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McGill Motorsports was a NASCAR 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....
team owned by John and Nancy McGill. It fielded the #36 Chevy for a few years.

The team debuted in 2003 as DCT Motorsports with Steve Grissom

Steve Grissom

Steve Grissom is a NASCAR Busch Series driver. Grissom was the 1993 Busch Series champion and currently has eleven Busch wins. He turned down a scholarship to play quarterback at the University of Alabama to focus a career on racing....
driving the #61 Chevrolet in three races. For their final two races of the season they changed their number and ran the #36 Chevrolet. DCT would post its best finish of the season at Richmond

Richmond International Raceway

Richmond International Raceway is a 3/4-mile , D-shaped, asphalt race track located just outside Richmond, Virginia in Henrico County, Virginia....
, a 14th place finish. In 2004

2004 in NASCAR Busch Series

The 2004 NASCAR Busch Series Season began on February 14 and ended on November 20. Martin Truex, Jr. of Dale Earnhardt, Inc. won the championship....
, Steve Grissom

Steve Grissom

Steve Grissom is a NASCAR Busch Series driver. Grissom was the 1993 Busch Series champion and currently has eleven Busch wins. He turned down a scholarship to play quarterback at the University of Alabama to focus a career on racing....
and Travis Geisler shared the driving duties at the start of the season.

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McGill Motorsports was a NASCAR Busch Series

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Steve Grissom

Richmond International Raceway

Richmond International Raceway is a 3/4-mile , D-shaped, asphalt race track located just outside Richmond, Virginia in Henrico County, Virginia....
, a 14th place finish. In 2004

2004 in NASCAR Busch Series

The 2004 NASCAR Busch Series Season began on February 14 and ended on November 20. Martin Truex, Jr. of Dale Earnhardt, Inc. won the championship....
, Steve Grissom

Steve Grissom

Steve Grissom is a NASCAR Busch Series driver. Grissom was the 1993 Busch Series champion and currently has eleven Busch wins. He turned down a scholarship to play quarterback at the University of Alabama to focus a career on racing....
and Travis Geisler shared the driving duties at the start of the season. Grissom left the team in May 2004 and Geisler took over full time driving duties for the team. Stanton Barrett

Stanton Barrett

Stanton Thomas Barrett is a NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series driver and Hollywood stunt double. He currently drives the #30 Stanton Barrett Motorsports Nationwide Series car and with primary sponsors INTERUSH.net, 4Caring.org, and GrandStay Residential Suites and Hotels....
drove in the last three races of the season. Grissom had the best finish of the year for the team, when he finished 11th at Rockingham

North Carolina Speedway

Rockingham Speedway, formerly North Carolina Motor Speedway and later North Carolina Speedway is a racetrack located in Rockingham, North Carolina....
.

For the 2005

2005 in NASCAR Busch Series

The 2005 season of the NASCAR Busch Series began with the Hershey's Take 5 300 at Daytona International Speedway and concluded with the Ford 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway....
season, Stanton Barrett

Stanton Barrett

Stanton Thomas Barrett is a NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series driver and Hollywood stunt double. He currently drives the #30 Stanton Barrett Motorsports Nationwide Series car and with primary sponsors INTERUSH.net, 4Caring.org, and GrandStay Residential Suites and Hotels....
returned to the team and ran the first 26 races with DCT. T. J. Bell

T. J. Bell

Timothy Peter Bell Jr. Bell began racing at the age of eight in go-karts and went on to win six consecutive championships in the state of Nevada....
then took over the car for eight races and Tim Sauter

Tim Sauter

Tim Sauter is an United States race car driver. He has competed in the American Speed Association, the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, the NASCAR Busch Series, and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series....
ran the final race of the season. Barrett gave DCT its first ever top ten finish when he finished 10th at New Hampshire

New Hampshire International Speedway

New Hampshire Motor Speedway is a Oval track racing located in Loudon, New Hampshire which has hosted NASCAR racing annually since the early 1990s, as well as open wheel car during the 1990s....
. That would also be the best finish for the team during the year. In 2006

2006 in NASCAR Busch Series

The 25th season of the NASCAR Busch Series opened February 18, 2006, at Daytona International Speedway and concluded November 18, 2006, at Homestead-Miami Speedway....
, the team changed their name to McGill Motorsports and Sauter returned to drive the full schedule. Lester Buildings also joined the team as the primary sponsor for 25 races. Sauter ran 23 races but did not finish in the top ten. In August, Max Papis

Max Papis

Massimiliano "Max" Papis is a racing driver from Como, Italy who has competed in several top-level motorsports series such as Formula One and Champ Car....
and Jeff Green

Jeff Green (NASCAR)

Jeff Green is an American stock car racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. He is currently employed with Key Motorsports driving the #40 NASCAR Craftsman Truck & #31 Nationwide Series race vehicles....
filled in for Sauter, who claimed that McGill was punishing him for a rules infraction earlier in the month. He left the team with three races to go in the season. and Papis and 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....
finished out the final two races of the season. Sherman drove for the team full-time in 2007

2007 in NASCAR Busch Series

The 26th season of the NASCAR Busch Series began on February 17, 2007, with the Orbitz 300 at Daytona International Speedway and concluded on November 17, 2007, with the Ford 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway....
with sponsorship from Big Lots

Big Lots

Big Lots, Inc. is a Fortune 500 retail corporation with annual revenues well over $4 billion. Its department stores focus mainly on selling closeout and overstock merchandise....
, but after failing to finish in the top-ten, resigned from the team. He was replaced by ARCA RE/MAX Series

ARCA RE/MAX Series

The series races on tracks as varied as small ovals and as large as Daytona International Speedway during the Daytona Speedweeks. It is one of the last major oval track circuits to still compete on dirt tracks....
driver Jeremy Clements starting at Charlotte

Lowe's Motor Speedway

Lowe's Motor Speedway is a Oval track in Concord, North Carolina, north of Charlotte. It features a long quad-oval track that seats 167,000 people, with room for 50,000 more spectators in the infield....
. AFter the season, team crew chief Ricky Pearson told the press that McGill would not participate in the 2008 season due to a lack of sponsorship. They will sell of their remaining equipment on July 8, 2008

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