User:Donnie Park/Clayton Cunningham Racing

Clayton Cunningham is a retired American racing team manager crew chief and team owner, better known for his eponymous racing team Clayton Cunningham Racing

Nissan
When the team began operations, co-inciding with the newly launched 300ZXthey fielded two newly introduced 300ZX with Steve Millen and Jeremy Dale competing in the IMSA GTO

it's effort paid off when Millen won in 1992 and 1994 with Johnny O'Connell" as teamate. This led Millen to become the most winningest driver in any IMSA series.

With the demise of NPTI in 1993 and the demise of their factory effort in off-road racing, Nissan shifted their focus toward the team as the sole works racing representative until 1995 when Millen suffered from an accident that left him seriously injured, ending his racing career. This caused the manufacturer to lose interest and bring to close it's works effort.

won 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring in addition to 24 Hours of Le Mans

Indycar
After the demise of their IMSA effort, Infiniti a luxury division of Nissan, turned their attention to Indycar racing. Led by Frank Honsowetz, the motorsport manager for Nissan; Cunningham was hired for his research and development skills along with NPTI chassis designer, Trevor Harris; engine builder Ed Pink, Yoshio Taniguchi, noted for his works in the Japanese Group C and Supertouring programs.

achieved two wins by Cheever Jr and Tomas Scheckter before the program was brought quietly to a close after 2002, by then many of it's original team members departed.