Pre-Race Notes and Quotes
Homestead-Miami Speedway
Ford 200
November 20, 2009
SKINNER AT HOMESTEAD-MIAMI SPEEDWAY: Mike Skinner, driver of the No. 5 Exide Toyota Tundra, has competed in seven NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) events on the 1.5-mile speedway. Skinner has earned one top-five and two top-10 finishes in NCWTS competition at the track. The 1995 Truck Series champion has started from the pole position on two occasions including last year’s season finale and has only started from outside of row three one time. In addition, he has also competed at the track five times in the Sprint Cup Series and twice in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. In all, Skinner has taken the green flag 14 times at HMS.
A SEASON ENDING CELEBRATION: Skinner will join several of his driver counterparts from the Truck Series and the Nationwide Series for a fan event at Lummus Park in Miami on Wednesday. The event will begin with a hauler parade from Bicentennial Olympic Park in the early afternoon and will culminate with a driver Q&A session at 3:45 p.m. ET and an autograph session following that at Lummus Park.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST: Crew Chief Eric Phillips and the No. 5 Randy Moss Motorsports team will utilize chassis RMM-106 for this weekend’s event. This truck was new for the race at Chicagoland Speedway and has since been run at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and again two weeks ago at Texas Motor Speedway, where Skinner drove it to an eighth-place finish.
THIS SEASON’S STATS: The No. 5 team has posted eight top-five and 16 top-10 finishes in 24 events this season, including three wins, which came at Kansas Speedway, Iowa Speedway and Gateway (Madison, Ill.) International Raceway.Skinner holds down the third spot in the NCWTS driver point standings, 150 markers behind second place.
SKINNER’S CAREER NCWTS STATS: Mike Skinner has scored 28 victories in 203 starts in NASCAR Camping World Truck Series competition and has earned 88 top-five and 129 top-10 finishes since making his first start in Phoenix (and going on to win the event) in 1995. Skinner has also earned 50 pole positions during that time.
WATCH AND LISTEN: Friday evening’s race will be televised on SPEED and heard live on select affiliates of MRN Radio and Sirius-XM NASCAR Radio Channel 128, beginning at 8 p.m. (ET).
ABOUT EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES: Exide Technologies, with operations in more than 80 countries, is one of the world's largest producers and recyclers of lead-acid batteries. The Company's four global business groups – Transportation Americas, Transportation Europe and Rest of World, Industrial Energy Americas and Industrial Energy Europe and Rest of World – provide a comprehensive range of stored electrical energy products and services for industrial and transportation applications.
Transportation markets include original-equipment and aftermarket automotive, heavy-duty truck, agricultural and marine applications, and new technologies for hybrid vehicles and automotive applications. Industrial markets include network power applications such as telecommunications systems, electric utilities, railroads, photovoltaic (solar-power related) and uninterruptible power supply (UPS), and motive-power applications including lift trucks, mining and other commercial vehicles.
Further information about Exide, including its financial results, are available at www.exide.com.