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Swan Racing was a stock car racing team that competed in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series until the 2014 season. The team was founded as Inception Motorsports which fielded a single #30 team in the Cup Series in 2011 and 2012 before being purchased by Swan Energy CEO Brandon Davis late in 2012. The team is headquartered in Mooresville, North Carolina in the United States. David Stremme was the team's original driver, before being replaced by rookies Cole Whitt and Parker Kligerman at the end of 2013. The team expanded to two teams in 2014 for Whitt and Kilgerman, attempting and qualifying for every event that season until the woes of sponsorship kicked in following the eighth race of the season. The team shut down in April 2014; its owners points, employees, and most of its assets moved to Xxxtreme Motorsports and BK Racing, though Parker Kligerman remains under contract with the team. ==Team history== The team was established as Inception Motorsports in April 2011 in Mooresville, North Carolina by Inception Investment Group CEO Timothy McSweeney〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Inception Motorsports: About the Team )〕 with David Stremme as the driver of the No. 30. The following year, Inception Motorsports switched from Chevrolet to Toyota. Before the 2012 Talladega fall race, McSweeney sold the team to 33-year-old Brandon Davis, a racing enthusiast and CEO of independent petroleum company Swan Energy. Davis vowed to change the team's reputation as a start and park entry, and instead run full races. The team utilized engines from Triad Racing Technologies, hired former crew chief Steve Hmiel to be the competition director, and switched names to Swan Racing Company (Swan Racing for short). On January 31, 2013, former NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski became a minority owner of Swan Racing. His health supplement company, Nutrition53 (Romanowski wore the #53 during his 16-year playing career) was a primary sponsor for ten races and an associate sponsor for the remaining 26.〔(Former NFL Linebacker Bill Romanowski Joins NASCAR’s Swan Racing )〕 Prior to the fall race at Richmond in 2013, the team announced that it was releasing driver David Stremme following that weekend's event, and planned to run several young drivers in preparation for the 2014 season. The move blindsided Stremme, who had helped found the team out of his own race shop and was integral in Davis' purchase of the organization in 2012. Stremme also held a profit stake in the team, though it had yet to make a profit.〔 On December 3, 2013, the team announced that Cole Whitt and Parker Kligerman would compete for Rookie of the Year honors for them in 2014, as the team expanded to two full-time cars with the No. 26 and No. 30. On January 13, 2014, Anthony Marlowe from Iowa City Capital Partners was announced as a minority owner. On February 4, 2014, it was announced that rapper 50 Cent's headset company SMS Audio will serve as Swan Racing's associate sponsor. On April 17, 2014, team officials announced that they would be reviewing the team's future due to lack sponsorship, though co-owner Anthony Marlowe stated he intended to run Whitt for the rest of the season. On April 23, the team announced it had sold off both entries, with Whitt, Marlowe, and the #26 entry moving under the BK Racing banner. The owners points of the #30 team were sold to Xxxtreme Motorsport, which fielded a #30 car at Richmond before switching to their usual #44. Swan Racing's shop in Statesville, North Carolina was also sold to Xxxtreme Motorsport. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Swan Racing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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