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Melling Racing was a 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....
team from 1982 to 2002.

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style="font-size:larger;"|**Melling Racing**

Owner(s) Name	Harry Melling Mark Melling
Racing Series	NASCAR Winston Cup
Number of Championships	1 (1988 1988 in NASCAR The 1988 NASCAR Winston Cup Season began February 7 and ended November 20. Bill Elliott of Melling Racing won the championship.See also: 1988 in NASCAR Busch Series... )
Number of Wins	34
Car Number(s)	#9 (1982-2000) #92 (2001-2002)
Notable Driver(s)	Bill Elliott Bill Elliott William Clyde Elliott is a part-time driver and former champion of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Elliott was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America on August 15, 2007.... (1982-1994) Lake Speed Lake Speed Lake Chambers Speed is a former NASCAR driver.... (1995-1998) Jerry Nadeau Jerry Nadeau Jerry Nadeau is a retired race car driving from Danbury, Connecticut.Nadeau competed in the 1994 Barber Dodge Pro Series and the 1996 Formula Opel Euroseries.... (1998-1999) Stacy Compton Stacy Compton Stacy Compton , is a NASCAR driver. He is Co-Owner of Bobby Hamilton Racing-Virginia in the Craftsman Truck Series, and is a former racing analyst for ESPN full-time.... (2000-2001) Robert Pressley Robert Pressley Robert Pressley is a former NASCAR driver. In a February 2006 Sportingnews.com article about the 2001 in NASCAR Daytona 500 field, Robert's current status was listed as "Opened Celebrity's Hotdogs in Asheville, N.C., about two years ago.... (2002)
Notable Sponsor(s)	Melling Tool Coors Coors Coors may refer to:... Coors Light Spam Spam (food) Spam is a canning precooked meat product made by the Hormel. The labeled ingredients in the classic variety of Spam are: chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added, salt, water, sugar, and sodium nitrite to help keep its color.... Cartoon Network Kodiak Kodiak tobacco Kodiak is a brand of dipping tobacco manufactured by Conwood Company, a U.S. smokeless tobacco manufacturer that also produces the Grizzly tobacco and Levi Garrett brands.... Brand Source
Manufacturer	Ford (1982-2000) Dodge Dodge Dodge is a United States-based brand of automobiles, minivans, sport utility vehicles, and trucks, manufactured and marketed by Chrysler LLC in more than 60 different countries and territories worldwide.... (2001-2002)
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Year Opened	1982
Year Closed	2002

Melling Racing was a NASCAR

NASCAR

Bill Elliott

William Clyde Elliott is a part-time driver and former champion of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Elliott was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America on August 15, 2007....
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History

Owner Harry Melling

Harry Melling (NASCAR)

Harry Melling was the team owner of Melling Racing, which won the 1988 NASCAR championship with Bill Elliott....
first became involved in NASCAR when his company Melling Tool sponsored Benny Parsons

Benny Parsons

Benjamin Stewart Parsons was an United States NASCAR driver, and later an announcer/analyst on TBS , ESPN, NBC Sports and Turner Network Television....
in 1979..

The team began in 1982 with driver Bill Elliott

Bill Elliott

William Clyde Elliott is a part-time driver and former champion of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Elliott was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America on August 15, 2007....
. Elliott won the 1988 championship for Melling Racing. Elliott raced for Melling until 1991. The combination finished in the Top 4 in the final points from 1983 to 1988.

Other notable drivers for Melling Racing include Lake Speed

Lake Speed

Lake Chambers Speed is a former NASCAR driver....
from 1995 to 1998, and Jerry Nadeau

Jerry Nadeau

Jerry Nadeau is a retired race car driving from Danbury, Connecticut.Nadeau competed in the 1994 Barber Dodge Pro Series and the 1996 Formula Opel Euroseries....
in 1998 and 1999.

Harry Melling died in 1999, and Mark Melling took over the ownership.

Stacy Compton

Stacy Compton

Stacy Compton , is a NASCAR driver. He is Co-Owner of Bobby Hamilton Racing-Virginia in the Craftsman Truck Series, and is a former racing analyst for ESPN full-time....
raced for Melling Racing in 2000 and 2001.

In 2001 the team joined forces with Evernham Motorsports

Evernham Motorsports

Richard Petty Motorsports is a racing team in NASCAR. It is owned by Montreal Canadiens owner and Liverpool F.C. co-owner George N. Gillett Jr....
and switched to Dodges

Dodge Intrepid

The Dodge Intrepid was a large four-door, full-size, front-wheel drive sedan . It was mechanically related to theChrysler Concorde, Chrysler LHS, Chrysler New Yorker, Eagle Vision, and also the Chrysler 300M sedans....
from the familiar Fords. Melling changed numbers from 9 to 92 to allow Bill Elliott

Bill Elliott

William Clyde Elliott is a part-time driver and former champion of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Elliott was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America on August 15, 2007....
to run 9 with Evernham's new team (the inside joke being that they were 9-too).

The team ended after running two races in 2002: the Daytona 500 and the second race in Michigan much later in the season . In the team's final race, Stacy Compton led three laps , .

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