Boogity, Boggity, Boggity, Let's Go Racing Boys! Hot Damn! It’s that time of the year again. Speedweeks has begun, and that means the off-season is over.  Saturday marks the first sign of racing in the top series of NASCAR with the Budweiser Shootout.

For those that are slow, the Budweiser Shootout is like an Allstar event. It consists of every driver that won a pole in the previous season, (As long as that car was wearing a Budweiser decal when they did,) and any past winner of the Shootout event. It’s a 70 lap race broken up into two segments. The first is a fast 20 lap, then a 10 minute intermission, fallowed by a 50 lap segment with a mandatory 2-tire pit stop made under green. It’s not a regular season race, with no points rewarded. Just bragging rights, a great head start into the season opener next weekend, and straight cash.

Daytona is really heating up right now with the anticipation for the Daytona 500. It really makes you understand why the biggest race of the year is the very first one. It takes so much hard work to put this thing together. Just to get a chance to race in the Daytona 500 is a dream. To race well in Daytona is destiny. It makes for one great show!

And every show needs a stage. Daytona’s is set. If anyone out there doubts that the 2007 Daytona 500 is one more week away, listen for those engines roar this Saturday night. You won’t need to be anywhere near a TV or Florida. The Bud Shootout is the starting gun for the 2007 Nextel Cup Season.