About Krista Voda

For the past three years, Krista Voda has anchored two of stock car racing's signature television programs, "NASCAR Nation" on Speed Channel and Fox Sports Net's "Totally NASCAR." She has also been a feature reporter on the Sunday pre-race show, "NASCAR This Morning" and has hosted such special programming as The Dale Earnhardt Tribute Concert and Nextel's NASCAR title sponsorship announcement.

Voda's other Speed Channel work includes pit reporting for the American Le Mans Series and the Sports Car Club of America and feature reporting for the Indy Racing League.

In addition to her work in motorsports, Voda has been a sideline reporter for Fox Sports Net's coverage of ACC basketball and has made appearances on The Best Damn Sports Show Period.

Prior to her move to the racing capital of the world - Charlotte, N.C. - Voda was the weekend sports anchor at WLEX in Lexington, Ky. There, Voda covered NCAA tournaments, college bowl games, the Cincinnati Bengals and Reds, as well as co-anchoring the station's live coverage of The Kentucky Derby.

Voda also has an extensive background in radio. She has worked for several different stations. Her broadcasting career began at KROS in her hometown of Clinton, Iowa.

Voda attended the University of Northern Iowa, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Electronic Media and Communications.


About David Green

To all who have clicked on the hyperlink to this page, greetings. As TR.com editor Bob Henry already explained, I'm not the Busch Series driver with the same name, nor am I related to him. But I did find some of his NASCAR contingency prize-money checks in my mailbox frequently during his Busch Series championship season in 1994.

As I write this, I'm about to embark on a new career as 10th-grade English teacher at Mayfield (Ky.) High School. I considered using yellow duck tape to put rookie stripes on the seat of all my pants, but I was afraid the veteran teachers would be afraid to draft with me, so I'm going incognito.

After covering NASCAR full-time for most of the 1990s, I've been out of the mainstream for almost a decade now, but never completely out of touch. My own racing endeavors have been minor-league and my achievements minimal, but they have given me a little bit of insight into what drivers go through and what motivates them. From that foundation, I hope to offer my observations as food for thought in the voice of a long-time racing fan with a little bit of grassroots competition experience, and I am grateful to the folks at That's Racin' for giving me a chance to do so.

My NASCAR heroes are old-school: Bud Moore, David Pearson, the Allison family, the Intimidator. I like just about every kind of racing, not just stock cars, and I hate it when NASCAR fans bad-mouth other forms of racing as much as I hate it when fans of other disciplines take a condescending or disparaging attitude toward stock cars. As far as I'm concerned, the critics are showing their insecurity - they can't find enough good to say about their own favorite, so they denigrate somebody else's preference.

You'll find out more of my opinions in the coming days, and I'm sure plenty of folks will disagree with what I have to say. There's nothing wrong with that, and I won't be offended by it.

My pledge is to present my opinions respectfully and objectively and to refrain from getting bogged down in negativism. That's not always easy; as time goes by, the more wonderful the "good ol' days" seem to have been. (Or, as Darrell Waltrip said, "The older I get, the better I used to be.")

I’m looking forward to a great ride, and I’ll do my best to stay on the lead lap.


About Lee Montgomery

I must say, I hate talking about myself. I much rather talk about this sport I love, NASCAR. I've loved it since I was a little boy, listening to what I could get on the radio and scouring through the newspapers for any little bit of info I could find. I bugged my dad enough until he took me to Rockingham in 1979, and I was hooked. We'd go to Rockingham every year, and later to Martinsville, Darlington, Charlotte. Richard Petty was my hero, and I finally got to see him win at Rockingham in 1983 - the same day my eventual alma mater, North Carolina State, won the ACC basketball tournament en route to winning the NCAA title (I can still picture my older brother listening to State on the radio while at the track).

Eventually, I knew I had to make a living in this sport, getting a degree in English at State while working on the student newspaper and for the newspaper in Durham, N.C. The first race I covered for the Durham Morning Herald was The Winston in 1989 - yes the Rusty Wallace/Darrell Waltrip race.

NASCAR wasn't a full-time beat in Durham, so I covered other sports during my tenure there, but when I got the chance to cover NASCAR full time, I jumped. I started at the Total Sports website in 2000 before moving to RacingOne.com in 2001. Both had money problems, but I wasn't about to give up on my dream. My fortunes turned when I got to work at NASCAR's official site, but for reasons we don't need to go into, that ended earlier this year.

That's fine. Everything happens for a reason, and here I am at ThatsRacin. Not the biggest, but definitely the best. And now I get to write for them. How lucky can one guy get?

What will you get when you read my stuff? Honesty, straight-forwardness and simplicity. I don't kiss anyone's butt, but I don't rip someone just for the sake of ripping them. And I try to have a little fun along the way.