There Goes My (NASCAR) Hero, He’s Ordinary

I have just returned from a weekend of fine dining with Kasey Kahne, rubbing elbows with Tony Stewart, and getting up close and personal with Jeff Gordon. Sounds pretty glamorous right? It was an extraordinary circumstance that was nothing short of ordinary. I stood next to Kahne in the buffet line at 12:30 in the morning, fighting for the last bits of stale Chex Mix, literally bumped into Stewart on pit road as he made a mad dash for his car prior to the race and was one of many "photographers" with a camera shoved in Gordon’s face during an on track interview. When it comes to covering a NASCAR race, there is really very little glitz and glamour at all. The drivers are there to do their job and as a member of the media, we are the...

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