On Point Motorsports

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On Point Motorsports
On Point Motorsports.jpeg
Owner(s)Steven Lane
James Whitener
BaseDenver, North Carolina
SeriesNASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Race drivers30. Tate Fogleman
Sponsors30. The Fowl Life
ManufacturerToyota
Opened2018
Career
Debut2018 UNOH 200 (Bristol)
Latest race2021 Lucas Oil 150 (Phoenix)
Races competedTotal: 68
Truck Series: 64
ARCA Racing Series: 1
NASCAR Whelen All-American Series: 3
Drivers' ChampionshipsTotal: 0
Truck Series: 0
ARCA Racing Series: 0
NASCAR Whelen All-American Series: 0
Race victoriesTotal: 0
Truck Series: 0
ARCA Racing Series: 0
NASCAR Whelen All-American Series: 0
Pole positionsTotal: 0
Truck Series: 0
ARCA Racing Series: 0
NASCAR Whelen All-American Series: 0

On Point Motorsports is an American professional stock car racing team that fields the No. 30 Toyota Tundra full-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series for Tate Fogleman.

History[]

On July 11, 2018 former JGL Racing crew chief Steven Lane and a group of investors formed the team. The team announced that they would attempt to make their debut on August 16 at Bristol.[1]

Xfinity Series[]

With the formation of their team on July 11, 2018, they announced plans to compete in the NASCAR Xfinity Series “soon”,[1] although these plans never came to fruition and the team has not attempted to run in the Xfinity Series since then and in addition to that their stock of NXS chassis were sold off to MBM Motorsports in 2019.

Truck Series[]

In July of 2018, Steven Lane and a group of investors along with who followed Lane from JGL Racing, formed the team and its No. 30 truck.

Truck No. 30 history[]

2018[]

The team made its Truck Series debut at Bristol with Scott Lagasse Jr. driving. Lagasse qualified for the race on time qualifying 22nd and finishing 31st after crashing early in the race. The team announced that Austin Theriault would drive the Las Vegas fall race. Theriault started the race 21st and finished 8th after avoiding multiple wrecks near the end of the race. For the Talladega race, the team announced that Lagasse was back on the team. Lagasse finished 18th. On October 22, 2018, the team announced that Jeb Burton would drive the truck at Martinsville, with being the sponsor,[2] He finished 15th. The team and Burton returned for the season finale at Homestead where they qualified 21st and finished 18th.

2019[]

On January 28, 2019, the team announced Brennan Poole would drive for the team full-time. At Daytona they qualified 26th and finished 24th after being involved in The Big One while running 9th. For Atlanta and Las Vegas they received sponsorship from conservative website stirring up a bit of controversy, however, they still finished 13th and 20th respectively. At Martinsville the team would receive sponsorship from once again where they qualified 28th and finish 29th after a plug wire failure in numerous Ilmor Engines that day. For Texas they went unsponsored till raceday when Bad Boy Mowers again stepped in, they qualified 13th and finished 9th. At Dover they qualified 8th but were forced into the wall on lap 1 and ended up finishing the race in 23rd, 10 laps down. On May 8, 2019, On Point Motorsports announced they would withdraw from Kansas after financial issues, but they would enter at Charlotte.

On May 17, 2019, they returned at Charlotte, where they had a strong truck all day leading final practice and would qualify 17th, however, the team recorded their best finish ever with a second-place finish with Poole coming up one spot short to Kyle Busch.

At Texas, Poole scored another top ten finish while also scoring stage points in Stage 2 with a 7th place finish and 6th place Stage 2 finish after starting 18th. They followed it up at Iowa with an 11th place finish after qualifying 15th. At Gateway they entered but later withdrew, then did not enter at all the next week at Chicagoland. They returned at Kentucky where they qualified 10th and despite running top 5 all night, finishing 15th two laps down after Ben Rhodes came up the racetrack and wrecked himself and Poole. That wreck was later met with Rhodes attempting to fight Poole but he was pulled away before he could ever get to Poole. They returned at Bristol with Brennan Poole with backing from and where they qualified 9th and finish 19th after getting wrecked by Natalie Decker and Gus Dean while running 12th with inside 10 to go.[3] On September 12, 2019, Poole and On Point announced they would return at Las Vegas with sponsorship from Goettl Air Conditioning, they qualified 18th and finished 6th after a solid run all night. The team returned to the site of what was nearly Poole’s first career NASCAR Xfinity Series win at Talladega Superspeedway, the team ran around 11th all day but blew a tire while running 4th with 21 to go and finish 26th.

On August 7, 2019, On Point announced that Danny Bohn would make his Truck Series debut at Martinsville. Despite running right around 20th all day the team made perfect on a strategy call to stay out on fuel and avoided multiple wrecks to finish a strong eighth, at ISM, the team struggled all race and finished 27th, six laps down after a mid-race spin.

2020[]

Poole and Bohn returned to the No. 30 in 2020, with Poole running the first half of the season and Bohn running the second half of the season. Scott Lagasse Jr. also ran one race in the No. 30 at the Daytona Road Course. The team entered all races except for Dover in August.

2021[]

On January 28, 2021, OPM announced that Bohn would be back with them in 2021 in the No. 30. The team retained his 2020 sponsor, North American Motor Car, for at least the season-opener at Daytona. The team stated that a full season was possible if additional sponsorship could be found.[4]

Truck No. 30 results[]

Year Team 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 Owners Pts
2018 Scott Lagasse Jr. 30 Toyota DAY ATL LVS MAR DOV KAN CLT TEX IOW GTW CHI KEN ELD POC MCH BRI
31 		MSP TAL
18 		37th 95
Austin Theriault LVS
8
Jeb Burton MAR
15 		TEX PHO HOM
18
2019 Brennan Poole DAY
24 		ATL
13 		LVS
20 		MAR
29 		TEX
9 		DOV
23 		KAN CLT
2 		TEX
7 		IOW
11 		GTW CHI KEN
15 		POC ELD MCH BRI
19 		MSP LVS
6 		TAL
26 		22nd 216
Danny Bohn MAR
8 		PHO
27 		HOM
25
2020 Brennan Poole DAY
17 		LVS
15 		CLT
38 		ATL
17 		HOM
19 		POC
35 		KEN
17 		TEX
31 		KAN
12 		KAN
12 		MCH
35 		22nd 354
Scott Lagasse Jr. DAY
9
Danny Bohn DOV GTW
16 		DAR
20 		RCH
33 		BRI
24 		LVS
25 		TAL
34 		KAN
21 		TEX
17 		MAR
7 		PHO
26
2021 DAY
17 		DAY
30 		LVS
17 		ATL
28 		BRI
36 		RCH
20 		KAN
26 		DAR
18 		CLT
24 		NSH
30 		POC
38 		KNX
10 		GLN
28 		GTW
36 		DAR
20 		BRI
33 		LVS
18 		TAL
8 		MAR
14 		PHO
28 		26th 306
Michele Abbate COA
29
Brennan Poole TEX
14
2022 Tate Fogleman DAY LVS ATL COA MAR BRI DAR KAN TEX CLT GTW SON KNO NSH MHO POC| IRP RCH KAN BRI TAL HOM PHO TBA TBA

* Season still in progress

ARCA Menards Series[]

In November of 2018 On Point announced they would expand to the ARCA Racing Series for the 2019 season on a part-time basis.

Car No. 29 history[]

On January 4, 2019 On Point announced they would test a car with Derrick Lancaster, they would end up 7th in the test leading them to put him in the car for the ARCA season opener at Daytona, he would qualify 26th and finish 17th.

Car No. 29 results[]

Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 AMSC Pts
2019 Derrick Lancaster 29 Toyota DAY
17 		SLM TAL NSH TOL POC MCH CHI IOW ISF DSF SLM IRP KAN -* -*

* Season still in progress

References[]

  1. ^ a b "On Point Motorsports Forms New Truck Series Team". frontstretch.com. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
  2. ^ "On Point Motorsports welcomes Jeb Burton and Strutmasters.com for Martinsville". espn.com. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
  3. ^ "UNOH 200 at Bristol | NASCAR On FOX HIGHLIGHTS". youtube.com. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
  4. ^ "North American Motor Car, Sierra Delta to sponsor Danny Bohn's On Point Motorsports Truck effort". Jayski's Silly Season Site. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. January 28, 2021.

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