Originally Posted on December 15, 2005 on Foxsports.com
I realized I had a problem when I watched the 1999 Daytona 500 _Qualifications_ on TV. I was craving a racing fix, and the winter without a race had been tough.
Tony Stewart was a rookie in 1999. He earned lots of money racing; I spent lots of time watching racing.
It was a small addiction then. Missing a race didn't bother me (especially in the summer stretch). Sometimes I wouldn't even know who won until a week later. Nascar racing was available most of the year - no worries on missing a race.
Eventually, that changed when I moved and didn't have cable or satellite TV. As the weeks went by, I missed racing again. I needed the high of seeing stock cars race. So, like any junkie, I found a new "dealer" = the radio. It got me through the part of the schedule when I couldn't get the race on TV.
Years had gone by since I discovered this euphoria called racing, and I thought I had been hiding my racing problem well. I didn't discuss racing because no one knew or cared anything about it. I realized I had failed at hiding the amount of time I was spending on racing when my brother bought me tickets to a race for Christmas. "You should probably see one live sometime." he said.
My persistant- yet almost manageable - addiction was about to get a lot worse.
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