I doubt too many here are familiar with Bobby Hamilton tarheel. But I'll miss him. Bobby was one of the last of the old school racers....and he was a racer to the core. He quite literally grew up on the streets of Nashville, living in old cars and flophouses for much of his early life.

Maybe it was that which made him so tough, but it was a toughness laced with good heartedness. He wasn't pretencious and never a braggart but he never backed down from a challenge. When he moved to the truck series and opened his own shops and ran his own team, he did it back in Nashville and not Charlotte. That was not easy but for Bobby Hamilton it was right.

Keep a good thought out there for Benny tarheel. Although his cancer is in remission, it sounds as though it has taken a costly toll as he's been in the ICU since Christmas.

Spaw