Officials at Randy Moss Motorsports (RMM) announced today that Gene Nead has joined the organization and will serve as crew chief for the #5 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series entry driven by Mike Skinner. Nead joins Randy Moss Motorsports after spending the first half of the 2009 season at JTG Daugherty Racing acting as crew chief for the #47 Nationwide Series entry. In August, Nead was named Interim Crew Chief for the Toyota driven by Michael Waltrip in the Sprint Cup Series. The veteran racer has served in a crew chief capacity in each of NASCAR’s three major series. Prior to his stint at MWR, Nead served as lead engineer on Bill Davis Racing’s Sprint Cup Series effort. His greatest success, however, came in truck series competition. Working for Ultra Motorsports, Nead led driver Ted Musgrave to 11 top-five and 15 top-10 finishes en route to the 2005 series championship. Nead, a native of Philadelphia, Penn., was born into a family of racers and at the age of 15, began building and racing dirt modified cars. He started his own chassis company in Philadelphia before making the move to North Carolina in 1993. He was offered his first job as crew chief with NASCAR driver/owner Phil Parsons in 1996 in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Nead lives in Charlotte, N.C. with his wife and two children.(Randy Moss Motorsports PR)(1-5-2010)
