For those of you who didn’t know, I was invited to travel to Orlando, Florida to work with Dan Snyder Racing for the 6th Annual Winter Nationals at Orlando Speedworld during Speedweeks. Dan Snyder Racing is one of the most succesful Legends Cars teams in the INEX Raceceiver Legends Cars Series and is the home of 2009 National Pro Division Champion, Daniel Hemric. I’m also helping Dan with his new website, www.DanSynderRacing.com
We left Mooresville at 3 PM on Saturday and drove 10 hours to Orlando with a borrowed toter home and Dan’s pickup truck with a second Featherlite trailer. We were taking five cars, and Dan’s primary race trailer only carried four, plus the pitbox, the tire cart and the crash cart with spare race parts. The trip went smooth and we pulled into the track near midnight and found a couple parking spots to set up for the night.
I had told Dan this was my first trip in a toter home and staying at the race track during the week, so I was excited about the new experience. I was looking forward to the week as it was, but having a few new things I hadn’t done before were making this trip special.
Sunday morning rolled around, and I wasn’t feeling all that great. Both Dan and myself had been fighting a cough and cold-like symptoms, so I knew it was going to be difficult unless I really paid attention and stuck to my meds I had packed. We had a couple cars to finish decalling and set up the pits and the trailers in a different parking spot. That all went smoothly and I went back up into the toter to rest a bit after a few people told me I didn’t look that great. I was feeling like hell.
After a nap (Which was way longer than I had expected) we started to get the cars ready for practice. We have five cars working out of our pits with Daniel Hemric, Hoyt Demis, Jake Cole, Joey Herques and John Freeman.
After practice, we met up with Kenzie Ruston’s group and headed to Hooters for some food and the second half of the Super Bowl. We went from Hooters, to Buffalo Wild Wing, to TGI Friday’s before we could finally find a place to sit and eat.
We came back to the track and dropped “The Hangover” in the DVD player. I hadn’t seen it before, so there were a few good laughs in the film for me. Now I know what everyone’s been talking about!
Anyway, I am feeling a lot better and I’m up in the loft writing this on the laptop while everyone’s trying to wind down for the night. We’ll get some more practice starting at noon tomorrow, so I’ll try to check in tomorrow night and let you know what happened then.
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hi charlie
oh how i envy you, but not really. i am glad your having so much fun! next year maybe i can go, my dad says it’s looking good for me to have my legend real soon.
stay safe and good luck.keep us posted,this is cool.
working on the Mike Kivett Memorial Toy Drive, Miss him. How is Tyler doing down there. Tell him I am praying and thinking of him. His dad is so proud of him looking down from heaven.
Your friend Jeffrey The Jet Stanton
I held the wild cat today!
Sounds like day 1 went well. Hope you are feeling better but don’t forget to read the labels on the “drugs” you took with you. Enjoy the rest of the week and I hope you don’t get too stressed. Take time to enjoy the experience.
Just dozing off on NyQuil at night Mom…No need for concern!
Love You!