CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- He's known as the driver of No. 19. But there's a good chance when Elliot Sadler is racing around the track, he's humming a country song.

Elliot Sadler says don't be surprised if you hear him on country radio one day.

Maybe it got in his blood back in 2002 when Sadler appeared in his friend Blake Shelton's video for the hit song "Ol' Red."

Now, fast forward six years when Sadler told me this, "Oh, I'm a great singer. I could sing all the time. I'm pretty good at it. So, I'm thinking about cutting a demo here pretty soon."

Yes, he said he hopes to cut a demo and you heard it here first.

On a recent visit to his home state of Virginia, where Sadler plans a vacation home, he told me exclusively about his plans off the track.

I asked him what would surprise his fans, and then the country music talk started, I asked, "You've got some ties to the country music world?"

"Yes, I've got a couple of buddies that are in the country music business and a couple of agencies and stuff out there that have a lot to do with record labels," Sadler said.

If you think about it, Sadler's off-track life already sounds a little like a country song. He likes to get out in the woods as a hunting guide and he raises walker hunting dogs.

But it is his racing credentials that he tells me could make his musical aspirations a reality.

Think about it, someone with NASCAR ties who sings country music. That's probably a music producer's dream.

Sadler says, "I think it would be great. That's what I'm doing, man. That's what I'm doing. I'm working on it. But I've got to make my voice muscles a little stronger. And I've got to work on some tunes a little bit."

Because he's still working on his voice, he didn't belt it out for us. But when he does, he has an idea of what you'll hear him singing.

"I can't go high pitch," Sadler says. "I'd be more like a Trace Adkins or somebody like that."

With that the Virginian says don't be shocked if in a future video it is him singing the song.

"Don't act like it's a big surprise when it happens," he said.