Scarborough’s Ryan Moore can see himself driving for a “competitive truck team” some day.

But for now, he is overseeing brake work for the Gillett-Evernham Motorsports team.

Former Champ Car star Patrick Carpentier drives the No. 10 Dodge for the Sprint Cup team and several Nationwide series drivers, including Carpentier, Kasey Kahne and Elliott Sadler.

Chase Miller drove the Nationwide car to an eighth place finish at the Diamond Hill Plywood 200 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway last Friday night.

“I like it. They’re a really good group of people to work for. They treat everybody fairly,” said the 24-year-old Moore. “We’re all working really hard, trying to make things better.”

In addition to monitoring the brakes, Moore said he also does “a little bit of everything.”

For example, last Thursday night he drove a company P.T. Cruiser full of car parts from North Carolina to Darlington, S.C., to service race cars involved in a practice wreck.

“It’s a 21/2-hour drive,” said Moore, who didn’t mind doing it.

Moore appeared to be on the fast track to a promising race career when it got temporarily derailed.

He was a development driver for Dale Earnhardt Inc. but got released and then drove in the Craftsman Truck Series for the Key Motorsports Team before having a falling out with the owner and crew chief. He left in the middle of the 2006 season.

He ran 11 races and had two top-15 finishes. His average finish was 26.7.

“I wasn’t surrounded by people I wanted to be surrounded with,” explained Moore, who was also frustrated because the under-funded team didn’t give him the equipment he needed to run up front.

“I race to win, to be competitive,” said Moore.

Last year, he was the car chief for Erin Crocker’s ARCA race team.

“She’s a very nice person and she has talent. She needs to be surrounded by the right people,” said Moore, whose primary responsibilities were the cars and the crew.

“I liked it,” he added.

Moore had an impressive Busch North career, earning Rookie of the Year honors in 2003 and finishing third in points in 2005 with two wins and eight top-five finishes in 12 races. In 42 career Busch North series races, he had 29 top-10s and 18 top-fives including the two wins.

He also ran four races in the Busch series.

“I miss [driving] a lot. It’s tough, obviously, because I still want to drive. But, at the same time, I want to live a good life. I’ve got to pay my bills and support my family,” said Moore whose wife, Tiffany, is expecting their first child on Dec. 15.

He fulfills his need for racing by running go-karts on dirt tracks in North Carolina.

“It’s a lot of fun and the competition is as good as anything I’ve raced in,” said Moore, the son of PASS Tour driver and former Busch North points champion Kelly Moore.

There are a lot of drivers looking for rides and Ryan Moore is hoping to land one.

“It will be a matter of finding a sponsor and meeting the right people. You never know what can happen,” said Moore. “You have to find a sponsor and then talk to somebody, not the other way around. You’re wasting your time trying to talk to somebody [about a ride] without having a proposition for them.”

PASS hoping to reschedule

Tom Mayberry, president of the Pro All-Stars Series tour, said he is hoping to make up the Community Pharmacies 150 Super Late Model North race that was rained out May 3 at Hermon’s Speedway 95. However, fitting it into their schedule and working it around the Speedway 95 schedule won’t be easy.

The Modified, Sportsman and Outlaw classes were able to run their features before the rain intensified and washed out the Community Pharmacies 150.

Mayberry explained that if they are able to reschedule, they will return with an entire racing program not just the Community Pharmacies 150 makeup. There will probably be at least two other PASS divisions and a Speedway 95 class.

He said it wouldn’t be fiscally responsible to come back for just the Community Pharmacies 150.

“You still have all the costs,” said Mayberry, referring to things like insurance, paying the staff and security.

He said June 22 is one possibility but it would mean the PASS North Super Late Models would run on five consecutive weekends.

Mayberry will continue to discuss the situation with Speedway 95 co-owner Del Merritt.

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