Tyler Jet Motorsports

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Tyler Jet Motorsports

Tyler Jet Motorsports was a NASCAR Winston Cup race team.

Tyler Jet Motorsports was owned by Tim Beverly

Tim Beverly

Tim Beverly is a convicted felon and former NASCAR team owner. He founded Tyler Jet, an airplane sales company that was based in Tyler, Texas, in 1986....
, owner of the airplane sales company that shared a name with the race team, and was formed in 1998 after Beverly purchased the assets of DarWal, Inc.

Darrell Waltrip Motorsports

Darrell Waltrip Motorsports was a NASCAR team owned by three-time Winston Cup champion Darrell Waltrip. It was formed in 1991 NASCAR Winston Cup Series when Waltrip resigned from Hendrick Motorsports to start his own team....
and ISM Racing

ISM Racing

ISM Racing is a former autoracing team owned by Bob Hancher. The team fielded entries in the Indy Racing League and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series....
and merged them into one team.

Tyler Jet's original car was the #35 Tabasco

Tabasco

Tabasco is a States of Mexico in Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Veracruz to the west, Chiapas to the south, and Campeche to the north-east....
Pontiac, which had been ISM's car, and was driven by several drivers (including Darrell Waltrip

Darrell Waltrip

Darrell Lee Waltrip is a three-time former NASCAR Championship champion, the 1989 Daytona 500 winner, current television race commentator with Fox Broadcasting Company and columnist at Foxsports.com....
) before Tabasco pulled out of NASCAR following the 1999 season.

For the 2000 season, Tyler Jet switched to the #10 and hired Johnny Benson

Johnny Benson

Jonathan Benson, Jr. is a NASCAR driver and the son of former Michigan modified racing driver John Benson, Sr. His career highlights include the 1993 American Speed Association AC-Delco Challenge series championship, the 1995 Busch Series championship, the 1996 Winston Cup NASCAR Rookie of the Year award, and the 2008 Craftsman Truck Series...
to pilot the car.

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Tyler Jet Motorsports was a NASCAR Winston Cup race team.

Tyler Jet Motorsports was owned by Tim Beverly

Tim Beverly

Darrell Waltrip Motorsports

ISM Racing

Tabasco

Darrell Waltrip

Johnny Benson

Daytona 500

The Daytona 500 is a 200-lap, -long NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida....
, where Benson's unsponsored Pontiac took the lead late in the race and held the lead for 39 laps, only to be passed by cars that had made full pit stops under a late race caution (Benson was playing strategy, having only stopped for two tires and fuel his last stop) and finish 12th.

Lycos

Lycos

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signed on as sponsor for the #10 and stayed with them until the 2000 Pepsi 400, where Tyler Jet pulled them off the car due to nonpayment. They would run unsponsored for the next four races, but Beverly was forced to sell the team afterwards. The car, which had just acquired sponsorship from Aaron's

Aaron's

Aaron Rents, Inc. is a rent to own retailer. It was founded by R. Charles Loudermilk in 1955. The company focuses on furniture, electronics, appliances, computer leases and retail sales....
, was sold to MB2 Motorsports

MB2 Motorsports

Ginn Racing was a NASCAR NASCAR Championship team based in Mooresville, North Carolina, which is near Charlotte, North Carolina. Its principal owners in its final season, 2007, were 80% Bobby Ginn and 20% Jay Frye....
, where it would continue to be run until the end of the 2005 season when the car number, sponsor (Valvoline), and driver (Scott Riggs

Scott Riggs

Russell Scott Riggs is a NASCAR driver. Riggs currently drives the #36 Toyota Camry for Tommy Baldwin Racing in the Sprint Cup Series...
) would move to 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....
. The old Tyler Jet team is now a part of Dale Earnhardt, Inc.

Dale Earnhardt, Inc.

Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates is a NASCAR team based in Concord, North Carolina. Originally formed in 1980, the team was owned by seven-time Winston Cup champion Dale Earnhardt, before his Death of Dale Earnhardt on the closing lap of the 2001 Daytona 500....
, who bought the successor team to MB2, Ginn Racing.