Sunday, even though its Monday today.

Quick shout out to Kelly who helped me film and took great pictures this weekend. see you in Cleveland dear!

Saturday night in Milwaukee I went down to the hotel bar to have a drink and watch a little basketball at the bar. Ended up spending time with three guys who had come in from the Chicago area to watch the race. We had some drinks and talked racing for a couple of hours. Good times. Nice to see diehards who go out of their way to attend races as well as educate non-fans on the product. They called themselves ambassadors to the sport, and I couldn’t agree more!

Spent some time on crapwagon.com Sunday and boy there is a strong negative vibe to that site right now. Sure, the race wasn’t the best, the attendance was fairly low and there was a lot of grumbling about Servia jumping ship to Newman/Haas. Still, its only one event where a bunch of things happened at the same time. Nobody was talking like this after Long Beach or Monterrey and I venture to say nobody will be talking like this after Portland. I think we are all uneasy right now because of the momentum that the IRL garnered following the Indy500 or the Danica500, whatever you want to call it. They have a little momentum, and we are experiencing a temporary setback after this weekend. Nothing to worry about. The pendulum will swing back our way. I don’t think that they can turn an entire series around based on one particular female driver. And let’s not forget that we have our own female driver waiting in the wings and with an already better track record than Miss Patrick (i.e., a race winner in atlantics). Kalkoven is a businessman, he knows what he’s doing. The company is a little over a year old and Kalkoven has proven that he is willing to spend whatever it takes to maintain a healthy series. That, in itself, will attract potential sponsors. It won’t be an overnight process. Mr. Kalkoven didn’t become a millionaire overnight. No true business can be turned around in a year. It takes time, patience, momentary setbacks and strong determination. Things will be fine folks. Just be patient. We have ridden the lowest of the lows together about 2-3 years ago and we will rise again to prominence together.
For the time moment, PAPER you continue to bring that positive energy like only you can!