I feel your pain. Trying to follow who is driving what and who is in and who’s points are going to who as the ’09 NASCAR season opens is a task for a tax attorney. So many drivers have moved and so many teams have shuffled that owner’s and driver’s points are being tossed around like a deck of flying cards. You have three choices as a fan of NASCAR. You can be one of those “know it all” types that lives and breaths by the stats and can’t sleep at night without knowing all the numbers. If you are one of those people waiting for the conversation to turn so you can interject with the shoe sizes of the top 10 in points, you might want to take a step back and see what your wife is up to. You could also be one of those that has no concern whatsoever about the rest of the field. You follow one driver. You own the hat, the jacket, the T-shirt, the diecast and the other 42 cars in the race are only there to get in your guy’s way. Everybody sucks gas except for your guy and you know more about him than his own family. You, my friend, are a Hot Pass away from being a stalker. Finally, you could be like most of us. You like the race. You have drivers you like and some maybe not so much. It is the atmosphere and the sport of “race day” that draws you in.
As we move into 2009 and the green flag waves on Daytona, those of us that are NASCAR fans and not just “driver” fans or number crunchers are trying to follow the cards so we have some idea what we’re looking at when the pace car makes that first exit. I don’t know about you but at this point I’m ready to see some laps and I’ll find out who is “in” and who is “out” on race day.
However, if you just have to know everything so your BVDs don’t get bunched up, here’s a site that puts it all out there for you: Jayski’s Silly Season Site. He’s got a good grasp of who has what, who is in and who is out for those first bunch of races.