Kyle Busch came out hot in 2019, snagging a trio of race victories amidst an 11-race top-10 streak to start the season. It seemed a foregone conclusion at the time that he’d be a championship favorite — but after his victory at Pocono Raceway in early June, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver was held winless until his somewhat surprising title-clinching victory at Homestead-Miami Speedway in November.
Given his talent behind the wheel and resources at JGR, Busch would appear to be a slam dunk to repeat as NASCAR Cup Series champion — but is he? Many had him pegged as the least-likely Championship 4 driver to win after his second-half drought and up-and-down playoffs, but Busch and crew chief Adam Stevens found a way to prevail.
Is a third Cup Series title in the cards for Busch in 2020? NASCAR.com’s Pat DeCola and Chase Wilhelm debate.
DeCola: In absolutely no way am I ruling out Kyle Busch as a championship contender … but I don’t think he’s going to repeat. Through the first six iterations of the elimination-style NASCAR Playoffs format, we’ve yet to see a repeat champion, and in two of the last three years, the champion from the previous season failed to even make it back to the Championship 4.
Rowdy’s victory at Homestead-Miami Speedway, though impressive, felt like more of a rising-to-the-occasion-type moment for him, Stevens and the No. 18 team than a sign all of their second-half ailments had all of a sudden been cured. The early portion of Busch’s 2019 season was dominant at times, but the group seemed to either lose its footing midway through or, perhaps, were just caught up to by other organizations as the summer months ticked off. Kevin Harvick’s No. 4 team, specifically, seemed to have the inverse of Busch’s season, sputtering out the gate a bit but riding a hot streak to Miami.
Throw in that two of his own teammates in Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. — arguably the two best drivers of ’19 — are destined for more success this season and Busch might not even be the championship favorite in his own stable.
I fully expect Busch to win around five races in ’20 and probably make his sixth Championship 4 appearance in seven years — who knows, maybe he could steal it away again — but I’d probably put him at about third overall on my championship favorites list at the moment.
Wilhelm: During Championship 4 Media Day in Miami, I was persistent in saying Busch had the lowest chances of hoisting the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series trophy at Homestead-Miami Speedway compared to Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr.
Let’s just say I’ve learned from my mistakes.
So, I’m going to try a different strategy by getting on the Rowdy train and riding it all the way to the finale at Phoenix Raceway in 2020. I think Busch hits a stride this upcoming season, winning way more than three races on his way to defending his title.
Busch didn’t have a career season by any stretch last year, but that should teach everyone to never count out the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing team led by mastermind crew chief Adam Stevens — no matter the circumstances. Regardless of his winless streak after Pocono Raceway last season, we should have known not to bet against him when the odds aren’t in his favor. Case in point: 2015 when he missed 11 races and came back to earn five race victories en route to his first championship.
Are there plenty of other championship-caliber drivers who will give him a hell of a run for his money this year? Yes.
But will Busch be able to handle any pressure thrown at him for the ultimate prize? Fo sho.
In NASCAR, the goal is to win races. Everybody knows that. However, with 40 competitors vying for the same checkered flag each week, there’s a small dilemma: 39 of those 40 don’t win.
Luckily, for the 39 losers, there’s another goal at hand: chasing what we’ve dubbed the All 40 Challenge — the feat of finishing in every single position first through 40th at least once over the course of a driver’s career.
Sure, that 25th-place finish isn’t a great points day, but maybe it’ll check off a box on the All 40 Challenge tracker. An underdog steals a top 10 at Talladega against all odds? Another box checked on the chart.
No, there’s no prize or points bonus for completing the All 40 Challenge sweep; it’s nothing more than a neat stat that a majority of drivers never complete.
Thirteen full-time active drivers have completed the All 40 Challenge, however:
– Aric Almirola
– Ryan Blaney
– Alex Bowman
– Clint Bowyer
– Kurt Busch
– Kyle Busch
– Denny Hamlin
– Kevin Harvick
– Jimmie Johnson
– Joey Logano
– Ryan Newman
– Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
– Martin Truex Jr.
Aric Almirola (second place), Ryan Blaney (21st place) and Alex Bowman (first place) joined the elusive list in 2019.
The now-retired David Ragan came oh-so-close to completing the sweep before hanging up the helmet at the end of 2019, but somehow he never finished ninth in his 470-start career spanning 14 seasons.
A handful of drivers are just two finishes away:
– Austin Dillon (2nd, 40th)
– Brad Keselowski (28th, 40th)
– Kyle Larson (22nd, 32nd)
– Reed Sorenson (1st, 2nd)
We’ll track the finishes of drivers throughout the 2020 season below, keeping vigilant watch of drivers’ pursuits of the All 40 Challenge. Highlighted numbers indicate positions where a driver hasn’t yet finished; grayed-out names indicate drivers who’ve already finished in all 40 positions throughout their careers.
Stewart-Haas Racing announced Monday that Chase Briscoe will return to the organization for a full-season campaign in the NASCAR Xfinity Series in 2020.
Briscoe won Sunoco Rookie of the Year honors last season, falling just shy of qualifying for the Championship 4 in his first playoff appearance. The 25-year-old driver won two pole positions and prevailed at Iowa Speedway for his second series victory, a triumph that followed his breakthrough win at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval in a part-time season in 2018.
“This is the first time I’ll be able to run back-to-back, full seasons with the same team, and I couldn’t be happier to do it with Stewart-Haas Racing,” Briscoe said in a release provided by Stewart-Haas Racing. “Their faith in me means a lot, and I want to reward them and Ford with more wins and a run for the championship.”
Briscoe, who accelerated his racing career on the dirt tracks near his home state of Indiana, is a prospect in the Ford Performance driver development program. He recently completed testing an IMSA Ford Mustang GT4 at Daytona International Speedway in preparation for the Michelin Pilot Challenge opener later this month.
“We’re very proud to have Chase back with Stewart-Haas Racing,” said SHR co-owner Tony Stewart. “Chase is an Indiana kid with a dirt-track background who has shown he can race on asphalt as well as he can on dirt. We think very highly of him and look forward to a strong season in 2020.”
Briscoe is also a two-time winner in NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Series competition. His first national series victory came in the Gander Trucks finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway in 2017. Briscoe followed that by winning his only truck start in 2018, a one-off triumph on the dirt at Eldora Speedway.
Briscoe is also the 2016 ARCA Menards Series champion, turning a six-win season into a runaway in the final standings.
New Year’s Day has come and gone, so it’s time to look forward to the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season. The editorial staff at NASCAR.com has come up with its best predictions for the upcoming 36-race stretch, which starts Feb. 16 at Daytona International Speedway with annual season-opening Daytona 500. Here’s what each member had to predict:
— Bold 2020 prediction on anything. — Best candidate for first career win in 2020. — Expectations for how Jimmie Johnson’s last season unfolds. — Who will be the ultimate season champion.
Bold prediction: Cole Custer wins a closely contested Sunoco Rookie of the Year contest, but both he and Christopher Bell push their way into the postseason. For good measure, Chris Buescher wills himself into a playoff berth as his overachieving trend continues at Roush Fenway Racing.
First win: William Byron
No. 48: The seven-time champ ends his long winless drought with a return to form at a favorable track (looking at you, Martinsville Speedway and Dover International Speedway). Jimmie Johnson’s postseason miss last year turns out to be a blip, but the No. 48’s road should end in the Round of 12, where Talladega Superspeedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway’s Roval loom.
Bold prediction: Jimmie Johnson quickly quiets the doubters by winning the 2020 Daytona 500 … but then doesn’t find Victory Lane again the rest of the way in his final season in the Cup Series. It gives Johnson a fittingly high-profile moment in the spotlight on NASCAR’s biggest stage before he rides off into the sunset, but I’m not sure there’s much left in the tank otherwise.
First win: William Byron
No. 48: See above, but to be honest, it’s a tough call and I hope I’m wrong. New crew chief Cliff Daniels did seem to give a late-season spark to the No. 48 group and Johnson, who appears to be more motivated than ever. He’s also Jimmie Johnson, so we can’t even fully rule out a record-breaking eighth title in 2020, but missing the playoffs for the first time in his career on top of a two-year winless drought doesn’t offer much hope.
Bold prediction: William Byron scores more wins than Chase Elliott in the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season and goes further in the postseason than his slightly older teammate. However, Byron will not be the first driver to get his first premier series win. That will go to …
First win: Matt DiBenedetto
No. 48: Jimmie Johnson will win one race in his final full-time season — thinking the spring Dover International Speedway race — and reach the Round of 12 in the NASCAR Playoffs. He will finish the season as the third-highest Hendrick Motorsports driver in the standings.
Bold prediction: The replacement driver for Jimmie Johnson will surprise everyone. It’s not every day there’s an opportunity for somebody to succeed the GOAT.
First win: Cole Custer
No. 48: Jimmie Johnson’s a seven-time champ, so I’m not too worried about his performance in 2020. What really piques my curiosity is the types of gifts he’ll receive throughout his retirement tour. The bar is high.
Bold prediction: Chris Buescher makes the playoffs. Using the guidance of Ryan Newman, Buescher makes strides and finishes races to point his way into the playoffs. Back with Jack Roush, Buescher picks up where the two left off after winning an Xfinity Series title in 2015.
First win: William Byron
No. 48: Has to win. No bones about it. This guy has 83 wins at NASCAR’s highest level. He has to get one more to complete his legendary career.
Bold prediction: The Championship 4, dominated by a handful of names since its inception in 2014, will have at least one first-timer to the title field. Meanwhile, the talk of the playoffs will be which veteran (Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr., Brad Keselowski or Joey Logano) will join Kyle Busch as a two-time champion, but we’ll ultimately crown a first-time champ for the third time in four years.
First win: Matt DiBenedetto
No. 48: This won’t be a lame-duck season. The No. 48 team fully expects to compete for both wins and a championship in 2020. Given the speed Hendrick Motorsports found late in 2019, I expect they’ll do both and Johnson will find Victory Lane at least once in 2020 as he concludes his legendary NASCAR career.
Bold prediction: Going big here … The driver who wins the season finale at ISM Raceway will not be playoff eligible and therefore will not be the 2020 champion. A new venue will shake things up and test the postseason format. The Championship 4 better be ready to battle it out, and not necessarily for the checkered flag.
First win: Bubba Wallace
No. 48: Oh, JJ. Still hard to believe this is Jimmie Johnson’s final season. He’ll win at least one race. But to be more specific, he’ll win at least one playoff race. Johnson will go winless through the regular season but point his way into the NASCAR Playoffs. Then, knowing the end is in sight, he’ll return to Victory Lane.
Bold prediction: The Championship 4 is completely different this upcoming season. We may see some of the same drivers as last season. But the final four will be a different mashup.
First win: William Byron
No. 48: Jimmie Johnson has a successful year. With this being his last year racing full time, he is a competitor who wants to go out on top of his game. Three-plus wins for the driver of the No. 48. I love a storybook ending!
Bold prediction: William Byron wins the 2020 Daytona 500. The No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports driver will start off his third NASCAR Cup Series season with a bang, earning his first career victory on NASCAR’s biggest stage. He was close at Daytona International Speedway last July after finishing second, but this time around he’ll get the job done.
First win: William Byron
No. 48: Of course we’d all be lying if we didn’t want Jimmie Johnson’s final Cup Series season to end like a fairy tale by capturing his eighth title. But I just don’t see it unless the No. 48 squad makes a major overhaul from last season. He’ll get back in Victory Lane a couple of times at least, but I need to see more proof that his team is ready to battle for a title.
Bold prediction: Matt DiBenedetto gets his first NASCAR Cup Series win during his first season with Wood Brothers Racing, providing the milestone 100th victory for the team. Having affiliate Team Penske and its superspeedway program in his corner should help DiBenedetto, possibly leading to an upset win at one of those unpredictable tracks.
First win: William Byron
No. 48: Lots of tears and tributes and great memories are in store for Johnson and his fans in his final season, but I don’t expect a ton of on-track success. I’d be happy to see one more win (preferably at his home track at Auto Club Speedway) and a berth in the playoffs.
Bold prediction: Tyler Reddick, Cole Custer and Christopher Bell will ALL make the playoffs. You heard it here first. And if it’s wrong, you did not hear this. At least not from me.
First win: William Byron
No. 48: In his final year in Cup, Jimmie Johnson will win at least two races and make it to the Round of 8. He will also be handed a bunch of retirement gifts like Jeff Gordon was given and Paul Menard wasn’t, which I still don’t understand. WHY DID YOU IGNORE OUR DEAR PAUL, TRACKS?
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — In his final media availability of the Roar Before the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway, reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch discussed the differences he has experienced in braking and passing etiquette during his weekend in a sports car.
And in a light-hearted moment, also the cut of his fire suit.
While being asked about the ribbing that Jack Hawksworth — his teammate in the No. 14 AIM Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC-F GT3 — doled out, Busch said the other drivers’ fire suits “looked like underwear, long johns,” whereas his looked like “a pair of pants, I’ve got the regular boot cut … NASCAR-style.”
When it got back to the more serious matter of differences in racing between NASCAR and IMSA, Busch brought up a couple of “interesting” moments on track while navigating traffic.
“(I) learned from Jack that correct road course driver etiquette is do not ever be on the outside of another guy ’cause they’ll just force you off,” Busch said. “He was actually quite entertained when he ran his NASCAR race at Road America last year that guys would actually give you room on the outside of the corner and not just throw you off on the dirt.”
The challenge of passing similarly paced GT cars while staying out of the way of fast-approaching Daytona Prototype international (DPi) cars, all while still maintaining consistent lap times, is one that is not lost on Busch.
“Interesting moments like that that are going to play out the whole time in the race,” he said. “You have instances in which you’re faster than the guy in front of you, and just barely because it’s a class car, and you’re trying to pass that guy … but you have these other guys coming and blowing your doors off on some of these corners, that you basically have to forfeit. You can lose a lot of time in doing those things.”
Busch also indicated that he’s still learning the braking — as his NASCAR Toyota Camry carries a great deal more weight than the IMSA Lexus RC-F GT3, which also has ABS braking that is lacking in the stock car. Throughout the weekend he felt he started to get a better grasp on the limits in the corners and gained consistency each time out.
One additional surprise came in the visibility on the track during the one night practice session Saturday evening.
“What do you even need the headlights for? There’s plenty of light. I raced local short tracks, some of them dirt … and there wasn’t very much light at those places.
“It seems as though my eyes still work OK.”
Busch will return to Daytona later this month alongside co-drivers Hawksworth, Parker Chase and Michael De Quesada for the 58th annual Rolex 24 At Daytona. The race begins at 1:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, January 25th on NBC, with around-the-clock coverage divided among NBCSN, CNBC, IMSA.tv and TrackPass on NBC Sports Gold.
NEW SMYRNA, Fla. — Brad May turns 42 next week, but he showed Saturday night that he has no problem keeping up with the younger generation at his home track.
In fact, when it comes to New Smyrna Speedway, it’s the teenagers that need to catch him.
May opened the 2020 NASCAR race season by winning the 50-lap portion of the RedEye 50/50, pulling away from 15-year-old Jett Noland in an eight-lap dash to the finish. Another 15-year-old, Daniel Dye, followed home in third in his Super Late Model debut for Ben Kennedy Racing.
Derek Griffith was fourth and fastest qualifier Anthony Sergi was fifth after losing out on a fierce battle for the third spot with Dye over the closing laps.
May is the defending and three-time Super Late Model Division champion at the high-banked Florida half-mile, while Dye won the Pro Late Model title last year.
The drivers used Saturday’s extra-distance event as a tune-up for the 54th Annual World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing at New Smyrna from Feb. 7-15.
It’s one event hat has eluded May, who came up second to short-track veteran Bubba Pollard during last year’s week-long championship. The other, until Saturday night, was the track’s traditional opener. The Red Eye 100 dates back to 1984 when it was held on New Year’s Day. Beginning last year, it was split into two 50-lap features for the Super Late Model and Pro Late Model divisions.
May was second in both races last year.
The Oviedo, Florida, driver qualified second Saturday and started seven after a post-qualifying invert of the top eight spots. He took the lead in Turn 4 of Lap 10 from Noland after early race leader David Rogers slipped up the track in Turn 2 earlier in the lap. May was slow to fire off the line on a Lap 23 restart, and it allowed Noland to take over the point.
While May took the lead back two laps later, a Lap 42 caution set up another shot for Noland.
“You just never know what can happen,” said May, who executed a clean restart and rolled to the victory. “The car was definitely good enough to win, I knew I wasn’t going to let that happen again what happened on the first start, but you never know. One little slip or one little bobble getting into the corner and he can stick a nose in and be gone.”
Defending division champion Wayne Parker won the Modified feature, while Michael Trocki (LKQ Super Stock), Jared Zabele (Bombers), Devin McLeod (Sportsman), Kelly Jarrett (Ground Pounders) and Tyler Simpson (Mod Minis) posted wins.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — No, Hailie Deegan conceded with a wide grin, she never expected that her competitive debut on the famous Daytona International Speedway high banks would come in a sports car.
But judging by the smiles and ease she showed Saturday afternoon speaking with reporters at Daytona between Roar Before the Rolex 24 At Daytona practice sessions, she’s eager and mentally prepared for her IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge race debut at the grand track on Jan. 24. The in-car skills and sports car initiation is coming together too, she said.
“I never thought I’d race a road course especially at Daytona, that was new for me,’’ Deegan said. “I always thought my first time at Daytona would be in an ARCA car but I’m happy to be here on the road course.”
Deegan’s ARCA Menards Series season debut at Daytona will follow the Rolex 24 race weekend and comes only weeks after the 18-year-old Californian was formally introduced as a Ford Performance development driver. She will co-drive a Ford Mustang GT4 with NASCAR Xfinity Series front-runner Chase Briscoe in the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge race at Daytona later this month. Austin Cindric, another young Ford talent in the Xfinity Series, will be driving a Multimatic Motorsports team car as well, teaming with Sebastian Priaulx in the No. 15 Mustang.
In February, Deegan will compete in the season-opening ARCA Menards Series race that essentially opens Daytona Speedweeks – the green flag to a much-anticipated full season of stock-car racing. All three of these young NASCAR stars say they are grateful for the chance to begin their season early, confident that the extra laps will only help their skill set.
“I’m really excited just to gain experience in these new cars,’’ Deegan said. “Just everything’s new. A fresh start. It’s waiting to get planned out, meeting new people, new faces, new relationships. I’m excited to grow the relationships in the Ford family and everyone that’s a part of it.
“One thing I haven’t really touched on in my career is road courses, pavement road course type stuff. Coming here and filling that base of what I’m missing as a driver as a hole is definitely going to help me be all around as a driver.
“I feel what makes a good driver is a driver that’s not just good at ovals or road courses, they are good at everything and have that skill set. I think if I can just keep getting better skill sets to bring to my career, it will help even more.”
Deegan and Briscoe certainly gave proof of their talent and ability to learn the new car and course. They were 14th fastest overall in the opening practice, ninth quickest in the second session and finally fifth best in Saturday’s latest round.
Cindric and Priaulx were fourth fastest in the second session – tops among the two Multimatic team cars.
Usually race fans have to wait until February to see the reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion take to high banks of Daytona International Speedway, but Kyle Busch is providing a sweet treat to race fans this year as he joins Lexus for the 2020 Rolex 24 in the GTD class.
He’s in Daytona this weekend to turn laps in the No. 14 AIM VASSER SULLIVAN Lexus RC F GT3 alongside his co-drivers Jack Hawksworth, Parker Chase and Michael De Quesada.
It took a little persuading to get him behind the wheel of the sports car, but Busch didn’t want to lose the opportunity to try out the road course for the marquee event of the WeatherTech Championship season.
“I’ve been asked the last couple years by the folks at Toyota/Lexus to come out here and run their car, and I politely declined them the first couple times,” Busch said Friday afternoon. “I felt like if I didn’t say yes eventually, then I would probably never be asked again.”
Busch has turned laps on the Daytona road course before – over a decade ago in a Daytona Prototype with Scott Speed in the summer sprint race in 2008. And he hopes this time he fares better.
“It was a thousand degrees inside the car, we had the NASCAR race that night, I remember just being flushed after that race was over, it was so hot,” he said. “We didn’t fare too well. I was slow. The car was slow. We were slow. So, I’m looking forward to being a bit faster this time around.”
Busch is relying heavily on teammate Hawksworth for advice as the Joe Gibbs Racing driver gets used to the lighter weight and overall different feel of the Lexus compared to the Toyota Camry he pilots in NASCAR. Hawksworth traveled to the Charlotte area to spend a day on the simulator with Busch at TRD. Without Hawksworth’s guidance at the session, “I probably would have been completely lost,” said Busch.
After this first practice session, Busch admitted that he still has his “NASCAR driving techniques just embedded in (his) brain” and he has to shed them as he learns the differences in the car.
He also acquiesces that his biggest adjustment is to the braking.
“I’m used to our big heavy stock cars where you have to start the slowdown process early, the braking zone is forever, and then by the time you turn in you have to be off the brakes otherwise the inside wheels will lock up,” he said. “You also have to take care of our brakes on the Cup cars because they’re so heavy … you can really overheat them.
“Completely different techniques. On these cars, you can drive the snot out of them.”
The car Busch is driving was fast in the opening practice session. In fact, his co-driver Hawksworth put up the fastest time of the day for the GTD class. Busch’s speed was middle of the pack as he learned the car, with his fastest lap clocking in at 1:48.544 (118.066 mph).
But for all the differences, one thing remains the same. Busch wants to make his way to Victory Lane at the end of the race.
“I didn’t come here to completely have fun, of course I want to have fun,” he said. “But more importantly I want to be able to go out there and win for Lexus and for AIM VASSER SULLIVAN racing.”
The former director of motorsports for Mazda North America Operations John Doonan “finally” saw cars on track as he officially started his third day as the new president of IMSA.
He admitted that watching while in his new role is a bit of an adjustment.
“Little different not having a specific horse in the race,” Doonan said while speaking with media at Daytona International Speedway on the opening day of the Road Before the Rolex 24. “I sat back in my office for the first time all weekend and watched the first session quietly because I didn’t want to show any emotion on pit road for anybody in particular.
“I explained to some people who don’t necessarily understand sports car racing that I used to be responsible for the elephants in the circus, now I’m responsible for the whole circus.”
Being responsible for the whole circus means he gets a chance to expand on what has already been a dream career in motorsports as he takes over the reigns from the now-retired Scott Atherton.
“It was an awesome journey, a boyhood dream to work for Mazda,” said Doonan, who began working alongside Atherton and transitioning to his new role with the sanctioning body in October. “Several people in the garage area said I can’t believe you’re wearing a different shirt.
“But rarely do you get to live out two boyhood dreams. In February of ’79, I was sitting in my living room with my family, at that time there were just regular, I don’t even think it was hourly, I think it was every six or eight hours they gave some updates from Daytona and the Rolex 24. To imagine being a young person like that, I spoke about being that next generation of wanting to be somehow in the game or be part of the action. And now to have had the opportunities I’ve had at Mazda and now to come here, it’s really hard to explain.”
For a leader who started in the sport as a fan, it’s especially important to Doonan that he helps lead IMSA on a path that grows the audience of the sport he has a great passion for. And he knows he can’t do it alone.
“We – as a collective, and I continue to use the word ‘we’ and that’s not just ‘we’ IMSA, it’s ‘we’ the team owners, ‘we’ the drivers, ‘we’ the media – need to do our ever best to continue to grow our platforms and to grow our value,” Doonan asserted. “For me, it starts with our audience.”
“I think growing the audience, growing the outreach of how people can take in the IMSA content is critical. We also need to look at our audience, especially the younger generation.”
That will include developing initiatives to encourage fans to follow along with IMSA in new ways, such as through eSports or platforms like the newly launched TrackPass on NBC Sports Gold.
Another key tenet of Doonan’s leadership will be preserving and elevating the values on which the France and Bishop families founded IMSA.
“I’m honored to work for the France family,” he said. “I had a chance to talk with Jim France and then called Mitch Bishop. I said to both of them, IMSA was founded on a set of values that would allow racers, drivers, manufacturers to go racing on a variety of levels. It would be my personal goal to make that those original value statements of what IMSA was founded on are carried through to today.
“I think without a doubt the staff at IMSA has done that with a lot of passion. A lot of professionalism. And I’m here and fortunate enough to be the next caretaker of it.”
