Gentlemen Start Your Engines!!!!!
On Sunday, October 15th D.J. got to go to an ARCA race-- & boy was he excited!! A bit of a background for you non-race fans (myself included). ARCA is a "farm series" of NASCAR & a new raceway was opened this fall in Newton, Iowa by Rusty Wallace (a retired NASCAR driver).
Ok, back to our story... A friend of ours (Mike Mullen) invited D.J. to join him & some of his clients... Mike works for TransAmerica & TransAmerica was the primary sponsor on the car that Steven Wallace, Rusty's son, was driving that day. Steven started on the pole & ended up winning the race! Needless to say they enjoyed the owners box seats, garage/pit passes & received the royal treatment all day. 
They also got to ride in the pace car. Both Rusty & Steven were giving rides around the track in pace cars- D.J. got to ride in the pace car with none other than Rusty Wallace driving!! D.J. said that Rusty & Steven were cutting each other off on the race track while giving rides & going 107 mph! Then they got to enjoy the race in the comforts the owner's suite. During one of the cautions, Rusty came up to their suite & signed some autographs for everyone & chatted a bit. He informed everyone the car Steven was driving that day was the same car he drove last year in the Nextel Cup series.
Here is D.J. standing next to his favorite driver's car... The Rainbow Warrior, #24, Jeff Gordon.
5 comments:
Looks like DJ had a great day! :) What a fun birthday weekend~
How cool that he got to ride with Rusty Wallace!
wow! he got to ride with rusty and got to go 107 mph! tad is going to be jealous when i tell him and probably kick himself for not going!!!wow, wow, wow!!
Are you ready to give up your day job & throw your cap in the racing game?
Looks like a lot of fun. Mike called during the race and it sounded like they were having a great time!
Glad to see D.J. had such a great time. I cannot imagine going 107 miles per hour, i would have been scared to death.
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