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Melling Racing
Owner(s)
Harry Melling (1982–1999) Mark Melling (1999–2002)
Base
Mooresville, North Carolina
Series
Winston Cup
Race drivers
Bill Elliott, Jerry Nadeau, Lake Speed, Stacy Compton
Sponsors
Coors Brewing, Turner Broadcasting, Spam, Kodiak
Manufacturer
Ford, Dodge
Opened
1982
Closed
2003
Career
Debut
1982 Daytona 500 (Daytona)
Latest race
2002 Pepsi 400 by Farmer Jack (Michigan International Speedway)
Drivers' Championships
1
Race victories
34
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Melling Racing was a Championship-winning NASCAR Winston Cup Series race team owned by Harry Melling and his son Mark Melling. Harry Melling ran the team from its inception in 1982, to mid-1999. When Harry died after a heart attack in mid-1999, his son Mark then took over Melling Racing until the team closed in 2003.
The team was most notable for fielding cars for Bill Elliott in the 1980s, where he won the 1985 Southern 500 at Darlington to claim the first ever Winston Million bonus, claiming the fastest qualifying lap in NASCAR history at Talladega Superspeedway with a lap of 212.809 mph in 1987, and winning the 1988 Winston Cup championship. Melling won 34 career NASCAR Winston Cup races, all of them with Bill Elliott.
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conclusion of the 2001 season. In 2002 he had a one race deal with MellingRacing for the Daytona 500 and locked himself in by qualifying speed on Pole...
this time, he has worked for four teams: Dale Earnhardt Incorporated, MellingRacing, Tyler Jet Motorsports and Hendrick Motorsports. He has been a crew...
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sponsored cars in the series. They sponsored MellingRacing, Team SABCO, and most recently Chip Ganassi Racing. Drivers to have Coors backing have included...
was heavily damaged. Bill Elliott won the race, his last victory for MellingRacing and the only victory for Elliott in a car painted a color other than...
same partnership treatment as Penske Racing (from 2003), Evernham Motorsports, Bill Davis Racing, MellingRacing and Petty Enterprises teams. In 2009...
delay; despite the inexperience with the lights, newly installed for an Indy Racing League race, NASCAR and the teams agreed to attempt finishing the race at...
left, ran in the inside one. R. Wallace drove his navy blue No. 2 Penske Racing Ford directly behind Earnhardt, and Schrader ran in the outside lane driving...
two contenders for the race, Hendrick Motorsports' Geoff Bodine and MellingRacing's Bill Elliott, differed on pit strategy for the end of the race. Bodine...
stock car race sanctioned by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) and held every February at the Daytona International Speedway in...
Darlington. After beginning 1992 with a tenth-place at the Daytona 500 with MellingRacing, he returned to Busch to run seven races, and had five top-10s. In 1993...
November 20 at the Atlanta International Speedway. Bill Elliott of MellingRacing won the championship. The 1988 season was notable for hosting the first...
Daytona to start out the 1991 season, in response to the death of a MellingRacing rear tire changer in a pit road accident at Atlanta the previous November...
Compton began competing in some Winston Cup races for MellingRacing. Soon afterwards, Melling announced that Compton would driver their No. 9 Ford Taurus...
awarded by the chairman of NASCAR to the most successful NASCAR Cup Series racing car driver over a season, as determined by a points system based on race...
the #29 team in the Busch Grand National Series full-time and the #9 MellingRacing team in the Winston Cup Series part-time. In 1996, Kyle Petty's #49...
in owner's points; up to two were given. Bill Elliott, driving for MellingRacing, managed to win the pole, setting a time of 44.998 and an average speed...
to complete. By race's end, MellingRacing's Bill Elliott managed to fend off a late-race charge by Ranier-Lundy Racing's Davey Allison in the final laps...
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