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| Owner(s) | Chris Fontaine |
|---|---|
| Base | Lakeland, Florida |
| Series | NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series |
| Race drivers | Chris Fontaine |
| Manufacturer | Toyota |
| Career | |
| Debut | Truck Series: 2009Kroger 250 (Martinsville) |
| Latest race | Truck Series: 2019NextEra Energy 250 (Daytona) |
| Races competed | 54 |
| Drivers' Championships | 0 |
| Race victories | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
Glenden Enterprises is an American professionalstock car racing team which has competed in theNASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. The team is owned byChris Fontaine, who has fielded the No. 47Toyota Tundra for himself in select superspeedway races.[1]
Fontaine debuted with this number atEldora Speedway in 2015, finishing 16th. (Christopher Long is listed as the owner for that race.) Fontaine returned with it at Talladega, where he turned in an eighth-place finish.[2]
Chris Fontaine attempted the2017 NextEra Energy Resources 250 in this number, failing to qualify for the race. Fontaine ran the No. 47 again at Talladega, finishing 26th after an accident on lap 70. Fontaine ran the No. 47 again in 2018 and 2019.
This number first showed up at Daytona in 2016, as Fontaine crashed out five laps from the end.[3] Two races later, he failed to qualify with this number atMartinsville Speedway.[4]
Brandon Duchscherer ran this truck in one race in 2009, atO'Reilly Raceway Park. However, he retired with overheating after twelve laps in the first race that Glenden Enterprises fielded two trucks.[5] Team owner Fontaine attempted one race with this number in 2012, atTexas Motor Speedway whenRuss Dugger was in the 84. However, he failed to qualify.
Fontaine ran this truck in Glenden Enterprises' debut races, the 2009Kroger 250. He finished 20th, one lap down.[6] The truck ran in seven more races that year, all with Fontaine. He recorded a best finish of 13th in theCopart 200, and finished all but one race.[7] In 2010, Fontaine ran seven races with this truck, scoring a best finish of 13th atChicagoland Speedway. He failed to finish atTalladega when ignition problems made him retire just three laps from the finish. That race was also the first race that a Glenden Enterprises driver had led a lap, as Fontaine paced the field for 15 circuits.[8] 2011 brought a litany of mishaps for the team, as Fontaine only finished two of the six races he ran in the No. 84. Wrecks ended his day atDaytona and Talladega. Then, in the midst of thestart and park boom, he did just that for two races, finishing 33rd atKentucky Speedway and 27th atPocono Raceway. The two races that Fontaine was running at the end were atAtlanta Motor Speedway, with a 27th-place finish, and atCharlotte Motor Speedway, with an 18th-place finish.[9] In 2012, the team competed in the majority of the races on the schedule, with Fontaine driving fifteen,Russ Dugger driving two, andWayne Edwards,B. J. McLeod, andMario Gosselin running one race apiece. The team started off with a bang, with Fontaine scoring the team's first top ten finish, a seventh, at Daytona. He continued to drive until McLeod drove atTexas, finishing 23rd.[10] The next driver other than Fontaine to drive was Dugger, who drove the truck atBristol. Fontaine took over for one race but then handed it off to Edwards, who drove home 24th atIowa.[11] Fontaine then returned to the truck, and he drove four more races until Dugger drove the truck atTexas. Rear gear problems forced him to retire early in that race.[12] Team owner Fontaine also start and parked for two races, before Gosselin drove the final race atHomestead-Miami.[13] He finished 21st in the race, two laps down.[14] In 2013, Fontaine scaled back to just restrictor plate races, crashing out at Daytona and finishing 15th at Talladega.[15] Running the same schedule in 2014, Fontaine tied his best finish of seventh at Talladega.[16] The season-openingNextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona in 2015 was run with the 84,[17] but a crash relegated him to 25th.