"Dancing with a chainsaw."

One day you are a spectator with big dreams. 

Another ...you are in the driver's seat and part of the entertainment.

You can't believe it. Your own car and your first race.

Then you understand what Cale Yarborough meant when he said, "Driving a race car is like dancing with a chainsaw."

But you did it! All of it!

The plan was to enter the race, drive two laps for experience and drop out. Make a debut for real next season. 

The reality was that when the checkered flag dropped, you were still running. You ran the whole thing!  

One race and you came in 9th in the season for your class and won $90! 

So much for waiting until next year to debut! 

I wouldn't have missed that night for the world!  

"Behold, children are a gift from the Lord."

(Psalm 127:3)

Boogety, Yall!

 When he was very young, he showed us what he wanted to be...

"When I grow up, I want to be a race car driver."

And then about 10 years later:

First practice...Wake County Speedway

"Behold, children are a gift from the Lord."

(Psalm 127:3)

The Perfect Sunner Friday Night

 Summer Friday Night at the Wake County Speedway. A special kind of fun.

According to Henry Ford,
"Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built." 

Probably true. That was a long time ago. And Wake County Speedway, America's Favorite Bullring, has been around a long time---1962. Ir's now NASCAR sanctioned, and this year it celebrated its 60th birthday.

And so here we are on a summer Friday night--

With these people--  

And no place else you'd rather be as day lowly slides into evening... 

"Start your engines!"

                              

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 
(Jeremiah 29:11 )