Team Cherikee

Team Cherikee (TC) is a team currently operating in the ISCRA Can-Am Cup Series and the ISCRA Sparco Pro Series. The team was opened in 1990 by Clyde Blackburn, a former executive at Ford, and since its inception the team has won 128 races and the Cup championship in 1998, 2004, and 2013.

For the first two seasons of operation, Team Cherikee operated just one car, then expanded to two entries for the 1992 season. Following the success the team experiences in 1992, they decided to add a third car for the 1993 season; this number of entries would remain the same for the next seven seasons. A fourth car was added to the stable after 2000, and since then Team Cherikee has remained at four full-time entries. In the Pro Series, the team has consistently fielded an entry since 1991, but depending on sponsorship and available drivers the amount of cars fielded has wavered between just one car and five cars. The team also briefly owned an entry in the Truck Series, operating in that series from 2002 to 2010.

As of the 2020 season, the team fields four full-time entries in the ISCRA Can-Am Cup Series: the No. 5 Ford Mustang for Duke Tillman, the No. 16 Ford Mustang for Casey Dawson, the No. 35 Ford Mustang for Krista Noel, and the No. 52 Ford Mustang for Markus Theiss. The team also fields a single entry in the ISCRA Sparco Pro Series, the No. 2 Ford Mustang for Lamar Russell.

Despite the team's strong programs and constant appearance in the ISCRA, Team Cherikee has not reached the level of success that other "superteams" like Mark Powell Motorsports, Texas Motorsports, and Pilot Racing have been able to achieve. Despite this, the team has still spurred the development of many successful drivers, including Scott Haines, Kevin Reed, and Tanner Walton.