Mike Bliss
No. 11 America’s RIDEMAKERZ

Memphis Motorsports Park
Memphis, TN
Kroger On Track for the Cure 250
Saturday, Oct 24, 2009

Mike Bliss Quick Facts:

• NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Mike Bliss returns to the No. 11 RIDEMAKERZ Toyota at Memphis Motorsports Park in Memphis, Tenn., this weekend.
• The Memphis race will be Bliss’s third in the No. 11 RIDEMAKERZ Toyota.  Bliss has driven the No. 11 car to two team-high second-place finishes for CJM Racing, at Lowe’s Motor Speedway last week and Dover International Speedway in September.
• The NASCAR veteran has driven all 31 of the Nationwide races in the 2009 season, with one win (Charlotte), six top-5 finishes and 12 top-10s.  Bliss has also started 12 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races and five NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races in 2009.
• In four starts at Memphis, Bliss has four top-10s and two top-five finishes.
  The 44-year-old Milwaukie, Ore., native will also be behind the wheel of the RIDEMAKERZ Toyota Nov. 7 in Texas.

CJM Racing Quick Facts:

• RIDEMAKERZ will return as the primary sponsor of the No. 11 at Memphis. The company offers the first-ever car-customizing experience for kids ages six to 106. Pick one of 70 different car body types and paint schemes, using scale plastic-mold replicas of real-world cars that RIDEMAKERZ licenses from GM, Ford, BMW, and other car companies. Then trick out the ride by picking the wheels, hubcaps, a chassis, sounds, and other options such as radio control. Build YOUR Ride at RIDEMAKERZ.com.
• CJM Racing looks to keep the momentum going at Memphis.  At the team’s last race on Oct. 16 at Charlotte, Mike Bliss drove the No. 11 RIDEMAKERZ Toyota to a second-place finish for CJM’s third top-five finish of the season.
• The 2009 season marks the second season CJM Racing is competing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series full-time. The team moved up into 16th place in the owner point standings, surpassing Michael Waltrip, with last week’s second-place finish at Charlotte.
• CJM Racing transitioned to Toyota Camrys in 2009 and shares a technical alliance with Joe Gibbs Racing. The partnership formed late last year allows the teams to share technical information as well as research and development.
• The team will bring chassis # 015 to Memphis – the same chassis that Trevor Bayne drove to a seventh-place finish at Richmond last month.
• The Kroger On Track for the Cure 250 at Memphis Motorsports Park will air LIVE on ESPN2 at 3 p.m. (ET) on Saturday, Oct. 24th.
  
  

Driver Mike Bliss on Racing the No. 11 RIDEMAKERZ Toyota:

“I’m definitely looking forward to getting back in the car.  CJM Racing ran really well at Richmond (seventh-place, Trevor Bayne).  Memphis and Richmond don’t seem like they’d be the same, but Paul (Wolfe) and I ran the same car with the same setup and it did really well at both races.”

Driver Mike Bliss on Memphis:

“I think we’re going to run well.  I don’t want to be overconfident because a lot can happen at Memphis.  But I understand what it takes to race there. I think that’s the biggest thing. I think I know what a car needs there.  We’ve see that over-aggression makes for lots of yellows. It’s not hard to pass there, but it brings out the short-track mentality and everybody thinks they need to hurry up and go before they get lapped.”

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