After months of repairs, LFR back home at site of May fire
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After a fire significantly damaged the Leavine Family Racing shop in May, the team is finally back in its old stomping grounds after months of repair.
For the past few months Leavine Family Racing has been operating out of the Team Penske headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina after dealing with the aftermath of the May fire that caused some major damages to their shop.
Upon their return, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race team partnered with Monitronics Security, "one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing home security alarm monitoring companies," according to a team release.
Monitronics will outfit the shop with a new, state-of-the-art security and fire monitoring system and be featured as an associate on the team's No. 95 Ford Fusion at Chicagoland Speedway in September, Charlotte Motor Speedway in October and Texas Motor Speedway in November.
The team, which fields the No. 95 Ford for driver Michael McDowell, has been a part-time competitor in NASCAR's top division since 2011.
No one was hurt in the fire but the race cars weren't so lucky. A total of four backup cars were damaged in the incident.
The 14-person LFR team said that most of the damages were in a storage area in the rear of the building, which is where the backup cars and some uniforms were stored.