Owner(s) Matt Kaulig Car numbers 11 Manufacturer Chevrolet Drivers' championships 0 Race victories 0 | Series Xfinity Series Race drivers 11. Blake Koch Base Welcome Pole position 0 | |
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Sponsors 11. LeafFilter Gutter Protection Location Kernersville, North Carolina, United States Profiles | ||
Kaulig racing the team talks about the 2016 season
Kaulig Racing is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. The team is owned by Matt Kaulig, an owner of team sponsor LeafFilter. The team currently fields the No. 11 LeafFilter Gutter Protection Chevrolet Camaro full-time for Blake Koch. The team has a technical alliance with Richard Childress Racing, and formerly operated out of the NTS Motorsports facility.
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Car No. 11 history
In June 2015, Blake Koch announced he and longtime sponsor LeafFilter Gutter Protection would re-sign with TriStar Motorsports for the 2016 season. However, in the 2015 offseason, LeafFilter owner Matt Kaulig decided to start his own team, Kaulig Racing. He brought along Koch, who he had sponsored the past two seasons, to pilot the No. 11 Chevy. Longtime NASCAR crew chief Chris Rice was hired as the team's general manager and crew chief. Kaulig Racing formed a technical alliance with Richard Childress Racing for the 2016 season. The team also used the owner's points of TriStar's former No. 8 team. In the team's debut, they finished 9th at Daytona after a strong showing, followed by a 20th-place finish at Atlanta the following week. For the team's third race Koch was running solidly in the top 15 before mechanical problems regulated him to a 26th-place finish six laps down. At Fontana, Koch finished 12th and on the lead lap, after running in the top 10 for much of the day. The team would later have several top-10 and top-15 runs, enough to get into the new Xfinity Chase, and also made to the 2nd round as well, but was unable to get to the final round, as he missed out by 7 points after finishing a strong 8th after running in or near the Top 5 all day. Blake finished 7th in the points, a Career best for Koch and Kaulig.