Fans may not always agree
with his methods but you have to admire his ability. He may have better car (or truck) control than any driver currently
in NASCAR. You expect him to wreck at every turn, but he somehow manages to keep control and move quickly through the field.
He certainly puts on
a show but I am not certain that his style is appreciated by the regular drivers in the truck series. These drivers have devoted
most of their careers to becoming successful in this series. Some have driven at other levels of the sport, but they have
become known as truck drivers. Mike Skinner, Ron Hornaday, Todd Bodine and Ted Musgrave to name a few have helped to
establish the truck series as a premier racing series. They have invested blood, sweat and tear equity in the sport. They
have raced hard week in and week out to make a name for themselves. They are seen as some of the toughest and the best at
what they do.
The truck series is their
bread and butter and as everyone knows, they are not compensated nearly as well as the Nationwide and Sprint Cup drivers.
They run smaller operations on much tighter budgets and still manage to give us some of the most exciting racing that you
will ever see.
When I hear people say that
they do not watch racing because they do not find 4-5 hours of running around in circles to be exciting, I suggest that they
try watching a truck race. In the trucks, they run half or fewer laps than the Cup series. That means that these guys cannot
sit back for 400 miles then race for the last 100 miles.
2006 StockCar Review.
