What's Next?

As we roll through Iowa today I have plenty of time for reflection, that's one of the reasons I travel with the cars when I can. (It keeps me pretty focused on work too, since there's not much else to do.) The question on the teams mind, and the one we keep asking Vesko is what car is next? Keith, ultimately has the final decision, but he's not here to pester. In true Vesko style he's not giving much away.

Racing can be painful, but "nothing good comes easy," right? Keith is feeling the pain today, turns out he has 5 broken ribs, he was just too tough to realize it. The team in the toter is feeling the pain trying to stay on the no ac program Vesko believes in for heat-tolerance training—it's been 96º in here for most of the day. I do think it works, and every time I get to grouchy about it all I have to do is think about my sister and her family who are missionaries in the Dominican Republic —they never have the luxury of ac, or hot showers.

This weekend was another disappointment, but I hope we learned a lot, and I think we had fun anyway. We had some of the best accomodations and food that we've had at a race. Hanging out by the fire at Somewhere in Time was just icing on the cake. Thanks especially to our team, from this race Boli, Josh, Joe and the rest from other races this year, the Bush Decor gang, our strategsits John and Sara, Andy the miracle chef, and Keith and Vesko, my co-driver Byron, and to Grand-am for letting me race! This is truly a team sport, we wouldn't get anywhere with out the complete team, thanks again to Penske Racing.

Looking over this blog there's a lot of disappointment, but also a lot of fun, teamwork and passion. I've met so many great people and gotten to travel to interesting places, and best of all gone racing. So the question isn't are we going racing again, it's when?