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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.
