Getting set for a full week of national radio and television from our offices in Charlotte, NC.   Just back from producing two of our key racing series for television.  The ASA Southeast Asphalt Tour's third TV event of '09 unfolded down in Dillon, SC, Saturday night.  The Diesel Maxx 100 provided one of our most exciting events yet, with a race-long duel between Jason Hogan and Max Gresham.   It was a classic fight between a veteran and a teenager...and you can see who won when we debut the telecast in days on SportSouth and our other 13 national affiliates.
I then traveled from Dillon up to Virginia International Raceway today to supervise our coverage of the Star Mazda open-wheel series, the second Star event of the '09 campaign.   As usual it was a wild battle replete with wheel-banging incidents and close-quarters racing...a few too many full-course yellows for my liking but when you have nearly 30 young guns pressing hard, you'll have that.   The winner was no real surprise...but again, you'll have to tune in for our nationally-syndicated coverage to find out who prevailed.

Back to our Charlotte home base just in time to catch the replays of the wildest NASCAR race finish in memory today at Talladega.
I was there in the 80's when Bobby Allison nearly flew into the grandstand at almost the same spot where Carl Edwards tested the catch fence in the final lap of today's Aaron's 499.   Allison's aerial display touched off an immense round of r&d by NASCAR, its teams and manufacturers to develop several aero tricks designed to keep Cup and Nationwide cars ground-bound during competition.  Now, the sanctioning body may have to head back to the wind tunnel to get some new wrinkles in place, after Edwards scared everybody today.
Great win for young Brad Keselowski and his team owner, James Finch....who failed to qualify for several Cup races earlier in the season.
We'll break it all down starting tomorrow when we return to Sirius NASCAR Radio's "Tradin' Paint", daily, 11am-3pm Eastern Time.
This coming weekend, we'll be heading to Road Atlanta for coverage of our first Playboy MX 5 Cup event of the new season for Mazda during the Mitty Weekend...and you'll be able to see the show starting in mid-May on MASN, Comcast West, and our long list of cable
affiliates that are part of the MX 5 Cup Network.
Enjoy the week.