Word is that Rick Hendrick survived another close call tonight.
Worst thing about today was it was the worst day for an IL veteran race driver back in the early 2000's
This guy wasn't a late model driver and if his love of open wheel racing didn't consume him...it is hard telling what this guy might have done. Blake Feese is no stranger though to what it takes to be in the big time. There was a time this young hot shot from Saybrook, IL was the sought after young gun and he had the tope NASCAR boys saying the same thing. Kurt Busch being one of them.
But tragedy struck hard for Blake and for many of the fans.
Blake had been running hard with his dad. Racing in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Michigan on the sprint car fron. Yet Blake was someone that wanted more. The Indy millions to race at that level wasn't what he was looking for...he wanted the young guns status in stock car racing. Thus he left the central IL flatlands, with little to know recognition for stock car racing and made his way to Charloette.
He built his foundation nad he had many of many meetings early on his his career. Most felt he should of stuck with ARCA racind as he saw a whole lot successs. Yet Blake turned the eye of Hendrick's motor builders. It was in the works to have Blake drive before that fateful airplane ride home ended the person who thought the most of him. Sadly, Blake had to redine who he is and search for more and more time behind the wheel.
Fortunatley he's held on to what he wants to do. Right now, he does doe what he loves in racing...by the means of running truck series. Yet this latest event with Rick makes a man wonder...what could have been with Blake Feese.
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