Moss Motorsports Set to Debut #81 Truck at Kentucky
June 30, 2008 by Tim Zaegel
Filed under Racing
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After Super Bowl runner-up, Randy Moss, announced last April that his latest endeavours would include the creation of a full-time NASCAR Craftsmant Truck Series team, the star WR for the New England Patriots has indeed made good on his promise. Moss has announced that he will debut the #81 Moss Motorsports truck on July 19th at Kentucky Speedway for the Built Ford Tough 225, though the team’s manufacturer, sponsors, and even their driver have yet to be announced.
We do know that Moss has recently purchased a major portion of Morgan-Dollar Motorsports, a team that currently fields Willie Allen in the no. 46 Chevy in the series. There has been some speculation that the team could simply rename their existing operations as Moss Motorsports, but that has yet to be determined. Either way, this more than likely means that Moss has established a relationship with GM, and odds are that when the green drops at Kentucky, we’re probably going to be looking at a no. 81 Chevy somewhere on the track.
There are also rumors that the driver of the truck in the team’s debut race could very well be a “prominent” Sprint Cup standout. My first inclination would be that if this is in fact true, then it would probably be someone with some past experience in the Truck Series. But, as I skim through the current Cup roster, there’s no Chevy drivers that fit both bills, so really, I don’t even know where to speculate in terms of who that driver will be. If the GM thing doesn’t hold true, though, then I’d look for someone out of the Gibbs camp, probably Denny Hamlin. But, again, that’s all speculation.
Moss is expected to make an official announcement concerning the team’s plans in a press conference this Thursday at Daytona.
Speaking of football players owning teams, whatever happened to Tim Brown’s supposed NASCAR team? Didn’t he buy th No. 81 to start a team. Whatever happened to that?
Well it seems like we’ll be hearing a lot of news this weekend… dealing with Randy Moss, Mark Martin, etc. It should be interesting to see how things will fall into place.
I’m actually not too sure whatever happened with Tim Brown starting a team. That’s one that I’ll have to look into …
Indeed, Daytona has a habitual way of drawing some of the biggest announcements every year because of the media emphasis placed on those races. I’m particularly interested to hear about Mark Martin’s plans.
It is still basically the Morgan-Dollar team, renamed to Randy Moss Motorsports. Willie Allen, last year’s CTS Rookie of the Year will remain as the driver. He didn’t even have a ride at the beginning of the season.
Yeah, this whole ordeal wound up turning into exactly what I was hoping it wouldn’t. Ahh well, we’ll see how it pans out.