| Owner(s) | Stacy Compton |
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| Base | Mooresville, North Carolina |
| Series | Camping World Truck Series |
| Race drivers | 60. Cole Whitt 66. Johnny Benson |
| Sponsors | 60. Red Bull/Fuel Doctor 66. GoPro |
| Manufacturer | Chevrolet |
Turn One Racing (formerly Wyler Racing) is a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team. They currently field the #60 Red Bull/Fuel Doctor USA Chevrolet Silverado for Red Bull development driver Cole Whitt and the #66 GoPro Chevrolet Silverado for Justin Marks. The team was owned by Ohio car dealer Jeff Wyler until 2009 when driver Stacy Compton bought the assets of Wyler and moved the team to Concord, North Carolina.
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The team tested a Toyota Camry Car of Tomorrow at Talladega in the Fall of 2006 with Ricky Rudd as driver.
Turn One Racing competed in their first Sprint Cup race when Johnny Benson drove the #46 Toyota Camry in the 2007 Crown Royal Presents The Jim Stewart 400. He started and finished 31st.[1]
Purchasing equipment from the defunct Fiddleback Racing, the 60 team began running in 2005 at The Milwaukee Mile, when Chad Chaffin finished seventeenth. Chaffin ran ten races for the team that season, posting a top-ten at the Sylvania 200. At the end of the season, he was replaced by Sprague, who had three top-tens in five starts for the team. In 2006, Con-way became the team's new sponsor, and Sprague responded with two wins and a fifth-place finish in points. The following year, Sprague won the first race of the season at Daytona, but fell to ninth in the standings.
Sprague and Con-way left at the end of 2007 for Kevin Harvick Incorporated and Roush Fenway Racing respectively. The team was to merge with South Point Racing to form Wyler-Gaughan Racing in 2008, but the deal fell through. Richard Johns was to be the driver of the #60, bringing along sponsorship from havfun.com for both the 2008 and 2009 seasons, but the deal fell through. The team replaced Johns with Terry Cook, who was originally scheduled to drive a second truck, the #06. Cook had two top-fives and was running tenth in points when the team released Cook and replaced him with Sprague. For 2009, Compton drove the #60 mostly unsponsored until Safe Auto Insurance Company signed a 2 year deal to sponsor the team. Near the end of 2009, Wyler was unsure if the team would be able to continue into 2010, and Compton purchased the #60 truck in late 2009 so that the team could continue running. The team ran as Wyler Racing for most of 2010 until Compton renamed the team Turn One Racing, LLC. India's Narain Karthikeyan shared the driver seat with Compton starting at Martinsville Speedway and selected events, with Compton serving as Karthikeyan's driving coach. The team added on the #64 Truck with Chase Mattioli driving at Pocono. With Safe Auto departing for ThorSport Racing and Karthikeyan returning to F1 to drive for Hispania Racing, Red Bull development driver Cole Whitt, who ran the #60 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, will run the #60 full time for Rookie of the Year with Red Bull sponsorship. Justin Marks will return to the Truck Series and drive the team's second truck, the #66, in 2011 with sponsorship from GoPro Cameras. In 2012 Turn One Racing will field a truck for 2008 Camping World Truck Series Champion Johnny Benson. They have got sponsorship for a partial season but hopes are that they can run for a championship next season.
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