I received a big surprise for Father's Day. My five kids sent me clues via e-mail and phone throughout the day on Thursday of last week. These were in the form of letters, which had to be unscrambled. At the end of the clues, I had no clue! After some unscrambling, however, the words were "Sparta Kentucky". That is the city where the Kentucky Speedway is located.
Danette and I went to the Nationwide race on Saturday evening. We even were able to get pit passes. We spent a couple hours in the pit area before and during qualifying. We were able to get very close to Carl Edwards, Kenny and Steve Wallace, David Ragan, Clint Bowyer, David Reuttiman and a few other racers.
Danette observed that the guys qualifying were a lot faster than I drove when I drove there for Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure. It is still neat, though to watch the racing on the same track that I was able to drive a few years ago.
When qualifying was nearly over, we went to our seats. There, from Row 17, we watched the start of the race. When it was about half over we went back to the pit area. From our vantage point there, we could get directly behind the pit boxes and watch the crew chief and crews work. We could walk the entire length of the pit road from Turn 4 to Turn 1. That made for an extremely interesting evening.
When Kyle Busch crashed on the backstretch, the crowd was thrilled. If you don't know, Kyle is not liked real well by many Nascar fans because of his run-ins with Dale Earnhardt, Jr., the fan favorite. Danette and I were standing at the entrance to pit road when that accident happened. When they brought the wrecked car around to the front, Danette and I were leading the cheers of the 73,000 fans. That was the happiest that the crowd was all night, I believe. I also received a phone call from Paul Lavy moments after the wreck. As Paul said, it couldn't have happened to a better person! Even Mom isn't terribly enamored with Mr. Busch!
Eighteen-year-old Joey Logano won the race easily. He is the youngest ever to win a Nationwide race.
What a great night it was for racing, and what a nice Father's Day present from the kids. Thanks Regi, Jason, Danette, Brent and Ally.
On Sunday, we had a great meal at Danette's apartment. All the kids were there, and some friends also. Thanks, kids.
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2 comments:
Glad you had fun. It was mostly Dani's idea. I would have loved to go, but I had already promised Jay that I would accompany him to the GB comedy: Beck '08 Unelectable. :o)
Great that you had a good time! Jason
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