I am finally writing another blog! Well, not really. Seems that I have been slipping with my blog updates from some of the e-mails that I have been getting from you ladies and gentlemen, so I sat down today with the full intent to ignore all my other responsibilities and compose an entry. Then, like a vision, Grubby popped his head in my office door and said, in an Aussie accent of course, “Hey, Todd! You mind if I write a quick blog?” After a few minutes of arm twisting and much reluctance on my part (steeped in sarcasm), I said, “Sure. Go for it!”

Hi everyone. It’s me Grubby back again for a cameo blog update.

Well I’m back here at our shop in Michigan catching up on all of the day-to-day goings on of our race team as we prepare for our next race in Atlanta. It’s never dull around here as there always something going on to keep us busy and this trip has been no exception for me. The Supercross motorcycle racing series stopped by Detroit this past weekend, and a bunch from the race shop made the trek downtown to watch it at Ford Field. The night was full of the usual excitement in the heat races with the main event trophy once again going to James “Bubba” Stewart with my fellow Aussie Chad Reed coming in second place. Now, it seems as long as Ben Marshall, our Kalitta Motorsports Team Manager and marketing expert is with us there is always some PR work to do, and going to the Supercross was no exception. There we were mingling and profiling with the best of them. One of the people we ran into was “Shakes” who is Kid Rock’s right-hand man. Shakes is obviously his nickname and more people probably recognize him by that name rather than his given name. Besides, I don’t know what it is anyway! Shakes is a great guy and always a lot of fun to be around.



Later on in the night we all decided to meet up on Monday night for dinner and catch up with a buddy of ours, Kevin “Tater” McCarthy. Tater, of course, is another nickname except this time I obviously know his real name but it probably wouldn’t do any good as no one probably recognizes it. Anyway, Tater works in the music industry as well as a sound engineer and is currently on tour with the band Linkin Park, well he wasn’t on Monday night, but later in the week he will be leaving for Berlin to start their tour.

So Ben, Bob Lawson (former Kalitta marketing guy), Tater and I head up north of Detroit to meet up with Shakes for dinner. Shakes had some work to do at Rock’s recording studio and asked if we would like to stop by there before dinner, so naturally we all agreed. Now, I haven’t been to many recording studios in the past, actually I don’t think I’ve been to any, but I do know a Gibson guitar and a Marshall amp when I see them. The walls there were lined with Les Pauls and SGs and many other guitars. Shakes gave us the full tour on everything and what it takes to record a CD and why sometimes it takes so long to do it! It was a great tour, and it sure opened my eyes to what it takes to produce a good quality CD. After that, we all headed down to Shakes’ favorite local restaurant for a couple of drinks and some dinner. It was a great night and we all had a lot of laughs. Many thanks to Shakes for opening up Kid Rock’s private compound to us and for a great and memorable tour!

Well that’s about it for me right now. It’s time to focus on my Zantrex-3 team and the job at hand: Winning races.

Take care everyone!