Start and Park

Start and Park is a practice that is popular among smaller teams mainly in the Piston Cup but sometimes CARCA. It is when a racer from a small team usually without a sponsor starts the race but pulls off the track to collect prize money without spending extra money on tires and a pit crew or damaging the racer's expensive body mods and mechanical mods, or to fund another racer or racers.

Despriction/Identification
A start and park racer usually has a basic paint job and no sponsors, as well as often being a backmarker. Most stay out for 3-50 laps depending on the length of the race and when they do, they're credited with a DNF and they'll list a mechanical failure as the reason for not finishing. (i.e. Engine, Overheating, Transmission, Sickness, Suspension, etc.) For example, in 2018, LeRoy Hubley made his first non-superspeedway start at Austin Speedway in the Texas Tea 150, but pulled off the track after 6 laps, citing an "engine" failure.

Piston Cup
In the Piston Cup, the practice started to become popular in 2006 and is still used today. Some examples are Joe and John Hunter Brakechek, Scott Suspensho, and Cale Ratchet, among many others.

CARCA
In CARCA, the practice is less popular, but Alloyopoulos Racing runs the 00 team as their main team, but runs the 08 and 09 as start-and-parks to help fund it. Killer Motorsports, owned by Ferdinand Wheelspin, does the same thing, with the 40 being his main team, but he also owns the 04 and 49 to help fund himself. Walt Clutchirski does it to fund Desmond. Many other small team racers, such as LeRoy Hubley and Aiden Suspensho do it too. Start and park racers in the Grandol Oil 200 always run the full race then.