Junior to make announcement tomorrow...

Well folks it looks like tomorrow is going to be the day we find out where Dale Jr is going to go. It sounds like Junior will be going to HMS next year. According to Claire B Lang (Dialed In XM Radio, and Jim Utter (The Charlotte Observer) they have said that in order for Dale Jr to be able to make his announcement to go to HMS that someone from HMS has to announce that Kyle (We can all assume it's going to be Kyle, he's been complaining about not being happy and all this other stuff.) is leaving HMS. This could be done tonight via press release, or it can be done by an HMS PR rep tomorrow before Junior makes his announcement. And for the record.....I look just as good in blue as I do in red :) I will follow him wherever.

Close my eyes and leap........

If I could close my eyes and be anywhere other than where I live, it would have to be in Rossburg Ohio at Eldora. Tonight is the Prelude to the Dream race. I was at Eldora for a race 2 summers ago and I have to say it's a beautiful beautiful track. It's well taken care of and it's a wonderful track full of history. When I saw the Eldora track I stood one a bleacher, called my mom in tears and said, "Guess where I'm at? I'm at Eldora and in a few hours we'll be back to watch the race" My mom being the same die-hard NASCAR fan that I am thought it was great that I got to see Eldora. My dad and I were told that we missed meeting Tony Stewart by a day that was a bummer but still, this is one memory of a thousand that I will treasure forever. My dad and I take camping trips every summer. I'm now 26 years old and yes, I'm a daddy's girl. We take a big camping trip every year and this memory of seeing Eldora and seeing a race there is one of the best memories I will have of camping with my dad.
If I close my eyes I can remember every detail of that day. What I wore, what my dad wore. I of course wore my favorite Dale Jr t-shirt. Dad wore his BMW motorcycle shirt, it was a warm July day and the sky was so blue with just a few fluffy clouds in the sky.

My dad is a great guy who really encourages my NASCAR obsession. Well he doesn't do anything to hinder it LOL :) While camping in Pennsylvania he drove past the Poccono Track in a thunderstorm just so I could see it. He also on that same trip drove through Indianapolis just so I could see the Brickyard and take pictures of the hallowed racing place. It's great and since it's nearing Father's Day and the race at Eldora tonight I thought I'd share a special father/daughter moment that we had. My dad worked on dirt cars when he was in the Air Force. One of his buddies he had met through a couple guys that were on the base with him raced and so my dad and a couple of the guys would work on the pit crew over the weeknds if they were available to. So I guess I get my love of dirt racing and racing in general naturally. :)



And just to prove that my dad really thinks like me... He told me to go stand by the Coke machine with Tony's picture on it. I don't have a copy of that picture my dad has it but it was a fun day :) A little insight into my mind... I posed with the Matt Kenseth cut-out at Arby's two weeks ago LOL :) So when my dad said "hey Nik, go stand by the pop machine." I had no problem doing that! :)

Well it's been awhile....

It's been since the Allstar race that I've posted something... a lot of interesting things have happened to me since then... One of which was a very interesting email debate on myspace on if I was a Teresa Hater (Teresa Earnhardt) or not. I'm trying for the life of me to remember ever posting in a public venue my thoughts on her and the entire Dale Jr contract thing and I've got nothing. Hmmm....http://fricknfrackracing.blogspot.com/2007/05/junior-is-leaving.html
Yup checked that out nothing bad about here there... So yeah this person emailed me via myspace and asked me if I was a Teresa Hater... He was obviously a Teresa Earnhardt fan and kudos to him for that. I'm not I'm a Dale Jr fan period end of discussion. So that was a very interesting few days of emails. It was interesting to hear someone else's opinion. I love opinion debates I do. Bottom line though on this topic of Teresa Earnhardt versus Dale Jr people are going to have to agree to disagree over things because there are Dale Jr fans that are DIE hard Dale Jr fans and will follow him wherever he'll go and cheer for him. There are other fans that are D.E.I fans and will support whoever drives for Teresa at D.E.I does that make the people that are D.E.I fans any less of NASCAR fans than that of someone that follows a specific driver nope not at all . It's simply what makes the sport of NASCAR great! NASCAR is great because there are going to be debates over this driver being better than that driver. Or this team being better than that team. It's what makes the sport fun and interesting and I for one can't wait until next season to see how things shake up.

Do I think D.E.I will turn to a expensive museum like Tony Stewart said? Maybe, I certainly hope not because I think D.E.I is important to NASCAR.

Now on to racing.... The race is this weekend at Dover. And sadly it will be run tomorrow because of rain. Guess it's a good thing I'm already on vacation for tomorrow :) Happy Racing Monday to all racing fans out there. Who knows. Maybe Dale Jr will follow up his great 2001 win with a win tomorrow :) He's got a great starting spot. Starting 2nd. He was on the pole until Ryan Newman knocked him off the pole.