Picture taken by me last June at NHIS Saturday event.
The sights are set on tomorrow's NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race in Loudon, New Hampshire for the Sylvania 300 as it's the first Chase for the Nextel Cup race.
Congrats to Clint Bowyer on grabbing the pole for the 300, the other chase contenders are starting well throughout the field including Martin Truex jr. will lineup second right behind Bowyer with 3rd is Kurt Busch, 4th is Jimmie Johnson, 6th is Tony Stewart, 8th is Kevin Harvick which he is also the defending winner of this race, 11th is Carl Edwards, 12th is Kyle Busch, 14th is Denny Hamlin, 18th is Jeff Gordon, 23th is Jeff Burton and last, but could be the spoiler for the championship starting 30th is Matt Kenseth. Let's hope for a better start then last year.
Tomorrow's race also marks something big for this racing fan as I will be attending my first Cup Series race and what a place to do it at, I have been going to New Hampshire International Speedway since the late 1990's (1998-1999) but for mainly either Friday's action with the Nextel Cup qualifying and a Busch East event or Saturday's action for Cup practice followed by the Modified Tour and either a Busch Series or Truck Series race. All I can say is I'm excited and look back here next week for my post article on taking in the NASCAR experience.
Looking beyond as next week promises to be huge for NASCAR with two big announcements, first on Tuesday is Kasey Kahne's sponorship announcement which should be Budweiser, the speculation is Bud Light will be on the car, who really knows, either way Budweiser made a good choice after departing as Dale Earnhardt Jr's sponsor at season's end.
Specking of Dale Jr., on Wednesday in Dallas, TX, he is set to make his final announcement on his move from DEI to Hendrick Motorsports next season of his sponsor and car number. Speculation is that the number could be either #81 or #88 with his sponsor being a PepsiCo product - Mountain Dew and Amp Energy Drink for half the season and National Guard on his car for the other half of the season. There is even more out there that DuPont will be involved in someway. Anywhich way, on Wednesday morning, everything hopefully will be made official.
Well I'm off to NHIS to the race.
