FILMAR Racing

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Template:Rcatsh FILMAR Racing is a former NASCAR Winston Cup and Busch Series team. It was owned by Fil Martocci and crew chief Gil Martin. The team was sold in 1999 to the Pinnacle Motorsports Group and then to Davis & Weight Motorsports.

Beginnings

FILMAR began racing in 1989 when they fielded the No. 8 Oldsmobile driven by Bobby Hamilton in the Busch series, winning in September at Richmond. Originally unsponsored, they picked up sponsorship from TIC Financial Industries in June 1990, starting at Orange County Speedway. Hamilton had seven top-fives and finished eleventh in points, but departed for the Winston Cup series and was replaced by David Green. Despite missing a pair of races early in the season, Green won the pole for the season-opening Goody's 300 and won at Lanier Raceway. He finished thirteenth in points and finished runner-up to Jeff Gordon for Rookie of the Year honors. At the end of the season, Green was replaced by Jeff Burton. Burton had four top-fives, including a win at New Hampshire International Speedway, and finished ninth in points.

In 1993, Baby Ruth became the team's sponsor as they switched to Ford, and despite winning at Myrtle Beach Speedway, Burton and the team dropped to fourteenth in points. The team also made its Cup debut that year with Burton at New Hampshire, starting 6th but finishing 37th after their No. 0 Ford wrecked in a lap 3 incident.

Kenny Wallace years

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The 81 car from 1996-1997.

After Burton left to run for Stavola Brothers Racing's Cup program, Kenny Wallace was hired as the team's new driver for 1994. Wallace won a pole at Nazareth Speedway and won at Bristol, Martinsville, and Richmond late in the year and finished fourth in points. They also ran a Cup race at Michigan, finishing nineteenth in the No. 81 car.

In 1995, FILMAR and Wallace split time between the Cup and Busch Series. In Cup, the team ran 11 races, finishing in the top-30 three times. In Busch, the team ran fifteen races with sponsorship from Red Dog and won at Richmond and finished 27th in points. In addition to winning again at Richmond in 1996, the team moved up to the Cup series full-time with sponsorship from Square D. Wallace had a seventh-place finish at North Carolina Speedway and finished 28th in points. The following season, FILMAR ran its last Busch race at Richmond as the No. 12 Graybar Ford, starting 27th and finishing 26th. That year, Wallace won his first two career poles in Cup at Martinsville and Bristol. Despite two top-tens, Wallace and the team dropped to 33rd in the standings.

In 1998, Wallace posted seven top-tens but failed to qualify twice, finishing 31st in points.

Davis & Weight

Towards the end of 1998, Wallace announced he and Square D would be departing FILMAR and join Andy Petree Racing. After rumors spread that Todd Bodine or Willy T. Ribbs would be the team's new driver for 1999, Marcotti sold the team to an organization called the Pinnacle Motorsports Group. The team planned to run that year's Daytona 500 with Morgan Shepherd driving, but failed to qualify. The group was sold again to Davis & Weight Motorsports late in the season. The team made its Busch debut at the Food City 250 with Brandon Sperling driving the No. 55 Pontiac Grand Prix with sponsorship from the University of Florida. He started and finished 27th. Michael Ritch ran a pair of races for D&W that year, at Rockingham and Memphis Motorsports Park, his best finish a 35th.

D&W hired Ritch to compete full-time in the Busch Series in 2000 competing for Rookie of the Year honors. In addition, they announced they would run the No. 81 in Cup in five races that season to move up full-time in 2001. Ritch made 21 starts that season and had five top-twenty finishes in the UoF/Kleenex Ford Taurus, and finished 33rd in points, but the team did not attempt any Cup races. In 2001, Mark Green took over, and had a best finish of sixteenth at Darlington Raceway when the team announced it was closing its Busch program to focus on Cup. After announcing they would attempt the Brickyard 400, the team laid off all of its employees and did not attempt a race again.

Motorsports results

Winston Cup

Car No. 81 results

Year	Driver	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	Owners	Pts
1993	Jeff Burton	0	Ford	DAY	CAR	RCH	ATL	DAR	BRI	NWS	MAR	TAL	SON	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	DAY	NHA 37	POC	TAL	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	MAR	NWS	CLT	CAR	PHO	ATL						52
1994	Kenny Wallace	81		DAY	CAR	RCH	ATL	DAR	BRI	NWS	MAR	TAL	SON	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH 19	DAY	NHA	POC	TAL	IND	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	MAR	NWS	CLT	CAR	PHO	ATL					106
1995				DAY DNQ	CAR 20	RCH DNQ	ATL DNQ	DAR DNQ	BRI	NWS DNQ	MAR 21	TAL 36	SON	CLT 31	DOV 18	POC	MCH 36	DAY DNQ	NHA	POC 37	TAL	IND 36	GLN	MCH 24	BRI DNQ	DAR	RCH 20	DOV	MAR DNQ	NWS	CLT DNQ	CAR	PHO 26	ATL					878
1996				DAY 21	CAR 7	RCH 15	ATL 37	DAR 17	BRI 34	NWS 18	MAR 14	TAL 14	SON 27	CLT 32	DOV 20	POC 37	MCH 33	DAY 38	NHA 19	POC 36	TAL 20	IND 33	GLN 31	MCH 37	BRI 15	DAR 13	RCH 38	DOV 20	MAR 10	NWS 15	CLT 30	CAR 19	PHO 37	ATL DNQ				28th	2694
1997				DAY 22	CAR 41	RCH 40	ATL 29	DAR 14	TEX 13	BRI 41	MAR 6	SON 36	TAL 26	CLT 39	DOV 27	POC 34	MCH 43	CAL DNQ	DAY 11	NHA 19	POC 34	IND 30	GLN 27	MCH 32	BRI 39	DAR 24	RCH 24	NHA 27	DOV 38	MAR 6	CLT 28	TAL 15	CAR 37	PHO 35	ATL 30			33rd	2496
1998				DAY DNQ	CAR 38	LVS 42	ATL 7	DAR 9	BRI 42	TEX 34	MAR 22	TAL 7	CAL 19	CLT 25	DOV 40	RCH 23	MCH 39	POC 39	SON 22	NHA 10	POC 35	IND 43	GLN 26	MCH DNQ	BRI 42	NHA 6	DAR 10	RCH 11	DOV 43	MAR 43	CLT 16	TAL 40	DAY 35	PHO 8	CAR 16	ATL 34		32nd	2656
1999	Morgan Shepherd			DAY DNQ	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	TEX	BRI	MAR	TAL	CAL	RCH	CLT	DOV	MCH	POC	SON	DAY	NHA	POC	IND	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	NHA	DOV	MAR	CLT	TAL	CAR	PHO	HOM	ATL	79th	1

Busch Series

Car No. 8 results (FILMAR era)

Year	Driver	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	Owners	Pts
1989	Bobby Hamilton	8	Buick	DAY 19	CAR	MAR 28	HCY 23	DAR 24	BRI 24	NZH 20	SBO 14	LAN 24	NSV 2	CLT 21	DOV 29	ROU 19	LVL 20	VOL 16	MYB 3	SBO 16	HCY 24	DUB 6	IRP 17	ROU 23		DAR 27
			Olds																						BRI 24		RCH 1	DOV 24	MAR 22	CLT 17	CAR 3	MAR 8
1990				DAY 11	RCH 9	CAR 35	MAR 5	HCY 26	DAR 12	BRI 11	LAN 4	SBO 7	NZH 8	HCY 6	CLT 36	DOV 25	ROU 4	VOL 3	MYB 23	OXF 27	NHA 38	SBO 3	DUB 20	IRP 29	ROU 6	BRI 7	DAR 21	RCH 14	DOV 5	MAR 24	CLT 5	NHA 42	CAR 34	MAR 8
1991	David Green			DAY 30	RCH DNQ	CAR 13	MAR DNQ	VOL 5	HCY DNQ	DAR 23	BRI 2	LAN 1*	SBO 17	NZH 4	CLT 37	DOV 14	ROU 3	HCY 14	MYB 9	GLN 10	OXF 17	NHA 8	SBO 12	DUB 4	IRP 23	ROU 12	BRI 13	DAR 30	RCH 26	DOV 11	CLT 27	NHA 29	CAR 22	MAR 25
1992	Jeff Burton			DAY 20	CAR 19	RCH 31	ATL 26	MAR 23	DAR 15	BRI 14	HCY 14	LAN 7	DUB 26	NZH 27	CLT 14	DOV 2	ROU 10	MYB 22	GLN 9	VOL 22	NHA 1	TAL 20	IRP 11	ROU 5	MCH 34	NHA 8	BRI 3	DAR 17	RCH 6		CLT 34	MAR 6	CAR 23	HCY 18
			Ford																											DOV 18
1993				DAY 6	CAR 31	RCH 3	DAR 39	BRI 7	HCY 20	ROU 8	MAR 7	NZH 28	CLT 9	DOV 3	MYB 1*	GLN 33	MLW 6*	TAL 21	IRP 8	MCH 27	NHA 24	BRI 33	DAR 24	RCH 35	DOV 11	ROU 26	CLT 18	MAR 22	CAR 22	HCY 23	ATL 39
1994	Kenny Wallace			DAY 8	CAR 23	RCH 2	ATL 21	MAR 3	DAR 4	HCY 27	BRI 20	ROU 3*	NHA 4	NZH 8	CLT 43	DOV 38	MYB 2	GLN 25	MLW 5	SBO 23*	TAL 24	HCY 2	IRP 8	MCH 34	BRI 1*	DAR 21	RCH 1*	DOV 18	CLT 15	MAR 1	CAR 6
1995				DAY 4	CAR	RCH 1*	ATL 18	NSV 4	DAR	BRI 4	HCY	NHA	NZH	CLT 40	DOV	MYB	GLN	MLW 11	TAL 3	SBO	IRP	MCH 26	BRI 30	DAR 14	RCH 8	DOV	CLT 10	CAR 42	HOM 16*
1996				DAY DNQ	CAR	RCH	ATL	NSV 28*	DAR	BRI 3	HCY	NZH	CLT DNQ	DOV 13	SBO	MYB	GLN 9	MLW 4	NHA 30	TAL 37	IRP	MCH 22	BRI	DAR	RCH 1*	DOV	CLT	CAR	HOM 14
1997		12		DAY	CAR	RCH	ATL	LVS	DAR	HCY	TEX	BRI	NSV	TAL	NHA	NZH	CLT	DOV	SBO	GLN	MLW	MYB	GTY DNQ	IRP	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH 26	DOV	CLT	CAL	CAR	HOM		76th	119

Car No. 55 results (Davis & Weight era)

Year	Driver	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	Owners	Pts
1999	Brandon Sperling	55	Pontiac	DAY	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	TEX	NSV	BRI	TAL	CAL	NHA	RCH	NZH	CLT	DOV	SBO	GLN	MLW	MYB	PPR	GTY	IRP	MCH	BRI 27										81st	149
	Ed Berrier																											DAR DNQ
	Michael Ritch																												RCH DNQ	DOV DNQ	CLT	CAR 35	MEM 37	PHO	HOM
2000			Ford	DAY DNQ	CAR 16	LVS 39	ATL DNQ	DAR 39	BRI DNQ	TEX DNQ	NSV 39	TAL 13	CAL DNQ	RCH 42	NHA 22	CLT DNQ	DOV 15	SBO 25	MYB 24	GLN DNQ	MLW 16	NZH 43	PPR 32	GTY 22	IRP 20	MCH DNQ	BRI 25	DAR 42	RCH DNQ	DOV 23	CLT DNQ	CAR 21	MEM 42	PHO 35	HOM DNQ		37th	1828
2001	Mark Green			DAY 20	CAR 20	LVS 32	ATL 41	DAR 16	BRI 40	TEX 41	NSH 21	TAL 17	CAL	RCH	NHA	NZH	CLT	DOV	KEN 16	MLW	GLN	CHI	GTY	PPR	IRP	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT	MEM	PHO	CAR	HOM	46th	838

External links

• Fil Martocci Winston Cup Owner Statistics
• Fil Martocci - NASCAR owner
• Jayski No. 81 page
• Davis & Weight Motorsports Home Page