Hello race fans!

With only two races into the 2011 NASCAR season, who would have thought we would see a 20 year old rookie win the biggest race in NASCAR and the following week see a veteran break a sixty-six race losing streak! WOW! If this is an indication of what this year is going to be like, I say, "have at it boys!" I'm not really a Jeff Gordon fan, but I have to say, it was good for the sport for him to get back to victory lane. And apparantly, fans who watched both the 500 and the Phoenix race, agreed! Television ratings were up significantly for both races, especially Phoenix. It was the most ever watched race since they started racing there! I thought Kyle Busch was going to pull of the Trifecta and, he almost did! He sure gave it his best and I was pleasantly surprised how gracious he was in his interview after the Sprint Cup race where he finished second! Looks like marriage is definitely agreeing with Kyle! Speaking of him being married, tune into the Style Channel on Saturday night, March fifth, to get a behind the scenes look at Kyle and Samantha's wedding that took place New Year's Eve!

Now, I want to talk about a subject that came up on twitter last week by Dave Moody, host of SIRIUS Satellite Radio and one of Motor Racing Network's commentators. Moody writes articles, I think once a week, for Sirus and then he posts them on twitter. Now, I like Moody, I think he's a great announcer for MRN and I love to listen to him on Sirius, however, I was a little annoyed at the article he wrote last week. The name of the article was titled "Searching for Balance in Nationwide Series". The article goes on to say how, because of the new point system, it is more challenging for the media to have to interview drivers, who may have not won the race or even finished in the top ten, but drivers who are now in the top ten in points. As you know, before the race season started, drivers were forced to choose which series they wanted to run in, so the Sprint Cup drivers who race in the Nationwide Series, will receive no points and vice versa. Moody made reference to Danica Patrick in particular, stating that she qualified fourth for the NS race in Daytona and finished fourteenth then she qualified twentieth in Phoenix and finished seventeenth three laps down, yet she was interviewed by ESPN following both races. Without going into the entire article, his point was basically that this has created a new challenge for the media with who to interview after a race. After I read the entire article, I tweeted Mr. Moody back and said to him "its no different than dale Jr. last week. He is and has not run much better than Danica still gets tv time." Moody's response back to me "Good point, still don't like it though." Now before all you Dale Jr. fans get upset at me, I was NOT saying that cause I'm not a fan of his, I was merely pointing out that after the Daytona 500, FOX interviewed Dale, who by the way crashed out and finished twenty fourth, and never bothered to interview David Gilliland, who fninshed a career best third! Then, the conversation continued this past Friday on Sirius Radio with Moody and Kenny Wallace who proceeds to say that he knows for a fact that certain people, not sure if he means the interviewers or someone else, would be fired if they don't interview certain drivers! Not sure I totally believe that, but not sure why Kenny would say that if it's not true! If that is true, it's pretty sad! I feel drivers who finished in the top five in the race should get their time in front of the camera and then if there is time left, they can move on to anyone else they feel should also be interviewed Anyway, I just wanted to voice my opinion on the matter and if anyone out there agrees with me, or even if you don't, I would love to hear your thoughts on it. You can read the entire article by going to the following website: http://www.sirius-speedway.com/2011/02/searching-for-balance-in-nationwide.html.

Well, it's off to Las Vegas this weekend for both series! One of these days I'm gonna get to that track! I have never been to Vegas and am anxious to see the city and of course, the races out there, maybe next year! Good luck to all the drivers and of course, GO DENNY HAMLIN! He's racing in both the Nationwide and Cup races, can't wait to watch!

On a final note, I wanted to let everyone know, that I have added a photo gallery on my blog page. It's in the upper right hand corner underneath the Home page link. Some are older pictures and some newer but I will be adding more as the season goes on. Hope you enjoy them! Have a great weekend everyone and as always, see you at the races!!!