How to Balance Home Life & NHRA Racing

Video Transcript

"TINA STULL: Hi. I'm Tina Stull and I drive the Top Dragster for Interstate Batteries. On behalf of Expert Village, today we're going to talk about the basics of racing. Once you decide to race and you've decided to go out and have a full season, some of the things to consider is how it's going to impact your life, your home life, your job, and so forth. When you make a commitment to go race a full season, you'll find that for every day that you're at the track, it usually takes almost two to three days of preparation for that weekend at the track. So, if I'm going to a three-day race, I figure I'd probably put in about six days worth of work just to get prepared. For me, because I don't travel all the time with the car, we're talking booking reservations, it could be hotel rooms, rental cars--also what it takes to maintain my home while I'm gone. So, there's--a lot of times, there's a lot more sacrifice in racing than just hey, we gotta go have fun, and definitely it's a lot of fun. It also impacts you; it's important to like remember how it impacts your family. If you're leaving family, who's caring the burden of what normally do while you're at home. And it's nice to have a payoff system with that that you know, you gotta go do your fun stuff, and they gotta go do theirs."