Most folks would probably agree that running errands isn’t much fun. It can be time consuming and mind numbing, especially when you’d rather be at the shop on task or at the computer pounding out a new story.

I’ve found however, that running errands that pertain to racing, or specifically a race car, aren’t all that bad and I was reminded of that over the last few weeks as I turned my attention back to our fledgling racing program.

I put a motor in our race car this week and while doing so MORE

We’ve long danced around the exact requirements for an event to be labeled a crown jewel in the past, simply because it’s truly impossible to do. Sure, most of us know a crown jewel when we see one, but defining one is a different story.

While it’s certainly a subjective thing, there are some hard rules: longevity and purse being the primary two. Prestige, which really stems from the first two requirements, is the third necessity and I think just a sheer consistency is a fourth ingredient MORE

As I headed to the Fastrak World Championship at Virginia Motor Speedway last month, I hadn’t gotten too far from home when I caught a truck pulling a trailer with one of its four tires flat. I’ve pulled a few trailers with flat tires and admittedly, it’s not always easy tell when you have a flat.

I’ve even completely lost a wheel on two separate occasions. The first time I realized it immediately because the truck I was driving was only a half-ton work truck, so when the wheel decided to MORE