Submitted by NASCAR Ranting and Raving Blog
On Saturday night I was invited to go to a NASCAR party/BBQ, so I went. Our host and Hostess had a giant screen set up in the yard with a projection unit pointed right at it, and let me tell you, when the sun went down about an hour after the start the picture quality was great.
Until the sun went down we were forced to watch the race on a smaller portable TV on a table. No problem though.
The crowd were from various walks of life ranging from Doctors, to teachers, K-9 control, auto mechanics, NASCAR Collectible store owners, and more, and they were all united in one common cause - watching the race and cheering for their favourite driver(s) - some of us just can’t make up their minds.
It was a good crowd, and, in my opinion, we got to see a good race, well, except for maybe the fact that Kyle Busch won the race - but he did win it fair and square. As much as I don’t like Kyle, I’m glad that Carl ‘Eddie Haskel’ Edwards didn’t win.
Here is my overview of the race in point form:
- Kyle Petty did a great job in the booth. He and Wally should team up and get rid of Webber. I especially liked the fact that Kyle was able to cut himself up and have a laugh about it.
- Kyle Busch has won every time he has a new paint scheme, will someone stop painting his cars differently so other people will win?
- speaking of painting cars, I do realize they ‘wrap’ them in vinyl now-a-days, but there was one car out there that was not ‘wrapped’ and the was Dale Jr’s car. That paint job was really painted, and it looked cool. They’ll make a ton off of the diecast for sure.
- speaking of Dale Jr, I can’t believe that no one, absolutely no one, went with him when he pulled out to go near the end.
- the saying “Cautions breed cautions’ is true, as evident in the last 50 laps.
- NASCAR got it right by not waving the caution flag when Jeff Gordon was spun out. If he didn’t get it started and got himself going then NASCAR would have put out the caution for sure. I was ticked when Jeff got spun BTW. I have my own opinions about Edwards, that yellow line, and Jeff’s spinning that I’m going to keep to myself.
- with that being said, NASCAR did get it right when they put out the caution with all the cars wrecking off of turn 2 that lead to Kyle Busch winning the race because if NASCAR would have let them race to the checker flag then they would have been approaching the crash area at a high rate of speed that would be dangerous to everyone involved.
- will someone give Boris Said a full-time ride already, this cat can drive. I felt so bad for him when he crashed - no fault of his own either.
- did you see who was in the top 15 at the end? Patrick Carpentier, Bobby Labonte, Brian Vickers, Robby Gordon, and David Ragan - all names you don’t normally hear about in the top 15 at this kind of race. Terry Labonte was also in 16th - I wonder if he’ll be coming out of retirement to run full-time somewhere?
- Kenseth is just 15 points out of 12th now, and Truex and Newman aren’t that far behind either. Well at least until NASCAR hands out its fines and penalties to Truex later this week for his ‘illegal’ car.
- Can you believe that Tony got out of his race car? Wow, he must have really been sick because that isn’t like him at all - or any other true race car driver for that matter.
That’s it for now.
Take Care.
Photo Credits:
Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards - Harrelson/Getty Images for NASCAR)
Tony Stewart - AP Photo/Terry Renna
Dale Jr - Action Sports Photography for motorsport.com
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