Night one off to a bad start.

Hi all

Well day one of the Nationals is on us, we went to Oskaloosa to check out the souveniers and parts trucks.

It would be best described as "The circus has come to town" There is 24,000 people walking the streets of a small town, golf carts that look like stretched Limos, scooters everywhere and T Shirt shops every 10m or so.

We walked through the other big budget team area Kasey Kahn Racing and looked over his cars, they run a much tighter budget than you would think, normal sprintcar parts, second hand spares etc, not what I expected after looking at the Tony Stewart team the other day.

We are still trying to get to the Hall teams workshop but just cannot find it.

We went back out to the Sprintcar go carts for another couple of races, got battered by Gavin and some locals so I took revenge and launched Gavin onto two wheels into and almost over the fence, wish I was wearing my hans device as my neck stretched about 10 inches, then sorted the local yokel out with a quick shove in the rear and turned him around, while this was going on Glen slipped by for the win, no black flags this time but I am sure Gavin is tipping the flag marshall to turn a blind eye to his fender bender antics.

So to the racing, what racing, it rained at 7:30pm so we came back to the hotel, the racing may restart at 10:30pm and go into the morning again, the worst part about that is I will have to put up with the children wanting McDonalds for breakfast.

There are 5 Australians racing tonight.

Gary Brazier, Skip Jackson, Greg Hall, Matt Reed and Kerry Madsen.

We are sitting in the Pensylvania Posse area of the grand stand, these guys are the most vocal supporters you will ever hear, we are a bit scared to let go with the Aussie Aussie Aussie chant.

Bye for now, will blog after the races if I can stay awake that long.