In the Field: Elliott Sadler

With everything you can say about owning your own home -- and in my case, a brand new home -- the best thing I've enjoyed about it so far is I'm staying there more.

I'm actually coming out on the road a little later. What I'm finding myself doing is coming to the racetracks on Friday morning, instead of Thursday nights -- and that's because I'm just getting that one little extra evening in my house.

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And I love it. It's been a dream come true in every way, and a lot of fun so far.

Yeah, we saw [Greg] Biffle's car at Watkins Glen had Nintendo Wii sponsorship on it; and I've got my Xbox at home. And no -- I'm not going to go so far as to say I'm thinking about the day when I'll be able to sit at home in my living room and run a race.

But wouldn't that be cool? Five years from now, somebody -- and I'm going to give up my patent idea right now -- but if I was a smart enough engineer, and could develop games, I would somehow figure it out to where a race fan could sit at home and race against us, in the real race on Sunday.

They're working on it I'm sure -- some kind of simulcast or something they could come up with to where the race fan at home could sit and drive and race against us, on TV.

There's some kind of technology out there somewhere -- I'm not talking about sitting there and just seeing what we're seeing -- I'm talking racing his own car, racing against us and having to qualify into the race on Friday.

We'd see what people really thought of that top-35 deal, then. They'd have to practice and then race against us and see how those guys do. It would be some kind of virtual reality thing.

There's somebody out there in this world that can come up with the technology and the codes to make that happen. I'll bet you, one day they will. We'll be laughing five years from now -- 10 years from now saying, 'Yup, we told you that was gonna happen.'

Just imagine how much fun that would be for the fans at home -- they'd get to race against their favorite driver. If you're a Jeff Gordon fan you can go wreck Tony Stewart every week -- on your own virtual reality game, of course -- but it takes place at the same exact places that we race at, each and every Sunday.

There's something, or someone out there that can make that happen.

But until that does, I'll keep working on my new place. You know what, it's only been a few weeks that I've been in there, and it's not home yet -- it's still just a house.

It's not home yet because I'm still tuning on everything. I've been in this sport for nine years and I've always wanted to build me a dream house -- I wanted to build me a house so I'd have something to show for all the hard work and traveling and stuff that I've been through for the last nine years. (Continued)