What kind of effect has Hamlins recent NASCAR fame had on other young drivers at Southside?
Now, I was not here when Denny Hamlin was here, but I haven’t heard that from any of the current drivers or the new ones coming along. Unfortunately, I have not met Denny Hamlin out here but I have met his mother and father. However, there are a lot of our drivers that are still here that raced with Denny Hamlin. Do you have a favorite racecar driver at Southside? I try not to have favorites because, I guess, with my father, everyone was the same and I always, even as a child, never saw any difference in any one particular driver and I never really found myself rooting for any one. Daddy would always have driver meetings at his house and we had so many drivers that have achieved so much here it would really be hard to identify just one. Why is local short track racing important? I think it all starts from the small children. For the ones that have the desire to race, they have their local go-cart tracks to start but with a local speedway, that is their next start. This is a track but a
