Congratulations to Jimmie Johnson (my pick to win) for adding yet another win to his already impressive resume at Martinsville. I thought the racing was excellent.
Here's a few observations before I get to the caution breakdown:

-- Since when do they show the starting lineup on television backwards? That was quite odd. Did you catch that?

-- The big buzz on twitter yesterday was all about Ingrid cutting all her hair off. How did I miss this? I am going to have to go searching for a picture now...

-- I'm delighted that Clint Bowyer had another solid run yesterday. He ended the day in fifth.

-- Jeff Gordon did not break his losing streak even though at one point I was thinking that maybe he was going to.

-- Joey Logano managed to stay 34th in the point standings. Good job, Joey. He definitely had his ups and downs with blowing a tire and getting penalized for entering the pits too fast during a pit stop.

-- Dale Earnhardt Jr. finally had a solid finish. Plus, he didn't need to utilize a lucky dog to acheive his solid finish of eighth place.

-- Several drivers had tires blow during the race: Eric Almirola (twice), Kyle Busch, Jeremy Mayfield, Carl Edwards, Robby Gordon (twice), and Scott Speed. I'm sure I missed a few. If you'd like to add to the list, please feel free to do so.

-- What a great race for Stewart-Haas Racing. Stewart and Newman both had top-ten finishes, third and sixth respectively.

There were twelve cautions during yesterday's race. Let's take a peek at what happened to bring out each caution:

There should be no surprise that the first caution was brought out by none other than Michael Watrip. He got loose going into a corner, spun and went up and kissed the wall.

Competition yellow came out on lap 40 which was the second caution.

Kyle Busch drove into the corner a bit too hard and got loose driving up into Scott Speed who went spinning for caution number four.

The fourth caution of the race was due to Robby Gordon having a tire go down and spinning on the racetrack. There was no contact with any other car during his spin.

Robby Gordon had another tire go down. This time he went up the track and had contact with David Reutimann which brought out the fifth caution.

Scott Speed and Eric Armirola both blew tires on the same lap and there was debris on the track bringing out the sixth caution of the race.

A beverage can got thrown out on the track bringing out the seventh caution.

Jeremy Mayfield smacked the wall for the eighth caution.

David Stremme sent Eric Almirola spinning for the ninth caution.

Bobby Labonte and Martin Truex got into one another with about 28 laps to go bringing out the tenth caution. Labonte had spun and Truex had no place to go and smacked right into him.

Martin Truex Jr. spun David Reutimann bringing out the eleventh caution of the day.

I missed the twelvth caution. Or at least I think it was the twelvth caution. I have to admit my notes got a bit scrambled between cautions nine and twelve. So if you're sitting there scratching your head thinking, "what the hell is she talking about?" Then it was just my note taking during that time frame. Please do correct me...

What did you think of the race?

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