Welcome

Hello! Welcome to my new web log, glad you could stop by and join us.

It's taken awhile, and our new site will probably be a work that's always in progress, but I'm really looking forward to having this method to use to communicate with anyone who stops by.

I'm on a brief break from my on-air work with the Champ Car World Series, since the series has about six weeks off this season before resuming racing at Portland, Oregon, the second week of June.   Once we get to that point, my calendar is packed with racing and broadcast work.

Meantime I'm keeping busy working on producing video news releases and marketing videos for various Visioncast clients, along with handling some taped voiceover shows  for SPEED Channel.

Everyone here in the Charlotte area is still buzzing over yesterday's announcement by Dale Earnhardt Jr. that he's definitely moving on from DEI and the 8 car at the end of the current Nextel Cup season.   There are reports this morning that he'll announce a deal with Richard Childress Racing at Darlington this weekend before Saturday night's Dodge Charger 500.   I think that's the right place for him to be, a real homecoming opportunity, and I think it's just a matter of time and marketing before Jr. climbs into an RCR Chevy carrying the number 3. 

Meantime I think this marks the beginning of the end of DEI.   Clearly Jr. has been the moving business force there for several years now.  No question that Budweiser moves with Earnhardt Jr. to his new team in some capacity, and unless Teresa Earnhardt and Max Siegel can sign another driver with plenty of marketing clout and on-track talent, DEI will struggle to find funding.  Simply put, there's little reason for a major backer to want to spend money there when the stable of drivers is down to Martin Truex and Paul Menard.

Both can be capable drivers, but few people are buying their t-shirts.

We shall see what happens down in South Carolina this weekend.

 
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