Boogity, boogity, boogity - Nationwide Series on the way!

The decision has been made – someone is going to attempt to qualify in the Nationwide contest at Daytona.

The car has a sponsor, an experienced driver and qualifying is Friday.

Danica, you ask? Naw, who cares? Barboursville’s – and Herd Racing’s – Brett Rowe.

Cool looking car to enter the Drive4COPD qualifying belongs to Herd Racing. The #75 Dodge Charger hopes to charge it’s way into the NNS contest, set for Saturday at 1:15 p.m. It will be broadcast on ESPN2.

Here’s the car you’re looking for in practice Wednesday and Thursday and in qualifying on Friday.


Around West Virginia, we don’t need an explanation of the number and green and white color scheme. Although, the Daytona entry is a retro gray and black.

But for the uninformed who don't live in West Virginia, Ohio or Kentucky, or those who missed the movie, We Are Marshall, starring Matthew McConaughey and Matthew Fox, it dates back to a cold, rainy night in November, 1970. The number, 75, denotes the number of people who died in a plane crash that night – and airline crew, and Marshall University football players, coaches and university boosters.

Driver Brett and team owner Dana Tomes both attended Marshall University, which boasts the Thundering Herd as the team mascot and green and white as team colors.

You get it now? Herd Racing, green and white, 75. Alrighty, then. Let’s move ahead.

Brett has around 30 NNS races under his belt since entering the series in 2007, and he was the 2005 ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series champ. He’s bi-vocational, being the purchasing and sales manager at his family’s business, Imperial Bedding. And he’s also in ministry service as youth director at Roach Baptist Church.

In past Nationwide races, Herd Racing has been a really, really a local team, taking West Virginians to be his pit crew.

Proud Son of Marshall – crank it up and as DW says, “let’s go racin’!” And I add, "let's go HERD!"