Thursday, January 04, 2007

"I'm goin' fast!"

Tuesday evening, Joel had a hankerin' for a Wisconsin burger so we opted out of our regular pizza outting. Not quite up to the feast that is the Wisconsin burger experience, I went with a smaller, lighter sandwich, saving room for B.Y.O.B. night at the theater!

Unfortunately, the theatrical options were not that appealing so we chose instead to go back to Joel's and watch Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby. Not to miss out on B.Y.O.B., I got a bucketful to go. The movie lived up to the goofy spoof of the NASCAR experience that Will Farrel could produce. A pretty good time and whetted the appetite for more NASCAR news.

With just over seven weeks to go until the Daytona 500, I visited the NASCAR website and saw "72-year-old Hylton plans to enter '07 Daytona 500" headline. Wow! "The cars -- and track -- have changed quite a bit since James Hylton's first Daytona 500." ... um... yeah! Evidently a quality driver in his time scoring 140 top five finishes, he's now eleven years older than Dave Marcis was in 2002 when he drove in the biggest race of the NASCAR season. He'll be driving the 58 this time; 48's gonna be busy defending his titles as champion of both the 2006 Nextel Cup and Daytona 500.

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