In the Field: Elliott Sadler (cont'd)

There's a lot of pressure and a lot of hard feelings when you're racing for points. You drag it around like an anvil. So anytime we get to go race like this for fun, it's going to be a blast.

It'll get interesting because he's got a few of us guys that have never been on dirt, and some of the guys that have been, a lot. So there will be a lot of shaking it up and mixing it up going on -- but I'm looking forward to it.

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I'm looking forward to the challenge, and I can't wait.

And it's neat that they're doing a pay-per-view like they are; for the fans that don't have the money to travel up there, with their families or kids and all that. But through HBO doing the event, they'll actually get to watch it on TV, so that was a great idea on Tony and his guys' part.

The guy who's providing my car has done cars for Matt Kenseth in the past, and he's got good stuff. I sent them my measurements for a seat, and all I'm doing is showing up with my suit in a bag, with my helmet, HANS and hopefully a little bit of driving talent.

I want to run good in it -- I don't want to be a moving chicane. I want to run good and to make my guys happy and proud for providing a car for me to race.

But helping out Victory Junction is the big thing, when you get to the bottom line. All the fun we hope to have will be a bonus.

So we'll see what happens.

But I'm excited to show up and race on dirt -- and not just against the local guys, who are pretty good when you go to their home track -- but against Nextel Cup competition.

I think this is the start of a phenomenon, that Tony's undertaken, here -- because where it's gone from last year to this year, I can only see it getting better.

And I think that's the way Tony looks at it, too.

I just want to do a good job, so I get invited back.

Elliott Sadler, now in his ninth full season in the Cup Series, shares weekly with NASCAR.COM readers life on the road through staff writer Dave Rodman.