Submitted by NASCAR Ranting and Raving Blog
Saturday’s race at Darlington wasn’t a ‘wreck-fest’ like I thought it was going to be as 41 of the 43 cars that started the race actually finished, but I think I’ve never seen so many cars with multiple ‘Darlington Stripes’ as there were during the course of that race.
Some awesome performances were put in by certain drivers too. David Ragan, Travis Kvapil, and Dave Blaney all put in solid Top 10 efforts.
Biffle was pretty good too until his car went south in a hurry and did you see him hold onto that car when Busch got into his backside? Whoa! Biff can really drive a car let me tell you. I wonder if he really is going to re-sign with Jack or if he just might be the one to end up over at RCR with former teammate Jeff Burton in the new 33 car.
The most solid performance though was Kyle Busch’s, that guy dominated Darlington. He hit the wall countless times and still managed to have the field covered. I don’t know if his win is more of a testament to his driving ability or to the JGR car itself.
The basic opinion after the race about the newly resurfaced track is that it was hard to pass. The track was pretty much one groove, but Busch somehow managed to come back from a pit row penalty that marred him in the middle of the pack and he steadily picked them off one by one on his way to the front.
Another example of this was put in by Busch’s JGR teammate Tony Stewart, who suffered significant damage early in the race that put him two laps down. Tony was able to get one of his laps back and then put himself in the ‘Lucky Dog’ position near the end of the race but the caution flag that Tony was waiting for never appeared and he had to settle for 21st place being the first car a lap down. If Tony got that lap back I’m sure he would have picked them off just like Kyle did as he was running lap times the same as, if not quicker, then most of the leaders including Kyle.
Onward to the All-Star race now!
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