BOOGITY, BOOGITY, BOOGITY NASCAR is BACK!

My earliest memories of NASCAR are complaining about it and telling my dad to flip the channel back to Pirates game, even though they were probably losing to the Cardinals. I didn't get it, guys just drive the same lap 200 or 250 times?!?! And for sure the most annoying part of it were the pit stops!! So you're telling me I'm in 1st place, and I have to drop all the way to 34th just because I needed gas! Hated it!

But there was something that always kept me intrigued about NASCAR. When I was a kid, my family took a vacation to Disney World in Orlando, and the Sunday we were there was the Daytona 500. So my dad, my grandfather, my brother and I took the drive to Daytona and watched The Great American race. I didn't think too much of it until my dad and I walked down to the concession stand to get something to eat. I was just about 5 feet from the popcorn stand when I hear is the loudest noise of my life, Fuh! Fuh! Fuh! Fuh! Fuh! Fuh! Fuh! Fuh! We were ten feet from the damn fence!! T.V. does no justice to just how fast these cars are going.


Although I hated drivers having to take pit stops, I always did like the pit crews. These guys are doing in 5 seconds what it takes National Tire and Battery an entire weekend to do. Which brings me to my Shark Tank idea, a car repair shop with all former or aspiring NASCAR pit crewmen. Can you imagine giving your keys to the guy, walking out door, and boom there is your car. Can I say million dollar idea? Nope. Billion dollar idea!

I probably hadn't watched a NASCAR race in over 5 years, but last Sunday I watched the Daytona 500 and was hooked. Maybe it was because it was the second straight Sunday without NFL football, maybe it was that Tiger had no chance of catching the Dustin Johnson, maybe it was that I was writing a paper for my English class, whatever it was I was hooked. Plus the 21 car crash with ten laps to go on Sunday, was easily the craziest thing I've ever seen.

Learning about drafting, and other racing strategies from Jeff Gordon was awesome, I mean I don't know what this means in the racing world, but Gordon always had the best paint-jobs.

I guess that's why I still root for the 24 car, even though I don't have a clue who this clown William Byron is...…

I doubt we see him in any post race scraps anytime soon, I mean does this guy even have the upper body strength to turn the wheel?

Nevertheless, Sunday at 2:00 p.m., I'll be tuning into FOX to watch the Folds of Honor QuickTrip at Atlanta Speedway. If you're not on the train now, hop on, NASCAR is BACK!!