James Hylton Motorsports

James Hylton Motorsports, formerly Hylton Engineering, is a former NASCAR^[1] and current ARCA race team. It is one of the oldest professional race teams in the United States, running from 1964–1994; 1997–99; 2001–present.^[2] The team won two NASCAR Winston Cup Series races with James Hylton driving, the 1970 Richmond 500 and the 1972 Talladega 500. The team ran for many years in the Winston Cup before closing in 1995. The team was revived in 2007, when Hylton leased a car and a motor from Richard Childress Racing with the intent of becoming the oldest driver to start both the Daytona 500 and a NASCAR race. He then picked up sponsorship from Retirement Living TV. During practice, Hylton turned in a time of 48.150 seconds, which ranked him 15th. During the Duel race, Hylton was in a transfer position until on the final restart, he lost 2nd gear and was unable to accelerate, and wound 22nd. Despite not making the race, Hylton stated that he did what he had wanted. His goal was to show that even though he was over 20 years older than any other driver, he could still be competitive.

Present

After Hylton retired in 2013 as driver, he hired Sean Corr to drive the 2014 season.^[3] In his 1st race with the team, he got a top 10.^[4] During the 2014 season, races that Sean Corr was racing, it was an alliance between Hylton's team and Corr's family owned Empire Racing. For 2015, Corr ran in Daytona, and was then replaced by Brad Smith. During the ARCA 200 at Talladega, Austin Wayne Self spun in the Tri-oval, and collected Smith's Radon.com Ford. Smith's car slammed the outside wall, and then slid toward the inside wall. Just before impact, Smith's car hit a dip in the track and the front end shot off the ground. After impact with the inside wall, while still running at over 100mph, the car slid up in turns 1 and 2 before sliding down to the infield. Smith was taken to a local hospital, where he had surgery on both ankles. Driver James Swanson has taken over in place of Smith. Swanson finished the season for the team. Corr returned at Daytona in 2016. It is believed that Smith will return for the remainder of 2016. Smith was to run a second car, the 49, but the car was not prepared in time.

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