dan wheldon died.ferent sport, different issues. still, you are sitting there watching tv, watching someone you know who has very young children. >> dan's crash, that rocked us. you know, i have always had a fascination with indy car and i thought that would be my path growing up and wanted to run the 500 and my wife and i were talking about doing the double and that shut down that idea and notion. >> your friend blaze died the same weekend you had your first nascar event. >> yeah. that was a crazy, crazy day because the next day i'm on track and i drive down the front stretch and see his skid marks lap after lap after lap. if you look on the driver's side bumper of the race car, there's a little sticker up there with a flame around it with br and that's for blaze. we had a good time on the racetrack and we'd shoot each other the bird passing one another and when i think back about him i see him shooting me the bird. >> nice. >> it's great. >> do i think he's athlete? absolutely not. >> not an athlete?