Team Menard

 ( Indycar Series Teams ) 

Team Menard was an auto racing team that competed in the Indianapolis 500, CART, Indy Racing League, NASCAR Cup Series, and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. The team was owned by Menards founder, John Menard Jr. Founded in 1980 to compete in CART, from 1991 to 1996 they modified their own Buick V6 engines for racing. This combination won pole for the 500 with Scott Brayton in 1995 and 1996; Tony Stewart used this combination for the first part of his 1996-1997 IRL Championship. With more stringent regulations, the team continued to shine winning the 1999 championship with Greg Ray. However, with the influx of former Champ Car teams to the IRL in the early 2000s, Team Menard struggled to compete for wins and the team merged in 2004 with Panther Racing, although their car continued to carry Menard's colors and be driven first by Mark Taylor, who was then replaced by Townsend Bell. In 2005, Menard's was an associate sponsor for another team and the former Menard No. 2 car driven by Tomáš Enge carried no identification to its Menard lineage. For 2006, the No. 2 car was dropped by Panther and all vestiges of the once dominant Team Menard lineage disappeared until the spring of 2008 when Menards became a primary sponsor on the No. 20 Vision Racing Dallara driven by Ed Carpenter in the IndyCar Series.

The Team Menard name has also been used to refer to their sponsoring of various drivers throughout motorsports, including Paul Menard, Ryan Blaney, Austin Cindric, Brandon Jones and Matt Crafton in NASCAR, Simon Pagenaud in IndyCar and Frank Kimmel in ARCA, while TeamMenard.com was a portal to information on these drivers and their sponsor. However, Team Menard is not the name of any of their race teams and none of those cars are owned by John Menard. The URL currently redirects to the Menards home page.

Menard also had a NASCAR team running the No. 13 car. Robby Gordon ran 17 races in 2000, with P.J. Jones running an additional race.

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Drivers

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CART (1980-1995)

• Herm Johnson (1980–1986)
• Jim Crawford (1990)
• Gary Bettenhausen (1990–1993)
• Kevin Cogan (1991)
• Tom Sneva (1991–1992)
• Al Unser (1992)
• Nelson Piquet (1993)
• Eddie Cheever (1993, 1994)
• Geoff Brabham (1993–1994)
• Scott Brayton (1994–1995)
• Buddy Lazier (1995)
• Arie Luyendyk (1995)

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IRL/IndyCar Series (1996-2003)

• Scott Brayton (1996)
• Eddie Cheever (1996)
• Danny Ongais (1996)
• Mark Dismore (1996–1997, 2002)
• Tony Stewart (1996–1998)
• Robbie Buhl (1997–1998)
• Robby Gordon (1999–2000, 2002)
• Greg Ray (1999–2001)
• Jaques Lazier (2001–2003)
• Raul Boesel (2002)
• Vítor Meira (2002–2003)
• P. J. Jones (2002)
• Richie Hearn (2003)

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NASCAR Cup Series

• Robby Gordon (2000)
• P.J. Jones (2000)

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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (2000-2001)

• Bryan Reffner (2000-2001)
• David Starr (2001)

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Complete racing results

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PPG CART Indycar World Series results ()

Lightning Mk 1/77	Offenhauser Drake L4Turbocharger		Herm Johnson	28	14	DNQ	17	11				11	13	13	14	8
Lightning Mk 1/77	Chevrolet V8		Herm Johnson	28		22	22	17	33	7	13
Eagle 81						9	8	9
Eagle 81	Chevrolet V8		Herm Johnson	28	19	6	23	13	34	16		22	17
Eagle 81	Chevrolet V8		Herm Johnson	27						DNQ
March 84C	Cosworth DFX V8Turbocharger		Herm Johnson	28			8	18
March 85C	Cosworth DFX V8Turbocharger		Herm Johnson	8		DNQ
March 86C	Cosworth DFX V8Turbocharger		Herm Johnson	28			DNQ
			Derek Daly				DNQ
Lola Cars T89/00	Cosworth DFX V8Turbocharger		Johnny Rutherford	98			DNQ
Lola T89/00	Buick 3300 V6Turbocharger		Jim Crawford	15			15
				51	19
			Gary Bettenhausen				31
			Steve Barclay				DNQ
Lola T91/00	Buick 3300 V6Turbocharger		Gary Bettenhausen	51				22
			Kevin Cogan	9				29
Lola Cars T89/00			Tom Sneva	59				DNQ
Lola T92/00	Buick 3300 V6Turbocharger		Al Unser	27				3
			Nelson Piquet					DNQ
			Gary Bettenhausen	51				17
Lola T91/00			Tom Sneva	59				31
			Rocky Moran					DNQ
Lola T93/00	Menard V6Turbocharger		Geoff Brabham	27				26
			Gary Bettenhausen	51				17
			Nelson Piquet (R)	77				32
Lola T92/00	Buick 3300 V6Turbocharger		Eddie Cheever	59				16
Lola T93/00	Menard V6Turbocharger		Eddie Cheever	27				8
			Scott Brayton	59				20
			Geoff Brabham					DNQ
Lola T95/00	Menard V6Turbocharger		Arie Luyendyk	40						7
			Scott Brayton	60						17
			Buddy Lazier	80						27

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IRL IndyCar Series results (key) (Results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Lola Cars T95/00	Menard V6Turbocharger		Scott Brayton	2	15	18	DNS
			Eddie Cheever	3	10	Wth	11
			Tony Stewart	20	2	11	24
			Mark Dismore	30			19
			Danny Ongais	32			7
Lola Cars T95/00	Menard V6Turbocharger		Mark Dismore	3	20	17
			Tony Stewart	2	12*	21
Panoz GF01	Oldsmobile Aurora V8						10*	2*	5*	5*	1*	7*	14	11
			Robbie Buhl	3				18	8	16			1	3
Dallara IR8	Oldsmobile Aurora V8		Tony Stewart	1			33	14	1*			3		20*	14
Panoz GF01B					1*	2*				8	21		5
			Robbie Buhl	3	20								11
Dallara IR8						12	31	6	10			2		7	7
Dallara IR9	Oldsmobile Aurora V8		Greg Ray	2	21	21	C	21	2*	1*	23	1	1*	21	3
			Robby Gordon	32				4
Dallara IR-00	Oldsmobile Aurora V8		Greg Ray	1	17	19	9	33	15	20	1*	7	26
			Robby Gordon	32				6
Dallara IR-01	Oldsmobile Aurora V8		Greg Ray	2	22	21	1*	17	11*	18	DNS	14	18	13
			Jaques Lazier												16	1*	20
Dallara IR-02	Chevrolet Indy V8		Jaques Lazier	2	18	6	2	20
			P. J. Jones						DNQ
			Raul Boesel						21	13
			Mark Dismore								11	11	20	18	18
			Vítor Meira													15	9	8	3
			Robby Gordon	31					8
Dallara IR-03	Chevrolet Indy V8		Jaques Lazier	2	20	6	12	29									DNS
			Richie Hearn															14
			Vítor Meira						12	16	22	20	19	21	9	DNS			11	4
				22				12

1. The 1999 VisionAire 500K at Charlotte was cancelled after 79 laps due to spectator fatalities.

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NASCAR series

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Nascar Cup Series

2000 ! Robby Gordon ! rowspan="2"

13 ! rowspan="2"

Ford

DAY 18

CAR 38

LVS 13

ATL DNQ

DAR 28

BRI 32

TEX DNQ

MAR 40

TAL 37

CAL 31

RCH 37

DOV

MCH 28

POC

SON 9

DAY DNQ

NHA

POC

IND DNQ

GLN 4

MCH 34

BRI 31

DAR

RCH DNQ

NHA

DOV

MAR

CLT 38

TAL

CAR 41

PHO DNQ

HOM

ATL 27 ! rowspan="2"

43rd ! rowspan="2"

1517

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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

2000 ! rowspan="2"

Bryan Reffner ! rowspan="3"

3 ! rowspan="3"

Chevrolet

DAY 35

HOM 30

PHO 11

MMR 6

MAR 8

PIR 7

GTY 8

MEM 8

PPR 8

EVG 10

TEX 5

KEN 5

GLN 13

MLW 10

NHA 28

NZH 9

MCH 15

IRP 8

NSV 8

CIC 7

RCH 11

DOV 29

TEX 1

CAL 6 ! 9th ! 3153

2001

DAY 8

HOM 28

MMR 18

MAR 8

GTY

DAR

PPR

DOV

! rowspan="2" ? ! rowspan="2"

1023

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