I'm back, I'm back. I went on vacation and never once looked at the blog. I needed a complete break and it was awesome. Thank you for those who did throw their picks out there on Friday. If I had made my pick last week, it would have been Kurt Busch. Alright, maybe not.

Kurt Busch deserved that win yesterday. He dominated the race all day long. I was getting nervous with that late-race caution that he wasn't going to be the victor but he did. I could have done without him driving around the track backwards with the checkered flag but we got a good laugh out of it. Congratulations Busch!

In the beginning the race was a real sleeper until that crewman ran out to grab the tire that got loose and brought out a caution. It was poor timing though because most of the drivers had been down pit road to make their pit stops just a lap earlier. So after the caution flag flew, it left only six cars on the lead lap.

Just how many times can a driver get the lucky dog? Yesterday it looked as though Dale Earnhardt Jr. was going to get three of them. Yeah, three. Time ran out though and in the end he was the recipient of two. His car was a complete brick all day.

If you're ever online during the race and they throw out questions to ask on Ask.com, you should try it. I did. One of the questions, which I thought was a joke because it was a commercial, was "Why do drivers think peanuts are bad luck?" I had no idea so I went to Ask.com to find out why. Sure enough the answer was there along with some of the other superstitions there are like why some drivers won't carry 50 dollar bills. That's all I'm saying.

I was really pulling for Mark Martin to have a solid finish this week. But as luck would have it, he had a tire go and he went up and hit the wall. That's three weeks in a row for him to not have a good finish.

Clint Bowyer had another solid finish, sixth place.

Rookie Watch: Joey Logano hit the wall. It wasn't his fault though. AJ Allmendinger went up the track, forcing Logano to move up, right in front of Tony Stewart. Stewart hit him and sent him into the wall. He hit it a second time and had to go to the pits for repairs. Logano finished 30th, six laps down.

Scott Speed caused the wreck on lap 267. He went up into David Ragan and then there was a chain reaction. Greg Biffle got the worse end of that deal. He got hit and spun up and hit the outside retaining wall, completely wrecking his car. Speed finished 68 laps down in 35th position.

Sam Hornish Jr. doesn't have any business driving in the Sprint Cup Series. He creates wrecks every week. Just sayin.

What did you think of the race?

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