![]() You just have to go and do your job and get the water pumped out of the field, so you don’t lose your crop. So you don’t have time to freak out or panic and worry about it. You have to get that off (the fields) right away. “One of our big things here in Florida is we’ll get these pop-up showers and it will dump two or three inches of rain on you an hour. “The thing is, you just do it no matter what the job is,” Ross Chastain’s brother, Chad, told NBC Sports about the family’s motto and business name. And the name of his family’s watermelon operation in Florida: JDI Farms. When Chastain shifted into fifth gear, drove his car into the wall and rocketed around Martinsville Speedway’s final two corners last weekend in a desperate bid to make the title race, he was merely following the edict of farm life. Instead, Chastain relied on lessons from his family of watermelon farmers to climb from underfunded rides to the top of NASCAR’s premier series. He wasn’t groomed by a manufacturer as Christopher Bell. ![]() He wasn’t viewed as a generational talent as Joey Logano. He wasn’t born into racing royalty as Chase Elliott. ![]() That Ross Chastain even has a chance to be a Cup champion Sunday at Phoenix Raceway is, perhaps, more remarkable than if he wins the title. ![]()
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