Andy Petree Racing

Andy Petree Racing (APR) was a NASCAR team that won 12 races. Originally formed in 1985 as Jackson Bros. Motorsports, its ownership changed hands several times over the years, with three different owners from its beginning to its closure in 2004. The team was based out of North Carolina, and was always a steady competitor for the win despite never winning a championship.

Jackson Bros. Motorsports
Leo Jackson Motorsports
Andy Petree Racing

Owner(s)	Richard Jackson (1985–1989) Leo Jackson (1985–1996) Andy Petree (1996–2004)
Base	North Carolina
Series	Winston Cup, Busch Series, Craftsman Truck Series
Race drivers	Harry Gant Benny Parsons Ken Schrader Greg Biffle Christian Fittipaldi Bobby Hamilton
Sponsors	Skoal, Oakwood Homes, Copenhagen, Square D
Manufacturer	Oldsmobile, Chevrolet
Opened	1985
Closed	2004
Career
Drivers' Championships	0
Race victories	12

Beginnings

Jackson Motorsports No. 66 in 1985

The team was formed in 1985 by brothers Leo and Richard Jackson. At the Daytona 500 that year, the team entered the No. 55 and No. 66 cars, sponsored by U.S. Smokeless Tobacco through its Copenhagen and Skoal brands and driven by another pair of brothers, Benny Parsons and his brother Phil. Benny finished 31st and Phil finished 29th, both suffering engine failure. Phil ran fourteen races with the team that year and posted three top 10s while splitting time with another ride, and Benny ran fourteen races as well and had six top 10 finishes running a limited schedule. The two returned for 1986, when BP had four top tens and won the team's first pole position. Phil ran a limited schedule himself and had five top-tens. After Benny left at the end of the year, his brother moved from the No. 66 to the No. 55. In his first year with the No. 55, Phil Parsons finished a then career-high fourth at Martinsville and finished 14th in points. The No. 66 ran only one race that year, with IndyCar driver Tom Sneva running at Daytona before dropping out with engine failure. In 1988, Parsons improved to a ninth-place finish in points, with the highlight of his year coming with his victory at the Winston 500 despite running out of fuel earlier in the race. In 1989 the team returned to a two-car operation, signing Harry Gant away from Mach 1 Racing with the Skoal sponsorship coming with him. The Jacksons also traded numbers with Mach 1 owner Hal Needham and ran the No. 33 alongside the No. 55. Gant won early in the season at Darlington Speedway and finished seventh in points, while Parsons, despite additional sponsorship from Crown Petroleum, only had three top-tens and dropped to 21st in points. At the end of the year, Parsons left for Morgan-McClure Motorsports.

1990–1996

In 1990, Richard Jackson splintered from the team to form his own operation, taking the equipment for the No. 55 with him. The newly renamed Leo Jackson Motorsports still held onto the No. 33 and Gant who won at Pocono Raceway but finished 17th in points that year. Phil Parsons also returned to the team briefly following his release from Morgan-McClure, pulling substitute duty for Gant at Bristol Motor Speedway. 1991 was much better for Gant, as he finished 3rd in points and won four consecutive races late in the season, which began a "Life Begins at 51" campaign because Gant was the oldest winner in the history of the sport. He followed that up with his final two career wins in 1992 and a fourth-place finish in points. In 1993 & 1994, he didn't win but had a pole each year as well as an eleventh-place finish in points in 1993. During his retirement year in 1994, LJM began grooming his replacement, Robert Pressley, who ran three races for the team in the No. 54 sponsored by Manheim Auctions. His best finish was 31st. He moved to the No. 33 full-time in 1995, where he posted a tenth-place at Bristol, and finished runner-up to Ricky Craven for Rookie of the Year. 1996 was a struggle for Pressley and the team, when Pressley was running decently before having to miss the first race at Dover Downs (he was replaced by Greg Sacks). Around this time, Jackson was contemplating retirement and began looking to sell the team. His buyer was his crew chief at the time, Andy Petree. After one race as an owner, he released Pressley and had Todd Bodine finish out the year for him.

1997–2001

Bobby Hamilton in the No. 55 at Dover International Speedway in 2001

For 1997, Petree selected Ken Schrader to be his driver. Having won four Cup races, Schrader was solid all season long, as he won the pole for both Loudon races and finished tenth in the points standings. 1998 saw about the same result, with eight finishes of ninth or better, and two more pole positions. APR also expanded to a multi-car operation briefly, fielding the No. 55 Oakwood Homes-sponsored Chevy driven by Hut Stricklin in the Pepsi 400. The team became a multi-car full-time in 1999, with Kenny Wallace signing to drive the No. 55 car with a sponsorship from Square D. The year was "up and down" for Wallace, as he posted a career-best second-place finish at Loudon, but could only muster a 22nd-place points finish. Meanwhile, in the No. 33 team, NASCAR's community was shocked when long-time sponsor Skoal announced it would no longer continue its association with the No. 33. After the team signed Oakwood Homes to be a full-time sponsor for the car, Schrader announced he would leave to pursue other opportunities. After a long search, APR decided to hire Joe Nemechek to pilot the car. While he didn't visit victory lane at all in 2000, he did have three top fives and the first top 25 points finish of his career. After nailing just one top 10 that year, Wallace announced he would leave for Eel River Racing. Wallace finished second at the Winston 500 at Talladega, pushing Dale Earnhardt to the win. It was Earnhardt's last victory before his death the following February in the Daytona 500. It wasn't long before Bobby Hamilton was named to handle the driving chores. When the 2000 season came to an end, APR fielded an unprecedented third team, the No. 35 for Geoffrey Bodine at Atlanta Motor Speedway. 2001 was a banner year for APR, as Hamilton won at Talladega Superspeedway in the same car that Wallace finished 2nd in with last fall, and finished eighteenth in points, while Nemechek had ups and downs, breaking a shoulder at Dover and being replaced by Scott Pruett; Wally Dallenbach Jr.; and Bobby Hamilton Jr. (Hamilton's son). When he returned from his injuries, Nemechek was able to rebound with a victory at Rockingham Speedway and had a respectable 28th-place finish in points. Unfortunately, Oakwood Homes had financial trouble and backed out as sponsor, and Nemechek left to join Haas-Carter Motorsports as a replacement driver for Jimmy Spencer in the No. 26 Kmart-sponsored Ford (a ride that Nemechek, again, would lose due to Kmart filing for bankruptcy in 2002 and pulling their sponsorship from NASCAR).

Final seasons

Oakwood Homes' financial troubles left the No. 33 without a sponsor for 2002. Mike and Kenny Wallace ran limited schedules in the car, with Mike racing the No. 33 in The Winston, but no full-time sponsor could be located. In addition, several attempts to get Jerry Jones to buy into the team failed. The team's fortunes continued to decline as Hamilton, who was struggling intensely, suffered a broken shoulder in a crash. Ron Hornaday Jr. and Greg Biffle were able to fill in, but despite a tenth-place finish in the season finale, Hamilton was not happy, and he departed to the Craftsman Truck Series to race for his own team taking the Square D sponsorship with him. Christian Fittipaldi signed to drive the No. 33 at the Daytona 500, finishing 35th. The team only started one other race that year, with Paul Menard at Watkins Glen International Raceway, where he finished 29th. In 2004, Menard and Petree ran in the Busch Series in the hopes of attracting major sponsorship for the team's planned return to the Cup series, but Menard signed a contract with Dale Earnhardt, Inc., and took the sponsorship from his father's company with him. Despite running a couple of truck series races, Petree auctioned off all of his equipment, with most of it, including the number, going to the Kevin Harvick Incorporated racing stable which raced as the No. 33 in the Busch Series. He then went on to race once again, and also became a broadcaster and an executive at Richard Childress Racing.

Driver history

Car No. 33 results

Andy Petree Racing No. 33

NASCAR Cup Series 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	35	36	Owners	Pts
1985	Phil Parsons	66	Olds	DAY 29	RCH	CAR	ATL 41	BRI	DAR 8	NWS	MAR	TAL 34	DOV	CLT 33	RSD	POC 11	MCH 19	DAY 27	POC 8	TAL 31	MCH 6	BRI	DAR 39	RCH	DOV	MAR	NWS	CLT 27	CAR	ATL 14	RSD									21st	2740
1986				DAY 24	RCH	CAR	ATL 18	BRI	DAR 31	NWS	MAR	TAL 5	DOV	CLT 24	RSD	POC 31	MCH 33	DAY 9	POC 37	TAL 13	GLN 14	MCH 9	BRI	DAR 22	RCH	DOV	MAR	NWS	CLT 10	CAR	ATL 10	RSD								27th	1742
1987	Tom Sneva			DAY 29	CAR	RCH	ATL	DAR	NWS	BRI	MAR	TAL	CLT	DOV	POC	RSD	MCH	DAY	POC	TAL	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	MAR	NWS	CLT	CAR	RSD	ATL								90th	76
1989	Harry Gant	33		DAY 12	CAR 31	ATL 29	RCH 14	DAR 1*	BRI 10	NWS 23	MAR 12	TAL 7	CLT 40	DOV 23	SON 12	POC 2	MCH 32	DAY 32	POC 5	TAL 8	GLN 19	MCH 3	BRI 4	DAR 6	RCH 5	DOV 38	MAR 2	CLT 2	NWS 4	CAR 29	PHO 8	ATL 17								7th	3610
1990				DAY 18	RCH 36	CAR 11	ATL 9	DAR 6		NWS 13	MAR 26	TAL 36	CLT 25	DOV 34	SON 19	POC 1	MCH 5	DAY 7	POC 14	TAL 15	GLN 21	MCH 13	BRI 26	DAR 5	RCH 36	DOV 4	MAR 5	NWS 28	CLT 26	CAR 3	PHO 37	ATL 19								17th	3182
	Phil Parsons								BRI 25
1991	Harry Gant			DAY 25	RCH 3	CAR 3	ATL 19	DAR 27	BRI 11	NWS 23	MAR 5	TAL 1	CLT 4	DOV 3	SON 27	POC 4	MCH 10	DAY 23	POC 26	TAL 39	GLN 28	MCH 6	BRI 19	DAR 1*	RCH 1	DOV 1*	MAR 1*	NWS 2*	CLT 4	CAR 2*	PHO 23	ATL 4								4th	3985
1992				DAY 12	CAR 3	RCH 3	ATL 2	DAR 2	BRI 29	NWS 5	MAR 5	TAL 24	CLT 5	DOV 1	SON 17	POC 23	MCH 7	DAY 23	POC 2	TAL 17	GLN 18	MCH 1	BRI 26	DAR 16*	RCH 8	DOV 6	MAR 19	NWS 13	CLT 8	CAR 6	PHO 14	ATL 13								4th	3955
1993			Chevy	DAY 21	CAR 31	RCH 9	ATL 21	DAR 37	BRI 28	NWS 13	MAR 31	TAL 23	SON 19	CLT 18	DOV 7	POC 3	MCH 10	DAY 21	NHA 17	POC 9	TAL 8	GLN 10	MCH 30	BRI 4	DAR 7	RCH 11	DOV 5	MAR 33	NWS 6	CLT 12	CAR 4	PHO 12	ATL 28							11th	3524
1994				DAY 34	CAR 37	RCH 34	ATL 30	DAR 8	BRI 37	NWS 8	MAR DNQ	TAL 23	SON 10	CLT 7	DOV 42	POC 16	MCH 35	DAY 31	NHA 17	POC 38	TAL 21	IND 37	GLN 10	MCH 25	BRI 9	DAR 41	RCH 22	DOV 13	MAR 8	NWS 32	CLT 22	CAR 31	PHO 23	ATL 33						25th	2720
1995	Robert Pressley			DAY 26	CAR 42	RCH 35	ATL 31	DAR 30	BRI 10	NWS 18	MAR 17	TAL 18	SON 30	CLT 24	DOV 19	POC 37	MCH 17	DAY 11	NHA 13	POC 34	TAL 27	IND 28	GLN 34	MCH 18	BRI 24	DAR 17	RCH 30	DOV 14	MAR 34	NWS 33	CLT 42	CAR 29	PHO 19	ATL 41						29th	2663
1996				DAY 30	CAR 26	RCH 16	ATL 27	DAR 36	BRI 17	NWS 4	MAR 34	TAL 7	SON 34	CLT 33		POC 33	MCH 23	DAY 17	NHA 5	POC 25	TAL 31	IND 30	GLN 30	MCH 41	BRI 33	DAR 27	RCH 26	DOV 32	MAR 32	NWS 33	CLT 32									32nd	2485
	Greg Sacks														DOV 27
	Todd Bodine																															CAR 20	PHO 11	ATL 32
1997	Ken Schrader			DAY 33	CAR 18	RCH 35	ATL 25	DAR 8	TEX 18	BRI 12	MAR 10	SON 31	TAL 12	CLT 38	DOV 6	POC 23	MCH 27	CAL 34	DAY 15	NHA 11	POC 14	IND 11	GLN 14	MCH 14	BRI 6	DAR 10	RCH 14	NHA 37	DOV 12	MAR 9	CLT 15	TAL 4	CAR 30	PHO 4	ATL 20					10th	3576
1998				DAY 4	CAR 23	LVS 21	ATL 17	DAR 18	BRI 6	TEX 21	MAR 10	TAL 29	CAL 15	CLT 10	DOV 15	RCH 4	MCH 28	POC 43	SON 20	NHA 9	POC 8	IND 10	GLN 24	MCH 14	BRI 14	NHA 42	DAR 13	RCH 4	DOV 39	MAR 13	CLT 40	TAL 24	DAY 9	PHO 22	CAR 14	ATL 7				12th	3675
1999				DAY 6	CAR 11	LVS 18	ATL 26	DAR 43	TEX 17	BRI 20	MAR 9	TAL 6	CAL 14	RCH 14	CLT 7	DOV 41	MCH 13	POC 27	SON 39	DAY 20	NHA 35	POC 34	IND 18	GLN 17	MCH 25	BRI 10	DAR 9	RCH 21	NHA 12	DOV 26	MAR 21	CLT 23	TAL 25	CAR 30	PHO 14	HOM 29	ATL 19			15th	3479
2000	Joe Nemechek			DAY 42	CAR 30	LVS 9	ATL 5	DAR 41	BRI 25	TEX 37	MAR 17	TAL 22	CAL 20	RCH 23	CLT 23	DOV 7	MCH 18	POC 42	SON 11	DAY 11	NHA 2	POC 34	IND 18	GLN 8	MCH 23	BRI 27	DAR 31	RCH 40	NHA 9	DOV 7	MAR 14	CLT 14	TAL 3	CAR 10	PHO 24	HOM 18	ATL 25			15th	3534
2001				DAY 11	CAR 17	LVS 35	ATL 17	DAR 24	BRI 43	TEX 41	MAR 16	TAL 6	CAL 20	RCH 19						DAY 27	CHI 16	NHA 41	POC 23	IND 20	GLN 32	MCH 22	BRI 24	DAR 33	RCH 16	DOV 7	KAN 20	CLT 20	MAR 23	TAL 8	PHO 35	CAR 1*	HOM 31	ATL 39	NHA 20	28th	2994
	Bobby Hamilton Jr.														CLT 39	DOV 42	MCH 24
	Wally Dallenbach Jr.																	POC 26
	Scott Pruett																		SON 12
2002	Mike Wallace			DAY 21	CAR 38	LVS	ATL	DAR	BRI	TEX	MAR	TAL 42	CAL	RCH	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	DAY 41	CHI	NHA	POC	IND	GLN	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	NHA	DOV	KAN								41st	1551
	Kenny Wallace																																TAL 33	CLT	MAR	ATL	CAR	PHO	HOM
2003	Christian Fittipaldi			DAY 35	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	BRI	TEX	TAL	MAR	CAL	RCH	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH																						44th	857
	Paul Menard																		SON DNQ	DAY	CHI	NHA	POC	IND	GLN 29	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	NHA	DOV	TAL	KAN	CLT	MAR	ATL	PHO	CAR	HOM

Car No. 55 results

Andy Petree Racing No. 55

NASCAR Cup Series 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	35	36	Owners	Pts
1985	Benny Parsons	55	Chevy	DAY 31	RCH	CAR	ATL 8	BRI	DAR 32	NWS	MAR	TAL 29	DOV	CLT 42	RSD	POC 6	MCH 10	DAY 11	POC 6	TAL 36	MCH 5	BRI	DAR 8	RCH	DOV	MAR	NWS	CLT 41	CAR	ATL 33	RSD									29th	1427
1986			Olds	DAY 5	RCH	CAR	ATL 6	BRI	DAR 28	NWS	MAR	TAL 20	DOV	CLT 34	RSD	POC 33	MCH 41	DAY 36	POC 29	TAL 5	GLN 8	MCH 26	BRI	DAR 31	RCH	DOV	MAR	NWS	CLT 30	CAR	ATL 11	RSD 27								30th	1555
1987	Phil Parsons			DAY 11	CAR 11	RCH 15	ATL 27	DAR 9	NWS 7	BRI 20	MAR 4	TAL 31	CLT 8	DOV 22	POC 11	RSD 11	MCH 21	DAY 15	POC 39	TAL 29	GLN 7	MCH 14	BRI 19	DAR 12	RCH 20	DOV 29	MAR 16	NWS 14	CLT 27	CAR 9	RSD 13	ATL 8								14th	3327
1988				DAY 3	RCH 30	CAR 15	ATL 37	DAR 8	BRI 22	NWS 7	MAR 9	TAL 1	CLT 8	DOV 39	RSD 5	POC 8	MCH 7	DAY 3	POC 31	TAL 11	GLN 4	MCH 20	BRI 19	DAR 6	RCH 24	DOV 14	MAR 21	CLT 27	NWS 2	CAR 8	PHO 9	ATL 16								9th	3630
1989				DAY 5	CAR 39	ATL 14	RCH 27	DAR 41	BRI 23	NWS DNQ	MAR 13	TAL 17	CLT 13	DOV 10	SON 18	POC 12	MCH 15	DAY 3	POC 12	TAL 41	GLN 17	MCH 33	BRI 11	DAR 21	RCH 36	DOV 13	MAR 14	CLT 20	NWS 28	CAR 24	PHO 37	ATL 42								21st	2933
1994	Robert Pressley	54	Chevy	DAY 40	CAR	RCH	ATL	DAR	BRI	NWS	MAR	TAL	SON	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	DAY	NHA DNQ	POC	TAL	IND DNQ	GLN	MCH DNQ	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	MAR	NWS	CLT 31	CAR	PHO	ATL 35						57th	171
1998	Hut Stricklin	55		DAY	CAR	LVS	ATL	DAR	BRI	TEX	MAR	TAL	CAL	CLT	DOV	RCH	MCH	POC	SON	NHA	POC	IND	GLN	MCH	BRI	NHA	DAR	RCH	DOV	MAR	CLT	TAL	DAY 42	PHO	CAR	ATL				65th	37
1999	Kenny Wallace			DAY 42	CAR 13	LVS 40	ATL 29	DAR 23	TEX 39	BRI 16	MAR 6	TAL 7	CAL 27	RCH 41	CLT 12	DOV 39	MCH 21	POC 25	SON 14	DAY 15	NHA 2	POC 37	IND 39	GLN 19	MCH 27	BRI 11	DAR 35	RCH 12	NHA 34	DOV 43	MAR 5	CLT 30	TAL 5	CAR 16	PHO 18	HOM 15	ATL 34			22nd	3210
2000				DAY 29	CAR 24	LVS 39	ATL 37	DAR 35	BRI 20	TEX 21	MAR 42	TAL 40	CAL 36	RCH 20	CLT 27	DOV 18	MCH 31	POC 23	SON 13	DAY 19	NHA 26	POC 21	IND 29	GLN 14	MCH 30	BRI 26	DAR 35	RCH 14	NHA 43	DOV 15	MAR 22	CLT 37	TAL 2	CAR 43	PHO 19	HOM 24	ATL 23			26th	2874
2001	Bobby Hamilton			DAY 8	CAR 13	LVS 30	ATL 22	DAR 9	BRI 8	TEX 18	MAR 4*	TAL 1	CAL 36	RCH 28	CLT 24	DOV 20	MCH 22	POC 33	SON 15	DAY 38	CHI 30	NHA 29	POC 29	IND 27	GLN 36	MCH 28	BRI 23	DAR 15	RCH 13	DOV 10	KAN 15	CLT 31	MAR 13	TAL 5	PHO 36	CAR 22	HOM 39	ATL 27	NHA 29	18th	3575
2002				DAY 32	CAR 9	LVS 43	ATL 29	DAR 13	BRI 28	TEX 31	MAR 27	TAL 22	CAL 30	RCH 17	CLT 23	DOV 9	POC 27	MCH 37	SON 31	DAY 16	CHI 15	NHA 26	POC 19	IND 23	GLN 19	MCH 23	BRI 11	DAR 23						CLT 27	MAR 25	ATL 35	CAR 38	PHO 29	HOM 10	32nd	2832
	Greg Biffle																												RCH 33	NHA 27	DOV 33	KAN 36
	Ron Hornaday Jr.																																TAL 32

External links

• Racing Reference
• Jayski's Team 33 News Page
• Jayski's Team 55 News Page