Randy Moss will be entering his first NASCAR race as a team owner when he runs the #81truck at Kentucky Speedway on July 18. Willie Allen, last year’s Craftsman Truck Series Rookie of the Year will be his driver.
Moss said that his involvement is all about love and passion:
“But I am not jumping into NASCAR because of the color of my skin. It’s about the love and passion I have to win and about being a fan with an opportunity that has come my way”
Moss has jumped in with both feet, buying 50% of the Morgan-Dollar race team and renaming it Randy Moss Motorsports. It seems like he knows what he is doing, and we wish him the best of luck. You can find more information in this David Poole article from the Charlotte Observer.
With Mark Martin signing for two years with HMS to drive the #5 car full time next year, and perhaps to share a ride with Landon Cassill or Brad Keselowski in 2010, the rumor mongers are running out of options for Tony Stewart. It seems that his only options now may be the #12 car for Penske, if Ryan Newman goes elsewhere, or maybe the #40 team for Ganassi. Or maybe he could just stay with Gibbs. Rev Jim explores the options one more time:
Stewart is already rumored to be signing with Haas/CNC, where he will be part owner and drive a car for the chronic backmarker, and wave some kind of magic wand that will suddenly make a top forty team a top ten team. While he is doing that, he is also rumored to be driving for Hendrick Motorsports in the number 5 car, since it has been announced that Casey Mears will no longer be driving the car next year. That alone should generate more rumors concerning Mears in the #40 car next year, even if Stewart is supposed to be in that car next year, according to rumor mongers, who have yet to explain how Smoke will be in the #5 car if that is where Mark Martin is supposed to be for 2009…read more
That item is tagged as “Satire and Humor” so we should take it with a grain of salt.
Over at Trouble in Turn 2, Mike has some “Friday Notes:”
A brief history of the #40 car. Once upon a time there was a driver named Sterling Marlin. He was hired to drive a racecar full time for Chip Ganassi/Felix Sabates Racing (This was before they changed their name to Chip Ganassi/Felix Sabates Mostly Riding Around)…read more
Have a Happy Independence Weekend, and enjoy the race!
July 7, 2008 at 4:46 pm
I know you tagged it as “Sattire & Humor”, but I really hope that people aren’t truly considering cars at Penske or Ganassi as viable options for Stewart … if it’s not a GM car, then Smoke will remain with Joe Gibbs. That’s just the way it is.
July 8, 2008 at 1:07 am
He seems to be running out of options then. I think that if he really was going to Haas, he wouldn’t be looking for a sponsor, because Haas Engineering/ Industrial Systems sponsors the Haas CNC race teams, and is a multi billion dollar company.