I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. I know I certainly did. I spent the weekend at Kansas Speedway and in my opinion there’s just no better place to be on a weekend than at a NASCAR race.
When Kansas Speedway opened in 2001, it brought NASCAR racing to an area of the country that was starving for our sport. It also took NASCAR to an area that already had big-league sports with the Chiefs and the Royals. I remember a time when our sport would try to avoid going head-to-head with the NFL or other big events in an area. This weekend in Kansas, Kansas State played Iowa State at Aarowhead Stadium on Saturday and on Sunday, the NY Giants were in town playing the Chiefs. Despite that, the crowd at the Speedway Sunday was large and looked great.
Tony Stewart’s victory Sunday at Kansas just shows that he continues to be, in my opinion, the biggest story of the year. You know everybody has been talking about the Hendrick association have a lot of to do with Stewart’s success, but he certainly surrounded himself with some good people when Stewart-Haas was formed. One of those individuals is Bobby Hutchens. Bobby, the director of competition for Stewart-Haas, spent many years with Richard Childress Racing and many of those years were spent with Dale Earnhardt. Bobby has always been one of those behind-the-scenes guys that make it happen. And he’s certainly helping make it happen this year at Stewart’s new operation.
This week is gearing up to be another busy week. Monday it’s an all-hands-on-deck ticket selling push trying to make some last minute sales for the upcoming AMP Energy 500 weekend. So if I call you, please don’t hang-up. Dave Despain from SPEED will be here for several days this week shooting a Talladega special as part of our 40th anniversary and ESPN will be here as well doing some stuff. Race time is getting close and the excitement is here.
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