American Equipment Racing

American Equipment Racing

Owner(s)	Buz McCall
Base	Charlotte, North Carolina
Series	Trans-Am Winston Cup Busch Series
Race drivers	Scott Sharp, Jack Baldwin Ward Burton, David Green
Sponsors	Hot Wheels, Sunoco Caterpillar Inc.
Manufacturer	Chevrolet
Closed	1998
Career
Drivers' Championships	0 0
Race victories	2

American Equipment Racing was a racing team that competed in the SCCA Trans-Am series in the 1980s and 1990s, and in the NASCAR Busch Grand National and Winston Cup Series during the mid-1990s.

Owned by American Equipment Company owner Buz McCall, AER competed in IMSA sports-car racing and the Trans-Am series in the 1980s and early 1990s; the team won four consecutive Trans-Am championships with drivers Scott Sharp, Jack Baldwin, and Scott Pruett from 1991 to 1994.

The team moved to NASCAR starting in 1994, competing in the Busch Grand National Series with Trans-Am Champion Jack Baldwin driving in two races, running the No. 95. Signing rookie driver John Tanner and sponsor Caterpillar Inc. for 1995, the team ran half of the 1995 season; Tanner was released after a handful of races and replaced for the majority of the team's races with Ward Burton. For 1996 AER signed 1994 Busch Series champion David Green to run for full-time in 1996. Finishing 2nd in series points, Green and AER moved up to the Winston Cup Series in 1997, where after a difficult season Green finished 37th in points. After twelve races in 1998, Green was released by the team, and a variety of drivers, including Hut Stricklin and Steve Grissom, drove for the team to finish out the year; the team closed following the 1998 season when they lost the Caterpillar sponsorship.

Motorsports career results

Winston Cup results

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Car No. 96 Results

Year	Driver	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	Owners	Pts
1997	David Green	96	Chevy	DAY DNQ	CAR 38	RCH 33	ATL 24	DAR 41	TEX DNQ	BRI 22	MAR DNQ	SON DNQ	TAL 38	CLT 16	DOV 18	POC 28	MCH 28	CAL 25	DAY 19	NHA 24	POC 39	IND 35	GLN 22	MCH 20	BRI 39		RCH 37	NHA 40	DOV 25	MAR 20	CLT 31	TAL 16	CAR 27	PHO 29	ATL DNQ		39th	2167
	Todd Bodine																									DAR 42
1998	David Green			DAY DNQ	CAR 42	LVS 34	ATL 30	DAR 26	BRI 21	TEX 18	MAR 43	TAL 17	CAL 18	CLT 43	DOV 38																						43rd	1919
	Kevin Lepage															RCH 33
	Hut Stricklin																MCH 42	POC 28		NHA 42	POC 27	IND DNQ		MCH DNQ	BRI 41		DAR DNQ
	Robby Gordon																		SON 36
	Ron Fellows																						GLN 42			NHA 36
	Ted Musgrave																											RCH 25
	Morgan Shepherd																												DOV DNQ
	Mike Bliss																													MAR 25				PHO 35
	Steve Grissom																														CLT 32	TAL 36	DAY 29		CAR DNQ	ATL DNQ

Busch Grand National results

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Car No. 95 Results

Year	Driver	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	Owners	Pts
1994	Jack Baldwin	95	Chevy	DAY	CAR	RCH	ATL 23	MAR	DAR 24	HCY	BRI	ROU	NHA	NZH	CLT	DOV	MYB	GLN	MLW	SBO	TAL	HCY	IRP	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	CLT	MAR	CAR
1995	John Tanner			DAY	CAR 31	RCH 26	ATL	NSV 39	DAR 21	BRI DNQ	HCY DNQ
	Ward Burton											NHA 13		CLT 11	DOV 31	MYB			TAL 36	SBO 5	IRP 8	MCH 8		DAR 3	RCH	DOV 12	CLT 38	CAR 4	HOM 31
	Ed Berrier												NZH 33					MLW 38					BRI 34
	Butch Leitzinger																GLN 16
1996	David Green			DAY 12	CAR 6	RCH 3	ATL 2	NSV 2	DAR 14	BRI 7	HCY 1*	NZH 2*	CLT 19	DOV 4	SBO 20	MYB 1*	GLN 5	MLW 32	NHA 3	TAL 10	IRP 3	MCH 7	BRI 11	DAR 4	RCH 2	DOV 18	CLT 40	CAR 5	HOM 9

External links

• American Equipment Racing owner statistics at Racing-Reference