Buckshot Racing is a former

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team owned by Billy Jones and competed in the Winston Cup and Busch Series. The team compiled a total of four wins throughout its history. The team debuted in

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with Jones' son Buckshot driving. Jones made his debut at The Milwaukee Mile with Longhorn Steakhouse sponsorship. Jones ran a total of nine races that season, finishing ninth at

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. The following season, they ran a total of eighteen races with Aquafresh sponsoring. Jones won his first career race at Milwaukee and a pole at

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, finishing 25th in the final points. He failed to win another race in 1997, but he finished a career-best seventh in points, and made his Winston Cup debut at

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. The team qualified 32nd but finished last due to a wreck by Jones early in the race. In

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/ Alka-Seltzer became the team's new primary sponsor, and Jones picked up his second career win at the

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, but dropped to ninth in points. Buckshot Racing also ran five Cup races under a partnership with Stavola Brothers Racing, and had an eighth-place finish at Dover International Speedway. Jones moved up to Winston Cup full-time in 1999, racing the 00 but without major sponsorship. Larry Pearson replaced him in the team's Busch Series operation, with Cheez-It sponsorship. Jones struggled running the Cup series, and after several DNQs, he left Cup to replace Pearson in the Busch car, who had only one top-ten finish. Jones had two tenth-place finishes out of nineteen starts. In

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, Jones won his final pole at Michigan International Speedway and improved to 21st in the standings. Jones returned to Cup for

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in 2001, and Todd Bodine was hired as the team's new driver. Despite driving without major sponsorship and switching to

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, Bodine won two of the first three races of the season. When sponsorship forced the team to cut back to a part-time schedule, Buckshot and Tim Fedewa returned to drive a limited races with Georgia Pacific funding, posting four top-ten finishes between them. Jason Schuler also drove the No. 04 for a pair of races, his best finishes of 36th. The lack of funding caused Buckshot to sell the team in 2002.

External links

Billy Jones Winston Cup Owner Stats at Racing-Reference.info
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