Team Menard

Team Menard
Owner(s)	John Menard, Jr.
Base	Indianapolis, Indiana
Series	NASCAR Cup Series
Race drivers	Robby Gordon, P.J. Jones
Sponsors	Turtle Wax, Menard's
Manufacturer	Ford
Opened	1999
Closed	2001
Career
Drivers' Championships	0
Race victories	0

Team Menard was an auto racing team in the NASCAR Cup Series, Indianapolis 500 and Indy Racing League owned by John Menard, Jr. From 1991 to 1996 they modified their own Buick V6 engines for racing. This combination won pole for the 500 with Scott Brayton in 1995 and 1996; Tony Stewart used this combination for the first part of his 1996-1997 IRL Championship. With more stringent regulations, the team continued to shine winning the 1999 championship with Greg Ray. However, with the influx of former CART teams to the IRL in the early 2000s, Team Menard struggled to compete for wins and the team merged in 2004 with Panther Racing, although their car continued to carry Menard's colors and be driven first by Mark Taylor, who was then replaced by Townsend Bell. In 2005, Menard's was an associate sponsor for another team and the former Menard No. 2 car driven by Tomáš Enge carried no identification to its Menard lineage. For 2006, the No. 2 car was dropped by Panther and all vestiges of the once dominant Team Menard lineage disappeared until the spring of 2008 when Menards became a primary sponsor on the No. 20 Vision Racing Dallara driven by Ed Carpenter in the IndyCar Series.

The Menards sponsored cars in of Paul Menard and Matt Crafton (NASCAR) as well as Frank Kimmel (ARCA) currently use the "Team Menard" name in some sponsorship-related materials, while TeamMenard.com was a portal to information on these drivers and their sponsor, however, Team Menard is not the name of any of their race teams and none of those cars are owned by John Menard. The URL currently redirects to the Menards home page.

Menard also had a NASCAR team running the No. 13 car. Robby Gordon ran a majority of the races in 2000.

Complete racing results

PPG CART Indycar World Series results

(key)

Year	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	Drivers	No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
1980						ONT	INDY	MIL	POC	MDO	MCH	WGL	MIL	ONT	MCH	MXC	PHX
1980	Lightning Mk 1/77	Offy Drake L4 t	G	Herm Johnson	28	14	DNQ	17	11				11	13	13	14	8
1981						PHX	MIL	ATL		MCH	RIV	MIL	MCH	WGL	MXC	PHX
	Lightning Mk 1/77	Chevrolet V8	G	Herm Johnson	28		22	22	17	33	7	13
	Eagle 81	Chevrolet V8	G	Herm Johnson	28									9	8	9
1982						PHX	ATL	MIL	CLE	MCH	MIL	POC	RIV	ROA	MCH	PHX
1982	Eagle 81	Chevrolet V8	G	Herm Johnson	28	19	6	23	13	34	16		22	17
1983						ATL	INDY	MIL	CLE	MCH	ROA	POC	RIV	MDO	MCH	CPL	LAG	PHX
1983	Eagle 81	Chevrolet V8	G	Herm Johnson	27						DNQ
1984						LBH	PHX	INDY	MIL	POR	MEA	CLE	MCH	ROA	POC	MDO	SAN	MCH	PHX	LAG	CPL
1984	March 84C	Cosworth DFX V8 t	G	Herm Johnson	28			8	18
1985						LBH	INDY	MIL	POR	MEA	CLE	MCH	ROA	POC	MDO	SAN	MCH	LAG	PHX	MIA
1985	March 85C	Cosworth DFX V8 t	G	Herm Johnson	8		DNQ
1986						PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	POR	MEA	CLE	TOR	MCH	POC	MDO	SAN	MCH	ROA	LAG	PHX	MIA
	March 86C	Cosworth DFX V8 t	G	Herm Johnson	28			DNQ
	March 86C	Cosworth DFX V8 t	G	Derek Daly	28			DNQ
1989						PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	MEA	TOR	MCH	POC	MDO	ROA	NAZ	LAG
1989	Lola T89/00	Cosworth DFX V8 t	G	Johnny Rutherford	98			DNQ
1990						PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	MEA	TOR	MCH	DEN	VAN	MDO	ROA	NAZ	LAG
	Lola T89/00	Buick 3300 V6 t	G	Jim Crawford	15			15
				Jim Crawford	51	19
				Gary Bettenhausen				31
				Steve Barclay				DNQ
1991						SFR	LBH	PHX	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	MEA	TOR	MCH	DEN	VAN	MDO	ROA	NAZ	LAG
	Lola T91/00	Buick 3300 V6 t	G	Gary Bettenhausen	51				22
	Lola T91/00			Kevin Cogan	9				29
	Lola T89/00			Tom Sneva	59				DNQ
1992						SFR	PHX	LBH	INDY	DET	POR	MIL	NHA	TOR	MCH	CLE	ROA	VAN	MDO	NAZ	LAG
	Lola T92/00	Buick 3300 V6 t	G	Al Unser	27				3
				Nelson Piquet	27				DNQ
				Gary Bettenhausen	51				17
	Lola T91/00			Tom Sneva	59				31
	Lola T91/00			Rocky Moran	59				DNQ
1993						SFR	PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	NHA	ROA	VAN	MDO	NAZ	LAG
	Lola T93/00	Menard V6 t	G	Geoff Brabham (R)	27				26
				Gary Bettenhausen	51				17
				Nelson Piquet	77				32
	Lola T92/00	Buick 3300 V6 t		Eddie Cheever	59				16
1994						SFR	PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MCH	MDO	NHA	VAN	ROA	NAZ	LAG
	Lola T93/00	Menard V6 t	G	Eddie Cheever	27				8
				Scott Brayton	59				20
				Geoff Brabham	59				DNQ
1995						MIA	SFR	PHX	LBH	NAZ	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	ROA	TOR	CLE	MCH	MDO	NHA	VAN	LAG
	Lola T95/00	Menard V6 t	G	Arie Luyendyk	40						7
				Scott Brayton	60						17
				Buddy Lazier	80						27

IRL IndyCar Series results

(key) (Results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	Drivers	No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
1996						WDW	PHX	INDY
	Lola T95/00	Menard V6 t	G F	Scott Brayton	2	15	18	DNS
				Eddie Cheever	3	10	Wth	11
				Tony Stewart	20	2	11	24
			F	Mark Dismore	30			19
			F	Danny Ongais	32			7
1996–97						NHA	LSV	WDW	PHX	INDY	TXS	PPIR	CLT	NHA	LSV
	Lola T95/00	Menard V6 t	F	Mark Dismore	3	20	17
	Lola T95/00	Menard V6 t		Tony Stewart	2	12*	21
	G-Force GF01	Oldsmobile Aurora V8		Tony Stewart	2			10*	2*	5*	5*	1*	7*	14	11
	G-Force GF01	Oldsmobile Aurora V8		Robbie Buhl	3				18	8	16			1	3
1998						WDW	PHX	INDY	TXS	NHA	DOV	CLT	PPIR	ATL	TXS	LSV
	Dallara IR8	Oldsmobile Aurora V8	F	Tony Stewart	1			33	14	1*			3		20*	14
	G-Force GF01B			Tony Stewart	1	1*	2*				8	21		5
	G-Force GF01B			Robbie Buhl	3	20								11
	Dallara IR8			Robbie Buhl	3		12	31	6	10			2		7	7
1999						WDW	PHX	CLT	INDY	TXS	PPIR	ATL	DOV	PPIR	LSV	TXS
	Dallara IR9	Oldsmobile Aurora V8		F	Greg Ray	2	21	21	C¹	21	2*	1*	23	1	1*	21	3
	Dallara IR9	Oldsmobile Aurora V8	Robby Gordon	F	32				4
2000						WDW	PHX	LSV	INDY	TXS	PPIR	ATL	KTY	TXS
	Dallara IR-00	Oldsmobile Aurora V8	F	Greg Ray	1	17	19	9	33	15	20	1*	7	26
	Dallara IR-00	Oldsmobile Aurora V8	F	Robby Gordon	32				6
2001						PHX	HMS	ATL	INDY	TXS	PPIR	RIR	KAN	NSH	KTY	GAT	CHI	TXS
	Dallara IR-01	Oldsmobile Aurora V8	F	Greg Ray	2	22	21	1*	17	11*	18	DNS	14	18	13
	Dallara IR-01	Oldsmobile Aurora V8	F	Jaques Lazier	2											16	1*	20
2002						HMS	PHX	FON	NAZ	INDY	TXS	PPIR	RIR	KAN	NSH	MCH	KTY	GAT	CHI	TXS
	Dallara IR-02	Chevrolet Indy V8	F	Jaques Lazier	2	18	6	2	20
				P. J. Jones						DNQ
				Raul Boesel						21	13
				Mark Dismore								11	11	20	18	18
				Vitor Meira													15	9	8	3
				Robby Gordon	31					8
2003						HMS	PHX	MOT	INDY	TXS	PPIR	RIR	KAN	NSH	MCH	GAT	KTY	NAZ	CHI	FON	TXS
	Dallara IR-03	Chevrolet Indy V8	F	Jaques Lazier	2	20	6	12	29									DNS
				Richie Hearn															14
				Vitor Meira						12	16	22	20	19	21	9	DNS			11	4
				Vitor Meira	22				12

^ The 1999 VisionAire 500K at Charlotte was cancelled after 79 laps due to spectator fatalities.

Drivers who have driven for Team Menard

Townsend Bell (2004)
Gary Bettenhausen (1990–1993)
Raul Boesel (2002)
Geoff Brabham (1993–1994)
Scott Brayton (1994–1996)
Robbie Buhl (1997–1998)
Eddie Cheever (1993, 1994, 1996)
Kevin Cogan (1991)
Jim Crawford (1990)
Wally Dallenbach, Jr. (1987)
Mark Dismore (1996–1997)
Robby Gordon (1999–2000, 2002)
Richie Hearn (2003)
Herm Johnson (1980–1982, 1984)
Steve Kinser (1997)
Buddy Lazier (1995)
Jaques Lazier (2001–2003)
Arie Luyendyk (1995)
Vitor Meira (2002–2003)
Danny Ongais (1996)
Nelson Piquet (1993)
Greg Ray (1999–2001)
Tom Sneva (1991–1992)
Tony Stewart (1996–1998)
Mark Taylor (2004)
Al Unser (1992)