Elliott Sadler,
driver of the No. 38 M&M's Ford Taurus

Photo courtesy of NASCAR Winston Cup Series.

"I definitely have an ambition and the focus to try to make it in the NASCAR Winston Cup. It's something that has driven me for a long time. I've been racing a little over twenty years, I'm only twenty-eight years old, so this is really all I know. I've given up a lot of things in my life to try to get me to this point. Just in the past year when I stepped into the Robert Yates car, I knew that I was going to have the focus and the determination it takes to become a Winston Cup winner. Sometimes it hurts. You give up a lot of stuff in your personal life. I've done that to make sure I am a focused individual when it comes to Sunday, and that's what I try to do. As far as talent, I just try to use the talent that the great Lord has given me. I try to be hard on myself to make sure I keep walking the straight and narrow to hopefully become a NASCAR Winston Cup champion one day. That's my dream. I know other kids really want to do this part of racing. I know the odds are against me right now. I don't know if I'm ever going to do it, but definitely I'm going to try. I go to bed every night figuring out ways to make sure that happens."

(Laughs) "I don't know... I don't think a switch ever cuts on. I just was lucky enough to race some late model stock cars in Southern Virginia where a few Busch series owners saw me and started talking to me. I guess that was one of the first phone calls I received, as far as driving a Busch car. A light kind of came on my head thinking…maybe you can do this for a living. I still remember the day. Benny Parson's son Keith Parsons at the time was working for Diamond Ridge Motor Sports and I thought it was a prank call. He called to ask me to drive their Busch car. Seemed like a light came on that day and I can do this for a living, and it's been a lot of fun since."

Elliott Sadler has a niece born with Autism and is a fund raiser for Autism. We applaud all NASCAR and NHRA teams and drivers for their dedication to charitable causes.