Overview

• NASCAR announced Davis’s death on Sept. 7 and issued an official tribute, as Tommy Baldwin Racing and Dale Earnhardt Jr. shared public remembrances.
• Bill Davis founded Bill Davis Racing in 1988 and fielded teams across the Cup, Xfinity and Truck Series through 2008.
• Ward Burton delivered all five of the team’s Cup victories, highlighted by the 2001 Southern 500 and the 2002 Daytona 500.
• BDR’s Truck program amassed 24 wins and captured the 2008 championship with Johnny Benson Jr.
• Davis helped lead Toyota’s early NASCAR efforts, and financial pressures led to a 2008 sale of team and engine assets to Triad Racing Technologies.