It is a new year, and while most everyone else’s thoughts are on the new year and the resolutions they have made, my thoughts are mostly on Daytona and the start of the race season. It has always been such an important part of my life going back to a very early age when my dad would prepare cars to make the trip to Daytona to race in the Permatex race that would be held just before the Daytona Speedweeks. This year, my mind takes me back 25 years to the beginning of the 1988 NASCAR race season.