Manufacturer Toyota Owner Shigeaki Hattori | Opened 2008 Base Mooresville | |
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Car numbers 01, 1, 11, 16, 18, 80, 81 Race drivers Camping World Truck Series:
16. Ryan Truex
K&N Pro Series East:
1. Austin Theriault Sponsors Camping World Truck Series:
16. SeaWatch International
K&N Pro Series East:
1. Don Valley North Toyota Debut Xfinity Series:
2014 DRIVE4COPD 300 (Daytona)
Camping World Truck Series:
2013 Michigan National Guard 200 (Michigan) Sponsor Camping World Truck Series Location Mooresville, North Carolina, United States Drivers' championships 0 (Xfinity Series, Total, ...) Race victories 0 (Camping World Truck Series, Total, ...) | ||
Hattori Racing Enterprises is a Japanese-American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, and the K&N Pro Series East. The team is owned by his former NASCAR and open-wheel driver Shigeaki Hattori. In the Camping World Truck Series, the team currently fields the No. 16 Toyota Osaka Parts Distributor/Goodyear/Aisin/Advics Toyota Tundra full-time for Ryan Truex. In the K&N Pro Series East, the team currently fields the No. 1 Don Valley North Toyota Camry full-time for Austin Theriault.
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2014
Hattori made his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut with Johnny Sauter at the 2014 DRIVE4COPD 300 at Daytona. Sauter qualified ninth and finished twenty-eighth, one lap down. After that race, Hattori was quoted as saying "we have decided that we need to focus more on our Nationwide Series program,”. Sauter would pilot Hattori's Toyota for two more races, finishing 16th at Charlotte Motor Speedway and 15th at the Subway Firecracker 250 at Daytona. Starting at Michigan, Ross Chastain piloted the car for four races, turning in a best finish of tenth at Kentucky Speedway. Alex Bowman ran one race for Hattori, at Dover International Speedway.
2015
One weekend after making his Truck debut for HRE, Ross Kenseth made his second Xfinity start and the only start of the year for HRE. Kenseth started 29th, but he suffered from the limited resources at HRE and finished 33rd, 51 laps down.
Truck No. 16 history
Hattori made his major-series NASCAR debut at Michigan in 2013 with Brett Moffitt. Moffitt started fourteenth and finished seventeenth, one lap off the pace. It would be HRE's only Truck start of the year. The team would bring back the No. 16 for Ryan Truex to drive full-time in 2017.
Truck No. 18 history
Ross Chastain returned to HRE to attempt to qualify at Michigan, but failed to qualify. Ross Kenseth, son of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Matt Kenseth, made his first Truck series start with Hattori at Martinsville Speedway. Kenseth qualified 25th and finished 17th in the Aisin AW Toyota. Kenseth failed to qualify for the Truck series finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Truck No. 81 history
In early 2016, it was announced that Mayetta, New Jersey's Ryan Truex would drive the No. 81 Toyota for the full season, contingent on sponsorship, according to Truex. Truex turned in a stellar run at the season-opening NextEra Energy Resources 250, finishing second. Truex may have won the race if not for NASCAR's "freeze-the-field" rule, which freezes the field when a caution comes out. Truex had lost support from Parker Kligerman, which allowed Johnny Sauter to win in his first race for GMS Racing. Truex did lead fourteen laps in the race. Truex would follow that up with a 20th at Atlanta Motor Speedway and a 12th at Martinsville. The team can't run at Texas and Iowa. The team parted ways with veteran Crew Chief, John Monsam prior to the Kansas race. Richie Wauters, replaced Monsam and has not had the on track performances that the team posted prior to his being named interim crew chief. Kansas resulted in a 6th-place finish. Dover, an eighth-place finish was accomplished. The Charlotte finish saw the effects the changes has had on the team with a 22nd-place effort. HRE didn't run at Texas but Jesse Little and Rette Jones Racing brought their equipment and use the No. 81, finishing 19th. No effort to compete at Iowa led to the team mathematically being eliminated from the chase. After a 30th-place finish at Gateway, Hattori Racing Enterprises is struggling to be competitive and obtain funding for the remainder of the season. Hattori had hoped to be competitive and run more races than his prior efforts have been. The lack of funding and effective management has hindered the efforts of the team in 2016.
Car No. 01 history
HRE ran four drivers in the No. 01 in 2008, with Sean Caisse making five starts, Justin Marks making two, and Chrissy Wallace and Brent Glastetter making one start each. Caisse recorded two top-fives, a second and a fifth, and Marks recorded two top-tens, a seventh and an eighth. Michael Annett made HRE's only start in 2009, a 41st at Daytona after a crash.