Mark "Simo" Simonaitis (born October 1, 1959) is an American race car driver and entrepreneur. He is the twin brother of racer
Brian Simo. Currently, he is the CEO of
No Fear, and a co-owner of
No Fear Racing.
Simo has made two
NASCAR
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Craftsman Truck Series
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races, first in his self-owned #94
Mac Tools
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Ford F-150
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, and later in the #28
Federated Auto Parts
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Ford for
Ernie Irvan
Virgil Earnest Irvan (born January 13, 1959), occasionally referred to as Swervin' Irvan, is an American former professional stock car racing driver. A retired NASCAR competitor, he is perhaps best remembered for his comeback after a serious head ...
. His best finish was sixth. Simo fielded the #44 entry full-time as an owner from 1995 to 1998.
Joe Ruttman
Raymond Joseph Ruttman (born October 28, 1944) is an American former stock car racing driver who competed in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series, Nationwide Series, and Camping World Truck Series. With 13 career wins in the Truck Series he is currently t ...
drove the truck in its first season with sponsorship from
Coca-Cola
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, Mac, and 1-800 COLLECT, winning twice.
Bryan Reffner drove the next season and won Rookie of the Year, before
Boris Said
Boris Said III (born September 18, 1962) is an American professional racing driver. Said has competed in a variety of disciplines including stock car racing, stock cars, sports car racing, sports cars and touring car racing, touring cars.
Said la ...
became the team's new driver with Federated sponsoring. In two years, Said won one race at
Sears Point. Following the 1998 season, Simo fielded the #14 car part-time in the Winston Cup Series for Said and
Randy LaJoie, and the Busch Series for Irvan. He and Irvan planned to field a full-time Winston Cup entry in 2000, but were unable to find sponsorship and leased their equipment to
Robby Gordon
Robert Wesley Gordon (born January 2, 1969) is an American semi-retired auto racing driver. He has raced in NASCAR, Championship Auto Racing Teams, CART, the IndyCar Series, the Trans-Am Series, International Motor Sports Association, IMSA, Inter ...
.
Motorsports career results
SCCA National Championship Runoffs
NASCAR
(
key) (
Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. ''Italics'' – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Craftsman Truck Series
References
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American Le Mans Series drivers
American sports businesspeople
Businesspeople from California
Living people
NASCAR drivers
Racing drivers from California
Sportspeople from Carlsbad, California
Trans-Am Series drivers
American twins
SCCA National Championship Runoffs participants
1959 births
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