Darrell Waltrip Motorsports/DarWal Inc.

Owner	Darrell Waltrip
Base	Mooresville, North Carolina
Series	Winston Cup Busch Series Craftsman Truck Series
Race drivers	Darrell Waltrip David Reutimann Michael McDowell
Manufacturer	Chevrolet,Toyota
Opened	1972
Closed	2007
Career
Debut	Cup Series: 1972Winston 500 (Talladega) Busch Series: 1982Mello Yello 300 (Charlotte) Truck Series: 1995Winston 500 (Richmond)
Latest race	Cup Series: 1998TranSouth Financial 400 (Darlington) Busch Series: 2005Ford 300 (Homestead–Miami) Truck Series: 2007Easy Care Vehicle Service Contracts 200 (Atlanta)
Races competed	Total: 573 Cup Series: 270 Busch Series: 103 Truck Series: 200
Drivers' Championships	Total: 0 Cup Series: 0 Busch Series: 0 Truck Series: 0
Race victories	Total: 25 Cup Series: 6 Busch Series: 15 Truck Series: 4
Pole positions	Total: 19 Cup Series: 5 Busch Series: 4 Truck Series: 10

Darrell Waltrip Motorsports was aNASCAR team owned by three-timeWinston Cup championDarrell Waltrip. It was formed in1991 when Waltrip resigned fromHendrick Motorsports to start his own team, and was originally namedDarWal, Inc.. During the 1970s, Waltrip, like many drivers of the time, formed their own teams for racing, in lower levels, originally DarWal, Inc, was his personal licensing agent and operator for many short-track cars he would race at many circuits on non-Cup weekends or special events, and eventually went to Busch Series racing. In 1991, the racing team moved up to the Cup level, with Hendrick support, but he divested himself of Busch operations at the end of the 1993 season. Sold the Busch team toHank Parker in 1994.

Waltrip has also run part-time with his team, with his final NASCAR Truck Series race coming atMartinsville Speedway, where he finished 12th.

DWM debuted at the 1991Daytona 500 as car No. 17 with sponsorship fromWestern Auto. (The car number and numbering style were a carryover from Waltrip's days as a driver forHendrick Motorsports.) Waltrip led at one point during the event, but finished 24th following an accident late in the race. Waltrip won five races over the next two years, with his final top-10 points finish coming in1994. After that, the pressure of being an owner/driver started to crash down on Waltrip, and his performance declined. After Western Auto was renamed to Parts America, they planned on leaving the team, but stayed on for another year before leaving after1997. That same year, Waltrip failed to qualify for his first race in 23 years since the 1974 Winston 500 at the fall race atCharlotte Motor Speedway. In addition, DWM briefly expanded to two cars, whenRich Bickle finished 34th at that year'sBrickyard 400 the No. 26Kentucky Fried ChickenChevy also fielded by DWM, as well as Waltrip running special paint schemes to commemorate his 25th year in the sport.

For1998, Waltrip agreed to terms with concrete company Speedblock to replace Western Auto as his primary sponsor. However, Speedblock never paid Waltrip and he was not getting enough money from secondary sponsorsBuilders Square andHechinger to justify keeping his team open. After the spring Darlington race, where he ran an unsponsored car with a paint scheme honoring terminally ill NASCAR legendTim Flock, Waltrip agreed to sell his team toTim Beverley and became an injury substitute forSteve Park forDale Earnhardt, Inc.. Beverley would put the team on hiatus after buying it; after he later purchased the assets ofISM Racing's NASCAR operation that same season, he merged his two acquisitions into one and brought Waltrip back to drive for what was nowTyler Jet Motorsports, in what had originally been ISM Racing's #35 Pontiac sponsored byTabasco. Waltrip finished out the season in the #35.

In 2007, Darrell Waltrip admitted that he failed as an owner-driver because he thought more like a driver and not like an owner.^{[citation needed]}

In1996, Waltrip began his own team in theCraftsman Truck Series team, hiringBill Sedgwick to drive his No. 17Sears/DieHardChevy. Sedgwick collected eight top tens and finished 14th in points. In1997,Rich Bickle drove the truck, winning three races and finishing second in points. After the season, Bickle resigned as he had hoped to run with Waltrip in the Cup series in 1998. Waltrip was about to runPhil Parsons in the truck, but after Sears pulled out, he shut the team down until 2003.

In 2003, Waltrip fielded his own truck, this time in partnership with brother Michael andHT Motorsports for a pair of Craftsman Truck races at Martinsville Speedway with the No. 17, the first with Tide (with the Tide with Bleach brand, intentionally reminiscent of his 1989 Daytona 500 win), and the second with theAaron's promotion ofThe Three Stooges that ran in various series.

DWM became full-time in2004 as one of the new works Toyota teams.NTN Bearings sponsored the truck for two seasons, driven byDavid Reutimann, who won theNASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Rookie of the Year award. The team expanded to a second team in2005, purchasing the No. 12 truck piloted byRobert Huffman fromInnovative Motorsports. Huffman was replaced during the season byMike Wallace.

Joey Miller attempted to pilot the No. 12 truck full-time in2006, but was released late in the season and the team finished with various drivers. Reutimann ended the season third in points and moved up to theNEXTEL Cup andBusch Series to drive for Waltrip's brotherMichael Waltrip. The team became co-owned by Darrell and Michael Waltrip but kept the Darrell Waltrip Motorsports banner, as noted on the Waltrip Racing Web site.

As part of changes in 2007 with its move into Michael Waltrip's operations banner, the team became a one-truck team and the number was switched to No. 00 to maintain consistency with the rest of the Michael Waltrip Racing banner, andA. J. Allmendinger drove the No. 00 for a few races to help in his NASCAR experience, with Aaron's as the sponsor, along withRed Bull for a few races early in the season) and Michael Waltrip Racing putting developmental driversJosh Wise andKen Butler III in the truck, althoughJustin Labonte also drove a few races for the team. After one last race withMichael McDowell the team sold off its truck equipment in October 2007 to legendary road racing teamThe Racer's Group.

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• Darrell Waltrip Motorsports owner statistics at Racing-Reference

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