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Curtis Key Team Owner - For the last 22 years, Curtis Key has established himself in the business community in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia with the establishment of the hugely successful Curtis Key Plumbing Contractors, Inc. based in Chesapeake.
While other successful business owners play golf, fly airplanes or sail boats, Curtis’ passion lies in motorsports, and in 1991, Key became a NASCAR race team owner when he purchased the assets and equipment of Tommy Ellis Racing. In five
Curtis remained a Busch Series owner through the next eight seasons, eventually moving his operation from Virginia to Mooresville, NC and into a new, 2-story, 12,000 square foot shop in the Mooresville Motorsports Center. It was in that shop that Key Motorsports teams fielded cars in a limited race schedule for such top Busch Series drivers as former champions Chuck Bown and Larry Pearson; many-time ASA Late Model Series titlist Kevin Cywinski, and current Nextel Cup Series veteran Jeff Burton. In 1996, Key Motorsports finally achieved the ultimate reward when the Outdoor Life and Speed Vision TV Channels tapped the organization to field the cars for rookie driver Jimmie Foster for a full season in 1996. Due to the untimely death of his brother and problems with the plumbing business, Key was forced to leave the sport in 1999, selling his race shop and most of its contents and returning to Chesapeake. Four years later, after re-building his plumbing contracting business to record levels and stabilizing his family, Curtis returned to the racing wars. He resurfaced this time as a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series owner, operating initially out of a brand new, 10,000 square foot shop on the campus of Curtis Key Plumbing Contractors, Inc., and running a limited schedule of races due to lack of sponsorship. In December of 2005, Key then purchased the land and several buildings owned by Tom Lagano (father of 16-year-old driving standout Joey Lagano and a current Joe Gibbs Racing development driver) in a new motorsports park in Mooresville, NC from where Key Motorsports now operates in a spotless and expanding, 10,500 square foot shop geared to compete full time on the Craftsman Truck Series circuit.
Curtis is now committed to becoming a formidable force in NASCAR racing that will again have him competing in the country’s top motorsports divisions.
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NASCAR Busch Series races that his new team entered that year, veteran drivers Roger Sawyer and former Busch Series champion Ellis ran competitively with Ellis scoring a top five finish in a Busch Series event at Hickory Motor Speedway.