Team owner Steve Meehan said:

We feel incredibly fortunate to have David’s knowledge and experience to help launch our 2012 program and hopefully guide the team into the future.

 Additionally, GCMI’s will team up with Dave Jacombs Racing  to from GC Motorsports Canada, which will field two teams in NASCAR’s Canadia Tire Series in 2012. Andrew Ranger will drive one of those entries. He will also drive the Nationwide Series car in select races this season, including the series lone Canadian race, the Napa Auto Parts 200 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.  

The team expects to have more announcements on drivers and sponsorship in the coming weeks.

Ranger, a two-time Canadian NASCAR champion said:

I am truly overwhelmed that [FLR owner Frank Stoddard] is giving me that great opportunity. It’s been five years now that I left single seater racing to undertake a challenging stock-car career. To drive in the Sprint Cup series is a dream come true and a huge step I have been seeking for.

Ranger drove two races this season in the Nationwide Series, Bacyrus 200 at Road America in NDS Motorsports’s No. 53 Dodge and the New England 200 in Go Canada Racing’s No. 67 Ford at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. He finished sixth at Road America and 21st at Loudon.