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Bang! Racing is a former NASCAR
NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the largest sanctioning body of stock cars in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series....
 team. It was owned by entrepreneur Alex Meshkin, as well as Larry McReynolds
Larry McReynolds

Lawrence Joseph McReynolds III was a long-time NASCAR crew chief and currently serves as a racing analyst on Fox Sports and columnist on Foxsports.com....
 and fielded entries in the NASCAR
NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the largest sanctioning body of stock cars in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series....
 Craftsman Truck Series
Craftsman Truck Series

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is a racing series owned and operated by the NASCAR. It is the only series in all of NASCAR to race modified production pickup trucks and is one of the three national divisions of NASCAR, together with the Nationwide Series and the top level Sprint Cup....
. It only ran one season, in 2004
2004 in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

The 2004 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season began on February 13 and ended on November 19. Bobby Hamilton of Bobby Hamilton Racing won the championship....
.

Meshkin started the operation in 2003, and it made its debut at Daytona International Speedway
Daytona International Speedway

Daytona International Speedway is a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida, Florida, United States. Since opening in 1959, it has been the home to the most important race in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, the Daytona 500....
 the following season. Its two drivers were Travis Kvapil
Travis Kvapil

Travis Kvapil is an American race car driver. He currently drives the #28 Ford Fusion for Yates Racing in the Sprint Cup Series....
 in the #24 Line-X Truck and Mike Skinner
Mike Skinner (NASCAR)

Mike Skinner, born in Ontario, California, is a NASCAR driver from Susanville, California, California now living in Daytona Beach, Florida, Florida....
 in the #42 Truck. Kvapil finished second in the race, while Skinner finished 28th due to a crash.






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Bang! Racing is a former NASCAR
NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the largest sanctioning body of stock cars in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series....
 team. It was owned by entrepreneur Alex Meshkin, as well as Larry McReynolds
Larry McReynolds

Lawrence Joseph McReynolds III was a long-time NASCAR crew chief and currently serves as a racing analyst on Fox Sports and columnist on Foxsports.com....
 and fielded entries in the NASCAR
NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the largest sanctioning body of stock cars in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series....
 Craftsman Truck Series
Craftsman Truck Series

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is a racing series owned and operated by the NASCAR. It is the only series in all of NASCAR to race modified production pickup trucks and is one of the three national divisions of NASCAR, together with the Nationwide Series and the top level Sprint Cup....
. It only ran one season, in 2004
2004 in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

The 2004 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season began on February 13 and ended on November 19. Bobby Hamilton of Bobby Hamilton Racing won the championship....
.

Meshkin started the operation in 2003, and it made its debut at Daytona International Speedway
Daytona International Speedway

Daytona International Speedway is a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida, Florida, United States. Since opening in 1959, it has been the home to the most important race in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, the Daytona 500....
 the following season. Its two drivers were Travis Kvapil
Travis Kvapil

Travis Kvapil is an American race car driver. He currently drives the #28 Ford Fusion for Yates Racing in the Sprint Cup Series....
 in the #24 Line-X Truck and Mike Skinner
Mike Skinner (NASCAR)

Mike Skinner, born in Ontario, California, is a NASCAR driver from Susanville, California, California now living in Daytona Beach, Florida, Florida....
 in the #42 Truck. Kvapil finished second in the race, while Skinner finished 28th due to a crash. From then on, Bang! lived up to its namesake, with Kvapil racking up two victories and an eighth place finish in points, and Skinner, despite not winning a race, had two poles and an eleventh place finish in the championship hunt. What drove the team even further was Meshkin's salesmanship abilities, as he recruited major sponsors and investors to throw money at his growing operation, which they did, as companies such as Line-X and Ebay
EBay

eBay Inc. is an United States Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell goods and services worldwide....
 jumped on board as sponsors. It wasn't long before Meshkin set his sites on moving his operation up to the higher levels of NASCAR. He announced he would field the #82 Dodge
Dodge

Dodge is a United States-based brand of automobiles, minivans, sport utility vehicles, and trucks, manufactured and marketed by Chrysler LLC in more than 60 different countries and territories worldwide....
 in the Busch Series in 2005
2005 in NASCAR Busch Series

The 2005 season of the NASCAR Busch Series began with the Hershey's Take 5 300 at Daytona International Speedway and concluded with the Ford 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway....
, with Kvapil at the wheel, and possibly expand into Nextel cup that same year, with NetZero
NetZero

NetZero is an Internet service provider based in Woodland Hills, California. It is a subsidiary of United Online, owner of Juno Online Services and Kmart#BlueLight_Internet_Service....
 sponsoring the #28 Dodge driven by Ward Burton
Ward Burton

John Edward Burton III is an American NASCAR auto racing, who has a total of five career Sprint Cup wins. He last drove the #4 State Water Heaters Chevrolet Impala SS for Morgan-McClure Motorsports in 2007....
.

However, trouble soon began brewing within the organization. Despite the team's richoted success, money was tight, and McReynolds and other partners began growing suspicious of Meshkin. Meshkin continued to insist that all is well. But after the season, several key executives at Bang resigned, and in early 2005
2005 in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

The 2005 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season began February 18 and ended November 18. Ted Musgrave of Ultra Motorsports was crowned the season's champion....
, Bang let all of its help go and closed down its shop. Bang and Meshkin are facing several lawsuits from unhappy investors and employees, including Kvapil.

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