Daytona Beach, Florida. This year, we don’t have a repeat champion, which revitalizes a slumping stock car world. For the past five years, it has been the same old song and dance. How will HMS react to not being the hunted, instead the hunters? Let’s see what NASCAR brings for new excitement. Can Tony do two things at once, be an owner and a driver, while trying to bring Stewart Haas a second title? The excitement begins on Thurdsay with the Gatorade 125. In my humble opinion, the season doesn’t really begin until the drivers go to California the following week, because there is so much hoopla around NASCAR and Daytona. The 500 is like the NFL’s Super Bowl. I am keeping my eye on the 14 to see how he responds with everybody gunning for him. It used to be Jimmie with all the pressure, now it’s where there’s smoke, there’s a champion.
