Gloy-Rahal Racing
Gloy-Rahal Racing was an NASCAR team co-owned by Team Rahal owner Bobby Rahal and Tom Gloy Racing owner Tom Gloy. The team raced a Ford in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series part-time in 1997 and full-time in 1998 and 1999. Team history Bobby Rahal and Tom Gloy raced together in the 1970s in Atlantic Championship. Rahal had better results than Gloy, with a runner-up finish in 1977. In 1997, an alliance was made between Tom Gloy's Trans-Am team, Rahal and one of his CART sponsors, Textron Automotive, to have Mike Borkowski drive a Ford Mustang Cobra in that competition. Borkowski would go on to two wins in the final two races of the championship. That same year, Tom Gloy took his team to compete in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, under the name Gloy Racing. He used the number 55 and his truck was an unsponsored Ford F-150. During the first three events it entered, the feam failed to qualify in any. At Tucson, Lance Hooper was the driver, while at Homestead-Miami and Phoenix, Jim Bown was. Gloy Racing's first NASCAR race was at Evergeen, with Ron Barfield Jr. at the weheel, who qualified sixth and finished 12th. The next