I stopped to watch it being unloaded while walking from the campground to the pits on Friday. Too bad I missed the laps.

I attended my first race when I was only months old and have seen many Nascar, Champ Car/IRL, Trans Am, and endurance races. I've been to Daytona, Indy, and Sebring. I've even crewed for an ALMS team. Nothing makes my hair stand on end and brings out the raw excitement of racing like watching a non wing sprint car…

I've attended short track races my entire life. Many of those were at Atomic Speedway and Lawrenceburg Speedway. Atomic and the old Lawrenceburg neither had walls except for on the front stretch. The only fatality I've witnessed was when a winged car jumped wheels and went into the wall head on at Eldora. I'm not…

I grew up hitting three or four races a year at Eldora and still make that many. Concessions are very reasonable. There's a bar at the top of the grandstands on the turn four side of the tower. Get a pizza burger (they have their own t-shirt). If you get a chance to talk to Earl Baltes (original owner), do it. He has…

He was no relation to the Nascar Burtons

TOCA got me hooked on Codemasters a long time ago. Grid lost me.

And just because... well, because racecar, here's a photo I took of one of the engines at the Four Crown

Hate to be "that guy," but the midgets run four cylinders. I was at the Four Crown Nationals at Eldora when Larson swept the open wheel races in 2011. He's definitely got what it takes. He also celebrated his Chili Bowl heat win this year by doing donuts. While holding the steering wheel outside the cage.

Hey, I may live in rural Ohio, but it's not West by God Virginia. We do have SOME standards

Porsche 917/30 around Sebring. The power, history, and dominance of the car speak for themselves, but Sebring will always be special to me. My late father and I started making the trip to the 12 hours together and eventually my mother and now wife started tagging along. Racing has always been in my family's blood, but…