Switch from Toyota includes conversion to ECR Engines
NEMCO Motorsports announced Friday that it will be re-establishing its partnership with Chevrolet for the 2015 season.
The team will field Chevrolets in the Camping World Truck Series and Late Model competition with drivers Joe Nemechek and his son, John Hunter Nemechek. With the move to Chevrolet, NEMCO Motorsports will now use ECR Engines.
Team owner Joe Nemechek is no stranger to the Chevy bowtie; he and NEMCO Motorsports won 19 races in NASCAR national series competition with the manufacturer from 1991-2011, according to the team. During that period, Nemechek also earned the 1992 driver and owner championships in in what is now the NASCAR XFINITY Series, prior to winning the manufacturers’ championship for Chevrolet.
“We look forward to joining the Chevrolet NASCAR program this season,” Nemechek said in a statement released by the team. “I’ve had a long-term relationship with Chevrolet for the majority of my career and I look forward to continuing that relationship.”
The father-son team plans to run a split schedule in the team’s No. 8 entry until the younger Nemechek’s 18th birthday (June 8), when he will be cleared for NASCAR competition on tracks longer than 1.25 miles. After that milestone, John Hunter Nemechek will be the team’s lone driver for the rest of the season, starting July 9 at Kentucky Speedway.