I tried, but I didn't get any good pictures of Kahne when he won. He got too close to the wall. The ones I did get are too far away. I need a camera with more zoom.

Wrecking Keselowski's car was uncalled for. He's such a nice kid. Hamlin has a mean streak. He was snarling at his crew during practice on Saturday.

Here's a shocker for you all----when Kyle passed JJ for the lead, all of Junior Nation stood up and cheered. There are quite a few closet Kyle Busch fans around. They said that he came out to sign autographs Friday and there were so many people lined up, he couldn't finish them all.

I could not find any Nascar pens. Lots of driver specific writing implements around.

The talk of flipping the stretches at NH made me take a good look at Lowe's. I have some thoughts on that and will write them later.

My pick for last weekend was Kyle, MsBoogity.

It was an exciting weekend for racing. My pick didn't win, but Kasey winning made me somewhat happy. I like him. It is very frustrating to have JR consistently come close to winning every week. Even his cars in the Nationwide race came close to winning.

racefan, I'm not sure I am understanding your comment about JR's fans standing and cheering for Kyle when he passed JR. Surely, this can't be. What am I missing?? Did you get to drive the Drive??

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I wrote JJ, MsBoogity, as in Jimmie Johnson. Not a big fan of either of those other two Hendrick drivers (JJ and JG) so I don't say or write their names unless forced to.

I did do part of the Skyline. I had coffee at the top at sunrise yesterday. There has been a drought in the South and the flowers were not as good as they probably should have been. The view is nice, though, and those little deer were everywhere.

Good news for Stewart fans. According to Smoke on TSL, he is going back to the Darkside. That almost came out at Lowe's because he was getting really ticked at Reutimann but there was a caution before anything happened.

Okay, comments about Lowe's in connection with NHMS. Lowe's was awesome. Some of the best racing I've seen this year. I think I have a second favorite track, but there are some downsides for the fans. Somehow, the way the track is configured, if you sit on the front stretch, you lose some of the view. If anyone next to you leans forward, you have to lean back to see. It's kind of weird and hard to explain, but I spent time at both races rocking back and forth trying to watch. Really annoying.

Because they have built up and added lounges over the original grandstands, there are posts in the seating area which must make it difficult to watch too. The posts are small but they still must obstruct some view.
That made me think of "improvements" mentioned for NHMS. If they should flip the stretches and build up instead of out, the same thing will happen.

It took me awhile to figure out also why Lowe's was so loud. (Almost as bad as Bristol.) It's because it is almost totally surrounded by grandstands. That would probably happen at NH also which makes me wonder why anyone would add seating before there is the demand for those seats. NH does not sell out until the day of the races, I believe. It seems to me it would be smarter to add something like banking to increase interest first.