Mike Skinner

What draws me to Mike Skinner is how unglamorous and honest his path looks. Born in Susanville, California in 1957, he ground his way up through American stock car racing and became the very first champion of the truck series back in 1995. That kind of trailblazer status rarely gets the spotlight it deserves. Later, driving the No. 98 Ford in the Cup Series, he kept showing up whether the results came or not. I respect drivers you measure by attitude rather than trophies, and Skinner strikes me as exactly that breed, a quiet embodiment of grassroots motorsport grit.

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Name (English)

Mike Skinner

Name (Japanese)

マイク・スキナー

Reading

まいく・すきなー

Born

June 28, 1957 (age 69)

Origin

Susanville, California, United States

Occupation

NASCAR team owner / racing automobile driver

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rooster

• Official sitehttp://www.mikeskinner.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Skinner%20(racing%20driver)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q727352

Tags

• California
• NASCAR team owner
• racing automobile driver

Last updated

September 28, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.