s fred & greg biagi biagi brothers 1 bill & lori denbeste 2 base mooresville north carolina series xfinity series car numbers 4 98 race drivers 98 . aric almirola jeb burton nelson piquet jr. sponsors 98 . fresh from florida almirola biagi bros logistics denbeste transportation inc. carroll shelby engine co. biagi family wines manufacturer ford opened 2001 career debut 2001 auto club 300 fontana latest race 2016 mid ohio challenge mid ohio races competed 199 drivers championships 0 race victories 2 pole positions 0 biagi denbeste racing originally biagi brothers racing is an american professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the nascar xfinity series . the team is based in mooresville north carolina . the team currently fields the no. 98 ford mustang part time for aric almirola jeb burton and nelson piquet jr. . contents 1 xfinity series 1.1 car no. 98 history 1.1.1 2001 2006 1.1.2 2012 present 2 references 3 external links xfinity series edit car no. 98 history edit 2001 2006 edit the team debuted in 2001 at the auto club 300 as the no. 4 car qualifying 41st and finishing 31st with mike wallace driving their chevrolet . wallace made eight starts total that season his best finish a tenth at richmond international raceway . wallace returned in 2002 running seventeen races . he finished in the top twenty seven times including two fourteenth place finishes . in 2003 biagi moved up to the busch series full time with wallace . they opened the season with a fourth place finish at the koolerz 300 . despite missing a race where rick carelli filled in wallace finished thirteenth in points that year one position shy of matching his career best . the following season biagi switched from chevrolets to fords and at the winn dixie 250 wallace took the lead on the last lap to score biagi s first career busch victory . 3 he led eighteen laps the following week at chicagoland speedway but ran out of fuel on the last lap costing him the victory . after posting three more top tens wallace finished seventeenth in points . after wallace departed in 2005 biagi formed a partnership with chip ganassi racing and hired ganassi development driver ryan hemphill . after he failed to qualify for two consecutive races hemphill was briefly replaced by jeff green who finished sixth at richmond . hemphill returned for three races and had a twelfth place run at nashville superspeedway before he was permanently removed from the ride . green took over for three races before kevin hamlin took over for the balance of the season . in fourteen starts his best finish was fourteenth at memphis motorsports park . for 2006 mark green was selected as the team s new driver and had an eighteenth place run at richmond before he was released in favor of auggie vidovich . in addition to green and vidovich hamlin boris said and paul tracy have driven the car during the 2006 season . in 2007 bdbr had announced it would switch to toyota and run with sponsorship from kibbles n bits but the team shut down in january due to a lack of funding . its assets and owners points were acquired by braun racing 4 and the team s number 4 assigned to ginn racing . 2012 present edit five years later the team returned at charlotte motor speedway in may 2012 with a new sponsor in caroll shelby engine company owned by new partners bill and lori denbeste a new manufacturer ford and a new number 98 car being driven by reed sorenson . the car was given a black and gold scheme to honor the late carroll shelby and shelby american s 50th anniversary . 3 5 sorenson finished 16th in the team s return then finished 13th in their next race at kentucky . the team dedicated their third race of the season at the famed indianapolis motor speedway to shelby 6 though sorenson would finish 34th after a crash . he would run two more races with a crash at atlanta and a 12th place and the second charlotte race . sprint car standout and arca racing series winner kevin swindell was signed for two races at the end of the season . 7 he finished a strong 9th at texas then placed 21st at the season finale at homestead miami speedway . for 2013 kevin swindell was signed to run 15 races for the team beginning at las vegas in march . 8 the team partnered with swindell s long time supporter mike curb who became the listed owner of the 98 car as well as the 98 car of phil parsons racing in the cup series and the 98 truck of johnny sauter and thorsport racing in the truck series . swindell had two top 10s though he failed to qualify in their first attempt at las vegas . in 2014 the team returned again with veteran david ragan as well as up and comers jeb burton and corey lajoie ; all three are the sons of former racers . drive for diversity and nascar next member ryan gifford was signed to run two races for the team iowa in may and kentucky in june . 9 gifford finished 20th in his only appearance at iowa . after winning the coke zero 400 at daytona and earning a spot in the chase for the sprint cup aric almirola signed on to pilot the 98 during two companion races at chicagoland and dover in september . cup sponsor smithfield foods would come on to sponsor almirola s efforts . 10 almirola started 10th and finished 14th in his debut for the team at chicagoland then 13th at dover . after running one race earlier in the year it was announced that corey lajoie would return to the 98 car for four additional races kansas charlotte texas and homestead with backing from richard petty motorsports primary investor medallion financial . in 2015 richard petty motorsports sprint cup drivers almirola and sam hornish jr. will split time driving the no. 98 with sponsorship from both rpm s cup sponsors and biagi denbeste s regular sponsors . 3 almirola finished 7th in the season opener at daytona while hornish finished 15th the next week at atlanta . 3 rpm development driver ryan truex drove four races starting at richmond . in 2016 almirola drove on a partial schedule starting at daytona . almirola won the 2016 subway firecracker 250 at daytona to give the team their second ever win . jeb burton will drive two races in the no. 98 car starting with indy and richmond . 2015 formula e champion nelson piquet jr. will drive the no. 98 car at mid ohio sports car course . 11 references edit about biagi bros. . biagi denbeste racing . biagi denbeste racing . 2014 . retrieved 20 september 2014 . about denbeste transportation . biagi denbeste racing . biagi denbeste racing . 2014 . retrieved 20 september 2014 . a b c d staff report march 6 2015 . biagi denbestes run xfinity for love of racing . nascar.com . nascar . retrieved 9 march 2015 . braun racing january 18 2007 . busch braun racing expands to three car entry . mooresville north carolina motorsport.com . retrieved 19 august 2015 . team shelby may 21 2012 . biagi denbeste honors carroll shelby in return to nationwide racing . teamshelby.com . santa rosa california shelby american inc. retrieved 21 september 2014 . reed sorenson media july 25 2012 . reed sorenson brings carroll shelby engine company to the brickyard . motorsport.com . motorsport.com . retrieved 21 september 2014 . biagi denbeste racing october 25 2012 . biagi denbeste racing tabs kevin swindell for texas and homestead . motorsport.com . motorsport.com . retrieved 21 september 2014 . staff report january 31 2013 . swindell on board for 15 nationwide races . nascar.com . nascar . retrieved 21 september 2014 . eddinger mark may 1 2014 . ryan gifford will drive two nascar nationwide series races for biagi denbeste racing . motorsports 101 . sports media 101 inc. retrieved 21 september 2014 . metzger michael september 4 2014 . almirola to run two nationwide races for biagi denbeste racing . start n park blog . concord north carolina start n park blog . retrieved 21 september 2014 . knight chris july 8 2016 . nelson piquet jr. set for nascar return . catchfence . retrieved 2016 07 08 . external links edit official website v t e ford in nascar sprint cup series teams front row motorsports go fas racing richard petty motorsports roush fenway racing team penske wood brothers racing xfinity series teams biagi denbeste racing b. j. mcleod motorsports roush fenway racing team penske camping world truck series teams austin hill racing brad keselowski racing empire racing lira motorsports rbr enterprises retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title biagi denbeste racing & oldid 736206267 categories american auto racing teamssports clubs established in 2001companies based in north carolinanascar teams navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 25 august 2016 at 22 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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