Martinsville Wrap-Up: Some quick observations from last Sunday's race.

by 4ever3 on Oct 27, 2009 10:14 PM EDT in Bob's Articles Comment 2 comments

Well its 24hrs later and I bet Denny Hamlin is still celebrating, I know I would be.

Here are my quick thoughts about Sunday's race.

- Jimmie Johnson is going to be tough to beat

- Montoya had every right to rough up Gordon a bit, he had the faster car and the leaders were pulling away and Jeff was slowing him down.

- I really feel for Carl Edwards, if it were not for bad luck he wouldn't have any luck at all. Congratulations to him and his lovely wife on their upcoming addition to the family BTW.

- Johnson didn't brake-check on that re-start, everyone else went before he did.

- Kyle Busch had a good run, maybe he'll get some momentum at the end of this season and carry it over into the start of next year.

- At first glance I was wondering what the heck NASCAR was doing by letting it stay green until the checkers with Andretti sitting at the start/finish line but then I realized they put the caution out with the checkers and right at that moment they froze the field. NASCAR let the leaders race for the win and then froze the field. Makes sense from a competitive point of view, but what if some of the drivers in the back of the pack didn't see the yellow lights/ flag ... whatever ... and their spotters were not on the ball? Could have been serious, but Andretti looked at it otherwise when he stated after the race, "It wasn’t a bad call. To me, I wasn’t in a great position, but I wasn’t in an overly dangerous position."

I was going to go on a rant about Dale Jr.'s situation but I'll do that in my next post.

Catch you all later.

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Denny Hamlin’s eyes always look really intense in his helmet, but did you see the look he gave Johnson? Hear the tone in his voice when he said, “He [Johnson] thinks this will give him a chance?” WOW. You knew Hamlin was only going to let Johnson win over his dead body! Whatever happens, he’s got a huge target on his back. Maybe he and Montoya should trade sponsors. ;-)

Speaking of Montoya, I laughed when he called Gordon “a baby”. Everyone roughs everyone else up—welcome to Martinsville!

I wish Stewart was doing much better in this Chase, though I know his year’s been really amazing in a lot of ways.

I also think they could have frozen the whole field quicker.

"Darling, you say Brooks Orpik 'checked' that guy. He did not 'get under him and put him into the wall'."--Beloved to me, Winter 2007

"Don't beat yourself!"--Darrell Waltrip

by GreenEyedLilo on Oct 27, 2009 7:22 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Stewie

It’s too bad they have this Chase bologna…

It’d be more interesting to see if JJ could make up the 80 points currently between him and Stewart (if not for the reset) than everyone else trying to catch JJ.

by NascarPoolsOnline on Oct 28, 2009 10:14 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs