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With New Hampshire Motor Speedway in the rearview mirror and Daytona straight ahead, I’d like to take a minute to reflect on one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen, as well as my best memory of Daytona.
We walk a fine line each week on NASCAR RaceDay on SPEED. Our show is about substance and the real story in the garage, and we strive to deliver that to the fans but with a dose of good-natured entertainment. Boy, did we ever accomplish that this past weekend at Loudon.
Sitting on the RaceDay stage, I found myself in a really tough situation. I was talking to the camera, trying to be serious, explaining to the viewers why it makes sense for Tony Stewart to hook up with Haas Racing in 2009. All of a sudden, I heard this loud, crazy cheer go up from the fans behind our stage. We tried to ignore it but it was like trying to ignore the big elephant in the room. Finally, the cheering got so loud that John Roberts, Jimmy Spencer, Hermie Sadler and I had to stop our conversation. No one could hear us anyway.
To the right of us was a monkey
We found ourselves losing track of what we were trying to tell the fans about why Tony should and probably will go to Haas Racing. At this point, we realized no matter how professional and serious we tried to be, everybody in the United States probably heard the commotion and we owed it to the country to show what the ruckus was all about. Sometimes the real story is going on behind us and this time, there was a monkey drinking beer 10 feet from us that we just couldn’t ignore. Who could?
We had a meeting about our broadcast and our decision to show the monkey a couple of days later, and decided maybe next time we’ll handle it a little differently. But in the past two days, everywhere I go everyone wants to talk about the drunk monkey. “That was crazy,” they all say. So, on NASCAR RaceDay, we try to bring you, the fans, the real story inside the garage area, but sometimes a little monkey business isn’t all that bad.
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