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Scott Speed Driver Diary: An "Unlucky, Good" Day in California and Charging Towards the Top 35

Scott Speed · Friday October 16, 2009

This past weekend’s race at Fontana was one of our better runs this year. Although it may not have always looked like it, we actually ran really well almost the entire race. We started out kind of slow, but then it came around. We just got unlucky because we were running around 21st and we just had gone a lap down. Right around that time, there was a caution and we pitted while about 12 cars stayed out to become the wave around cars, which cost us several positions on the track. That really hurt us a lot.

Scott Speed Driver Diary: Teammate Is In While Best Friend Is Out, Crew Chiefs in the Information Age and St. Lucia

Tony Lumbis · Friday September 18, 2009

As you could imagine, everybody at Team Red Bull is really pumped about my teammate Brian Vickers making the Chase. It is definitely a big step for our entire team as we establish ourselves on the circuit. To keep things in perspective though, just like I mentioned after Brian’s Michigan win, while we are all happy, we are still two separate teams, so our guys are impacted a little differently. The No. 83 team is simply more established than the No. 82 is or No. 84 was when A.J. was driving so we have a ways to go before getting to their level. Our team has changed some people around and has progressed throughout the year so I am happy with that. In the end though, we still have our own stuff that we are working on regardless of whether the No. 83 is doing well or not.

Scott Speed Driver Diary: Victory Junction Visit and a Little Brother Update

Scott Speed · Friday August 21, 2009

We’re coming off of a big weekend here at Team Red Bull. Brian’s win is great for the organization and really puts us on the map. Although to tell you the truth, it doesn’t affect the No. 82 guys as much. We already know that we have fast equipment and when things go right, we can ride in the front. I’m sure it will motivate everyone a little more to some point. But when you race week in and week out, you immediately start thinking about the next weekend.

Scott Speed Driver Diary: Getting Hitched, Danica, and Racing With Kyle in Cars and on Dolphins!

Scott Speed · Friday July 24, 2009

First off, I have to say that things are going quite well in my first week of marriage. Amanda and I tied the knot over the off-weekend and everything worked out well. The weather was good, which was important because it was an outside ceremony. We’ll have to wait a little bit for our honeymoon though, which will be the next off-weekend in August. We’ll be going to the Caribbean so I’m looking forward to that.

Scott Speed Driver Diary : A Windy DNQ and Getting Hitched!

Scott Speed · Friday June 26, 2009

I certainly experienced something new in my Sprint Cup career this past weekend when I got way off track during my qualifying run in Sonoma. Basically what happened is that the wind pushed us off the track, which I wasn’t taking into consideration. It was the first time we ever had to deal with something like that with these heavy cars. Normally it doesn’t make that much of a difference, because the cars weigh so much. I went way off track though. The side of the car is so flat, which they do on purpose to gain as much side force as possible and it actually worked a little too well on Friday. That’s actually what happened. It’s not like I tried to go through the corner any faster on my qualifying lap. It wasn’t a little bit of wind either; it was a ton. As the day was going on, it was getting windier and windier.

Scott Speed Diary - Dodging the Rain and Returning to the Scene of a Big Win

Scott Speed · Friday May 29, 2009

It definitely was an odd trip to Charlotte last weekend with all of the rain. The delays really don’t bother me as a driver, I just kind of roll with it. You can’t let things outside of your control get to you when you are in this business.

Still, with all the craziness going on around us, my Red Bull guys adapted well and gave me a great piece of equipment to drive. We’ve really come a long way with our intermediate program since missing the show at Texas last month, and I think it’s a testament to how hard everyone has been working.

Scott Speed Driver Diary: Momentum From Talladega and Beluga Whales!

Scott Speed · Friday May 1, 2009

It’s finally May and it’s getting warmer out so there is a lot to get excited about. I have to tell you though that April was definitely the tale of two months for me. It certainly didn’t start out well when we missed the show at Texas. I’m not sure what happened, but our car definitely wasn’t right. You only get one practice to dial the car in and we were just really off for some reason and we still aren’t sure what exactly went wrong. Qualifying is definitely my best attribute for sure so it’s difficult when you go to a racetrack and things aren’t right. It’s a huge challenge to get the setup right in such a short period of time. I stayed at the track though for the entire weekend, hung out with my friends and used it as an opportunity to learn more. It sucked being on the sidelines but it sure beats sitting at home on a Sunday afternoon.

Scott Speed Diary: Playing Rummy with Kyle Busch and the Winter Music Fest

Scott Speed · Friday April 3, 2009

Well, it certainly was a disappointing weekend at Martinsville last Sunday. I thought we had our best chance so far to turn this season around when we were riding in the top 10. It just seems like Kyle Busch has it out for me this year, between the Las Vegas Nationwide race and now last week! I’m kidding actually, in reality we’re buddies.

Scott Speed Driver Diary: Overcoming Diversity, Turning the Corner and Family Support

Scott Speed · Friday March 6, 2009

The last time I wrote in before the Daytona 500, I mentioned how I believed that I had meet my “wreck quota” after getting swept up in about three different accidents during Speedweeks. Well, so much for that theory. The season opener definitely did not go the way we had hoped, which was frustrating, but you have to stay focused. The good thing is that bad luck will eventually run out and things will start to go our way. I think it’s better to crash when you’re fast than to wreck and still be struggling.

I’m so glad that everyone on Team Red Bull has the ability to overcome adversity because we certainly have faced our share of it to start the season. The very next weekend in Fontana, we experienced engine and brake problems during the race which ended our chances of racing a very good car. We had a top 10 qualifying run and when the car was working, it was fast. I am looking forward to going back there later this year as well as visiting other similar tracks on the circuit. We have already begun to recover from our issues though as the team made significant strides in fixing the brake problems at Vegas.

Scott Speed Driver Diary: Snowboarding, Speedweeks and the Organ Donor 200!

Scott Speed · Friday February 13, 2009

Well the off-season is finally over and it’s time to get back to racing. To tell you the truth, I really didn’t do all that much during my down time. Probably the most significant thing I did was go snowboarding. Right after Christmas, we all went to Snow Shoe for a few weeks. Most of the time though, I just went to a ski mountain about an hour and 15 minutes away from my house down here in North Carolina. I actually just started this sport because when I was in Europe racing Formula One, I wasn’t able to do any of that stuff contractually…snowboarding, wakeboarding, skateboarding, skiing…nothing. I was basically in a glass bubble, so I really had a lot of fun trying this stuff out this past winter. Other than that though, I really just hung around my house. I didn’t even leave it for my birthday a few weeks ago. It was just that nice not to be doing anything, considering what my schedule will be over the next nine months.

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