Michael Curtis Skinner (born June 28, 1957) is an American former
stock car racing
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driver. He has competed in the
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
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The series began in 1949 as the Strictly Stock Division, ...
,
NASCAR Busch Series
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and
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
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, and he was the first ever champion of the latter in 1995. He has most recently driven the No. 98
Ford Fusion for
Phil Parsons Racing in the Cup Series. He is the father of former NASCAR drivers
Jamie Skinner and
Dustin Skinner. He was born in
Susanville, California
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.
Skinner appeared as the test driver for the first series of ''
The Grand Tour
''The Grand Tour'' is a British motoring television series, created by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, and Andy Wilman, for Amazon Prime Video, and premiered on 18 November 2016. The programme was devised in the wake of the depar ...
''. He was known as "The American," in humorous contrast to the main presenters, who are
British
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. He appeared in the series for one season, until he was replaced with
Abbie Eaton.
Racing career
Early career
Skinner began his racing career at Susanville Speedway in the 1970s in a
Plymouth Road Runner and at various California dirt tracks, winning three championships. He soon moved to
North Carolina
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and worked as a crew member for
Rusty Wallace
Russell "Rusty" William Wallace Jr. (born August 14, 1956) is an American former NASCAR racing driver. He won the 1984 NASCAR Cup series NASCAR Rookie of the Year, Rookie of the Year and the 1989 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, 1989 NASCAR Winston Cup ...
and at
Petty Enterprises
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. In 1986, he made his NASCAR debut in the Winston Cup Series, driving the No. 19
Pontiac for the Zanworth Racing Team, and had a best finish of 22nd in three starts. The following year, he made his Busch Series debut at
Darlington Raceway
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, finishing 27th in the No. 0 Hunt Tire-sponsored
Oldsmobile
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. He did not compete in NASCAR again until 1990, when he drove the No. 13 Glidden Paints-sponsored
Buick
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for Mansion Motorsports at
North Carolina Speedway
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, finishing 35th with
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failure. He ran four races for Dixon over the next two years, before running one race in 1993 for
Jimmy Means.
In 1994, Skinner began racing late models for Gene Petty, and won a local track championship. He and Petty also began racing in the Busch Series in the No. 88, winning one pole in the
Kentucky Fried Chicken
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-sponsored
Chevrolet
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, but failing to finish a race.
Richard Childress Racing
Skinner was chosen by
Richard Childress Racing
Richard Childress Racing (RCR) is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Cup Series and the NASCAR Xfinity Series. The team is based in Welcome, North Carolina, and is owned and operated by Richard C ...
to drive the No. 3
GM Goodwrench-sponsored
Chevrolet C/K
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for the first
NASCAR SuperTruck Series season. He won the first race in the series, and collected a total of eight wins, 17 Top 5 finishes, 18 Top 10 finishes, 10 poles, an average start of 3.9 and an average finish of 4.8,The route to winning the first championship. He equaled his win total the following season, but fell to third in the standings. That year, he ran five races for RCR in the Winston Cup Series, qualifying in the Top 10 three times and having a best finish of 12th in the No. 31 Realtree-sponsored car. He also filled in for teammate
Dale Earnhardt
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when Earnhardt was recovering from injuries suffered in a wreck at Talladega, where he flipped after contact with Sterling Marlin.
In the
1997 NASCAR Winston Cup season, Skinner was promoted to full-time, driving the No. 31 for RCR with a sponsorship from
Lowe's
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. He won poles at both of the season's races at
Daytona International Speedway
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and had three top ten finishes. Despite failing to qualify for one race and a 30th-place points finish, he won the Rookie of the Year award. He had nine Top 10's during his sophomore season, but finished 21st in points after being forced sit out three races due to injury. He also won two exhibition races in Japan during those two seasons, when NASCAR held races in
Asia
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for the first time. He finished no worse than sixth in the first four races of the
1999 season, and held the points lead briefly during the early portion of the season. He had a total of five Top 5 finishes, 14 Top 10 finishes, two poles, and ended the year with a career-best 10th place in the point standings. He also raced in 13 races in the Busch Series, driving the No. 19 Yellow Freight Systems-sponsored Chevy for Emerald Performance Group. He won his only career Busch Series race at Atlanta after being disqualified for a rules infraction, before NASCAR overturned its decision.
Skinner had 11 Top 10s in the
2000 season, but fell to twelfth in points and lost his crew chief
Larry McReynolds
Lawrence Joseph McReynolds III (born January 10, 1959) is an American NASCAR crew chief and current racing analyst on Fox Sports as well as a columnist on Foxsports.com. In the past, he has served as an advisor to Petty Enterprises, and as a m ...
, who retired from NASCAR to broadcast the series on Fox Sports.
In the
2001 season, he had only one top ten and suffered severe injuries in a wreck at
Chicagoland Speedway
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after cutting a right-front tire and crashing head-first in turn 1. He was forced to miss the next five races because he suffered a concussion, a broken ankle, and a torn ACL in the crash. Free agent driver
Robby Gordon
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was tapped to replace him and had a few Top 10s. Then the news broke out that Gordon would replace Skinner in the No. 31 Chevy after the 2001 season, and that Lowe's resigned from RCR to sponsor
Jeff Gordon
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and Rick Hendrick's co-owned team for the rookie
Jimmie Johnson
Jimmie Kenneth Johnson (born September 17, 1975) is an American professional auto racing driver. He currently competes part-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 84 Toyota Camry XSE for Legacy Motor Club. Johnson has won seven Cup ch ...
in 2002. Skinner returned at Michigan, but after another accident at Richmond, Skinner opted for surgery to repair his ACL. He announced the next morning after the accident that he would miss the remainder of the season. In his announcement, he bid farewell to Richard Childress and his team; he also announced that Robby Gordon would replace him again and wished him luck.
Robby Gordon finished off the season with an upset victory at New Hampshire.
2002–2017
Skinner signed on to drive the No. 4
Kodak
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-sponsored Chevy for
Morgan-McClure Motorsports in the
2002 season. During the 2001 season, the Morgan-McClure team employed several drivers and had six Top 15 finishes. In 2002, Skinner had a sixth-place finish at Rockingham but only managed three Top 15 finishes while finishing 31st in the final points standings.
The team switched to Pontiac for the
2003 season, after
Joe Gibbs Racing
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went to Chevrolet and picked up manufacturer support. Skinner continued to struggle. After failing to qualify for the
Sirius 400 at
Michigan
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, Skinner was released after 14 races. Later in the season, he ran four Truck Series races for
Billy Ballew Motorsports and returned to the cup series to replace
Jerry Nadeau
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in the No. 01 U.S. Army sponsored car for
MBV Motorsports
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in 11 races. His highlight and lowlight of that car came at a weekend in
Richmond
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, he wrecked his first car in practice after getting loose, Then, after unrolling the backup, earned the pole. After hitting oil in Happy Hour, he had to then go to a third car which was a car that was supposed to run next weekend at
Loudon. He continued to run the 01 until Martinsville when
Joe Nemechek
Joseph Frank Nemechek III (born September 26, 1963) is an American professional stock car racing driver who last competed part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 24 Toyota Supra for Sam Hunt Racing. Nemechek has made the second mos ...
went to drive the 01 to get ready for his ride in 2003. His final race of the season came at Homestead for
Michael Waltrip Racing
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, driving the 00
Bacardi
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Chevrolet.
In 2004, Skinner returned to the Truck Series to become one of Toyota's main drivers following their entrance of the Tundra in the truck series. Skinner drove the No. 42 Toyota Tundra for
Bang! Racing for the first 18 races. He was running ninth in points when conflicts between Toyota and Bang's owners allowed the team to split and run the No. 5 Toyota Tundra for
Bill Davis Racing
Bill Davis Racing was a racing team that participated in all three of NASCAR's top divisions until 2009.
The team had run Toyota-branded stock cars and trucks in the Camping World Truck Series (Toyota Tundra) since 2004 and Sprint Cup Series ( T ...
. He won two poles and had two Top 10s in his six races for Bill Davis Racing while finishing 11th in the final points. On the Cup side of things, Skinner returned to Childress to run the 33
Bass Pro Shops
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Chevy in the
Daytona 500
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. He finished in 22nd, one lap down from winner
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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In 2005, Skinner again drove the No. 5 Toyota Tundra for Bill Davis Racing. He collected seven poles and two Truck Series wins and finished fifth in points. He also ran a part-time Nextel Cup schedule, first announcing six races for Davis in the 23 car with sponsorship from
Argent Mortgage,
Bad Boy Mowers
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, and
The History Channel
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, he qualified in five of the six races, as the other race he failed to qualify due to rain and being too low in Owner-Points. Skinner also raced in four races for
R&J Motorsports in the 37 car for four races, with a best finish of 37th after some horrendous luck. He also attempted the 00
Aaron's Dream Machine for Michael Waltrip again but was collected in the Big One on Lap 19. In 2006, Skinner again drove for
Bill Davis Racing
Bill Davis Racing was a racing team that participated in all three of NASCAR's top divisions until 2009.
The team had run Toyota-branded stock cars and trucks in the Camping World Truck Series (Toyota Tundra) since 2004 and Sprint Cup Series ( T ...
in the Truck Series. He collected eight poles and won one race while finishing 10th in points. He also ran four cup races and nine Busch series races during the year. He also failed to qualify for 10 races that year as well.
In 2007, Skinner finished second in the Craftsman Truck series point standings while driving the No. 5 Toyota Tundra for
Bill Davis Racing
Bill Davis Racing was a racing team that participated in all three of NASCAR's top divisions until 2009.
The team had run Toyota-branded stock cars and trucks in the Camping World Truck Series (Toyota Tundra) since 2004 and Sprint Cup Series ( T ...
. Skinner had a dominating year, as he won twelve poles and five races. He went into the last race of the season with a 29 point lead over
Ron Hornaday Jr
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before having multiple tire issues and finishing in 35th place, losing the championship to Hornaday by 54 points.
In 2008, Skinner collected four poles and won one race while finishing sixth in Truck Series points. He also ran in 11 Sprint Cup races for Toyota with one race for
Bill Davis Racing
Bill Davis Racing was a racing team that participated in all three of NASCAR's top divisions until 2009.
The team had run Toyota-branded stock cars and trucks in the Camping World Truck Series (Toyota Tundra) since 2004 and Sprint Cup Series ( T ...
, three races for
Michael Waltrip Racing
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, and seven races for
Team Red Bull. In 2009, Skinner was under contract to drive for Bill Davis Racing in the Truck Series, but the team was sold and ceased operations. On January 29, it was announced that Skinner would drive one of two trucks that
Randy Moss Motorsports would field, the No. 5
Exide Batteries
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-sponsored Tundra. Skinner won three races and three poles and finished third in points. Skinner drove in five Cup Series races in 2009, three races in
Tommy Baldwin Racing
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's No. 36 car that year and one race in the No. 70
Chevrolet Impala SS
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for TRG Motorsports.
The next season, however, would be quite different. Phillips left RMM after the 2009 season to be the crew chief for
Kyle Busch Motorsports
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. Veteran Gene Nead initially replaced him, but Nead left the team after Charlotte, being replaced by team engineer Stacy Johnson. Their season would only go downhill from there, with Skinner grabbing only two top fives and an eight-place finish in the points. Skinner parted ways with RMM on January 19, 2011.
In 2011, Skinner attempted to qualify the No. 45 Toyota Tundra for Eddie Sharp Racing at Daytona, but failed to make the race on speed. Skinner was ineligible to use his past champion's provisional due to ESR entering the No. 45 after the entry deadline. He drove No. 60 Big Red Soda-sponsored Toyota Camry for Germain Racing in the Sprint Cup Series and also spent a few races driving the No. 32 Ford Fusion for
FAS Lane Racing. He also drove for Tommy Baldwin Racing in Atlanta after medical issues forced
Dave Blaney
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from the car.

In 2012, Skinner drove the No. 8
Eddie Sharp Racing
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Chevrolet in the season-opening Truck Series race at Daytona, but was involved in a crash with teammate
Cale Gale
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Karting
Gale's racing career began when his father placed him on a Kart racing, g ...
and failed to finish the race. In early May, Skinner joined
Hamilton Means Racing to drive the No. 52 in the Sprint Cup Series starting in the
Southern 500
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at
Darlington Raceway
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. His last start was the 2012 August Michigan race. He has not raced ever since.
In 2016, Skinner starred as the test driver for the first series of the British motoring show ''
The Grand Tour
''The Grand Tour'' is a British motoring television series, created by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, and Andy Wilman, for Amazon Prime Video, and premiered on 18 November 2016. The programme was devised in the wake of the depar ...
''. On November 7, 2017, Skinner announced that he would not be returning for the second series of the show.
He was later replaced by racing driver
Abbie Eaton.
Personal life
As revealed in a
SiriusXM
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NASCAR Radio Interview with Dave Moody, Skinner was born Michael Quick. At the age of eight, his mother left his birth father and married a rancher by the name of William "Bill" Skinner, and Mike took his name after him. He was voted
class president
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in the eighth grade. He then moved to
Colorado
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in his late teens and worked on the oil derricks and was a manager. After getting his licence suspended in
Colorado
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, he went back to
California
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at the DMV to get his licence redone and then bought a 1971
Plymouth Road Runner. After crashing the car while street racing, he then ended up rebuying the car and converted it into a stock car and nearly won in his first ever race, only to showboat and crash the car, rolling several times and landing on his roof. Skinner was untouched until he kicked the car and broke his big toe.
Skinner has been married twice, first to his high school sweetheart and got married as an ultimatum but eventually divorced. In 2000, he married Angie Skinner, a co-host on SiriusXM Speedway. Together, the two host the "Skinner Roundup" on SiriusXM, held on Sunday afternoons where no Cup race is held.
Mike has two sons from his previous marriage,
Jamie
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and
Dustin, who both appeared in NASCAR races.
Motorsports career results
NASCAR
(
key) (
Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. ''Italics'' – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Sprint Cup Series
=Daytona 500
=
Busch Series
Camping World Truck Series
Ineligible for series points
ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series
(
key) (
Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. ''Italics'' – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
References
External links
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Living people
1957 births
People from Susanville, California
Sportspeople from Lassen County, California
Racing drivers from California
NASCAR drivers
NASCAR Truck Series champions
NASCAR team owners
ARCA Menards Series drivers
Richard Childress Racing drivers
Michael Waltrip Racing drivers
Trans-Am Series drivers