Mike Skinner, What Happened?

It’s great to see that Mike Skinner is having success in the Craftsman Truck Series, but I’ve often wondered why he struggled so much in the Cup cars (as they were called back then). He won the Dayton 500 pole in 1997, his rookie season, and it seemed to be the start of a great career. In 1999 he finished the season 9th in points and got sit at the “big table” for NASCAR’s end of year jubilee at the Waldorf Astoria. Things were looking up in the ‘Cup cars.
By 2000 however, he was starting to have a string of …read more