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Glynn Motorsports is a former NASCAR
NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the largest sanctioning body of stock cars in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series....
 Busch Series
Busch Series

The NASCAR Nationwide Series is a stock car racing series owned and operated by the NASCAR. It is promoted as NASCAR's "minor league" circuit , and is a proving ground for drivers who wish to step up to the organization's "big league" circuit, the Sprint Cup....
 and Craftsman Truck Series
Craftsman Truck Series

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is a racing series owned and operated by the NASCAR. It is the only series in all of NASCAR to race modified production pickup trucks and is one of the three national divisions of NASCAR, together with the Nationwide Series and the top level Sprint Cup....
 team. The team was owned by businessman Scott Glynn before it filed for bankruptcy in January 2006.

Glynn made its debut in 2005 when it announced it would merge with Akins Motorsports
Akins Motorsports

Akins Motorsports was a NASCAR team based in Mooresville, North Carolina, which is near Charlotte, North Carolina. The team was formed in 1993 by at the time owned by Brad Akins and Bob Sutton....
 to field the #58 Serta/Hickory Farms Dodge Charger
Dodge Charger (LX)

The Dodge Charger, is a rear-wheel drive full-size automobile built by Chrysler LLC for its North American Dodge brand. The Charger name is a historic one, borne by many other Dodge Charger models in the past....
 driven by rookie Brent Sherman
Brent Sherman

Brent Sherman , a resident of Wauconda, Illinois, is a former driver in the NASCAR Busch Series currently competing in the Firestone Indy Lights Series....
. Sherman had a ninth place finish at Talladega Superspeedway
Talladega Superspeedway

Talladega Superspeedway is a motorsports complex located in Talladega, Alabama, United States. It was constructed in the 1960s in place of abandoned airport runways by International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by NASCAR's founding France family along with Daytona International Speedway and several other racetracks....
, but was released midseason in favor of Regan Smith
Regan Smith

Regan Smith is a NASCAR driver. He currently drives the #78 Furniture Row Chevrolet Impala SS for Furniture Row Racing on a part-time basis....
. The team soon picked up sponsorship from Samson Stone and Who's Your Daddy?
Who's Your Daddy? (company)

Who's Your Daddy? Inc. is a licensing and branding company with trade names on over 300 products. The company currently concentrates on its distribution of the Who's Your Daddy "King of Energy" energy drink nationwide and via the internet....
, and Smith had eight top-twenty finishes and three top-five starts.






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Glynn Motorsports is a former NASCAR
NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the largest sanctioning body of stock cars in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series....
 Busch Series
Busch Series

The NASCAR Nationwide Series is a stock car racing series owned and operated by the NASCAR. It is promoted as NASCAR's "minor league" circuit , and is a proving ground for drivers who wish to step up to the organization's "big league" circuit, the Sprint Cup....
 and Craftsman Truck Series
Craftsman Truck Series

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is a racing series owned and operated by the NASCAR. It is the only series in all of NASCAR to race modified production pickup trucks and is one of the three national divisions of NASCAR, together with the Nationwide Series and the top level Sprint Cup....
 team. The team was owned by businessman Scott Glynn before it filed for bankruptcy in January 2006.

Glynn made its debut in 2005 when it announced it would merge with Akins Motorsports
Akins Motorsports

Akins Motorsports was a NASCAR team based in Mooresville, North Carolina, which is near Charlotte, North Carolina. The team was formed in 1993 by at the time owned by Brad Akins and Bob Sutton....
 to field the #58 Serta/Hickory Farms Dodge Charger
Dodge Charger (LX)

The Dodge Charger, is a rear-wheel drive full-size automobile built by Chrysler LLC for its North American Dodge brand. The Charger name is a historic one, borne by many other Dodge Charger models in the past....
 driven by rookie Brent Sherman
Brent Sherman

Brent Sherman , a resident of Wauconda, Illinois, is a former driver in the NASCAR Busch Series currently competing in the Firestone Indy Lights Series....
. Sherman had a ninth place finish at Talladega Superspeedway
Talladega Superspeedway

Talladega Superspeedway is a motorsports complex located in Talladega, Alabama, United States. It was constructed in the 1960s in place of abandoned airport runways by International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by NASCAR's founding France family along with Daytona International Speedway and several other racetracks....
, but was released midseason in favor of Regan Smith
Regan Smith

Regan Smith is a NASCAR driver. He currently drives the #78 Furniture Row Chevrolet Impala SS for Furniture Row Racing on a part-time basis....
. The team soon picked up sponsorship from Samson Stone and Who's Your Daddy?
Who's Your Daddy? (company)

Who's Your Daddy? Inc. is a licensing and branding company with trade names on over 300 products. The company currently concentrates on its distribution of the Who's Your Daddy "King of Energy" energy drink nationwide and via the internet....
, and Smith had eight top-twenty finishes and three top-five starts. He finished 33rd in points. The team also fielded a second car late in the year, the #92 driven by Tracy Hines
Tracy Hines

Tracy Lee Hines is an United States auto racing driver. He was the 2000 United States Automobile Club Silver Crown Champion and 2002 USAC National Sprint Car Champion....
 and Clay Rogers
Clay Rogers

Clayton Rogers is an United States stock car racing driver. He has competed in the NASCAR Busch Series and Craftsman Truck Series, and was the 2004 and 2006 champion in the United Speed Alliance Racing USAR Hooters Pro Cup series....
.

The team's truck operation debuted at Mansfield Motorsports Park in the Truck series in 2005. Regan Smith drove the #65 Dodge Ram
Dodge Ram

The Dodge Ram is a full-size pickup truck from Chrysler LLC's Dodge brand. The name was first used in 1981 on the redesigned Ram and Power Ram, though it came from the hood ornament used on 1930s and '40s Dodge vehicles....
 to a 22nd place finish. He ran four races for Glynn in the trucks, his best finish a twentieth at The Milwaukee Mile. Clay Rogers ran six races for Glynn in the trucks as well, posting two top-ten finishes. Tim Fedewa
Tim Fedewa

Tim Fedewa is a NASCAR driver and son of former race car driver Butch Fedewa. Tim Fedewa currently does not have a ride at this time....
 finished out the year for the team, posting a tenth at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada, Nevada, just outside Las Vegas, Nevada, is a 1,200 acre complex of multiple tracks for automobile racing....
 and three top-five starts.

During the offseason, Rogers was scheduled to run with Glynn in the Busch Series in 2006, but the team ran out of financing. The team's owners points were sold to MacDonald Motorsports
MacDonald Motorsports

MacDonald Motorsports is a NASCAR team. It currently fields the #81 Dodge Charger driven by D. J. Kennington in the Nationwide Series. MacDonald Motorsports previously fielded entries in the Craftsman Truck Series....
, and the equipment was purchased by Carver Racing.