You look outside and see some snow on the ground, then you immediately check Intellicast.com to see just how much warmer it is in Tampa, Fla., than it is at your house right now. It’s only the third time today you’ve done this. Then you log on to your favorite websites and get the very latest list of drivers planning to attend. Finally, for the fourth time this week, you call your buddy just to make sure nothing has changed and to make sure both of you are ready to go.

Sound familiar? If so, MORE

As a kid growing up, I remember putting together my Christmas wish list as the holiday drew near. Inevitably, I would only get a few things on my list as, being a kid with big dreams, some of my gift ideas were occasionally out of Santa’s price range (I remember asking for a new Bullitt Chassis when I was about 10 years old). For some gifts, it may not have been logistically possible for Santa to stuff them down my chimney (how was that new chassis going to fit down the chimney anyway?). Still MORE

Aside from the obvious reasons to see the World 100 — tons of cars, quality of competition and more — one of the biggest reasons in recent years has been the uncertainty of just who was going to win. Did you know there have been 11 winners in the last 11 World 100s? The type of parity is practically unheard of in the sport today.

We can even take that parity a step further. The last eight World 100s have featured first-time race winners. Muscatine, Iowa's Brian Birkhofer started the trend MORE