Kaulig Racing

Kaulig Racing
Career

Owner(s)	Matt Kaulig
Base	Welcome, North Carolina
Series	Xfinity Series
Car numbers	11
Race drivers	11. Blake Koch
Sponsors	11. LeafFilter Gutter Protection
Manufacturer	Chevrolet
Opened	2016
Debut	2016 PowerShares QQQ 300 (Daytona)
Latest race	2016 Ford EcoBoost 300 (Homestead)
Races competed	33
Drivers' Championships	0
Race victories	0
Pole positions	0

Kaulig Racing is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. The team is owned by Matt Kaulig, an owner of team sponsor LeafFilter. The team currently fields the No. 11 LeafFilter Gutter Protection Chevrolet Camaro full-time for Blake Koch. The team has a technical alliance with Richard Childress Racing, and formerly operated out of the NTS Motorsports facility.^[1]

Xfinity Series

Car No. 11 history

Blake Koch pilots the No. 11 LeafFilter Chevy Camaro at Daytona International Speedway.

In June 2015, Blake Koch announced he and longtime sponsor LeafFilter Gutter Protection would re-sign with TriStar Motorsports for the 2016 season.^[2] However, in the 2015 offseason, LeafFilter owner Matt Kaulig decided to start his own team, Kaulig Racing. He brought along Koch, who he had sponsored the past two seasons, to pilot the No. 11 Chevy. Longtime NASCAR crew chief Chris Rice was hired as the team's general manager and crew chief. Kaulig Racing formed a technical alliance with Richard Childress Racing for the 2016 season.^[1]^[2]^[3] The team also used the owner's points of TriStar's former No. 8 team.^[2] In the team's debut, they finished 9th at Daytona after a strong showing, followed by a 20th-place finish at Atlanta the following week. For the team's third race Koch was running solidly in the top 15 before mechanical problems regulated him to a 26th-place finish six laps down. At Fontana, Koch finished 12th and on the lead lap, after running in the top 10 for much of the day. The team would later have several top-10 and top-15 runs, enough to get into the new Xfinity Chase, and also made to the 2nd round as well, but was unable to get to the final round.

References

1 2 Team release (January 20, 2016). "KAULIG RACING INC. TO JOIN NASCAR XFINITY SERIES IN 2016". nascar.com. Mooresville, North Carolina.
1 2 3 Knight, Chris (January 20, 2016). "Blake Koch Prepares For XFINITY Championship Bid With New Team". Catchfence.com. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
↑ "KAULIG RACING™ INC. TO JOIN NASCAR XFINITY SERIES IN 2016". Kaulig Racing. January 20, 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2016.

External links

Official website
Kaulig Racing owner statistics at Racing-Reference

Chevrolet in NASCAR

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