The Ultimate Contrasts

摘要

I attend drag races for a living. Sounds like a great job—and it is, trust me—but it's not as simple as it seems. My experiences growing up in a drag racing family, working on racing teams, and the time spent on both PHR and PHR TV made it possible for me to leave the deadlines to Johnny Hunkins and chase a few opportunities outside of the media game. Sounds uneventful, but it's anything but. The last month has given me some great perspective, to say the least. This past fall, I was presented with one of the most unique back-to-back schedules for which a guy in my position could ask. One weekend I attended the world's biggest drag race, the 49th Annual NHRA Mac Tools U.S. Nationals, and the very next weekend, I attended my first modem-era Sport Compact event, the Tuned by Matrix GR Motorsports Sport Compact Nationals, presented by Wall Street.com and Red line Oil. How is it that the most established event in our straight-line sport has one sponsor, and the "Newbie" program has three? That would be the first of many questions and observations.