Just a few more days! If you're like me you have been waiting for Daytona to get here {17 days 22hours 48minutes.... but who's counting?} The 2007 Season promises all kinds of exciting changes. From the Chase format to the COT, from the debut of Toyota to an abundance of full time race teams trying to qualify for each show. From new media coverage to added popularity.
The Bud Shootout can't get here fast enough for all of us die-hard fans that make up Nascar Nation. Yes, I've got my ticket for Texas Motor Speedway.
A Tribute to All Involved NASCAR is more than one winner and 42 losers. That car on the track represents millions of dollars and lifetimes of research invested in each of those teams. And a team is more than a driver, an owner, a crew chief, and the over-the-wall gang. There's the engineers, the experts in the engine shop, the perfectionists in the fabrication shop, the support personnel, to name a few back home.
The race day wouldn't be anything for the fans without three other closely knit entities: the officials of NASCAR, the track operations staff, and the media professionals. For every thrilling week, we, the millions of faithful fans, are grateful to all of you dedicated people who make victory lane possible. Thank you for all you do to bring the sport to the troops around the world and to us, the common folks in towns far, far away from the venues, museums, and race shops.
sincerely, gary