Though this week’s Daytona 500 drivers may be rich and successful now, none of them reached NASCAR’s Super Bowl without some bumps along the way. We asked several drivers to share the story of a difficult moment with us. Up next: Jamie McMurray.
Jamie McMurray’s Road To The 2011 Daytona 500
Jamie McMurray’s road to Daytona – which eventually led to him becoming Daytona 500 champion last season – was no piece of cake. At one point, he had all his possessions in his Chevy Tahoe – but amazingly, he says he never minded it.
To hear him tell it:
The whole time I was moving up through racing, I always thought everything was great. I always thought I had more than everybody else. I grew up in a really average family, and when I look back, we didn’t have a lot – but at the time, that was normal to me.
My mom reminded me that I had a Tahoe at the time, and I had all my clothes in it and I had a VCR and a bunch of VHS movies she had bought for Christmas. I remember driving in it to Texas and Kentucky and all these places where I was racing for all these different teams. I was having the time of my life, but I remember (my mom) was like, ‘I felt so sorry for you, because you had everything you owned in a Tahoe.’
But I don’t know. It was just fun at the time.
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