Team manager Todd Wilkerson, who has been with the team since the beginning, says the team has made do without the modern amenities found at their competitors' shops. Their major assets have been a simple work ethic and a tight-knit group of guys. But we like it here. We're away from that scene in Charlotte. I think Charlotte can be a bad place to be located.
People can walk right across the street and get another job.
Here the turnover is almost nothing. Most of the team's employees hail from Owensboro, which is 20 miles to the north of Central City, or Seymour, Ind., a two-hour drive. Like most of the guys he now works with, Shirley wanted a chance to work in racing and stay within driving distance of home. Everything is moving out west, it seems. There's five to six tracks within five hours of our shop already.