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19 year old Spencer Clark made his first NASCAR Busch series start at Las Vegas in 2006 driving this car for Gallagher-Diederich Racing. It was the teams first race, and they initially planned to run a partial schedule with sponsorship from Allegiant Air, owned by the Gallagher family. Clark was at the time tipped to be Las Vegas' next big thing in stock car racing, following in the footsteps of Kurt and Kyle Busch.Tragically, just two months after this event, Clark died in a highway accident in New Mexico. As a result, the team ceased its NASCAR operations and returned to short track racing, with the Clark family founding the "Spencer Clark Driven program" to provide young racers proper training and competitive race cars to continue what Spencer Clark had started.
Six years later, Maury Gallagher, now the sole owner, relaunched the team into the major national series, starting out in ARCA under the name Gallagher Motorsports, using the #23, which was Spencer Clark's junior racing number. The name of the team was later changed to GMS Racing and in 2013, Spencer Gallagher, Maury's son, made his NASCAR Truck series debut. In 2014, the team made its full time debut, with Joey Coulter behind the wheel. A second part time entry was driven by Gallagher, Max Gresham and Brandon Jones.
Gallagher would go full time in 2015, however his career would never really take off. Nevertheless, Gallagher jumped up to the Xfinity series part time in 2016, while GMS Racing would win its first of two NASCAR Truck series championships with Johnny Sauter behind the wheel. Gallagher made a few Xfinity series starts in 2016, before a full time season in 2017 proved unsuccesful. Gallagher made a solid start to the 2018 Xfinity series season, earning his first win at Talladega, The celebrations were short lived however, as days later Gallagher was suspended indefinitely for violating NASCARs substance abuse policy. He would return midway through the year, before retiring at seasons end to take up an ownership role within the organization. GMS Racing returned for the 2019 Xfinity series season, with John Hunter Nemechek behind the wheel. 2019 would be the teams last season in the Xfinity series, choosing to focus on the Truck series, where it now had 4 full time teams.
2020 would be the teams best season, scoring 10 wins with 4 different drivers and its second championship with Sheldon Creed. They would win 4 races in 2021, 3 with Creed before announcing at seasons end they would be moving up to the Cup series, with Ty Dillon to drive the #94. The team then merged its Cup startup into Richard Petty Motorsports, forming Petty GMS Racing. The team had a solid year with Erik Jones in the #43, winning the Southern 500 at Darlington, however Dillon struggled and was released. In early 2023 Petty GMS would again change names, this time to Legacy Motor Club, with Jimmie Johnson buying out a stake in the team and Richard Petty selling the remainder of his share to Gallagher with Johnson taking over the day to day running of the Cup series team. The Truck series teams continued to operate separately in 2022 and 2023, with a couple of wins.
On August 23, 2023, GMS Racing announced they would cease operations at seasons end. Legacy Motor Club will switch to Toyota in 2024, with both Gallagher and Johnson remaining owners.