McCray Motorsports is headquartered in San Bernardino CA. Team Owner and former
NASCAR driver Rick McCray and his late father Kenneth opened the doors to McCray
Motorsports in the late 1970's. Initially, the team was formed to promote a young and
extraordinarily talented Rick McCray whose career is marked by success and many
commercial firsts in NASCAR racing
McCray Motorsports seeks to promote young talented drivers and introduce new
corporate sponsors to NASCAR racing at a significantly reduced cost. Mr. McCray has
a proven record of introducing new sponsors to NASCAR with a great deal of success.
A partial list of his accomplishments include:
- Rookie of the Year in 1976 at the Orange Show Speedway in the Sportsman Series
- Rookie of the Year 1978 in the NASCAR Winston West
- Brought Mark C. Bloom into NASCAR, which is now Goodyear in 1980
- Brought Coors into NASCAR in 1982
- Rick was the first to take Coors across the Mason Dixon line
- In 1995 he started a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Team
- In 2007 Rick brought his daughter Toni out from North Carolina to race Super Late Models at the Orange Show and Irwindale Speedways
- Won over one hundred races on the West Coast since 1975
Creating long term relationships between talented young drivers and non-traditional
NASCAR corporate sponsors is a concept not currently utilized anywhere else in
NASCAR. It is common to see a NASCAR driver promoting one product today and a
few weeks later, another. Long term relationships between corporate sponsors and
drivers offers the best return on investrnent as it provides the sponsor with a low risk
opportunity to promote their message consistently to the large NASCAR market.
Rick currently operates McCray Enterprises, a diesel truck and trailer repair business
as a sole proprietorship. It began as a one man operation in the early 1970's and has
grown to be a multi-million dollar per year business with state of the art equipment and
more than 30 full-time employees.
The company has a dedicated management team and also utilizes the resources of
established local businesses including Wells Fargo, Fenster and Fenster CPA's, and
McPeters, McAlearney, Shimoff & Hatt. Rick's personal experience on the NASCAR
circuit coupled with his nationwide business contacts insure the success of this new
venture.