Transition To Stock Car Racing
In 2005 the team began to experiment with stock car racing, competing in NASCAR AutoZone Elite Division races while at the same time moving into a new purpose-built shop in Morrow, Georgia. While Transnet Racing announced its return to the ChampCar Atlantic Championship after a one year break, it still pursued stock car racing, participating in the ARCA RE/MAX Series event at Salem Speedway in September 2006.
In December 2006 Transnet Racing announced that it would begin competing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series with Alex García driving the #98 Dixien/OmniSource Chevrolet. The team ran part-time schedules in the series in 2007 and 2008, participating in several historic road course events, including the inaugural NAPA Auto Parts 200 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec, in 2007, the last NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, (2008) and the 2008 race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, in which teams competed in the rain for the first time in a NASCAR points event. García also became the first Venezuelan driver to compete in one of NASCAR's premier series when he debuted at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in March 2007.
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