Iowa Speedway -- For The Win!

For the last 4 years my entire racing existence has been at 2 tracks: Kansas Speedway and I-70 Speedway. I consider Kansas my "home" track since we live a mere 7 miles south of the track. We are so close we can hear the entire field roar to life when they give the command. Its breath taking sometimes.

When the Iowa Speedway was gracious enough to offer free tickets out to the first 100 people to get in contact with them, I jumped at the chance to see the Nationwide series at a different track. Another reason: I knew Carl Edwards would be driving along with Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick. Everything I heard about Iowa Speedway had been terrific, and this weekend was no different. The racing was flat fantastic. Plenty of racing for the lead, a few wrecks and great seats.

I want to be fair on this blog, but I will say that I'm a Carl Edwards fan, and I was very happy and excited to be seated very close to Carl's pit. The "cat in the hat" Jack Roush was in attendance as well. He spend the entire race perched up on the pit box and at one point even gave some late race tire "2 or 4 tires" advice when Carl asked. Very nice, had never heard that.

If you haven't had the time to make it out to Iowa Speedway, do it. You won't regret it. Until they get more seating and there are some drastic changes at other tracks, you won't see the Sprint Cup Series racing there. All that said, having a great race with the #2 series in the nation on the track doesn't hurt one bit.

The garage is open and the haulers are pulling in....

Hey everybody--I'm working on a new blog idea.

A blog about being both my 2 passions.

1. My family (my awesome wife, my wired 3-year old daughter Ella, and my non-stop 16-month-old Sammy)
2. My love of NASCAR and everything related to it.

I don't plan on making any money on this but I feel like I want to blog a little more. You'll find a lot more action happening on my Twitter feed, but sometimes the stories I have of being a stay-at-home dad and our adventures will more than likely take more than 140 characters.

The same goes for my thoughts on NASCAR. I'm no lifelong fan, but I do have opinions on things and I hope that you all will read them, provided that they make sense. Sure, I'll post some links to stories, but that's not going to be everything. I'll be injecting my opinion on things.

These are heady times in NASCAR and the sport is really ready for the economy to turn or the sport very well could take a turn for the worse. (DUH)

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