The Superstar Racing Experience enters its second full season of racing with many of the stars last season returning.
Two-time Daytona 500 winner Michael Waltrip plans on competing full-time in the SRX Series. Last season, Waltrip finished eighth in the points standings. Waltrip is looking to turn good runs in last year’s heat races at Stafford Speedway and Lucas Oil Raceway into good finishes in the feature this season.
Frontstretch was able to talk to Waltrip about coming back for a second year, expectations for the 2022 season and drivers that he would like to see in SRX. The SRX season starts on June 18th at Five Flags Speedway on CBS.
You can listen to the interview on the Frontstretch Youtube page or read below.
Jared Haas, Frontstretch: What’d you like about the first season that inspired you to come back for season two?
Michael Waltrip: It happened pretty early in the season when I was able to take the lead and drive off at Stafford [Motor Speedway]. As a racecar driver, winning, leading and passing people, that just makes you want to do it that much more. I had a great experience at Knoxville too, really fast car there. I’m a competitor, I love to compete and I love the personalities. Probably the thing that I enjoyed the most was a cold beer after the race with my budd[ies] Bobby Labonte, Kenny Schrader and Bill Elliott. I’ve been racing those guys since the ’80s, most of them. It’s fun to have sort of a reunion tour and that’s what it felt like.
Haas: What do you think the biggest difference is between season one, the inaugural one, to [the upcoming] season two?
Waltrip: Well, I just hope the biggest difference for me is I win. I want to win a race. I want to be out there and contend for wins, yet had a couple of crashes. As much as passing people and leading races makes you feel like the man, and that you’re right where you want to be; soon as you get wrecked out, you’re…
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