RAB Racing with Brack Maggard was an American professional stock car racing team that attempted

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, Camping World Truck Series and the

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. The team was co-owned by Robert A. Benton Sr. and his son Robert Benton Jr. along with Georgia businessman Brack Maggard and ran from 2005 through 2014. The team won one race in the Xfinity Series, but never qualified for a Cup Series race in eight attempts.

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drove the most Xfinity races for the team with 57 starts, while

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scored the team's only Xfinity win in 2010.

Sprint Cup Series

Car No. 29 history

RAB Racing entered the No. 09 Cup car for

in the

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with sponsorship from American Ethanol. The team suffered ECU problems in the Duels and failed to qualify. RAB Racing next fielded a Cup car at the 2014 Coke Zero 400.

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attempted qualify the No. 29, but did not qualify. Later in the summer,

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attempted to make both his and RAB's first Cup race in the No. 29 at Indianapolis for the

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, but posted the slowest time and failed to qualify. In the

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, RAB made their third attempt of the season with the No. 29, once again using Nemechek. Despite initially running 24th after making it to round two but declining to run in the round, they failed to qualify again after the car failed post-qualifying inspection. Justin Marks attempted to qualify the No. 29 for the

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, bringing American Born Moonshine on board as part of a package deal across all three national series at Daytona. RAB also announced its plans to attempt the full Cup Series schedule. However, Marks failed to qualify.

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joined the team for the

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, but failed to qualify after the No. 29 was one of thirteen cars that was unable to clear pre-qualifying inspection in time to make a run. Sorenson then missed the next race at

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. RAB withdrew from

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but announced they would return at Auto Club, where Sorenson once again failed to qualify. RAB has failed to qualify in each of their first 8 Cup attempts.

Car No. 29 results

Xfinity Series

Car No. 29 history

The second RAB car made its debut at the

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in 2012 as the second iteration of the No. 09.

, who gave up his seat in the team's full-time 99 car due to lack of sponsorship, finished 4th in the race. In 2013, Wallace returned to drive a limited schedule of races in the renumbered 29 car. Alex Bowman, the full-time driver of the main No. 99 car, was set to drive one of two RAB cars at the season finale at Homestead, but his sponsor pulled out and the team released him. In 2014, Scott Lagasse Jr. drove at both Daytona races with "Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow" as the sponsor. Kenny Wallace ran a single race at

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with U.S. Cellular as his sponsor, starting and finishing 19th. Kelly Admiraal ran three races with a best finish of 22nd twice. In August,

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signed with the team to run select events, only qualifying for two races out of five attempts (Duno ran the season-finale at Homestead using the owners points of NEMCO Motorsports and

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's 87 team).

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driver Daniel Suárez ran the 29 with sponsor

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in September, scoring a season's-best 15th-place finish. In 2015, Justin Marks ran the season-opening race at Daytona with sponsor American Born Moonshine, qualifying on the outside pole, but finishing 34th after a crash.

returned with the team at Iowa Speedway with the sponsorship U.S. Cellular, finishing 23rd. This would be RAB Racing final race as they later shut down their operations for the rest of the season.

Car No. 29 results

Car No. 99 History

Nationwide 09 Kenny Wallace 2011 Road America Bucyrus 200

RAB moved up from the

to the

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for 2008, hiring

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to drive seven races (in addition to the full ARCA schedule). Townley brought his family's

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sponsorship on board, and team changed manufacturers to Ford. Townley's new number would be 09. The team qualified for only three of their 7 scheduled races, with a best finish of 27th in Charlotte. In 2009, RAB moved up to the Nationwide Series full-time, running with Townley for Rookie of the Year honors. Townley had a decent year, finishing 23rd in points but amassing no top-15 finishes. Also in 2009, RAB hired

to run at Watkins Glen and Montreal with a best finish of 11th at The Glen.

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ran at Richmond and finished 20th. Townley left RAB at the end of 2009 for Richard Childress Racing, and the team announced it would run as much of the 2010 season as possible with

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. However, the team only ran the first five races of the year before replacing Riggs with many other drivers including Jason Bowles, Chad McCumbee, Patrick Sheltra, Hermie Sadler, Sean Caisse, Robb Brent,

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, Kevin Hamlin, and

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. "Road Course Ringer"

drove for RAB at Watkins Glen and Montreal. In Montreal at

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, Said held off another road course ace,

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, in a photo finish to give RAB its first win in any division. Townley returned to the team for a few races, but left before Richmond. The team then hired former

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driver

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to drive the No. 09 car at Kansas. Scott drove the rest of the season and finished runner-up to Ricky Stenhouse Jr. for ROTY. Scott left for Joe Gibbs Racing at the end of the season. For 2011, the team hired veteran

from Jay Robinson Racing, with Wallace driving without salary in exchange for being in good equipment. Wallace brought sponsorship from Family Farmers/ American Ethanol, University of Northwestern Ohio, and Federated Auto Parts. Wallace and RAB would take home 11 top-10s and finish 7th in points. For 2012, Wallace returned to the team for the first few races with sponsorship from American Ethanol/Family Farmers. After campaigning for weeks, he was forced to run a part-time schedule due to sponsorship issues. Meanwhile, the 09 was renumbered 99 in a deal with Michael Waltrip Racing to allow

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to run his seven scheduled Nationwide races. The rest of the year was split among Wallace, Townley, Ryan Truex (former driver of the 99 with MWR), Alex Bowman, Victor Gonzalez Jr.,

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and

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(also MWR drivers). Wallace would grab the team's best finish of 4th at Chicagoland. Road America 2013 Nationwide 99 Alex Bowman

99 James Buescher pan NASCAR Nationwide 2014 Gardner Denver 200 at Road America

In January 2013, it was announced that Alex Bowman would be running the full 2013 Nationwide Series season for RAB Racing, competing for Rookie of the Year honors. In April, he would win his first career Nationwide pole at the

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at Texas. He would sweep the poles at Texas but would be released prior to the season finale at Homestead-Miami due to lack of sponsorship.

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would drive the 99 at Homestead to a 13th-place finish. For 2014, former Camping World Truck Series champion

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left

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to run the full season in the No. 99 car, bringing sponsor Rheem. After the Drive to Stop Diabetes 300 at Bristol, the 99 was penalized for violating two sections of the NASCAR rulebook: 12-1 (actions detrimental to stock car racing) and 20A-2.3A (added car weight; improperly attached weight; loss of weight during the event); crew chief Chris Rice and car chief John Guerra were placed on probation until December 31, the former also being fined $10,000. Buescher struggled throughout the season, posting only two top 10s and finishing 10th in points. The team was forced to shut down after Rheem left for Richard Childress Racing.

Car No. 99 results

Camping World Truck Series

John Wes Townley RAB Racing Toyota Rockingham 2012

For 2012, RAB formed a Camping World Truck Series team with longtime driver

, using the number 09. However, Townley was cited with a DUI before

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, resulting in his suspension by RAB. Townley was replaced by

for Daytona. Townley returned the next race, at Martinsville. After competing for Rookie of the Year honors in 2012 and collecting his best series finish of eighth at Pocono Raceway, Townley left the team and joined

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for 2013.

ARCA Re/Max Series

After leaving the drivers seat and having an eight-year stint as a crew member for

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, Robert Benton decided to start his own race team in 2005 in the

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. The team first hired young Georgia native Walt Brannen to drive their No. 65 for a few races with little success. Brannen was released as RAB stepped up to a full-time schedule with Justin Marks and

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splitting the No. 65

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Dodge. The duo would earn a pole, two top fives and nine top tens. Marks ran the full 2007 season with RAB and ended the season fifth in points with a pole, four top fives, and ten top tens. Marks would move to

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in the

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for 2008. For 2008,

ran the renumbered 09 car with sponsor

, scoring 8 top tens and ending the season 7th in points. Townley ran the two restrictor plate races in 2009, with a best finish of 4th at Daytona. Grant Enfinger and Tom Hessert III also ran races in the car.

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Sprint Cup Series

Car No. 29 history

Car No. 29 results

Xfinity Series

Car No. 29 history

Car No. 29 results

Car No. 99 History

Car No. 99 results

Camping World Truck Series

ARCA Re/Max Series

See also

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