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  Randy Merritt - Biography  
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The principles in this racing venture have established themselves as proven winners just by being consistent throughout the truck building years for over a decade.

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  Randy Merritt, Off-Road Race Car Driver Mongo Racing Team  
Mongo Racing Accomplishments
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Driver: Randy Merritt

Born: 6/10/1968

Birthplace: El Centro, California

Hometown: Parker, Arizona

 

A native of Parker, Arizona, Randy Merritt began building his first race truck from the frame up, which was a '79 body style, in the early 1990's. By 1993, he entered his first S.C.O.R.E. 400 race in his hometown, Parker. Not surprisingly, Randy and his team won the Parker "400" race five years straight, from 1998-2002. He doesn't just win at home, however.

In 2003, Randy took a 1st in Class after a tough competition in the Best in the Desert Baja Mex World Championship 300. Since then, he has placed in the top three Vehicles in Class in 60 percent of the events in which he has participated.

In 2004, Ford Motor Company demonstrated their confidence in Mongo Racing by awarding them a new 2004 factory Ford F-150 Stock-Full Truck Engineering Feedback Program. Merritt and the Mongo Racing team proudly stepped up to the challenge. Utilizing the factory stock body, still looking as close to "showroom stock" as possible, Merritt began racing it to show that you can make a full size, stock-production truck into a race-ready vehicle.

In spite of the financial struggle, Mongo Racing now holds a long string of finishes and victories, primarily racing in the highly competitive desert stock-truck class. All along the way, Mongo Racing has had the same team members since Randy first started — one of the few teams that can say that.

On top of his race accomplishments, Randy has enjoyed considerable successes on and off the course in building his career. He has been married to his wife Tami for over 13 years and has three children ranging from ages 12 to newborn. First, there is his twelve-year-old daughter, Chessica, who is a third year cheerleader with Pop Warner. His second child is R.J. (Randy Jr.), a very successful nine-year-old Quad racer, four years running, who is in his second year of Pop Warner football. Then there is his new addition to the family, born in July of 2005. He named her Raelee who is, at this time, at home assisting mom.

 

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