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KVD found himself surrounded by tires in the pits. (Alan McGuckin)
By Alan McGuckin, Special to OutdoorChannel.com
JOLIET, Ill. -- Kevin VanDam travels 30,000 miles a year in his Toyota Tundra. The radio is always on – but rarely does music play. Instead, VanDam is almost constantly tuned to the NASCAR channel on SiriusXM.
“Yep, right here, channel 90, dude,” says KVD in kid-like fashion as he proudly points to the digital display while driving to Chicagoland Speedway.
By no means is this his first trip to a track. VanDam’s addiction to a sport with many shared qualities of his own began about 12 years ago when he was invited to attend an event at Disney World in Florida.
“I met Jeff Burton there, he took me around the track and sort of...