A 6-11 school and College all-American, as well as five-time NBA All-Star, a stock car at the heart is former high. His love for NASCAR was the first draw, which received in circles as a partial Busch series and Craftsman Truck Series owner Brad Daugherty, and later as a racing analyst for weekly NASCAR coverage on ESPN/ABC racing. What brings it further is its internal driver for diversity.
Daugherty, who pulled that (he lost a coin flip for the 43 at North Carolina), acquired a 33 percent stake from JTG racing No. 43-Jersey in high school and the NBA in honor of NASCAR legend Richard Petty, located in Harrisburg, n.c. The famous wood brothers operation was part of the team only in the early season 2008.
The JTG team currently two nationwide series cars fields and has run also a truck in the Motorsport of third level series. The Black Mountain, n.c., native a partnership with former advertising executive tad of more adept and his wife Jodi, one of his long-range ambitions of becoming a Cup series owners to meet. The new team name Daugherty/JTG Racing will be at the end of this season.
Daugherty is the second prominent minority engage in the NASCAR held this year. NFL all-Pro Randy Moss announced the formation of a truck series team in April and plans to hire driver races later this season and run full time in ' 09. The team is Moss Motorsports, LLC. The truck is expected to be no. 81, the same number of MOSS carries with the ' 08 Super Bowl runner-up new England Patriots.
Daugherty, 42, co-founder of NASCAR Diversity Council with NASCAR President and CEO Brian France in 2000 and was an active supporter of the initiative. He held a position on the sports rules and competition Committee. As a child his father and uncle mountains grew in North Carolina built and raced hot rods for local, non-sanctioned race. Brad has built cars and enjoys the mechanical side of racing.
He intends a ride in the Nextel Cup in ' 09, as well as two nationwide cars and aims his broadcasting career continue to finance. No 47 will be tested Marcos Ambrose Little Debbie Ford in the Cup series by the Australian driver. The 43 number is already handled by petty enterprises Bobby Labonte.
Ambrose controls currently no. 59 Kingsford charcoal Ford in the Busch series. Little known Kelly Bires drives the 47 car sponsored by Clorox. Ambrose has a top-5 and three top-10 finishes in nationwide series before the last weekend.
Next season probably Coleman Pressley will lead to the two national cars, a 19-year-old JTG employees and weekend racer in late model cars and the son of former NASCAR driver Robert Pressley, a longtime personal friend of Daugherty, was born and raised in Asheville, NC Pressley ran a car Daugherty to victory in the 1989 Busch (now nationwide) series. Two years earlier, Kenny Irwin Jr. was, later in a ' 00-crash killed, during a practice a Daugherty Ford lead on New Hampshire drove two WINS in the truck series for what was called liberty racing.
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