Introduction and Championship History

you know, don't don't come back with that. And the next week it'd be in the rules. When we started the rule book was about uh that thick. At the end of '96 the rule book was that thick. We're here in the mountains with Mike Skinner and Angie Skinner and they got this pretty cool truck in here. What's the story behind this thing? We were lucky enough to win the first championship in the uh NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Ran '95, '96 in trucks and then went to the to the Cup Series in '97. Richard kept two trucks. One of the trucks was the very first truck, the one that we we were sideways off of four at Phoenix and beat Terry Labonte for the first points race. That truck was really heavy. They they It was a sled and I started like hammering and like we got to get lower, lighter, left or you know, we just start Let's Let's build short track stuff. I was a late model guy, so my stuff was all full of holes and tricked up and and we worked hard on on very conscious about weight. We built this truck. It was probably Well, it was probably well over 100 lb lighter than