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GK Racing

{{short description|NASCAR team}}

{{Infobox NASCAR team

| Team_name = GK Racing

| Logo =

| Owner_names = Clay Greenfield
Tandra Greenfield
Jordan Kiss
Theresa Kiss
Billy Alger (former)

| Base = Clarksville, Tennessee

| Series = NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

| Drivers = 95. Clay Greenfield (part-time)

| Sponsors = 95. Backyard Blues Pools

| Manufacturer = Chevrolet

| Opened = 2011

| Debut = Craftsman Truck Series:
2011 WinStar World Casino 400 (Texas)
ARCA Racing Series:
2015 Southern Illinois 100 (DuQuoin)

| Final = Craftsman Truck Series:
2024 Love's RV Stop 225 (Talladega)
ARCA Racing Series:
2016 Berlin ARCA 200 (Berlin)

| Races = Craftsman Truck Series: 57
ARCA Racing Series: 4

| Drivers_champ =

| Wins = 0

| Poles = 0

}}

GK Racing (formerly Clay Greenfield Motorsports and Alger Motorsports) is an American professional stock car racing team that competes part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, fielding the No. 95 Chevrolet Silverado for Clay Greenfield, who is also a co-owner of the team. The other co-owners of the team are Greenfield's wife Tandra, a former NFL cheerleader, and Jordan and Theresa Kiss, who own Backyard Blues Pools, one of the team's sponsors.{{cite web |first=Joseph |last=Srigley |url=https://tobychristie.com/2023/05/30/gk-racing-attempting-truck-series-debut-at-gateway-with-owner-driver-clay-greenfield/ |title=GK Racing Attempting Truck Series Debut at Gateway with Owner-Driver Clay Greenfield |website=TobyChristie.com |date=May 31, 2023}} The team was previously co-owned by Billy Alger, who drove for the team in what is now the ARCA Menards Series.

File:Clay Greenfield Motorsports.png

Craftsman Truck Series

= Truck No. 68 history =

File:Clay greenfield (40433163454).jpg racing at Daytona in 2018]]

The team debuted as Alger Motorsports, running a part-time schedule in the 2011 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season. After failing to qualify at Daytona, the team debuted in the spring race at Texas. Wayne Edwards drove the team's No. 68 truck at Chicago but failed to qualify.

In 2012, the team fielded the No. 68 for Clay Greenfield.

In 2013, the team was renamed to Clay Greenfield Motorsports. The team started out strong by earning the fastest time at the Daytona International Raceway during practice. Greenfield's 2013 season was most memorable in the last chance qualifier at the Eldora Speedway when he put up a hard fight against Norm Benning to qualify for the race.{{cite magazine|last=Pockrass|first=Bob|url=http://www.sportingnews.com/nascar/story/2013-07-25/norm-benning-flips-the-bird-eldora-race-clay-greenfield-tony-stewart|title=Norm Benning flips the bird, thrills Tony Stewart, fans at Eldora|magazine=Sporting News|date=July 25, 2013|accessdate=June 20, 2017|archive-date=July 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727160900/http://www.sportingnews.com/nascar/story/2013-07-25/norm-benning-flips-the-bird-eldora-race-clay-greenfield-tony-stewart|url-status=dead}} The season concluded with six starts with a best finish of 13th. The next few seasons were based on a part-time effort whenever funding was available as starts have mainly been attempted at super speedways.

The team also fielded a part-time ARCA Racing Series team, the No. 70 Chevrolet SS, for team co-owner Billy Alger in 2015 and 2016. Sometime after this, Alger would leave the team, making Greenfield its sole owner.

Greenfield's team intended on running 8 races in 2020. However, the team ended up running nearly the full season, which was due to the fact that after the two month break in the season due to COVID-19, the field size for the series was expanded from 32 to 40 trucks due to the absence of qualifying. Also that year, CGM hired NASCAR on Fox studio commentator Jeff Hammond to come out of retirement and crew chief the truck in its part-time schedule of races.{{cite web |url=https://www.jayski.com/2020/01/28/clay-greenfield-motorsports-plans-8-races-jeff-hammond-to-crew-chief/ |title=Clay Greenfield Motorsports plans 8 races, Jeff Hammond to crew chief |website=Jayski's Silly Season Site |publisher=NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. |date=January 28, 2020 |accessdate=November 30, 2020}} Bobby Reuse was also scheduled to drive the No. 68 at the Daytona RC in a partnership with Jordan Anderson Racing, but failed to do so due to the chassis not properly admitted.

For 2021, Greenfield announced that his team would run the full season in the Truck Series for the first time. However, Greenfield himself would only run three races while the team seeks funded drivers who bring sponsorship to run the remaining 19 after the team's primary sponsor, Rackley Roofing, left the team to partner with Willie Allen to form a new team, Rackley WAR.{{cite web |first=Toby |last=Christie |url=https://tobychristie.com/2020/11/30/clay-greenfield-to-run-three-races-with-rackley-roofing-seeking-sponsors-and-funded-drivers-for-balance-of-2021/ |title=Clay Greenfield to Run Three Races With Rackley Roofing, Seeking Sponsors and Funded Drivers For Balance of 2021 |website=TobyChristie.com |date=November 30, 2020}} CGM only ended up attempting four races that year, all with Greenfield driving.

The team did not attempt any races in 2022 and Greenfield drove part-time for Cook Racing Technologies in their No. 84 truck instead with his own team's former crew chief, Tucker Wingo, also moving over to crew chief him at that team.

== Truck No. 68 results ==

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:75%"
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

! {{Tooltip|NCTC|NASCAR Craftsman Truck classification}}

! Pts

rowspan=2| 2011

! Clay Greenfield

! rowspan=15| 68

! rowspan=2| Dodge

| style="background:#FFCFCF;"| DAY
DNQ

| PHO

| DAR

| MAR

| NSH

| DOV

| CLT

| KAN

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| TEX
27

| style="background:#FFCFCF;"| KEN
DNQ

| IOW

| NSH

| IRP

| POC

| MCH

| BRI

| ATL

| colspan=2|

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| KEN
30

| LVS

| style="background:#FFCFCF;"| TAL
DNQ

| MAR

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| TEX
22

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| HOM
30

! rowspan=2| 53rd

! rowspan=2| 36

Wayne Edwards

| colspan=17|

| style="background:#FFCFCF;"| CHI
DNQ

| NHA

| colspan=6|

2012

! rowspan="13" | Clay Greenfield

! rowspan=3| Ram

| style="background:#FFDF9F;"| DAY
10

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| MAR
31

| style="background:#FFCFCF;"| CAR
DNQ

| KAN

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| CLT
36

| DOV

| TEX

| style="background:#DFFFDF;"| KEN
18

| IOW

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| CHI
28

| POC

| MCH

| style="background:#FFCFCF;"| BRI
DNQ

| BRI

| ATL

| IOW

| KEN

| style="background:#DFFFDF;"| TAL
16

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| MAR
25

| TEX

| PHO

| HOM

| colspan=3|

! 39th

! 144

2013

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| DAY
26

| style="background:#FFCFCF;"| MAR
DNQ

| style="background:#FFCFCF;"| CAR
DNQ

| style="background:#DFFFDF;"| KAN
16

| CLT

| DOV

| TEX

| KEN

| IOW

| style="background:#FFCFCF;"| ELD
DNQ

| POC

| MCH

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| BRI
34

| MSP

| IOW

| CHI

| LVS

| style="background:#DFFFDF;"| TAL
13

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| MAR
27

| TEX

| PHO

| HOM

| colspan=3|

! 40th

! 87

rowspan=2| 2014

| DAY

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| MAR
30

| KAN

| CLT

| DOV

| TEX

| GTW

| KEN

| IOW

| ELD

| POC

| MCH

| BRI

| MSP

| CHI

| NHA

| LVS

| colspan=8|

! rowspan=2| 52nd

! rowspan=2| 37

rowspan=2| Chevy

| colspan=17|

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| TAL
21

| MAR

| TEX

| PHO

| HOM

| colspan=3|

rowspan=2| 2015

| style="background:#FFCFCF;"| DAY
DNQ

| ATL

| MAR

| KAN

| CLT

| DOV

| TEX

| GTW

| IOW

| KEN

| ELD

| POC

| MCH

| BRI

| MSP

| CHI

| colspan=2|

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| TAL
30

| MAR

| TEX

| PHO

| HOM

| colspan=2|

! rowspan=2| 46th

! rowspan=2| 39

Ram

| colspan=16|

| style="background:#DFFFDF;"| NHA
19

| LVS

| colspan=7|

2016

! rowspan=4| Chevy

| style="background:#FFCFCF;"| DAY
DNQ

| ATL

| MAR

| KAN

| DOV

| CLT

| TEX

| IOW

| GTW

| KEN

| ELD

| POC

| BRI

| MCH

| MSP

| CHI

| NHA

| LVS

| TAL

| MAR

| TEX

| PHO

| HOM

| colspan=2|

! 53rd

! 0

2017

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| DAY
29

| ATL

| MAR

| KAN

| CLT

| DOV

| TEX

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| GTW
24

| IOW

| KEN

| ELD

| POC

| MCH

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| BRI
26

| MSP

| CHI

| NHA

| LVS

| style="background:#FFDF9F;"| TAL
8

| MAR

| TEX

| PHO

| HOM

| colspan=2|

! 40th

! 61

2018

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| DAY
22

| ATL

| LVS

| MAR

| DOV

| KAN

| CLT

| style="background:#DFFFDF;"| TEX
20

| IOW

| GTW

| CHI

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| KEN
21

| ELD

| POC

| MCH

| style="background:#DFFFDF;"| BRI
20

| MSP

| LVS

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| TAL
32

| MAR

| TEX

| PHO

| HOM

| colspan=2|

! 40th

! 77

rowspan=2| 2019

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| DAY
12

| ATL

| LVS

| MAR

| TEX

| DOV

| KAN

| CLT

| TEX

| IOW

| GTW

| CHI

| colspan=13|

! rowspan=2| 40th

! rowspan=2| 73

rowspan=4| Toyota

| colspan=12|

| style="background:#DFFFDF;"| KEN
16

| POC

| ELD

| MCH

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| BRI
26

| MSP

| LVS

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| TAL
25

| MAR

| PHO

| HOM

| colspan=2|

2020

| style="background:#FFCFCF;"| DAY
DNQ

| LVS

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| CLT
29

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ATL
26

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| HOM
30

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| POC
31

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| KEN
26

| style="background:#DFFFDF;"| TEX
20

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| KAN
28

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| KAN
31

| style="background:#DFFFDF;"| MCH
20

| DRC

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| DOV
32

| style="background:#DFFFDF;"| GTW
19

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| DAR
21

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| RCH
21

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| BRI
22

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| LVS
22

| style="background:#DFFFDF;"| TAL
14

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| KAN
25

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| TEX
35

| style="background:#CFCFFF;"| MAR
21

| PHO

| colspan=2|

! 29th

! 233

2021

| style="background:#FFCFCF;"| DAY
DNQ

| DRC

| LVS

| ATL

| BRD

| RCH

| KAN

| DAR

| COA

| CLT

| TEX

| style="background:#FFCFCF;"| NSH
DNQ

| POC

| KNX

| GLN

| style="background:#FFCFCF;"| GTW
DNQ

| style="background:#DFFFDF;"| DAR
19

| BRI

| LVS

| TAL

| MAR

| PHO

| colspan=3|

! 44th

! 18

= Truck No. 86 history =

In 2012, the team fielded the No. 86 for Scott Riggs and Blake Koch in a start and park effort.

== Truck No. 86 results ==

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:75%"
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

! {{Tooltip|NCWTC|NASCAR Camping World Truck classification}}

! Pts

rowspan=3| 2012

! Scott Riggs

! rowspan=3| 86

! rowspan=3| Ram

| DAY

| MAR

| CAR

| KAN

| CLT

| DOV

| TEX

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| KEN
36

| IOW

| colspan=13|

! rowspan=3| 54th

! rowspan=3| 30

Blake Koch

| colspan=9|

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| CHI
32

| POC

| MCH

| style="background:#ffffff;"| BRI
QL†

| colspan=9|

Clay Greenfield

| colspan=12|

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| BRI
34

| ATL

| IOW

| KEN

| LVS

| TAL

| MAR

| TEX

| PHO

| HOM

= Truck No. 95 history =

In 2023, Greenfield re-started his own team with new co-owners Jordan and Theresa Kiss, who own Backyard Blues Pools, one of the team's sponsors and also one of Greenfield's sponsors when he drove the No. 84 truck for Cook Racing Enterprises. As a result, the team was renamed GK Racing, which stands for each of their last initials.

== Truck No. 95 results ==

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:75%"
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

! {{Tooltip|NCTC|NASCAR Craftsman Truck classification}}

! Pts

rowspan=2| 2023

! rowspan="4" | Clay Greenfield

! rowspan="4" | 95

! Toyota

| DAY

| LVS

| ATL

| COA

| TEX

| BRD

| MAR

| KAN

| DAR

| NWS

| CLT

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| GTW
35

| NSH

| MOH

| POC

| RCH

| IRP

| MLW

| KAN

| BRI

| colspan=5|

! rowspan=2| 50th

! rowspan=2| 2

rowspan="3" | Chevy

| colspan=20|

| style="background:#FFCFCF;"| TAL
DNQ

| HOM

| PHO

| colspan=2|

2024

| style="background:#FFCFCF;"| DAY
DNQ

| ATL

| LVS

| BRI

| COA

| MAR

| TEX

| KAN

| DAR

| NWS

| CLT

| GTW

| NSH

| POC

| IRP

| RCH

| MLW

| BRI

| KAN

| style="background:#DFFFDF;"| TAL
15

| HOM

| MAR

| PHO

| colspan=2|

! 42nd

! 22

2025

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| DAY
33

| ATL

| LVS

| HOM

| MAR

| BRI

| CAR

| TEX

| KAN

| NWS

| CLT

| NSH

| MCH

| POC

| LRP

| IRP

| GLN

| RCH

| DAR

| BRI

| NHA

| ROV

| TAL

| MAR

| PHO

!

!

ARCA Racing Series

= Car No. 70 history =

The team also fielded a part-time ARCA Racing Series team, the No. 70 Chevrolet SS, for team co-owner Billy Alger in 2015 and 2016. Sometime after this, Alger would leave the team, making Greenfield its sole owner.

== Car No. 70 results ==

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:75%"
Year

! Driver

! No.

! Make

! 1

! 2

! 3

! 4

! 5

! 6

! 7

! 8

! 9

! 10

! 11

! 12

! 13

! 14

! 15

! 16

! 17

! 18

! 19

! 20

! {{Tooltip|Owners|ARCA Menards Series classification}}

! Pts

2015

! rowspan=2| Billy Alger

! rowspan=2| 70

! rowspan=2| Chevy

| DAY

| MOB

| NSH

| SLM

| TAL

| TOL

| style="background:#DFC484;"|NJE
Wth

| POC

| MCH

| CHI

| style="background:#DFC484;"|WIN
Wth

| IOW

| IRP

| POC

| style="background:#DFC484;"|BLN
Wth

| ISF

| style="background:#EFCFFF"|DSF
31

| SLM

| KEN

| KAN

! NA

! -

2016

| DAY

| style="background:#DFC484;"|NSH
Wth

| style="background:#EFCFFF"|SLM
31

| TAL

| TOL

| NJE

| POC

| MCH

| MAD

| WIN

| IOW

| style="background:#EFCFFF"|IRP
32

| POC

| style="background:#EFCFFF"|BLN
24

| ISF

| DSF

| SLM

| CHI

| KEN

| KAN

!

!

References

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External links

  • {{Racing-Reference owner|Clay_Greenfield}}

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