August 1, 2007 the driver of the #9 car, Kasey Kahne, was in California at the LAX airport Marriott Hotel for an exclusive Question & Answer session for California Speedway season ticket holders who renewed their 2008 season tickets by an early bird deadline. I was one of the lucky few who attended this session, I’m the one on the far right in the #9 jersey. I say there weren’t over 150 people in the room to ask Kasey questions and listen to his wonderful answers. I have to chuckle at one of his answers. A 13 year old girl asked him a great question, “If you worked on a pit crew, which crew member would you want to be”, he said he had never been asked that question before. He stumbled around for an answer, mentioned something about loving to change tires, thought that would be neat, then…… he finally came clean and said what he really wanted to do if he were to work on the pit crew. Kasey would love to be a Crew chief. I wonder how many of us NASCAR fans would love to work on a pit crew, or anywhere with Nascar as for that matter.
Well we got to have our pictures taken with Kasey Kahne. Group pictures were taken, but I managed to get a picture of me standing next to him talking to him. I was really trying to talk him into signing my #9 Holiday die cast car designed by Sam Bass and signed by Sam himself when we were in Charlotte, NC in May for the Official Nascar members Club convention, but his “handler” was not letting him sign anything. Oh well, maybe I will get a chance to meet Kasey and get his autograph in September at the race at California Speedway.
Speaking of the race at California Speedway, we plan on having a BBQ at our campsite on Saturday before the Busch race. I guess I have to start planning and getting all the decorations and paper goods for the BBQ, it’s only a few weeks away. If any of you out there are planning on going to the Labor Day weekend race why don’t you contact me and we may just meet at the track. We have a whole group of us that hang out together, we’re all part of the ONMC and we have a lot of fun together. Maybe we’ll see ya there!!