FONTANA, Calif. — Kasey Kahne will leave California with something he didn’t have when he got here — a tattoo.
A photo on Kahne’s Twitter account revealed the new ink job below the driver’s left bicep. The tattoo read “RDP/KSK,” the initials of Kahne’s two late grandfathers, Richard Peterson and Kenny Kahne.
“I’ve thought about it,” said Kahne, who got the tattoo from renowned artist Tim Hendricks. “For a while there I wasn’t really into tattoos, but then over the last… probably a year, I’ve thought about it, and that’s been really the only thing that I wanted, up to this point.”
The tattoo was Kahne’s first, and its purpose was to remind him of the good times he had with his grandfathers.
“I’m glad I did it,” he said. “I saw it this morning when I woke up, and I was like, ‘Man, I like that…’ For now, that’s really it. I just enjoy the part of good memories, lots of memories. I’ll see it all the time now and think more about some of those memories — I like what I did.”
Greg is the author of "The Nuts and Bolts of NASCAR: The Definitive Viewers' Guide to Big-Time Stock Car Auto Racing" and has been published in major publications across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a contributor to Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul, published in 2010, and the Christmas edition in 2016. He wrote as the NASCAR, Formula 1, Auto Reviews and National Veterans Affairs Examiner for Examiner.com and has appeared on Fox News. He holds a BS degree in communications, a Masters degree in psychology and is currently a PhD candidate majoring in psychology. He is currently the weekend Motorsports Editor for Autoweek.
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