By Matthew Dillner

Speed51

Fenders Fly and Tempers Flair at Busch East Opener

The Parallels between the Busch East Series Opener at Greenville-Pickens Speedway and the 1990 movie “Days of Thunder” are uncanny.  In the movie, a wild young driver is coached to Stock Car success by a wise crew chief.  In our version of this flick, however, crew chief Harry Hogge is played by Andy Santerre while Sean Caisse replaces Cole Trickle as the man behind the wheel.  And instead of the big tracks across America , this scene is set Saturday night at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in South Carolina . 

Santerre wasn’t taken off a tractor in a Carolina farm to coach this young hot shoe.  He stepped out from behind the wheel after winning his fourth series title to