interview: meeting travis kvapil – part one
I had the opportunity to speak with Travis Kvapil, driver of the No. 28 Hitachi “Inspire the Next” Ford Fusion, one-on-one before practice and qualifying …
I had the opportunity to speak with Travis Kvapil, driver of the No. 28 Hitachi “Inspire the Next” Ford Fusion, one-on-one before practice and qualifying …
Sunday was the IndyCar race day. Driving to the track was a considerably different experience than it is for a NASCAR race, there wasn’t any …
Saturday was IndyCar qualifying and the first of two IndyCar Lights races, the Carneros 100 and the Valley of the Moon 100. For qualifying I …
And now for my IndyCar at Infineon adventure. Friday was dedicated mostly to practice for the IndyCar teams, and because of that it meant that …
After driver introductions I slogged back through the grass and onto pit road. I felt awkward about where to stand for the National Anthem. It’s …
The difference between the crowd gathered for the Nationwide Series drivers meeting and the one assembled for the Sprint Cup Series was like night and …
On Saturday morning I got the chance to sleep in a bit before heading to the racetrack. Things weren’t really starting up until 3 in …
I have a new appreciation for Nationwide Series races. For one there are less people around for all of the pre-race festivities so it makes …
After the fun ESPN tour I headed into the Sprint Cup garage. I walked down one row and then another and stopped at the stall …
Awhile ago I was contacted by ESPN and invited to take a tour of their production facilities while I was at Chicagoland. I of course …
I’m still processing this weekend, working on posts and I just uploaded a buttload of photos. But I wanted to put up something for now. …
What a day. I woke up at 5am to get ready to fly out of San Francisco at 9-something in the morning. I was in …
The final laps of the Toyota/Save Mart 350 were literally killing me. I haven’t been that engaged in a race in quite some time. The …
There were a bunch of random things that occurred to me during the Infineon weekend and none of them deserved its own post so here …
On Sunday before the race I walked pit road taking the usual pictures and I found the pit boxes for the No. 28 and No. …
The NASCAR experience started on Thursday. I was driving through the city I live in — Concord, California — with a friend of mine on …
I wasn’t hearing a lot of cocky optimism from the NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers on Friday at Infineon Raceway. Since they only run at two …
So as the race wound down I made sure I was in the lobby of the Media Center to catch Carl Edwards’ flip into the …
I didn’t really want to use a Kelly Clarkson song for the title of this post but it’s all I could come up with, I’m …
So I have this new vow that whenever I get media credentials I’m going to make the most of them. I’m going to do everything …