NASCAR - Wild Weekend
Forgive me for so few updates, but a new little girl entered our lives two weeks ago and I've been quite preoccupied.
Anyway, what a fantastic weekend at Lowes Motor Speedway!!! Wrecks galore, REAL racing for the lead. No BS. The Busch race was nuts, but while Mears and Edwards spun out, I'd rather see battles like that each weekend (like we used to until a couple of years ago) than watching ONE guy dominate a race until the end. How boring was it getting watching Jimmy Johnson roll to another victory in his "home" track? Yawn. It was nice that he didn't win there at all this season.
Big cheers to Dave Blaney on his first victory in Busch. Blaney's been kind of a background kinda guy. If you didn't watch NASCAR religiously, you wouldn't know who he was. But, he's been making noise lately with several top ten finishes in Cup. Now, he drives the balls off his car fending off Matt Kenseth for the win Friday night - driving so hard, Kenseth spun out on the final turn while Blaney held the pedal down and the car stayed plated. Awesome!
Big JEERS go out to the morons at TNT for comepletly spoiling Blaney's win. Yeah, Kevin Harvick won the Busch Championship. But he had it won a lonnnnnng time ago and his clinching couldn't have been any more anti-climatic. Yet, instead of going straight to Victory Lane to celebrate a huge victory, they wasted a good ten minutes first on showing Kevin getting his trophy and a lame mini-celebration. Are you kidding me????? I was really pissed off when I thought they were actually skipping Blaney's celebration, but "only" made him wait in his car the whole time. Talk about a buzz kill. You folks at TNT should be ashamed of yourselves.
Meanwhile, Saturday night's Cup race was just as exciting. Plenty of chaos and there was simply no way to predict the outcome. To me, though, the biggest moment of the race was Mark Martin's wreck. Oh my god!!! Yeah, thank whoever came up with those soft walls or I think we would have seen the end of one of the best drivers ever in Cup. My god, that was a scary crash. It looked to be as hard as Kasey Khane's wreck at Indy - head on into the wall after being spun out, hitting so hard the car gets air. I couldn't believe he was able to get out with barely a bruise. Amazing. I'm also amazed he didn't hunt down JJ Yeley or Yeley's spotter for that asinine move diving for pit lane from the middle of the track. He could have very well killed Martin. I'm sure Mark will remember that when the time is right. But Mark Martin is pure class.
Also, great move by Dale Jarrett for his little "f you!" to Reed Sorenson by blocking his pit box after being spun out and then leaving broken parts on Sorenson's trailer. DJ seems to have some extra spring to his step since his 5th place finish at Talladega two weeks ago.
The past two weeks of racing have been excellent, so I'm reallllly bummed about Martinsville this weekend. This is by far the track I hate the most on the NASCAR schedule and wish they'd dump it completely. They might as well drive around the mall parking lot.
Anyway, what a fantastic weekend at Lowes Motor Speedway!!! Wrecks galore, REAL racing for the lead. No BS. The Busch race was nuts, but while Mears and Edwards spun out, I'd rather see battles like that each weekend (like we used to until a couple of years ago) than watching ONE guy dominate a race until the end. How boring was it getting watching Jimmy Johnson roll to another victory in his "home" track? Yawn. It was nice that he didn't win there at all this season.
Big cheers to Dave Blaney on his first victory in Busch. Blaney's been kind of a background kinda guy. If you didn't watch NASCAR religiously, you wouldn't know who he was. But, he's been making noise lately with several top ten finishes in Cup. Now, he drives the balls off his car fending off Matt Kenseth for the win Friday night - driving so hard, Kenseth spun out on the final turn while Blaney held the pedal down and the car stayed plated. Awesome!
Big JEERS go out to the morons at TNT for comepletly spoiling Blaney's win. Yeah, Kevin Harvick won the Busch Championship. But he had it won a lonnnnnng time ago and his clinching couldn't have been any more anti-climatic. Yet, instead of going straight to Victory Lane to celebrate a huge victory, they wasted a good ten minutes first on showing Kevin getting his trophy and a lame mini-celebration. Are you kidding me????? I was really pissed off when I thought they were actually skipping Blaney's celebration, but "only" made him wait in his car the whole time. Talk about a buzz kill. You folks at TNT should be ashamed of yourselves.
Meanwhile, Saturday night's Cup race was just as exciting. Plenty of chaos and there was simply no way to predict the outcome. To me, though, the biggest moment of the race was Mark Martin's wreck. Oh my god!!! Yeah, thank whoever came up with those soft walls or I think we would have seen the end of one of the best drivers ever in Cup. My god, that was a scary crash. It looked to be as hard as Kasey Khane's wreck at Indy - head on into the wall after being spun out, hitting so hard the car gets air. I couldn't believe he was able to get out with barely a bruise. Amazing. I'm also amazed he didn't hunt down JJ Yeley or Yeley's spotter for that asinine move diving for pit lane from the middle of the track. He could have very well killed Martin. I'm sure Mark will remember that when the time is right. But Mark Martin is pure class.
Also, great move by Dale Jarrett for his little "f you!" to Reed Sorenson by blocking his pit box after being spun out and then leaving broken parts on Sorenson's trailer. DJ seems to have some extra spring to his step since his 5th place finish at Talladega two weeks ago.
The past two weeks of racing have been excellent, so I'm reallllly bummed about Martinsville this weekend. This is by far the track I hate the most on the NASCAR schedule and wish they'd dump it completely. They might as well drive around the mall parking lot.
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