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NASCAR WCUP: Mike Skinner prepares for battle at New Hampshire

5 July 2000

Posted By Terry Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel

Mike Skinner
Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse Racing
Event Preview Fact Sheet

Event/Date: Jiffy Lube 300/July 9, 2000
Track: New Hampshire International Speedway/Loudon, N.H.

NOTES:

Crew chief Larry McReynolds has a race victory and a pole at New Hampshire International Speedway, both with Ernie Irvan. They won the pole for the 1994 event and won the race in 1996 after starting from the sixth position. The track hosted a second race beginning in 1997.

Mike Skinner's best NHIS start was fourth (9/14/97). He has one other top 10 start, a sixth in last year's Dura Lube 300 (9/19/99). His best finish at NHIS is fifth (7/12/98).

The primary car Team Lowe's Racing will utilize this week (Car No. 55) is the same one used earlier this season at Martinsville (start 3/finish 19) and Richmond (start 3/finish 33). It's a low snout Laughlin. Car first used at second Loudon race in '99 (start 6/finish 27).

Text provided by David Hart

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