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Bill Davis Racing is a NASCAR team that fields the #22 Caterpillar Inc. Dodge for Dave Blaney, the #23 Dodge for Mike Skinner (NASCAR) (part time) in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series, the #5 Toyota Tundra for Mike Skinner, the #22 Toyota for Bill Lester, and the #23 Toyota for Johnny Benson in the Craftsman Truck Series. The team switched to Dodge in 2001, but when the team switched its trucks over to Toyota in 2003, Dodge stopped backing the team, although the team still will run the Dodge cars in the Nextel Cup and Busch Series. In 2007, the team will switch over to Toyota in full, when the Toyota Camry debuts in Nextel Cup. The team is based in High Point, North Carolina.

Beginnings

BDR was formed by then-truck rental owner Bill Davis, who himself was a former motocross racer. Davis helped his friend and business partner Julian Martin develop his son Mark's ASA racing program. Rent a Truck. When Martin signed with J. D. Stacy, Davis took a break for racing, but the call of the racetrack still lured him, and before he knew it, he hired Martin to drive his Busch Series car for 15 races with sponsorship from Carolina Ford Dealers. In 1990, Davis moved the team to North Carolina while his wife Gail stayed in Arkansas to oversee the trucking operation.

Car #22 History

Upon arriving in Carolina, Davis was asked by the Ford Motor Company to hire an up-and-coming driver from the Midwest named Jeff Gordon. Gordon won the NASCAR Busch Series Rookie of the Year in 1991, and won 11 pole positions the next year.