Congratulations to Matt Kenseth in his California sweep this weekend. Aside from the bumper incident during one of the last restarts in the truck race on Friday, which effectively ended Mark Martin's chances, the racing this weekend was lack-luster.
With that being said here are a few things I observed today:
- Since I was stuck in traffic on a snow covered highway with visibility about nil for a few hours, I was forced to listen to the MRN broadcast of the race. If you think NBC had a lot of commercials try listening to MRN. If I had a gun I would have put it to my head to end the misery caused by the gluttonous advertising on the MRN network.
- In a post race report the last few laps after the red flag of today's race as "drama filled". Say what? Kenseth racing out to a five car lead and holding it unchallenged until the cool down lap drama filled? Get real.
- David Reutimann's crash was awful looking. The in-car camera shot of him after he made contact with the wall was disturbing to say the least (to me anyway) - especially in conjunction with the viewing audience being able to listen to his team's radio communications. I'm so glad that he was able to come away from that incident virtually unscathed. Thank God for safer barriers. Would Dale Sr still be with us if he had hit a safer barrier? Don't know, but it sure would have increased his chances for survival.
- Unleaded gas and blown engines. Is there some correlation, or is it just coincidence? Tests on the blown motors will tell, but I don't think there is a correlation - unless the teams did something to try and compensate for the unleaded fuel which lead to the failures. DEI needs to look further than unleaded gas to find their problems.
- Just where would Tony Stewart be in the points if he wasn't caught speeding on pit road again? Could that penalty during the Daytona race have caused him to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when he made contact with Kurt Busch which resulted in both of them crashing out of the race? Hmmm.
- Will Mark Martin reconsider running "Full Time" when the time comes for him to give up his seat in the Richard Ginn owned Army 01 car? I don't know, but if he were in the Top 5 in points he just might come back full-time. Ginn wants a 4 car team anyway.
- The Toyota driven by Brian Vickers quietly finished in the Top 10 after not even getting into the show last week. Good run for him and Toyota. I guess Michael Waltrip wishes he could have used that jet fuel-like substance this week for qualifying.
- Jimmie Johnson made an interesting post-race comment about a debris caution which might have ruined his run to the front. The caution produced no debris which led Jimmie to say "I think they (NASCAR) are still looking for it (debris)".
- Speaking of interesting comments, DW, in a post-race report commented that some teams like Matt Kenseth's can do well with absentee Crew Chiefs but not with absentee owners. Ouch! Was that a shot at Teresea Earnhardt or what? He just had to get his 2 cents in there, didn't he?
Lastly, here are a few new blogs for you to check out:
I also had another for Bobbleheaded, but I can't seem to find the piece of paper that I wrote the URL on so you'll just have to wait until I find it. If you know it let me know so I can add it.
by 4ever3 on Feb 25, 2007 11:10 PM EST
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