Honestly, this whole thing is his fault.

Here’s something not a lot of people realize about me – I like cars.

I’ve harbored a secret desire to be a racecar driver since I was roughly ten years old when I started watching a certain cartoon related to auto racing. It generally didn’t work out in real life because my mom thought it would be too dangerous (and we didn’t live in a rural area where I could’ve gotten a tractor permit at age 14), but I still longingly watch the World Rally Championship and try to convince my parents to pay for me to go to a rallying school in New Hampshire. I’m 23.

I vicariously live my dream through Gran Turismo nowadays, but the in-game music gets repetitive when you’re doing endurance races, so I’ve put together my own playlists of driving music over the years. This Sunday, we’ve got two of the biggest races of the year on the calendar – on one day. The Monaco Grand Prix is running first (7 am EST on SPEED), followed almost immediately after by the most famous race in America, the Indianapolis 500. Since I won’t be driving in either of them, I’ll be on my couch watching and eating fried rice and telling my friends why Kimi Raikkonen is amazing.

In honor of what may be the biggest day in motorsports in quite some time, here’s a driving playlist for you all.

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Good morning, sports fans and more importantly to our race fans!  We’re featuring our beloved son and man on a mission in the 2012 hunt for the IndyCar title:  Will Power.

Will’s won the last three IndyCar events in a row and is kicking some major hides in the IndyCar standings right now over his teammate (and also very good looking) Helio Castroneves.

But today, we’re saluting Will in the most fitting way possible:  with an awesomely awful Australian band tribute. Why?

Because Will is from the land down under and did I mention he’s very physically appealing?  Glad you agree.

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