A weekend away and I felt too discombobulated yesterday to get a blog published. I got back from my camping weekend in time to watch the race on Sunday but was really tired. I managed to keep my lids open for the majority of the Cup race but missed the last 90 laps or so. So last night I watched what I had missed.

Here are my thoughts on the race at Pocono:

Congrats to Kasey Kahne once again. I'm still shaking my head in disbelief at his turnaround this year. I was glad to see that he did a much better job at opening that Budweiser in victory lane.

Kyle Busch finally had some bad luck. He tried to squeeze into a spot where there wasn’t any room and ran right into Jamie McMurray. While a driver is passing a car, there's only two things a spotter needs to know to say: "clear" and "not clear," that's it folks. A spotter does not need to say anything else. It's that simple. Busch's spotter really screwed up.

On lap 71 there was a red flag for rain. I like a man who can multitask. Under the red flag Jimmie Johnson got out of his car, took a bathroom break, grabbed a snack and a drink and then got back into his car to finish the race. I loved it.

I'm glad we got clarification on why the two safety workers who had fire extinguishers in hand did not assist in putting out the fire on Juan Pablo Montoya's car. It did look ridiculous with them just standing there.

As funny as Kyle Petty and Wally Dallenbach were when they were ragging on the safety workers, it was explained that they were there for driver safety only. And since Montoya got out of the car so quickly, they didn't need to do anything else. The other safety workers that showed up a bit later were there to put the fire out. I do think they needed quicker response time for the fire though.

I'm starting to get a bit frantic about my man Clint Bowyer being 11th in the point standings.

There were a lot of cautions for a race at Pocono.

What did you think of the race?

I missed the action in the Nationwide race (if there was any).

I've yet to watch the race at Eldora. Maybe tonight. I'll let you know what I think. All for now...

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