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►11/18/2021 - NextGen Test at Charlotte

MBM Motorsports debuted their first NASCAR Cup Series NextGen car at the 1.5-mile Charlotte Motor Speedway in preparation for the 2022 season. NASCAR held a two-day test at the track, November 17-18, permitting one entry for 1-2 car organizations and two entries for 3-4 car organizations.

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Timmy Hill drove the #66 Ford Mustang in both days of testing. The Port Tobacco, Maryland native shook the car down in the afternoon of Day 1, as the team had to scramble to get the car completed. After resolving a few setup issues on the opening day, MBM significantly improved the #66 car for Day 2. Hill ran a lap of 32.593 seconds, more than 1.3 seconds quicker than his best lap from the previous day.

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►11/10/2021 - Cup Phoenix Results

MBM Motorsports fielded two cars in the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway, though neither entry was able to reach the checkered flag on track.

David Starr had a decent event put together until a late mechanical failure took him out of the race. The Houston, Texas native placed the #13 Ripper Magoos / Soda Jerk Shot / Club Scottsdale Toyota Camry 34th fastest of the 39 entries in the 50-minute practice held on Friday, running 29 laps in the session. From a practice time of 28.413 seconds, Starr improved in qualifying to a best lap of 27.874 seconds, a pick-up of more than half a second. The run left him 36th in the starting lineup for Sunday, matching the starting position from his one prior Cup start at this track in 2017.

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The 54-year-old picked up decent Stage 1 and 2 finishes of 32nd and 30th, respectively. Late in Stage 3, Starr was running in 29th, and beating three of the Rick Ware Racing cars, when disaster struck. One of his brake rotors exploded, the same fate that befell Starr and the #13 car at Nashville earlier this season. Pieces of rotor were scattered on track and forced NASCAR to display the yellow flag. Starr retired from the event with 273 laps complete, finishing 33rd, the highest placed car to not be running at the finish. The DNF ended Starr's streak of consecutive Cup races running at the finish at four, a new career high.

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Timmy Hill had an even more challenging event. He practiced the #66 Coble Enterprises / Boathouse Bar & Grill Toyota Camry for 10 laps, with a best time of 29.208 seconds. The Port Tobacco, Maryland native was supposed to be the third driver to set a lap time in qualifying, but as he took to the racetrack, he discovered that he had no braking power. Hill rolled the car slowly back to pit road and did not record a time, leaving him in the 39th starting spot.

The 28-year-old's 13th Cup start of the season and 10th premier series start at Phoenix was short-lived. Hill described his car as plowing tight all the way to the center of the corner and then loose on throttle. Despite multiple chassis adjustments and making a trip to the garage area for more extensive setup changes, the #66 remained ill-handling on its return to the track. The experienced driver, now with 422 NASCAR national touring series starts, decided the car needed to be retired. Hill finished 38th with 57 laps complete.

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►11/10/2021 - Xfinity Phoenix Results

Practice and qualifying returned for the NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway, the 1-mile oval in Avondale, Arizona. MBM Motorsports attempted to get three cars qualified into the race, but only succeed with one.

42 entries were in the Xfinity garage at Phoenix to compete for 36 available positions in the field, and all three MBM cars entered qualifying knowing they needed to earn a spot in the Top 31 on time to secure a position in the race. David Starr piloted the #66 Whataburger Toyota Supra, but he was only 38th best in the 50-minute practice session held on Friday. His best lap time was 28.781 seconds, set on his third of 11 circuits. The Houston, Texas native drew 21st in the qualifying order, but when his turn to hit the racetrack arrived, the #66 car would not start. Frantically, the team hurried to diagnose the issue as the car was placed on the 5-minute clock. If five minutes had elapsed from the time Starr's position in the qualifying line was called without the #66 being re-presented for a qualifying attempt, the team would not have been allowed on track. Fortunately, the team discovered the ignition switch had been turned to the backup box, but there was no backup ignition installed in the car. With that corrected, the engine turned over and Starr hit the track.

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The 54-year-old was on a mission on his qualifying run, improving more than three-quarters of a second from practice and locking himself into the starting lineup on his qualifying speed. The lap held up for 27th on the grid, less than four hundredths of a second safe to the Top 31 but in the show. Because of the work in the qualifying line to get the car started, the #66 was sent to the rear of the field to start the race for unapproved adjustments.

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The biggest hurdle for the Whataburger machine in the race related to tire camber. The team took a risk by adding more camber than normal to help the car rotate in the corners on the qualifying lap, and Starr successfully made the race with that gamble, but it also meant the #66 wore its tires more quickly in race conditions. The car remained tight, and Starr asked for his Supra to cut better on corner entry and in the center. Using a free pass at the seventh caution flag and a wavearound at the eighth, Starr got back on the lead lap at the end of the race and took advantage of more late-race restarts to advance up the running order. He finished 21st, the best result for the #66 since Jason White placed 15th at the Daytona oval in August, ten races ago. Starr ended the year 31st in driver points, and the #66 ended up as the highest MBM-affiliated car in owner points at P35.

Both of the other MBM entries were hampered by unfortunate qualifying draws. Timmy Hill had the fastest practice lap of the three MBM teammates. His 28.598 second lap put the #61 Coble Enterprises / CrashClaimsR.US Toyota Supra 34th best on the practice sheet, just 0.116 seconds back of the 31st fastest team. However, the #61 team was assigned to be the first car on track for qualifying. The Xfinity Series qualifying session was the first on-track activity following the ARCA Menards Series West race, whose cars run on General Tire rubber. That scenario made for difficult track conditions for the early qualifiers.

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Hill ran his first qualifying lap in 28.395 seconds, picking up two tenths from practice, but his effort was not enough. The #61 car ended up 40th on the qualifying leaderboard and would have needed 45 more owner points over the course of the season to get a provisional, based on the other teams who missed the Top 31 on speed. It was the fourth DNQ for the #61 entry in 2021.

Stephen Leicht was the third fastest MBM driver in practice, placing 39th at 28.835 seconds in the #13 Jani-King / ShareLife Vacations Toyota Supra. The Asheville, North Carolina native had the additional misfortune of drawing the second position in the qualifying order. Leicht had a sketchy moment on his qualifying lap into Turn 1, but he still managed to pick up more than two-thirds of a second from practice, jumping all the way to 28.162 seconds. Despite the admirable effort, the #13 would have needed another five positions, or 0.12 seconds, to break into the Top 31.

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