{"id":1541050,"date":"2022-12-05T23:30:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T04:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1541050"},"modified":"2022-12-05T23:30:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T04:30:33","slug":"floyd-mayweather-racing-team-taking-baby-steps-after-others-grew-by-leaps-and-bounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/floyd-mayweather-racing-team-taking-baby-steps-after-others-grew-by-leaps-and-bounds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Floyd Mayweather Racing Team Is Still Taking Baby Steps After Others Grew by Leaps and Bounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The ownership duo of <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tag\/floyd-mayweather\/\">Floyd Mayweather Jr.<\/a> and Willy Auchmoody looks to be following the Trackhouse Racing model: A big-name celebrity collaborating with a racing guy to field a <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tag\/nascar\/\">NASCAR Cup Series<\/a> team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But whereas Justin Marks and Pitbull have shepherded Trackhouse into prominence in just its second season, The Money Team Racing is continuing down a slow path in its second go-round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-floyd-mayweather-racing-team-may-eventually-become-a-nascar-staple\"><strong>A Floyd Mayweather racing team may eventually become a NASCAR staple<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1469\" height=\"972\" src=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Floyd-Mayweather-Jr.jpg?w=925&#038;strip=all&#038;quality=89\" alt=\"Floyd Mayweather Jr. looks on during a news conference with Deji Olatunji at the Mayweather Boxing Club on Oct. 13, 2022, in Las Vegas, Nevada. | Steve Marcus\/Getty Images\" class=\"wp-image-1541052\" \/><figcaption>Floyd Mayweather Jr. looks on during a news conference with Deji Olatunji at the Mayweather Boxing Club on Oct. 13, 2022, in Las Vegas, Nevada. | Steve Marcus\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Year 2 of <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/2022-cup-series-season-in-review-trackhouse-racing\/\">Trackhouse Racing\u2019s<\/a> NASCAR Cup Series adventure exceeded nearly everyone\u2019s expectations. Not only did Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez win races, but Chastain pulled off the move of the century in the Martinsville playoff race to advance to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tag\/championship-4\/\">Championship 4<\/a>. The year was a success by any measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following largely the same ownership structure, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/michael-jordan-denny-hamlin-turned-faulty-report-into-23xi-racing-nascar-cup-series\/\">Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin<\/a> made progress at 23XI Racing, too. Bubba Wallace and Kurt Busch won races in that team\u2019s second season, and 23XI has lined up rising star Tyler Reddick to replace Busch in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two organizations have injected some new blood into NASCAR. A Floyd Mayweather racing team would be another step along those lines and potentially expand the sport\u2019s audience. For now, however, The Money Team Racing is taking small steps leaving it a long way from being a Sunday force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Money Team is adding a few races in the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Floyd Mayweather Debuting NASCAR Team At Daytona, Driver Believes They Can Win!! | TMZ Sports\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6uz_71Rf3lc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2022 Daytona 500 was less than three weeks away when The Money Team Racing announced it was going to make a go of it with driver Kaz Grala. It was a decision two years in the making as Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Willy Auchmoody held back from committing to anything until the pandemic played out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They gave veteran crew chief Tony Eury Jr. a nearly impossible deadline to prep the car, and Grala qualified for the Daytona 500. Graza finished 26<sup>th<\/sup> to kick off the season, then placed 25<sup>th<\/sup> at Circuit of the Americas and 23<sup>rd<\/sup> in the Coca-Cola 600. The team entered one more race, and IndyCar veteran Conor Daly finished 34<sup>th<\/sup> at the Charlotte Roval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/tobychristie.com\/2022\/12\/05\/tmt-racing-looking-to-build-program-around-conor-daly-with-increased-2023-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TobyChristie.com<\/a>, TMT Racing has set sights on six races for the upcoming season, beginning with Daytona, Las Vegas, and Phoenix. Beyond that, the focus will be the road courses at Circuit of the Americas, Indianapolis, and Charlotte. Watkins Glen is a possibility, too, and Auchmoody would add the two Talladega races if enough sponsorship money materializes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Running a quarter of the schedule would be a milestone, but advancing beyond that in subsequent seasons is less likely without a charter, a commodity in short supply while teams wait to hear how much more TV money will trickle down beginning in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf a charter was to become available, we would definitely be a player, for sure,\u201d Auchmoody said. \u201cThe charter prices have gone up, but they\u2019ve gone up reflective of what the potential payout could be with the new agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Money Team Racing turns to a new primary driver<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Conor Daly, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Discuss How American Racers are Perceived | The Dale Jr. Download\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aBYOXsj4mXw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/floyd-mayweather-jr-s-nascar-team-has-suffered-first-round-knockout\/\">Floyd Mayweather Jr.\u2019s NASCAR Team Has Suffered a First-Round Knockout<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though his 34<sup>th<\/sup>-place finish \u2013 with virtually no experience in the car \u2013 on the Charlotte road course was nothing noteworthy, Conor Daly made enough of an impression on co-owner Willy Auchmoody to earn the designation of primary driver of the No. 50 Chevy for The Money Team Racing in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe only ran one race with him last year, obviously, but myself, the crew chief, our PR team, my family \u2026 he\u2019s just a really awesome guy, like really awesome,\u201d Auchmoody said. \u201cWe enjoyed every aspect of working with him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Auchmoody said crew chief Tony Eury Jr., a NASCAR veteran who worked with Dale Earnhardt Jr., made the decision easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen the crew chief makes a comment that we could build something around this kid, especially a crew chief that has his background,\u201d Auchmoody said. \u201cHe helped Danica (Patrick) get into NASCAR. He was the first crew chief she had when she ran in NASCAR, and he loved working with her, and he feels he could take the knowledge that he learned from her transition from IndyCar to NASCAR and do the same thing with Conor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Auchmoody said the only potential change in plans would be <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/helio-castroneves-has-muscle-for-daytona-500-crowded-in-2023\/\">if Helio Castroneves came aboard to drive the Daytona 500<\/a>. Castroneves is reportedly trying to decide between TMT Racing and Trackhouse Racing, but landing him would be a big attention-getter for the Floyd Mayweather racing team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Got a question or observation about racing? Sports7\u2019s John Moriello does a mailbag column each Friday. Write to him at JohnM@Sports7.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floyd Mayweather's fledgling NASCAR team intends to increase the number of races it enters in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":1541052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253795],"tags":[64700,118377,16060],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Floyd Mayweather Racing Team Is Still Taking Baby Steps After Others Grew by Leaps and Bounds - Sports7<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A bigger schedule and the switch to IndyCar veteran Conor Daly should give the Floyd Mayweather racing team greater visibility in 2023.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/floyd-mayweather-racing-team-taking-baby-steps-after-others-grew-by-leaps-and-bounds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Floyd Mayweather Racing Team Is Still Taking Baby Steps After Others Grew by Leaps and Bounds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A bigger schedule and the switch to IndyCar veteran Conor Daly should give the Floyd Mayweather racing team greater visibility in 2023.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/floyd-mayweather-racing-team-taking-baby-steps-after-others-grew-by-leaps-and-bounds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sports7\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-06T04:30:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-06T04:30:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Floyd-Mayweather-Jr.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1469\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"972\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John Moriello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Sports7J\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John Moriello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/floyd-mayweather-racing-team-taking-baby-steps-after-others-grew-by-leaps-and-bounds\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/floyd-mayweather-racing-team-taking-baby-steps-after-others-grew-by-leaps-and-bounds\/\",\"name\":\"The Floyd Mayweather Racing Team Is Still Taking Baby Steps After Others Grew by Leaps and Bounds - 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