Lowe's thoughts
Congratulations to Jeff Burton for winning Saturday night's race at Lowe's Motor Speedway. I only wish that during the race as he gets close to victory, they didn't show Kim Burton on television as much as they do. They don't really do that with any other driver's wife. Uuugh.
Here are some random thoughts and observations of the race:
-- I thought Jessica Simpson did a horrible job with the National Anthem.
-- I couldn't help but feel bad for Carl Edwards who first had to make an unscheduled pit stop because he had a vibration and then had issues on the track with the ignition box or something, stalled the car and had to be pushed on to pit road by the tow truck. He went many laps down and finished 33rd.
-- Jeff Gordon had to be the luckiest guy of the night. Very early in the race, Jeff Gordon not only hit the wall once but twice and had to make an unscheduled pit stop and went a lap down. At one point, he was shown in 43rd position. He later got the lucky dog and ended up finishing the race in 8th spot. Fantastic.
-- It always makes me nervous watching Dale Earnhardt Jr. run that high line on the track. He is all but kissing the wall. I just wait for him to smack it. And then he did. But it wasn't because he got loose. He blew a tire, ruining his night. He finished 36th.
-- Does anyone else think that AJ Allmendinger resembles John Andretti?
-- More tire issues Saturday night. Here's a few drivers that blew tires during the race: Brian Vickers, Mike Wallace, Junior, Sam Hornish Jr. and Joe Nemechek. I am sure I am missing some.
-- Michael Waltrip was at it again. He wrecked Kenny Schrader and Mike Skinner. He went down in the grass came up onto the track and pushed Skinner into Schrader. Good job Mikey, good job.
-- Matt Kenseth was involved in a wreck. I dozed off but woke up in time to see his car wrecked. Not sure what happened for that caution though. If anyone would like to share, I'd appreciate it. Kenseth finished 41st.
-- Kyle Busch and Tony Stewart were each penalized for driving too fast down pit road. Despite the pass-through penalities, they both had good finishes. Fourth and 11th, respectively.
There really weren't any drastic changes in the point standings. Edwards and Kenseth dropped two positions while Burton and Busch gained two.
What did you think of the race?
Posted at 11:15 AM
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There is good racing at Lowe's.
Kenseth got clipped and spun into the wall by a car trying to miss a wreck.
That was a horrible version of our anthem by Simpson. And why all the dramatics when saying, "Gentlemen, start your engines?" It would be nice to hear someone just say it.
Looks like Edwards has stirred up some bad karma. Word is that the note he passed to Harvick's pilot said, " I intentionally wrecked everybody, Love,Carl". Harvick does have a history of payback so a race could get real interesting at any time from now on.
Jr has always preferred the high line. The COT does not. Running high puts too much pressure on the tires and causes them to blow. Most all of the drivers have figured that out by now.
And Tony has had such bad luck on pit road. That's been going on all year. Bad pit stops, not paying attention to pit road speeds. What the heck?
It won't be long now until most of the Chasers will be out of even thinking about winning the championship and will mostly just ride around protecting the place they have.Same with the rest of the field who cannot advance past 13th place. I wonder if someone has figured out what the placements would be without the Chase format. I'll bet it's a whole different picture and would be a lot more interesting.
Posted by Anonymous
October 14, 2008 09:02 AM
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