Grant, Zack & Tom eased their way over the icy back road where the race shop is located to the safe and dry interstate 85 late Monday afernoon for the long drive to Daytona International Speedway. They arrived at the big track just after midnight, allowing a few hours sleep before today’s technical and safety [...]
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Grant must pull out of the North Carolina shop next Monday morning for the long haul to Daytona Speedway. Before then, he will complete work on chassis setup, deliver the race car for vinyl wrapping/graphic application and stock the transporter with parts and equipment. The season opening ARCA race at Daytona, set to be run [...]
With the season opening Daytona ARCA race quicikly approaching, Grant took the BeasleyAllen speedway car back to the Roush Yates chassis dyno Thursday. Grant was dissapointed to find that the “coast down” reading on the dyno revealed that no improvement had taken place since the installation of a new transmission and new rear gear assembly. [...]
The short “off season” of stock car racing is quickly drawing to a close. January is the only month of the year Grant isn’t on a race track, and this month doesn’t have enough days to complete all the necessary work. Grant continues to prepare the speedway car for the February 6th ARCA race at [...]
During the first week of January 2008, Grant drove his pickup truck to Charlotte North Carolina to break into big time stock car racing. Without a job or a place to stay he made the rounds of race shops, seeking any job available. Corrie Stott put him to work, without pay and that stint led [...]


