Dave Kenny, crew member of one-time Nascar Winston Cup champion Rusty Wallace, recently enjoyed a brief pit-stop in Bermuda.

Exchanging the smell of heated rubber and exhaust fumes for the peace and tranquillity that Bermuda has to offer, the 43 year-old Penske Racing Team spotter and fabricator was himself spotted at last Saturday's Western Counties match at White Hill Field.

Kenny is a close friend of Willow Cuts' batsman Gladwin Edness who hasn't played this season due to health concerns.

"I met Kenny on a cruise ship last year," recalled Edness. "I travelled to Charlotte for the Coca Cola 600 and when I go I stay at his lovely lakeside house on Lake Norman.

"I've spent time with Rusty Wallace in the race shop as well as with the rest of his crew and I'm looking forward to seeing them again in October."

Describing Bermuda's charm, Kenny said: "This is the first time that we've flown over and we've enjoyed it - the people are extremely nice."

Explaining his day job the Mooresville, North Carolina resident said: "What I do mainly is a lot of shop work on the development of our cars. I do mainly our restricted plates races and a couple of other special events such as Indianapolis or maybe a Bristol race."

Kenny has been associated with Nascar, one of the biggest sports in North America, since leaving high school in 1978.

"I have been doing this for pretty much all of my adult life. I moved to North Carolina in 1985 and went to work with Junior Johnson and I've now been with the Penske organisation since 1991," he added.

Kenny previously worked for the late Nascar driver Neil Bonnett and Geoff Bodine at Hendrickson Motorsports, which is the same racing team that multiple champion Jeff Gordon races for.

Kenny described what it's actually like at the race track on any given Sunday.

"Depending on actually what job you have to do, some of our guys have to go in at the crack of dawn," he said.

"They usually get in around six or seven in the morning to do the car prep. They run through the car and go over the checklist and everything like that to make sure that we are ready to go 400-500 miles, depending on where we are racing.

"And then a bunch of other people such as myself will come in later. Just before the race starts you get the tyre guys running all around you getting everything ready to go as far as all of their tyres sets and getting all of the lug nuts glued up and getting the pit set up."

Kenny said the process of setting up the race pit area took about 20 people.

"It looks kind of helter-skelter when you look at it from the outside but everything comes to one point by the time it's ready for the start of the race," he added.

Wallace finished eighth in the Winston Cup standings this year.

"I'm primarily a fabricator and I do the actual car building with another 20 gentlemen," said Kenny.

"We also build cars for Ryan Newman at our shop in Mooresville, North Carolina which is located about 20 miles north of Charlotte Motor Speedway."

Reflecting upon last season, Kenny said it was pleasing to witness rookie driver Newman win his first major race (Dover).

"We had a successful year with our rookie driver Newman," he noted. "He got his very first Winston Cup win, but unfortunately Wallace's streak of winning at least one race a year came to an end.

"But it was a good season for us as far as points were concerned for both racing teams."

Wallace currently lies in 11th position in this year's current Winston Cup points standings with 2,086 points, while Newman remains in 16th with 2,0134 points.

Having enjoyed his brief visit to the Island's shores, it's now back to life in the fast lane for the Penske crew member.

"We have one wind tunnel test scheduled for Thursday (today) and another one next week. So that will probably be my main focus when I return to the shop," said Kenny, who departed Bermuda on Monday.