No, I am not much of a Cup fan, but today I had a few free tickets and the weather was perfect, so I knocked off work, checked my 3 sons out of school and we went to the races. I’m really happy we did! I think today might have been the day I hooked the two younger ones on racing. They like to watch me drive at Speedworld, but usually are not too interested in the other cars. Well today we sat near the top of the Oldfield grandstand and those two guys had a blast. They traded the binoculors back and forth, pointed, yelled and just loved it.
All of us picked a car to cheer for, so that really kept them involved.
Then an excellent thing happened in the second race. Brian Kesolowski was attempting to race his way into his first cup start. He was a tremendous long-shot to make it, and was as good as headed to the hauler when his brother Brad hooked him up and pushed him toward the front. The announcers picked up on this, and so did we. It was such a good example to my boys about how brothers have to support each other. I’m always on their case about how its ok to compete hard with others, but you have to cooperate and help each other. What a super example this was!
Well, both Kesolowski brothers made it in the race, and naturally the four of us stopped for a super good pizza on the way home.
I tell 'ya something, the fans that only go to the superspeedways miss out on so much. One visit every year or two is enough for me because I am a short tracker all the way. I guess if the boys want to go back to Daytona then I am stuck!