Mike Skinner
No. 5 Exide Toyota Tundra
Charlotte Motor Speedway – North Carolina Education Lottery 200
May 21, 2010
No. 5 Exide Toyota Tundra News and Notes
• This Week’s Tundra… This week the No. 5 Exide Toyota Tundra team will compete with RMM-108. The Tundra turned its first laps around Kansas Speedway earlier this month where Skinner finished in the seventh position.
• Battery Power… Exide Batteries announced this week they have returned to Randy Moss Motorsports for the 2010 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season. This is the Georgia based company’s second consecutive year partnering with the Statesville based race team.
• Meet Mike… Fans are invited to stop by the Toyota Pit Pass display on Friday afternoon from 1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. to meet Mike Skinner and other Toyota drivers from the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. The drivers will take a break from the on-track action to meet fans and sign autographs.
• Record Start at Charlotte… Mike Skinner has the highest average start of any other driver at Charlotte Motor Speedway with an average start of 2.0. Skinner is the only multi-time pole sitter in NASCAR Camping World Truck Series competition, and he recorded back-to-back-to-back poles from 2005 to 2007. In six starts at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Skinner has started every race from the front two rows.
• Skinner Known for Pacing the Field at CMS… Mike Skinner is tied for second on the all-time laps led list at Charlotte Motor Speedway. In his six starts, Skinner has paced the field for 128 laps around the 1.5-mile track which ties Ron Hornaday.
• Get the Inside Scoop: Follow Randy Moss Motorsports on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook for real-time updates and behind the scenes information about the team: http://www.twitter.com/RMMRacing or http://www.facebook.com/randymossmotorsports.
• Toyota Loyalty… Skinner is the only driver to have piloted a Toyota Tundra in every NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race. The two teamed up in 2004 when the manufacturer entered into the NASCAR arena.
• Watch and Listen… SPEED will host an action-packed day of competition for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series on Friday, May 21st. The morning will kick off with practice on Friday morning at 9:00 a.m. and again at 10:20 a.m. EST. Qualifying for the 134-lap race will be broadcast beginning at 3:30 p.m. EST. SPEED and MRN Radio will both broadcast live coverage of the N.C. Education Lottery 200 beginning at 7:30 p.m. EST.
Mike Skinner on racing at Charlotte Motor Speedway
“Charlotte is such a fun track. I’ve always qualified really well there and we’ve led a bunch of laps during the race, but we’ve never been able to put it all together at the end of the race. We’re using the same truck that we had in Kansas [at Kansas Speedway]. The truck was brand new for that race, but now we’ve had track time with it and we were able to take it back to the shop to make a few adjustments and changes as we worked the kinks out of it. I’m ready to go. We had a strong truck at Dover [International Speedway] last weekend, and we all want to get back into victory lane.”
Crew Chief Gene Nead on competing at Charlotte Motor Speedway
“I’m really excited to have the chance to work with Mike [Skinner] at Charlotte Motor Speedway. He’s been very successful in qualifying at Charlotte [Motor Speedway] and he’s led laps around the track, so now we just need to figure out how to close the deal and get ourselves to victory lane. We had our best finish of the season in the truck that we’re taking to the race and we’re ready to contend for the win this weekend.”
