UPS RACING

Nancy and the baby goat

New Hampshire is behind us and we’re in Daytona this weekend. It’s going to be hot! But at least Daytona is a fun race. We stay at the beach and with it being a night race and things starting later in the day, we actually have mornings to enjoy some beach time. Last year we saw dolphins swim by; hopefully they’ll be back this year.

Off the track things have still been busy around here. I made David swing by the office and sign some things this week. Remember how he was on QVC a few weeks ago? Well the cars he sold on-air were autographed UPS Freight die-cast cars. These cars are still being made and won’t be done until the fall. So they sent us the windshields and he signed those this week and then we sent them back so they can put them on the cars. It’s much easier signing the windshields than a couple hundred cars. It’s especially easier for me since I would be the one to open all the boxes and put them back together… needless to say, I’m a fan of the windshield idea.

Everyone with mom

The UPS team is going to be looking good this weekend. I delivered their brand new uniforms (same design, but new) and they received their second-half hats which have a little bit different design on them. Little stuff keeps the daily grind of what we do interesting. Everyone is excited to be in Daytona this weekend. The Daytona 500 was our best finish of the year so far and everyone is hoping our bad luck is over and we can run up front. We just need to avoid the inevitable big wreck and be around at the end.

Check out the pictures of the goats! I finally got a picture of the baby goat! Of course she’s not so little anymore since it’s taken me a while to get the photo taken.

-Nancy

I’m sure everyone would think with the races being in Charlotte for two weeks it would be a nice break for those of us who travel every weekend, but that just doesn’t seem to be the case.  It’s actually a very busy two weeks around here. We might technically be at home, but it seems like we are still never at our own homes.  There’s a lot of track activity, sponsor appearances, media things…etc.

Nancy at Roush Fenway Racing

Jack is in town so David has a lot of meetings to attend down at the shop. Jack lives in Michigan where Roush Industries is based and on normal weeks flies in on Tuesdays for the “Jack Meetings,” but with the race being here he’s been around a lot more. 

David filmed some green screen stuff for ESPN last Wednesday and then we went out to dinner with some UPS people who were in town for some meetings. It was fun and then we all went to the O.A.R. concert. It was a free concert outside in downtown Charlotte. The weather was great, a ton of people showed up and they put on a great show. 

Unfortunately we didn’t race our way in to the All-Star race and we came in third in the fan vote so we’ll just have to win a race and guarantee a spot for next year.  Easier said then done, but you never know! David’s due for a Cup win now that he got the Nationwide win out of the way.

Monday we drove down to Atlanta for a UPS appearance. It was pretty cool, David mingled, took some photos and signed some autographs and raced the simulator against some of the guests. He’s got a few more appearances this week and then back to the track for this weekend. The Coca-Cola 600 is a long race and we really need to get a good finish. David’s got some good finishes at Charlotte so I think we can gain points back.  

Goat update:  The mom goat (known as Mama) had a baby boy!  Pictures to come…

Nancy is the Account Manager for the No. 6 UPS Racing team at Roush Fenway Racing.

Well I’ve got to say I’m happy Bristol is behind us and we can move on to Martinsville. The team tested “Little Rock” the short track next to the original Rockingham Speedway last week, which is similar to Martinsville, and from talking to David and Jimmy it sounds like the test went well. If you were to ask David what type of track is his favorite he would tell you short tracks, and Martinsville is definitely a short track. Hopefully the weather holds off and we are able to race. Seems like Sunday will be okay, but it’s not looking as good for Friday and Saturday. We really want to be able to qualify on Friday and not have to start by points, so keep your fingers crossed for us! Last year it was snowing at this race and we all froze.

Besides the racing aspect, we’ve got some other cool things in the works which you’ll see coming up soon. This weekend David is filming a PSA for NASCAR about “Going Green.” Next weekend we are filming part of the NASCAR Brand commercial. You know the one where each person says a different line? It’s like that. And we’re doing some stuff with UPS next week here at the shop. So there will be a lot of David Ragan UPS items coming up for everyone to check out.

On a fun note, I’m not sure how many people know this, but David has some goats. Well, currently they are on a friend’s property, but he just built a fence at his race shop and he’s going to move them there. I’m excited to go play with goats; they are the kind that faint. They don’t literally faint, but when they get scared something in them locks up and they fall down.I’ll try not to scare them, but they will be cool to play with. I’ll be sure to get some photos to share with everyone!

Hopefully we’ll see you guys at the race this weekend!