page_title: Michael Waltrip Racing
section_title: MWR-AF Corse
hierarchical_section_title: Michael Waltrip Racing / Partnerships and alliances / MWR-AF Corse
caption_attribution_description: Marco Cioci in the AF Corse-Waltrip Ferrari 458 Italia GTC at the 2012 6 Hours of Shanghai
context_page_description: Michael Waltrip Racing Holdings LLC, doing business as Michael Waltrip Racing, was an American professional stock car racing team that last competed full-time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The company was as a 50–50 partnership between Robert Kauffman, the founder and managing partner of Fortress Investment Group, and two-time Daytona 500 winner Michael Waltrip, who first established the team in 1996 in the Busch Series. The team was the first full-time three-car team to field Toyota Camrys when Toyota entered the Sprint Cup racing fold in 2007, before being joined by Joe Gibbs Racing in 2008. MWR was also the last original Toyota team in the Sprint Cup Series to still be in operation, as Bill Davis Racing and Red Bull Racing Team had both ceased operations in the preceding years.
  The team last fielded the No. 15 Toyota Camry for Clint Bowyer and the No. 55 Camry for David Ragan. Brian Vickers would normally drive the No. 55, but repeated health problems including blood clotting forced him out for much of 2015. Development driver Brett Moffitt and team owner Waltrip also competed in the car.
context_section_description: In 2011 MWR entered into a technical alliance with AF Corse to provide them sportscars to race in the FIA World Endurance Championship and Tudor United SportsCar Championship (formerly Rolex Sports Car Series) competing under the AF Corse-Waltrip banner.
caption: AF Waltrip Ferrari Shanghai
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