Racing has a way of allowing you to see life in a different way once and awhile - especially when it comes to observing core values like dedication and commitment.

A glimpse of those qualities were on display this weekend as Andrew Rogers and his Mike Rogers Racing team competed in the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Southern Division regular season event at Lakeland, FL. Rogers, a 20-year-old aspiring driver, and his team put in a Herculean effort to compete in the USAR regular season final at USA International Speedway. Before the team even got to the racetrack, it had put in countless hours building a new car for the race after their previous car was destroyed in an event a little over three weeks earlier.

Working into the early morning hours each night in the days leading up to the Lakeland event, the team took a roll of steel and truckload of parts and turned them into a racecar. Despite the effort, the car still didn't have a body on it as of Wednesday morning and it didn't look like Rogers would achieve his goal of competing in Saturday's Lakeland race.

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