Jury duty, taxes and life insurance
Geoff Bodine breaks down three areas outside of racing that have an impact on a racer’s career.
Teammates and Daytona
You can’t win a race on the first lap, but you could absolutely lose it on the first lap. Racing in Winston Cup took patience and clean racing.
Debunking racing rumors
That’s one of the most common questions, if not the number one question, that race fans ask about. Well, you learn—sometimes the hard way. I know I did.
My relationship with Dale Earnhardt
As his nickname stuck with fans as “The Intimidator,” I called him “The Eliminator,” because he’d come behind you and towards the end of the race, he’d run into you and eliminate you.
Safety and racing
There were no soft walls in place or no HANS Device requirements when I wrecked in Daytona in 2000. By the time the accident was over, the whole front of the vehicle was chopped up.
Sponsorship and salary
By Geoff Bodine March 25, 2015 Let’s go back to 1982, when I drove for Cliff Stewart, my first full-time ride. He had his own company, so he sponsored the team. … Continue Reading Sponsorship and salary
Stepping away from racing
You never know how long you’re going to be able to do anything in life. Anything can happen on any given day. With my racing career, I just thought it was going to go on forever and ever.
NEMCO Motorsports questionable on Daytona 500 entry
“Everything’s based on funding,” he said. “Right now, the Truck team is definitely priority.”
Josh Wise to return to Phil Parsons Racing
“We’ll be in a building mode,” he said. “People don’t realize you don’t have quite the travel that you have during the season, obviously, but you work just as hard—probably more hours during the off-season, building new cars, repairing cars, putting new bodies on cars, things like that.”
Jeff Burton, Michael Waltrip Racing planning more races
“It’s still up in the air, to be quite honest,” Burton said to The Racing Experts. “[We’re] planning on doing Kentucky and Michigan, and maybe a few more before then, maybe not.”