Precision Performance Motorsports (PPM) is an American professional sports car racing and former

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team that currently competes full-time in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship using a GT Daytona-class Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo. In stock car racing, the team was known for competing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and the K&N Pro Series East. The team is owned by

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and was formed from the assets of

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. After the 2017 season, PPM shuttered its stock car operation to transition to sports car racing.

Xfinity Series

Car No. 46 history

The No. 46 team debut was at the season opener at Daytona International Speedway in 2016, with

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behind the wheel with sponsorship

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and Leaseplan. The second race for the No. 46 was the 2016 Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300 at Bristol with Brandon Gdovic behind the wheel with sponsorship

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. He started 27th and finished 18th. Gdovic also ran at Pocono, Indianapolis, the other Bristol race and Phoenix. Jordan Anderson drove the car in the season-finale at Homestead-Miami. In 2017, Kumpen returned to the No. 46 at Daytona and

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. Where he finished 22nd and 18th.

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made its Xfinity Series debut in the No. 46 at Bristol, with an impressive 15th-place finish. Houff also ran the following race at Richmond, the spring race at Iowa, the fall race at Kentucky and Kansas. Houff also failed to qualify for the summer race at Kentucky and in the season-finale at Homestead-Miami.

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drove the car at Road America and finished 10th, giving the team their first Top-10.

Car No. 55 history

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drove two races in the No. 55 for

before PPM purchased their equipment. The team made their first Xfinity Series debut in 2015, at Watkins Glen, with Gdovic driving and finished a career best 13th.

signed with PPM to drive two races starting at

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and Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Sports car racing

The team announced in early December 2017 that it would be suspending its NASCAR operations and moving into the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge and posted the sale of its Xfinity Series equipment. Later, team owner Rick Gdovic said that his son

wanted to move to sports car racing, and that the financial model in that discipline is better than

. Rick had tried to sell the team before the 2017 season began but an investment group set to buy the team fell through. In 2018, the team fielded two entries in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America series before expanding to the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for 2019.

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* {{Precision Performance Motorsports NASCAR Xfinity Series WeatherTech SportsCar Championship teams NASCAR teams