We’ve been working on the racecars this summer. Right now, the cars are just sitting here ready to go. They just need some paint and Bondo. Right now I’m pretty focused on the business because the economy is so tough. We’re knocking on doors, trying to find sponsorship. We’re having a heck of a time …
It’s not easy or cheap to run a race team. You’ve got all the overhead. The way we raced last year we made ends meet and were still competitive. We relied on volunteers and sponsors to provide us the parts and pieces we needed. Some of the teams at the racetrack in the K&N Pro …
Joe Nemechek gave me an opportunity to go and run his Nationwide Series car at Nashville. It was locked in the show, so we were just trying to keep it up in the points. Joe’s guys are really great guys and he has really good equipment. So I went to Nashville and ran half the …
Greenville was rough. The car got torn up and we had to cut it from the door tops down and replace the whole body. We don’t have the funds to send it out to someone to hang a new body, but I got a surface plate from a friend and we started hanging our own …
We had everything put together for Greenville-Pickens. We pretty much had a new car to go down there with and off the trailer we were pretty good. In the first practice we were fifth to eighth. In the second practice the track got a little bit greasy and we fell off a little bit. We …
Right now, we’re taking care of getting ready for 2010. Over the wintertime, we pulled apart the car we ran at Dover, completely stripped it down and rebuilt it. It was a Cup car and we’ve made it into a K&N Pro Series car. We’re gearing up and trying to find some funding to make …
I started racing motorcycles out in California when I was four years old, and that went on for several years, until Dad decided he wanted Jimmie and me in a roll cage. He wanted it to be safe. So I got into the off-road stuff, and that led into the SCORE off-road series, the desert races.
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