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Teamwork essential part of success at Randy Moss Motorsports
By David Exum - SceneDaily Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
New England Patriots wide-receiver Randy Moss is co-owner of Randy Moss Motorsports.
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CONCORD, N.C. - New England Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss has good reason to be enjoying his first full season as co-owner of a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team.
Six races into the season, Randy Moss Motorsports driver Mike Skinner already has a win under his belt, and he is second in the Truck series standings, 84 points behind leader Ron Hornaday Jr. And the team’s second driver, rookie Tayler Malsam, is currently 12th in the series standings.
Moss and the team's co-owner, David Dollar, who previously owned Morgan-Dollar Motorsports with Rob Morgan, were elated to have Skinner collect his victory at Kansas Speedway on April 27 in just the fifth race of the year.
"For us to get our first win at Kansas that early in the season will hopefully open up doors later this season," the six-time Pro Bowl receiver said last Friday at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
Skinner, who has won 26 times during his 11-year career in the Truck series and came over to RMS after Bill Davis Racing folded at the end of the 2008 season, has been pleased, too.
"We have done better than what I expected as far as Randy goes,” said Skinner, the 1995 Truck series champion. “It's awesome working for Randy and David because they know how to win, and they also know that you're not going to win every time we go out."
Skinner, who suffered his first DNF of the season Friday because of a horrific crash early in the race at LMS, says auto racing and pro football are both team-based and that success cannot be reached without a total team effort.
"I think there is a lot of parallels and similarities in what [Moss] does and what we do," Skinner said. "We're athletes at different levels. His is more physically demanding than what we do. Both [sports] are very mentally demanding ... He catches a football, I drive into a corner at 190 mph. Everybody has their own talents and their own things they can do, but winning is still winning, and it’s still a team sport."
Skinner’s Kansas win was a longtime coming for Dollar, who last visited victory lane in 2006 with Cup driver Clint Bowyer behind the wheel at Texas Motor Speedway. But Dollar is no stranger to NASCAR. During his 12-year career in the sport he has employed several talented drivers such as Bobby Labonte and Dennis Setzer.
"I'm excited about this season...," said Dollar, whose team made the switch from racing Chevys to Toyotas this season. "Accomplishing what we have in such a short amount of time has just been fantastic."
Mentioned Drivers: Mike Skinner
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| 11 | Carl Edwards | -520 |
| 12 | Brian Vickers | -666 |
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Anonymous said:
May 20, 2009 at 6:19 PMIf you really want to help other minorities to get into NASCAR hire them. For drivers,pit crews,they should start somewhere.
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May 20, 2009 at 6:21 PMIf you really want to help other minorities to get into NASCAR hire them. For drivers,pit crews,they should start somewhere. Bonnie
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May 20, 2009 at 11:34 PMLet's do a random drug test on Randy Moss!! The pot head!
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May 21, 2009 at 11:45 AMHey Bernie, they have drug testing in the NFL. He has to be clean to play football just like Nascar. So do your homework til you open your mouth.
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May 22, 2009 at 3:52 PMI think YOU need to take a look at his history a couple years after he started in the NFL.
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May 23, 2009 at 6:53 PMYou are right, Bernie--Randy has been open about it in his interviews.
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