After starting his Cup Series career with Richard Childress Racing, he joined Michael Waltrip’s team and found immediate success, winning a total of three races and finishing second to Jimmie Johnson in the 2012 Cup standings.
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Bowyer, 36, has eight wins, two poles, 57 top fives and 161 top 10 finishes in 348 starts along with five Chase appearances and an Xfinity Series championship. “I’ve seen Tony as my driver, my boss and my friend”.
Learning in June that he was looking at a stint in the unemployment line, Bowyer set to work and quickly secured his future, but found himself in an unusual circumstance where he had to seek out a one-year package for 2016 in advance of his known move to Stewart-Haas a year later. “Clint’s personality and enthusiasm for racing is going to be something we’re going to welcome to our organization”. He’s one of the most proficient drivers in racing, winning in every kind of series, from sprint cars to a dominant stretch in NASCAR where he reeled off at least one win in 15 straight seasons. Stewart will be 45 next season, hasn’t won a race in over two years and has been privately working on finding a successor for the No. 14 Chevrolet all year.
One of the sport’s youngest and newest team owners, Scott called Friday’s news “a really important step” for the organization. “I am not retiring from racing, just the Sprint Cup Series”. Bowyer has been looking for a one-year deal for next season as a stopgap while Stewart runs his 18th and final Cup season.
“We have everything in place – Hendrick (Motorsports) engines and ties to Stewart-Haas. That is what I want to do with HScott Motorsports next year”. To come out of all that happened with MWR and smell like roses, like I said on Wednesday, is truly fantastic.
Clint Bowyer is becoming an expert at press conferences. “We’re going to build a great program and an established team where he can put the next driver in and go for broke, like he did with me”.
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With Annett bringing support from Pilot/Flying J, it appears if the team remains a two-car organization that Allgaier may be the odd man out. Sponsor 5-Hour Energy will join Bowyer at HScott, but the company has not decided if it will follow him to SHR in 2017. Bowyer said he would likely announce his team for 2016 later this week. “We were obviously disappointed when the announcement was made at MWR, because we did build a lot of good relationships there”. In late 2013, Scott purchased James Finch’s Phoenix Racing team.
