After a decade of working with JD Motorsports, Gary Keller will transfer to fellow NASCAR Xfinity Sequence crew Mike Harmon Racing for the 2023 season. Now often called “Mike Harmon Racing with Gary Keller”, the crew introduced the brand new partnership on Saturday.
Keller joined up with JDM in 2012, branding the outfit “JD Motorsports with Gary Keller”. He previously ran a crew in ARCA together with the NASCAR Xfinity and Craftsman Truck Sequence within the early 2000s. Amongst these to have raced for his crew embody Charlie Bradberry, Willie Inexperienced, Kenny Hendrick, Andy Hillenburg, and Tim Sauter.
Gary Keller Racing even tried a couple of Cup Sequence races in 2004 with Mike Wallace, although they did not qualify in 4 tries. Wallace reconnected with Keller at JD Motorsports when he was a full-time driver for them within the Xfinity Sequence; they rekindled their affiliation for a road course slate in 2020, 5 years after Wallace’s final races.
Outdoors of NASCAR, Keller is the proprietor of Catastrophe Companies of Environmental Specialist, LLC, in his native Ohio. His firm gives water construction catastrophe assist corresponding to flood restoration and mould cleanup.
“Gary approaching board is a blessing to MHR which can be recognized now as Mike Harmon Racing with Gary Keller,” stated crew proprietor Mike Harmon. “I’m very comfortable that Gary believes in us he sees the eagerness and the exhausting work that we put into our racing. It’s the shot within the arm we’d like right here at MHR with Gary Keller.”
MHR will hope the partnership can deliver new life to the crew, who struggled in 2022 as their #47 automobile certified for simply eleven races. Pushed by 9 totally different drivers, the #47 positioned forty-third in proprietor factors with Ryan Vargas scoring its greatest end of twenty-third at Portland. Others to race the automobile included Harmon himself, Stanton Barrett, Brandon Brown, Dawson Cram, Grey Gaulding, Bobby McCarty, Brennan Poole, and Tim Viens. Viens additionally piloted a second automobile, the #74, at Daytona however missed the present.
