KAT Motorsports

KAT Motorsports is a American auto racing team owned by Kathryn Azure. Initially formed as a development subsidiary of FAC Motorsports, owned by Azure's husband Frank Azure to develop talent in FARC sanctioned series', but after a disastrous 2015 season, FAC cut all ties to the team and started running as an independent organization for 2016 onwards.

Formation
During the FARC Lone Star Championship weekend in 2014, FAC Motorsports owner Frank Azure announced that he would hand all FARC related operations to his wife, Kathryn Azure after the 2014 FARC season. This was done as a cost-cutting measure on FAC's part as the team felt that the return they were getting from their FARC teams wasn't worth the amount of money they were putting into the team, most of which went to to fixing wrecked race cars. This new team would still serve under FAC, but would be run on a somewhat smaller budget, which resulted in the closure of their FARC Modified team. Another reason for this move was that FAC could re-open their TM Lights team, which they shut down after the previous year due to the excessive repair bills stemming from the FARC team. The new team would be called KAT Motorsports.

2015, A Disastrous First Year
During the 2014-2015 offseason, KAT Motorsports would announce that, although they couldn't keep the Modified team, they would still field the No. 46 car in the FARC Elite Series as well as two cars in the newly rechristened FARC Super Series. They also announced that Nick Azure, who had driven the 46 the previous two years, will share driving duties in the 46 with Alex Whitt. FAC Motorsports, who Nick Azure was still under contract for, wanted Nick to cut back his FARC schedule in order to focus on his eventual TM Lights return. Along with splitting the 46 in the Elite Series, Whitt was also tabbed to drive the No. 94 full-time in the Super Series. KAT also retained FAC development driver Frank Azzaretto to drive the second Super Series car.

Things got off to a terrible start when KAT had three cars attempt the season opening Smash Beer 200 at Texas World Speedway, and none of them qualified for the race. Things would get would only get worse from there where in the four races out the team showed up for of the first five, they only qualified for one. Whitt would finish 15th in the team's first race the next week at the Columbia Speedway, Whitt's home track. Despite Whitt earning three top 15 finishes in four races, Azure would failed to qualify for every race he was in the car. After Whitt finished 15th at Mosport the 46 seemingly disappeared from the grid, not showing up for another race.

Their Super Series efforts were somewhat better, despite Whitt's tendency for getting into accidents under caution and Azzaretto's career long struggle with luck. Despite that, Whitt did have a tendency to bring the car home in one piece then Azzaretto and both cars finished in the top 20 in points. Whitt would finish 10th in the final standings with three top 5's and six top 10's, while Azzaretto would finish 16th with four top 10's.