Term used to describe the practice of starting races but parking after a few laps
Johnny Chapman and MSRP were one of the more notable start and park combinations in NASCAR in the late 2000s.
Start and park is a term used in auto racing, particularly in NASCAR-sanctioned races, to describe the practice of racing teams starting races but pulling the car off the track after just a few laps in order to collect prize money while avoiding expenses such as replacement tires, engine wear and tear, and hiring a pit crew.[1] The practice has existed due to the relatively high purse for even a back-of-the-pack finish, as well as the high costs of fielding a car for an entire race. While start-and-park entries occasionally act as "field fillers" (a term typically used outside of NASCAR when a small number of teams show up to a racetrack), the practice is criticized in instances when they take spots away from teams intending to run the full race.[2]
In some cases, a team will use a start-and-park car to help fund another competitive car in the same or a different series. This practice is prevalent in NASCAR's second-tier Xfinity Series, notably by The Motorsports Group, RSS Racing (only number 38 or 93 to help fund the no. 39 team) and TriStar Motorsports.[2][3][4] However, there are some cases in which a small underfunded team does use this money to eventually run full races, or conserve the car. Teams like NEMCO Motorsports, Leavine Family Racing, and Phil Parsons Racing have done this in the past, before transitioning to running full races.[5] Other reasons possible are for better funded teams to have a used engine available, especially with a NASCAR rule imposed that requires teams to run a previously raced engine in multiple races. Such start and park teams may have a deal with a works-level team for engines. When the engine is used for a few laps in testing mode, the car can be parked after a few laps and the engine be used in another race by another team. (The rule states if a team won a race, the engine must be reused by the same team.) Likewise, the smaller team can use the engine from the works team's non-winning race engine and use it in their operation for the works team while the works team uses the previously used team by the smaller team in a future race.
A visible increase in the presence of starting and parking in the 21st century made it one of the more polarizing and controversial topics in the sport.[2][5] In 2013 and 2014, changes in the structuring of prize money awards and qualifying procedures made starting and parking less attractive, encouraging (or forcing) low-budget teams to run full races.[5][6][7] Further reductions in field size and the structuring of qualifying and structure of prize money later in the decade have curbed the practice considerably, particularly at the Cup level.
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^ abcZeller, Bob (February 2009). "The Quitting Game". Car and Driver. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
^DeGroot, Nick (September 16, 2014). "The Motorsports Group planning full-time Sprint Cup effort for 2015". motorsport.com. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
^Gray, Nick (June 26, 2014). "Team comes first for Kentuckian Green as 'start-and-park' driver in NASCAR". Kentucky.com. Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
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^Newton, Dave (October 16, 2012). "Nationwide field to shrink in 2013". Charlotte, North Carolina: ESPN. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
^Smith, Steven Cole (April 15, 2013). "NASCAR doing better job of curbing start-and-park drivers". Autoweek. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
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