Clinty's Weekly Blogs

This is where Ill post his weekly blogs from his new site, www.clintbowyer.com

Hey guys, welcome to the second edition of my blog here on the new site. Wow, a lot has happened since the last time we spoke. I finally had some time to sit down this afternoon and think a little bit before the weekend arrives. This morning I was up early and flew down to Atlanta for some Holiday Inn Media training. I'm pretty excited to be driving the #29 RCR Holiday Inn Chevrolet for 10 races. I'll be back with Dan Deeringhoff and paired up with Jeff Burton and Steven Leicht so the owner's championship should be well within our grasp. Anyways, I finally got back here to the dirt shop a couple of hours ago and just sat down to write my blog. With my pilot, Ric Ebert, sitting here, just in front of my Late Model cars it make me think of a funny movie I liked when I was a kid, Planes, trains, and automobiles! Here is what has been going on.

The first thing I did was go test the dirt cars with Dale McDowell at Volusia. We had a really good time. It's hard to describe how good those cars feel when they are hooked up and handling well. They are just a blast! Plus, we were both fast, so that always helps the "good time" if you know what I mean? The tricky part was evaluating the two different chassis Dale and I have. Dale has been driving a Warrior chassis and I've been using Rocket. We both spent time in each chassis, but at the end of the day, we found things that work good on both. And again, both were fast, so it's all good.

I got home really late Friday night so I took some extra time to sleep in Saturday morning. My brothers and I had a bunch of friends down for the weekend, so we showed them the RCR museum here in Welcome and then had a good time out at my house. I remember the first time I drove into the RCR complex and saw that museum and thought how cool it was. So, it's pretty cool to have friends visit and see them be impressed. I have to say, if you were an Earnhardt fan, or simply a fan of NASCAR at all, it's worth the trip to check it out. Plus, my wrecked 2007 Daytona 500 car is in there and still has the grass inside it. Haha!

Monday morning came at 5:30am and it was time to get serious. We had a test scheduled for Rockingham and I was excited to get behind the wheel of the #33 Cheerios/Hamburger Helper RCR Impala SS for the first time. I think the test was more of a "getting to know each other" deal, than a performance enhancer. It was also cool to get to drive on a track with such a rich history like "The Rock." The old girl was a little rough, but it was pretty cool because we got to drive on the big track and the short track in the middle. We spent Monday doing shirt track stuff, then I drove home, slept for a couple hours, then was gone again at 5:30am to get back down there for the big track testing. Everything went really well and all I can say is, bring on the season. We're going to be ready.

Wednesday morning I jumped on an airplane and headed to the General Mills Headquarters up in Minneapolis. Let me tell you it is cold up there! But the General Mills facility was amazing. You drive into the place off of General Mills Boulevard, and enter what I can only describe as a small city. The venue has it's own grocery store, clothing store, a day care, and even it's own on-site dentist and doctor. Talk about setting it up to get the most from your employees! It seems like a very cool place to work, and they all treated me great.

Tomorrow morning I will be heading down to Charlotte to read books to a group of kids, then I'm back to Kansas this weekend for my brother Casey's wedding reception. I tell you, it's planes, trains, and automobiles all the time, it seems.

Talk to you guys next week, take care!

-Clint Bowyer #33

Wow, that's really cool! Ryan doesn't have a blog, Krissie does. But I don't read those.

Ronnie has one though.

That's cool that they tested in Atlanta.

I dont blame ya for not reading Krissie's.

I wouldnt either! No offence to her, but uh, no

Well, not only that, but she just REALLY turned me off when I read a post where she was totally sarcastic, RUDE and - above all that - she seemed to be blaming Ryan because he wasn't doing well. BITCH, WTF?!? Get a grip.

REALLY!?

Okay, that would do it for me too.

The moment you start doubting your man, your ass should be GONE

I'll never forget that. However, she posted a really sweet one later on. It wasn't about Ryan but about their charity work.

Hmm.. I wonder if shes ever posted anything decent and sweet about Ryan then!!

Maybe it was just me getting carried away, but it did sound harsh. I expected more from her.

Anyway, this is Clint's place to shine. I'll stop talking about the NASCAR women. I'll just take the Krissie bashing over to Ryan's thread.

Hahaha Ill meet you over there, then

Hi guys, welcome to blog #3. It seems like every time I sit down to write this I begin with, "Man, I've been busy!" Oh well, I guess that is how I like to be. Things are moving quickly around here and I can't believe there's only 10 days until the big race...

This past weekend we flew to Kansas for my brother Casey's wedding reception in Topeka. He had his wedding in the Bahamas, but we wanted to have the reception back home so everyone could come congratulate him, and party of course! Anytime I get to go back to Kansas it's a good time, this time we flew into Forbes Field Airport, which was right beside one of my old stomping grounds, Heartland Park Topeka. I had a lot of fun over there and man does time sure fly by. Anyways, there was almost 200 people at the reception and everyone had a good time, except my brother Andy, who had to give the toast speech. Let's just say the pressure and the nerves got to him! That was pretty funny.

We all watched the Super Bowl when we got home Sunday, and that was quite a game. I was pulling for the Cardinals as the underdog, but I didn't really care who won. I'm a Chiefs fan, and we all know that they didn't have too good of a year. It was a fun game to watch. Monday was a really fun day. Kawasaki Motor Corp., is one of our new sponsors and they brought out a camera crew to film a web video for their new 2009 Kawasaki Teryx. My roots are in motocross, so I'm pretty pumped to have Kawasaki as a sponsor. I spent most of my riding days on a green machine. They ended up bringing out four machines to RC's farm. We sat up a little course through the field and trees and had a great time. All four RCR drivers and RC were there. I guess you could say it was the first time the four of us were racing as teammates, which was cool.

We had our big season kick-off meeting at RCR Tuesday, which went really well. Everyone at RCR is fired up for the new season, to say the least. A lot of hard work goes on during the off-season and we all want to put that work to good use on the track and make everyone proud. Things are looking great. After the meeting I took off for Tampa, Fla., to meet up with Dale and the dirt team for the first night of late model racing this year. I am always excited to get behind the wheel of a late model, I haven't raced one since the Prelude last year, so I was on the chip to say the least. East Bay Raceway Park hosts a weeks worth of racing and then on to Volusia County next week for another week of racing. We were looking to make a good showing after our test went so well, but things didn't go as planned. The track was a dry slick and when we tested it was heavy, so our set up wasn't the best. Dale ended up breaking and I had trouble getting used to the new conditions. Oh well, we have another chance tonight to redeem ourselves and hopefully the fans will see a better showing from Clint Bowyer Racing.

The dirt racing is a lot of fun, but as soon as I'm finished, I'm off to the big track at Daytona to turn my focus to the Camping World 300 and the 500. Time to get serious and get ready to start the year on the right foot. I'll be on the track for the first time in the 2009 season this Saturday afternoon when I go out for Cup practice.

We're ready to go. Wish us luck in qualifying! Thanks for reading, and I'll be back next Wednesday.

-Clint Bowyer #33

Baby, I'm wishing you good luck in qualifying like you wouldn't believe
I know you can do it, but Ill stop breathing when you're out there...so make it a quick two around and get up in that top standing

OMG, that ending was too sweet. I wish Ryan would write stuff like that.

Im really loving this new site and blogs and stuff....I CANT WAIT for the new gallery to get up and coming....hehehehehehe....that should be where my dreams start waking back up again

I wonder if Kasey does blogs? I bet they're also very sweet, just like Clint's.

Hmmm....I wonder.....we should try to find out who does so we can keep track of the inside line.....so to speak

To Kasey's site we go...

I'm feeling adventurous with my avvie today....I might make a new one up

Go for it!!!

Wow, I'd love to go to Yellowstone, Yosemite, etc.

He's just one of the nicest guys, I swear. I love reading the blogs, thanks, Steph!

Clinty is soo cool! Thanks Steph!

Thank you Clinty!!

We love your blogs!!

I know. We need Ryan to blog. All we have is Krissie's Korner for fuck's sake.

She's been on her best behavior lately, but still.

Hmm...I wonder why...

Maybe she is one of the guests?!??!