Rick Ware Racing and Timmy Hill go for Back to Back Rookie of the Year Title's

Rick Ware Racing and Poynt.com (free mobile app.) have finalized a deal to run Timmy Hill for the 2012 Sprint Cup Rookie of the Year. "I am very excited to have our sponsor and driver make a move up to the Sprint Cup Series” says owner Rick Ware. RWR will run the full Sprint Cup schedule with sponsor Poynt on board. Mike Wallace will drive the 54th annual Daytona 500. Timmy Hill, the 2011 Nascar Nationwide Rookie of the Year, will be at Daytona in his Poynt Nationwide Ford. Timmy will start driving the #37 full time at Fontana or Texas.

RWR has joined forces with Larry Gunselman's Max Q Motorsports #37 for the full season. The Sprint Cup operation will run out of RWR's new 24,000 sq. ft. facility across the street from RWR's Nationwide and Rolex programs.

Timmy's crew chief will be veteran Bill Henderson. Ken Glen formerly of KHI will serve as Competition Director and Larry Gunselman will be General Manager of the #37 Poynt.com Ford.

RWR to compete in the 50th Anniversary Rolex 24 at Daytona

Rick Ware Racing will be running the #15 Poynt Mustang in the GT Class at the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The RWR team has Doug Harrington, Chris Cook, John Ware, Jeffrey Earnhardt & Timmy Hill for their driver lineup.

The coverage begins on Saturday January 28th @ 2:30 pm on Speed.

For updates follow the team on Twitter @LRWARE, @TimmyHill15 & @Jearnhardt1 or on the Rick Ware Racing Facebook page.

Mission Accomplished! Hill wins Rookie of the Year!

The tension was thick as the NASCAR Nationwide Series entered the season finale' at the Miami-Homestead Speedway. Timmy Hill trailed Ryan Truex by 3 points and was tied with Blake Koch for the Sunoco Rookie of the Year standings.

Hill knew that with the current points system his title hopes was in his hands. Gaining one point for entering the event and being in front of Blake and Ryan in overall points, had the 18 year old tied for the Championship with Truex and just a mere point in front of Koch.

It all came down to winning the Rookie of the Race at Homestead. Hill wins, he wins the title. Koch wins, he wins the title.

Hill qualified 33rd and Koch in the Top 20, but that never bothered the Poynt driver. By the halfway mark, Hill made a green flag pass on his competitor for the 24th position.

Koch made his move to the pits with Hill making his stop on the following lap when the caution came out for the #66 crash.

Hill now had Koch a lap down and the 18 year never let up, driving to the finish in the 21st position and the 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series Sunoco Rookie of the Year title.

"I can't thank this team enough! When it was crunch time, they pulled through. They have done it all year with our back against the wall!", stated Hill

Hill has now entered the history book as the Youngest NASCAR Rookie of the Year in the top three series.

"We are going to take the next couple days off and get started on 2012. Thank you to everyone at Poynt, Lilly Trucking and Fastwax for making this a year to remember!"

Hill rallies to 18th at Phoenix

Timmy Hill continued his streak of improvement as he returns to tracks from earlier in the season.

In the spring, Hill finished 28th in his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut and his return was a pickup of 10 positions with a 18th place finish.

"We had a great handling car all weekend. Kinda messed up the qualifying run but we knew we had a great car for the race," stated Hill.

Hill marched into the top 30 in the first ten laps and continued a forward march. With just 70 laps remaining, Hill lost power steering and was forced to muscle the car to a top twenty.

"That was a chore!" stated Hill. "I work out every day in anticipation of days like this and it paid off. The guys worked so hard and as a team we came through."

Hill and the Poynt team now head to Homestead, the season finale with a lot on their minds. Rookie of the Year.

"We have done everything we can and now it is pretty much up to a vote. Did we do enough? I believe so but I don't get to vote," Hill laughed.

NASCAR will hold a 30 point vote to determine the winner of the NASCAR Nationwide Sunoco Rookie of the Year, based off performance, sportsmanship and professionalism.

"We have had the lead for 27 weeks. We always try to do more than our competitors just not rookies but all of NASCAR by the way we carry ourselves and how we interact with the fans. If we still don't win the committee's vote I know we have won the fans vote every time we head into the stands. Sometimes that's more important, but that award would cap off a very tough year that our organization has went through."

Timmy Hill encounters bad luck and engine woes at Texas

Texas Motor Speedway has been the thorn in the side of Timmy Hill in his quest for the NASCAR Nationwide Series Sunoco Rookie of the Year championship.

Hill came into the Fort Worth, Texas venue with a new motor, new attitude and the dedication to try to close out the title of rookie of the year. That plan went out the window with a puff of smoke.

Timmy was running in the 23rd position in the first fifty laps when a vibration that kept increasing forced the team behind the wall to diagnose the issue. After spending 21 laps behind the wall the team returned to action where Hill began turning his quickest laps of the weekend with the new FR-9 motor.

"They always say things run best right before the quit, and that statement was true today," stated a dejected Hill.

Entering turn one, Hill heard the engine let go and quickly dropped to the apron as the engine expired with a locked up cam shaft.

"We threw everything we had at this race and came up short. We are now tied for the title with the #81 team with two races to go. I believe in this team and we have to break this streak of bad luck now!"

Hill is tied with Koch for the rookie lead with Truex now three points back.

"Technically we have an additional point on Koch with the overall points standing. If he can get Rookie of the race for one and us the other it will be interesting. Ryan will be tough at Phoenix. We have worked so hard that we can not give it away down the stretch."

Hill has been at the top of the rookie standings for a streak of 26 straight races of the 31 races this year.