Originally published Friday, July 4, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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Randy Moss has become the latest NFL player to tackle ownership in NASCAR. Moss, a standout receiver for the New England Patriots, announced...
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Randy Moss has become the latest NFL player to tackle ownership in NASCAR.
Moss, a standout receiver for the New England Patriots, announced Thursday he is buying 50 percent of Morgan-Dollar Motorsports, which has fielded entries in the Craftsman Truck Series. The team will be renamed Randy Moss Motorsports and is to take to the track for the first time July 19.
For that race in Kentucky, Willie Allen will be in the driver's seat.
Moss and longtime team owner David Dollar made the announcement at Daytona International Speedway, site of Saturday's Coke Zero 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.
The 31-year-old Moss, a native of West Virginia, said, "I've been a fan of NASCAR. I just met Dale [Earnhardt] Jr., and I felt like a kid."
Should Moss achieve success on the track with his team, he will do something that ex-NFL players Terry Bradshaw, Dan Marino, Brett Favre, Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman have not.
Notes
• The Chevrolet of Martin Truex Jr. failed inspection before Sprint Cup Series practice, prompting NASCAR officials to impound the car and sending Truex's crew scrambling to get the backup car ready.
• Scotsman David Coulthard, 37, will retire from Formula One after the season, ending a career in which he won 13 races but repeatedly fell short of the world championship. He hasn't won a race since 2003.
• Formula One officials said they want to cut team budgets in half and improve fuel efficiency by 2011 to make racing better.
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