One of my most faithful readers of this blog and of my newspaper column is Karen P.  Karen emailed me about this certain NASCAR related thing that she got involved in and I asked her to do a fanpost about it here.  Well Karen tried but for some reason or another the program didn't work the way it was supposed to so she emailed me her story for me to put up for you.  Read on ... this is pretty cool!

"Amp Energy hosted a contest for fans to have their name appear on Dale Earnhardt Jr's Talladega race car. Over 105,000 fans signed up. The No. 88 Chevy will feature more than 70,000 names on its black-and-green paint scheme for this weekend’s race, while the additional names will appear on the pit wall banner. It may not seem like a long shot, but thinking about how many Earnhart fans there are in the world, I considered it a pretty great honour. My name appears on the right hand side of his car, in the middle of the "M" in mountain. While I may not be a hardcore fan of Dale, I wish him luck in the race and I am hoping that he doesn't wreck or hit the right side of his car off the wall. If he does, well, there goes my name."

Karen P.