Mike Bliss
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Michael D. "Mike" Bliss (born April 5, 1965) is an American professional stock car racing pilot.
He has competed in all three national championship series as a journeyman NASCAR competitor and the 2002 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion.
Racing career
At the age of ten, Bliss began racing at age 10. With the USAC Silver Crown National Championship in 1993, he won his first major title in 1993.
In 1995, Bliss first started racing in NASCAR, heading the Nose. In the current Craftsman Truck Series, there are 08 and 2 Ford F-150 for Ultra Motorsports. Bliss won a race in 19 out of 20 categories and ranked eighth in points. He won and I-70 and finished fifth in points in points this year, thanks to sponsorship from Team ASE Racing. He made his first appearance in the top-NASCAR ranks in 1998. He placed first at the Kenwood Home & Car Audio 300, finishing second, then second at Indianapolis Raceway Park for Michael Waltrip Racing. He also competed in two Winston Cup races this season, finishing 25th at Martinsville Speedway in the No. 25. 96 for American Equipment Racing.
After winning six poles and finishing tenth in points in 1998, Bliss has announced that he would not return to the team until 1998 and Roush Racing has signed him to drive the No. 1. 99 Ford Exide Batteries. He won at Heartland Park Topeka and placed ninth in points. He began to pick up invitations to participate in the Cup Series during the season and left Roush. With sponsorship from Sara Lee products, Bliss ran two Winston Cup races for Bahari Racing in 1999.
In 2000, Bliss pledged to drive the No. 20. A.J.'s 14 Conseco-sponsored Pontiac Grand Prix is the 14th in the United States. Foyt Racing is competing for NASCAR's Rookie of the Year Award. Bliss failed to qualify for three out of the first four races of the season, and he was immediately dismissed because the team had no owner's points. He took the No. 4 right away from driving the No. 1 in a hurry. For Eel River Racing, there are 27 Pfizer/Viagra-sponsored Pontiac. He had a ninth-place run at Talladega Superspeedway and finished 39th in points this year.
During the 2001 season, Bliss was unable to commit to a full time ride. In a one-race contract for David Ridling, he came in 40th, but the team soon closed its doors. He returned to Eel River after being suspended from service during the season, but he was unable to qualify for a race. In a one-race contract for IWX Racing's Steve Coulter, he earned his ninth-place run at South Boston late in the season.
In 2002, Coulter returned to the Truck Series full throttle, hiring Bliss as the pilot. In the Truck series championship, Bliss gained five victories and swept the Truck series championship. He would drive the No. 228. Joe Gibbs Racing in the Busch Series was the following year, 20 Rockwell Automation-sponsored Chevrolet for Joe Gibbs Racing, who won 14 Top tens and finished tenth in points. He appeared in the International Race of Champions in the same year, winning at Chicagoland Speedway. Jamie McMurray, a former model who was shooting for the wounded Sterling Marlin, only had a prior interest) in the No. 1 Winston Cup in 2002, but he only ran one Winston Cup race in 2002. Dodge 40 is a sponsored Dodge by Coors Light. In 2004, Bliss won his first Busch victory at Lowe's Motor Speedway and came in fifth place in points. After being refused a job as a driver for Gibbs' Cup program, Bliss announced his resignation and swapped Ward Burton with Ward Burton at Haas CNC Racing's Cup ride, marking his tenth appearance run at Darlington Raceway.
Mike Bliss had his best finish to date in his Cup series career in the 2004 Chevy Rock & Roll 400 before heading to Joe Gibbs Racing. Bliss, a No. 2 on the highway, is the No. 1 on the map. On lap 332, 80 Hunt's Ketchup-sponsored JGR vehicle was suspended for speeding on pit road. Despite this, he made a dramatic comeback by bursting through the field during the final 50 laps and finishing 4th, his first and only Top 5 to date.
In 2005, Bliss joined Haas CNC full time, where he appeared in two top-tens in the second half of the season and finished 28th in points. He came close to winning a large bonus paycheck and a victory in the Nextel Open event, but Brian Vickers crashed on the final lap in the final turn. Vickers won the race and the bonus, as Bliss slid into second place in 2nd place, while the Bliss finished in second place. Mike Bliss was clearly distraught with Vickers at the post-race parade, saying, "I just got plain dumped and I wouldn't have wrecked him to win this race." Now he is in the big show (the All-Star Race) and I am not.
At the end of the year, Bliss departed to return to No. 11 for the second time. 16 in the Truck Series, winning at Atlanta Motor Speedway and finishing 11th in the final standings. In addition,, he appeared in the Busch Series for the first time this season, splitting time with Frank Cicci Racing with Jim Kelly and SKI Motorsports. Bliss began driving the No. 1 in the late season. 49 BAM Racing Dodge Nextel Cup Car and finished out the 2006 season by driving the car for BAM. In 2007, Bliss was supposed to drive the car, but he resigned from the company midway through the season after a long line of DNQs. In the No. 78, he rode the first four races of the 2007 Craftsman Truck season for Key Motorsports and drove 13 more Truck races for Bobby Hamilton Racing in the No. 7. Dodge Ram 4 is a vehicle that was on display in the National Museum of Canada. In the No. 2, he has also competed in the Busch Series for Fitz Motorsports. Supercuts and Family Dollars sponsor the 22 Dodge Charger. In 2008, he had agreed to work for Fitz full time, but he joined Phoenix Racing shortly after the season began. He finished fifth in points for his career, but he also ran part-time schedules in Cup and Trucks.
At Lowes Motor Speedway, Bliss earned his second career victory, relying on his fuel mileage and getting a caution at the right time, and NASCAR declared the race official after 170 of 200 laps due to rain. Bliss was banned from Phoenix Racing on August 2, 2009, but the team was still racing the team in a cup series. Before returning to Phoenix for the season finale at Homestead, he spent the remainder of the season splitting time with MSRP Motorsports, NEMCO Motorsports, and CJM Racing. Despite parking in a few events, three runners in the late top five runs pushed Bliss to fifth place overall. This was one spot better than when he was banned from the No. 1st. This is a single vehicle.
Bliss would return to full-time racing for Tommy Baldwin Racing in the No. 328 on December 3, 2009. The 2010 season of Wave Energy Drink Chevrolet Impala. However, after Phoenix, Bliss resigned from TBR and resumed driving the No. 10 in April. At Talladega, the 09 will begin.
In 2011, Mark Smith's TriStar Motorsports joined the Nationwide Series in the No. 1 race, bringing him to full-time status. 19 Chevrolet. Despite being matched with old crew chief Dave Fuge, Fuge has joined the team to form a Nationwide Series team with Derrike Cope. Following interim crew chief Wes Ward's departure from the team, former TRG Motorsports crew chief Paul Clapprood took over, leading Bliss to a 12th-place finish. Bliss debuted at No. 1 in 2012, putting him in second place. 44. Tayler Malsam, a teammate, was released from the 19 team in October and spent the remainder of the year on the track. He ended the season with a top-ten at Daytona in July, where he placed 8th in points and also finished eighth in points.
During his time in the Xfinity Series during Smith's career, he also rode part of the Sprint Cup Series for Smith's start and park Humphrey Smith Motorsports team. He rode Phoenix Racing's No. 67 in September 2013. James Finch's last act as a team owner was 51 Chevrolet in the Sprint Cup AdvoCare 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. In 2009, Bliss had won Finch's last match in a Nationwide contest at Charlotte.
In the No. 62, Bliss served as a standby driver for David Ragan. On Paternity Watch, 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford appeared on the 2014 Pocono 400 with Ragan on paternity watch. Later in the season, Bliss joined BK Racing in the No. 1 No. 105. 93 Toyotas finished 41st in the Quaker State 400.
Go FAS Racing had Bliss to drive the No. 2 in the United States. In 2015, 32 sprint Cup cars were traded with Bobby Labonte and Boris Said, while TriStar's full time in the Xfinity Series was scheduled to continue racing full time.
Because Lagasse sponsored Bliss in the season-opening Xfinity race at Daytona in 2015, he was displaced by Scott Lagasse Jr. Bliss returned to the car and rode through the spring Talladega race before being permanently banned from the sport because former teammate Eric McClure had full coverage. The latest No. 6 replaced Bliss' ride. McClure and the No. 24 are driving. 19 people were relegated to a beginning and a park ride. Bliss has been involved in mentoring for TriStar pilots McClure, Blake Koch, Cale Conley, and David Starr. He continued racing with GoFAS Racing in his part-time Sprint Cup career, but was suspended from the team after the Quicken Loans 400 at Michigan International Speedway. He returned to the No. 305 in TriStar's No. 71 late in the season. In the last three races of the season, Conley was suspended due to sponsorship problems, but parking was permitted.
Several organizations, including TriStar, Contreras Motorsports, and MB Motorsports, have all got off to a few one-off starts in 2016 across the Xfinity Series and the Truck Series. Mike Bliss hasn't started any of NASCAR's top-three series since 2016. He began working with Joe Graf Jr as a driving instructor for Chad Bryant Racing in the ARCA Menards Series East in 2019.
Motorsports career results
(Bold – Pole position earned by qualifying time) (British – Key) (Bold) (Bold – By qualifying time) Italics – Pole position gained by points standings or practice time. (Most laps led): 1) – More laps than ever.)
1 Ineligible for series points is still in progress.
(Bold) (Bold) – Pole position. * – Most laps led.)