Then on July 1 in the Coke Zero 400, Brendan Gaughan drove the team's car to a seventh-place finish, [14] despite hitting the wall once in the race. The team's next race was the Alabama 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. Gaughan led laps and ended up 17th after avoiding the big one then being collected in the next crash.

The team came back for the 2018 slate of restrictor-plate races, and did the same as well in 2019, using cars from Richard Childress Racing, engines from ECR Engines, and technical support from the Childress crew. [15]

2020 marked Gaughan's final season as a driver. [16] He made the field at the 2020 Daytona 500 by posting the second fastest qualifying speed of all the non-charter teams (188.945 mph; 33rd overall). [17] Gaughan's tenure with the team and career ended in the YellaWood 500 at Talladega, where he finished 35th after being collected in a Stage 2 wreck. [18] [19]

On January 14, 2021, Beard announced Noah Gragson would attempt to make his Cup debut in the Daytona 500. [20] On January 31, just 14 days before the 500, team owner Mark Beard died at age 72. [21]

On September 7, 2021, Beard Motorsports announced they will return in the 2022 season, entering the No. 62 in all four superspeedway races with Gragson competing in the 2022 Daytona 500. [22] Gragson finally made his debut, but he failed to finish being involved in a crash. He achieved sponsorship from Wendy's for Talladega and achieved his first ever top-20 finish in a Cup Series race. Later on, at the August Daytona Race, Gragson finished fifth in the race, giving the team their first top 5 in a NASCAR Cup Series race.

Beard Motorsports attempted to make the 2023 Daytona 500 with Austin Hill, but Hill failed to make the field after a late crash resulted in an 18th place finish in Duel 2 of the 2023 Bluegreen Vacations Duels. [23]

For the 2024 season, Beard Motorsports signed Anthony Alfredo to drive the No. 62. Alfredo finished 27th at the 2024 Daytona 500 and scored a career-best sixth place finish at Talladega. [24]

Car No. 62 results

NASCAR Cup Series results
YearDriverNo.Make123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536OwnersPts
2014 Clay Rogers 75 Chevy DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL MAR TEX DAR RCH TAL KAN CLT DOV POC MCH SON KEN DAY NHA IND POC GLN MCH BRI ATL RCH
DNQ		 CHI NHA DOV KAN CLT TAL MAR TEX PHO
DNQ		 HOM NA01
2017 Brendan Gaughan DAY
11		 ATL LVS PHO CAL MAR TEX BRI RCH TAL
26		 KAN CLT DOV POC MCH SON DAY
7		 KEN NHA IND POC GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH CHI NHA DOV CLT TAL
19		 KAN MAR TEX PHO HOM 40th85
2018 62 DAY
28		 ATL LVS PHO CAL MAR TEX BRI RCH TAL
22		 DOV KAN CLT POC MCH SON CHI DAY
12		 KEN NHA POC GLN MCH BRI DAR IND LVS RCH CLT DOV TAL
12		 KAN MAR TEX PHO HOM 40th74
2019 DAY
23		 ATL LVS PHO CAL MAR TEX BRI RCH TAL
8		 DOV KAN CLT POC MCH SON CHI DAY
20		 KEN NHA POC GLN MCH BRI DAR IND LVS RCH CLT DOV TAL
27		 KAN MAR TEX PHO HOM 40th71
2020 DAY
7		 LVS CAL PHO DAR DAR CLT CLT BRI ATL MAR HOM TAL
21		 POC POC IND KEN TEX KAN NHA MCH MCH DAY
39		 DOV DOV DAY
8		 DAR RCH BRI LVS TAL
35		 CLT KAN TEX MAR PHO 40th78
2021 Noah Gragson DAY
DNQ		 DAY HOM LVS PHO ATL BRI MAR RCH TAL KAN DAR DOV COA CLT SON NSH POC POC ROA ATL NHA GLN IND MCH DAY DAR RCH BRI LVS TAL CLT TEX KAN MAR PHO 45th0
2022 DAY
31		 CAL LVS PHO ATL COA RCH MAR BRI TAL
20		 DOV DAR KAN CLT GTW SON NSH ROA ATL NHA POC IND MCH RCH GLN DAY
5		 DAR KAN BRI TEX 37th62
Justin Allgaier TAL
30		 CLT LVS HOM MAR PHO
2023 Austin Hill DAY
DNQ		 CAL LVS PHO ATL COA RCH BRD MAR TAL
24		 DOV KAN DAR CLT GTW SON NSH CSC ATL
37		 NHA POC RCH MCH
28		 IRC GLN DAY
14		 DAR KAN BRI TEX TAL ROV
27		 LVS HOM MAR PHO 40th56
2024 Anthony Alfredo DAY
27		 ATL LVS PHO BRI COA RCH MAR TEX TAL
6		 DOV KAN DAR CLT GTW SON IOW NHA NSH CSC POC IND RCH MCH
Parker Retzlaff DAY DAR ATL GLN BRI KAN TAL ROV LVS HOM MAR PHO
Daytona 500
YearDriverManufacturerStartFinish
2017 Brendan Gaughan Chevrolet 3911
2018 2528
2019 3023
2020 397
2021 Noah Gragson DNQ
2022 3931
2023 Austin Hill DNQ
2024 Anthony Alfredo 3927

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