Also known as: Why I
love close to home Friday night races.
The RSS team traveled to Richmond this past Friday
night. It was a one day show and definitely
a physically hard race for the team.
Their morning started about 6 am and didn’t end until the haulers were
loaded about midnight.
Scott and Tony pulled out of Richmond and stopped about an
hour south to get fuel and sleep. They
were some wore out puppies. The guys rolled
into Buford about 3 pmish Saturday afternoon.
Being they are awesome hauler drivers, they unloaded the bottom of their
wagons, cars too, before coming home.
Being the senior citizens of the team, Scott spent the
evening resting before going to bed early.
Not a problem because he had ALL day at home Sunday afternoon. This is unusual for us because by the time
they race on Saturday afternoon, its late Sunday afternoon or night before he
gets home.
Sunday morning was busy. The grass got mowed!! Needless to say, the dogs were ecstatic, the kids were ho-hum and the
neighbors almost organized a block party. The puppies
ran around in their freshly mowed pen and the dandelions are gone. Scott also helped me re-pot vegetable
seedlings for our summer garden. OK, he emptied
some old flower pots and toted the bags of dirt for me.
After our yard work, we spent the rainy afternoon watching
old movies and just hanging out. I fixed dinner and our eldest daughter, a
freshman at UGA, came home to eat with our family. You know, normal, mundane family stuff, right?
Friday night races give us a rare occasion to have an almost
“normal” weekend. Sometimes I wish we
had more of them. Yes, I’m a proponent
of a shorter season and even double header weekends like we did in the old ARCA
days.
Carlee, Scott, AnnaBelle & Maddie at Darlington Raceway |
I take about every opportunity to tweet and advocate for a
major change in the Busch/Xfinity schedule.
This definitely would be an in-depth post for a later date. The short of it is, I’d like to see a 28 race
schedule, ending sometime in October. More
short tracks, fewer mile n ahalves, one less road course and less time spent on
the west coast.
Of course, my perspective is one as an accountant and wife of the hauler driver/crew member. And
maybe there’s a little SEC football fan mixed in there as well. Nothing wrong with saving a few bucks and a longer off season and more time for football.