Evolution of Racing Focus and Modified Appeal

them in a tobacco sled, which was like a big homemade Excuse me. A homemade sled that you stacked all the leaves in. And as the year went on, and the leaves got higher, you just kept priming it week after week until the were nothing but a stalk. But from the sled >> [laughter] >> from the sled, we dragged the sled with a tractor to the bulk barn. The bulk barn was a heated barn that had uh fire with flues. And what we do is put the tobacco on the stringer. People got to look up these videos so they can see what I'm talking about. >> That's why I'm asking cuz I don't know anything about this. >> So, so basically, you put it on what was called a stringer. And this stringer was a conveyor belt that you lay leaves down, you lay a tobacco stick down, and you lay another row of leaves. And when it got to the end, it was like a huge sewer sewing machine that would sew the leaves to the stick. Then you hand that up to somebody and they hang it on poles in this barn till they dry it out. Once it dries out, you take it to another barn. You take it off the sticks, you shake it, you bundle it, and you took it to what was Cook's Flea Market. And you sold your tobacco there in Winston-Salem. So, I that's what I remember growing up as a kid. I didn't I didn't ever go out there but a couple times, but man, we primed tobacco every Saturday morning. It's terrible. Sticky. Golly, it was awful. It was awful. I tell people Kids today want to know what real work is, >> [snorts] >> prime tobacco one time. But But yeah, at least you got some content where people can go and look up priming tobacco, look up stringing tobacco, look up hanging tobacco. You see what we did back in the day. Four machines did it for us. >> That's the real You guys are the real deal. That's the Winston-Salem. That's tobacco. You that's what you are. You've been here forever. >> my mom my mom retired from R.J. Reynolds. So, uh Yeah, everybody I know that Doug in here retired from R.J. Reynolds. So, anybody in this area was a lot of people in this area had ties to R.J. Reynolds just [laughter] cuz tobacco tobacco so prominent around here. >> What do you do now? >> This. >> Just this? >> This. Yep. So, uh this is what I do during the day and um Yeah, as you can see it's full-time job. Um between me and Slate both racing smart and uh Bowman Gray. And we have a backup car that we take every week. We actually our family takes five cars a…