I’m not sure how exactly I’d describe it, but I know when I look in Joe Garrison’s eyes, he is as focused as I’ve ever seen him.

“I’m more excited about this year than I have been any other in a long time,” the co-founder of GRT Race Cars said.

Garrison has reason to be excited. Not only is he unveiling a new GRT in 2010, but for the first time in a long time, he’ll be hitting the road week in and week out with Jack Sullivan as the Greenbrier, Ark., driver wheels the GRT house car. MORE

I’ll be very interested to see this what the response from the Performance Racing Industry folks in Orlando, Fla., is to the new International Motorsports Industry Show in Indianapolis, Ind. By all accounts, Tony Stewart’s first-swing at the trade-show business was a success, especially for short-track folks like ourselves.

While I do enjoy PRI every year I go, it was hard not to notice a significant “short-track” feel that Indy was sporting. From drivers to fans, I saw a lot of familiar MORE