This year is all Amp’d Up baby!  We walked into the Neon Garage early this morning and we knew it would be different.  The energy filling this place was incredible.  We did our usual and got the base camp set up and then split up to see what we could find.  What we found were NASCAR fans everywhere!  This place was two and three deep on the viewing decks.  Getting special attention where the Go Daddy Team (Mark’s personal favorite) and Jimmie Johnson.

But then Jeff Gordon and Jaun Pablo Montoya walked thru the garages on the way to there cars and I thought the fans on the gate would lose it!

Look’s like NASCAR is cool once again.  Everyone is wearing their gear, myself included!  And it seems everyone is getting in on the action.  Kim Kardashian now has her face and name on a new car.

But my favorite of the day and the biggest crowd pleaser in the media room because of the free stuff was the Target shopping cart.  This cart was in the Neon Garage early this morning and Jaun Pablo was spoted going for a spin.  Its all about the marketing and the sponsors!

We did eventually get down to business.  The Ace reporter spent most of his day attending the media Q &A and we will have some great stuff on The Vegas Tourist podcast soon from that.  But before we go into our predictions for the big race on Sunday we have to talk about Danica.  The media frenzy surrounding her is out of this world and she is one of the reason’s this weekend will be so successful.  She was asked about all the media attention and was very down to earth when she said she was thankfull for it, and would miss it if it wasn’t there.

Most of you know that I am always rooting for the home town boys.  Kyle and Kurt Busch.  Kurt is all reved up and really wants to win at this track.  He is using information from his brothers success here last year to really dial it in.  So much so that he qualified first with a new track record of 188.79 miles an hour.  Last year Kyle was first on the pole and ended up starting last because of an engine change, this year Kurt will be on the pole and the home town is screaming for him to win it.

The TVT team is planning on hitting the ground running at 6:30 Saturday morning.  We have a meeting at 8 and a possible announcement by Garth Brooks and Jimmie Johnson at 9:40.  The weather man is calling for an 80% chance of rain for the Nationwide race tommarrow but we have poncho’s, no problem!  As soon as the race is over we are going to be racing to Lagasse’s Stadium of Tony Stewarts induction into the Legends of Sports.

So this last photo is for all our friends, family, husbands, wives, and co-workers we left behind this weekend.

We will be home on Monday, tired, hungry, limping, but happy.