NASCAR - Holy Harvick, Batman!
What the hell has Kevin Harvick found to beef up his cars? I don't like the guy much, but he's on a tear in NASCAR like I've nver seen. He's all of a sudden the Michael Schumacher of stock cars. He's already wrapped up the Busch championship. Won 3 Cup races in the last month. He leads just about every lap. It's incredible. If he has a couple more races like he did yesterday, consider him the champ.
Meanwhile, what is wrong with Jeff Burton? He and Harvick were playing tag all afternoon, swapping the lead back and forth. Yet, like 20 other races this year, Burton is a non-factor at the end of the race. I don't get it. Is it his car? His stamina? He's been ridiculously consistent all year, but fails time and time again to win. Granted, he grabbed a 7th place finish in NH yesterday, so let's not get all down on him. But, I'm not the only one who wants to see Burton in Victory Lane a couple of times before the year end.
Since I'm in the mood, let's jump on TNT's broadcast yesterday. As usual, they missed a couple of cautions while in commercial. But, perhaps the most annoying thing to me was that (since I recorded the race after lap 50 or so on Tivo) I had no idea why Jimmie Johnson was in the garage. Both TNT/NBC and Fox usually give you a bunch of race recaps during a caution period. You would think they'd show a few times what happened to JJ more than once near the end of the race. (While I personally love to drive New Hampshire International Speedway's road course, the Cup races on the oval are pretty boring. I almost skipped the entire race in favor of yard work, but figured that wouldn't be wise given it was the first race of the Chase. NHIS needs higher banked corners.)
I also missed BP. Hope he's OK. Not having him there means more of that annoying Bill Webber. Ugh. Shut.....up......now!!!
Three cheers to the guys on the Speed pre-race show. They paid due homage to Dave Blaney pulling off a nice 4th plce in Richmond last weekend. Both Blaney and Ken Schrader got ZERO attention for top-ten finishes last week because all anyone on TV cares about are the guys in the Chase. That's abunch of crap. Thank you, Speed TV!
Meanwhile, what is wrong with Jeff Burton? He and Harvick were playing tag all afternoon, swapping the lead back and forth. Yet, like 20 other races this year, Burton is a non-factor at the end of the race. I don't get it. Is it his car? His stamina? He's been ridiculously consistent all year, but fails time and time again to win. Granted, he grabbed a 7th place finish in NH yesterday, so let's not get all down on him. But, I'm not the only one who wants to see Burton in Victory Lane a couple of times before the year end.
Since I'm in the mood, let's jump on TNT's broadcast yesterday. As usual, they missed a couple of cautions while in commercial. But, perhaps the most annoying thing to me was that (since I recorded the race after lap 50 or so on Tivo) I had no idea why Jimmie Johnson was in the garage. Both TNT/NBC and Fox usually give you a bunch of race recaps during a caution period. You would think they'd show a few times what happened to JJ more than once near the end of the race. (While I personally love to drive New Hampshire International Speedway's road course, the Cup races on the oval are pretty boring. I almost skipped the entire race in favor of yard work, but figured that wouldn't be wise given it was the first race of the Chase. NHIS needs higher banked corners.)
I also missed BP. Hope he's OK. Not having him there means more of that annoying Bill Webber. Ugh. Shut.....up......now!!!
Three cheers to the guys on the Speed pre-race show. They paid due homage to Dave Blaney pulling off a nice 4th plce in Richmond last weekend. Both Blaney and Ken Schrader got ZERO attention for top-ten finishes last week because all anyone on TV cares about are the guys in the Chase. That's abunch of crap. Thank you, Speed TV!
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