MacDonald Motorsports (MMS) was a

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team owned by former NASCAR Sprint Cup series driver

Randy MacDonald Randy MacDonald (born July 26, 1962) is a Canadian stock car racer and a former competitor in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Busch Series and Craftsman Truck Series. He is currently team owner of MacDonald Motorsports, which competes in the Natio ...

, his mother, Pat MacDonald and his daughter Jenifer MacDonald.

Craftsman Truck Series

MacDonald made its NASCAR debut in

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. Randy MacDonald drove the No. 72 3M Chevrolet Silverado to a sixth-place finish. MacDonald drove the truck full-time for the rest of the season and finished nineteenth in points. MacDonald’s bid for the championship the next season ended early when he suffered a neck injury in a wreck at Daytona. Rob Morgan took over for the next race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, where he finished 27th, before Steve Portenga, Jerry Hill, and

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finished out the year in the truck, which finished 18th in owner’s points. Throughout the season, the team also got sponsorship from the

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book series as well. Randy MacDonald returned to the driver’s seat of the 72 in 2002, where he had ten top-twenty fishes and finished nineteenth in points. He followed that up with a fifteenth-place points finish in 2003. During the 2002 season, Teri MacDonald made two races for the team, one in the new No. 71 truck, and the other in the No. 72 while Randy raced for Troxell Racing. MacDonald made his final Truck race in 2004 at Daytona, where he finished 21st with Drill Doctor sponsorship. Jerry Hill and Teri MacDonald then took over for two races apiece in the 2004 season, where Macdonald, had a best finish of 25th at

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, and Hill a 26th at Atlanta Motor Speedway. The team soon stopped running the Truck Series following that season.

Nationwide Series

MacDonald’s Nationwide Series team made its debut in 2003 at the Koolerz 300. Randy MacDonald finished 22nd in the 72

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. He ran five more races that season, with the Koolerz 300 garnering his best result. In 2004,

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ran the first three races for MacDonald, finishing 22nd at Daytona, before

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, MacDonald, Jason White, and Jamie Mosley began running select races.

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and Stan Boyd finished out the year for the team. For 2005,

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began the year as driver at Daytona, where he finished 38th after suffering an engine failure, then

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and Ruben Garcia Novoa ran the next two races.

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was then announced as the team’s full-time driver, but left the team after the

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. Wade Day, Lepage, and Dale Quarterly were among those who finished out the year for the team. At the end of the season, the team announced it was closing down and selling its equipment and shop, but that was soon retracted. D. J. Kennington ran eleven races for MacDonald in 2007, with a best finish of twenty-third at Dover. MacDonald switched to Dodges and the No. 81 in 2008 and attempted a full schedule, with Kennington running about 20 races. During the races Kennington missed he was racing in the

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. He was signed on for another season in 2009, but left after nine races to focus on his Canadian Tire championship bid. After his departure, many drivers took over for the rest of the season, including Patrick Sheltra,

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, Kevin Hamlin, Sean Murphy, J. J. Yeley, Jeff Green,

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, Bobby Hillin Jr.,

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, and

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. In 2010, Michael McDowell drove the 81 for MMS, finishing 21st in points. McDowell left for

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at the end of the year, and MacDonald signed on Neuenberger for 10 races in the 81 while Koch returned to drive 20 races for ROTY honors. However, Koch's sponsorship from

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was expanded to the rest of the year, putting Koch in the 81 for the rest of 2011. Koch lost the Rookie title to

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by a single point.

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was hired on the weekend of the Kansas race to drive the team's second car after being released from the Turner Motorsports team. Sorenson stayed with MacDonald the rest of 2011 and ended up 5th in points at the end of the year. At one point during the 20 K&N West Series champion

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drove the No. 81 with sponsorship from American Majority and PledgeToVote.com during the 2012 racing season and finished 13th in points.

K&N Pro Series East

Starting in 2012, the daughter of Randy, Jenifer became a K&N Pro Series car owner fielding No. 49 and No. 94 Dodges and

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s for Scott Saunders,

, Sean Caisse, Akinori Ogata, Harrison Rhodes and

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. The best finish of the team was 8th with Rhodes behind the wheel at CNB Bank Raceway Park. The team returned in 2013, now with only Toyotas. Ray Courtemanche, Jr,

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, Harrison Rhodes,

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and

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drove for the team that year.

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