Beard Motorsports has proven to be the little team that could, a modern-day David competing against the Goliaths of the NASCAR Cup Series. Owned by Mark Beard Sr., president of Beard Motorsports and various family businesses, Beard Motorsports has taken a strategic approach to its racing endeavors, forming a technical partnership with Richard Childress Racing (RCR) and running only the superspeedway races at Daytona and Talladega. With cars constructed by RCR and powered by ECR-built engines, Beard Motorsports has scored four top-10 finishes, including a seventh-place drive in the 62nd Daytona 500.
Beard Motorsports is part passion project and part corporate initiative, with the race team serving to market Beard Oil Distributing, a third-generation, family-owned company that services the nation’s pipeline construction industry.