A 1-2-3 finish for Richard Childress Racing, a first for RCR. I had goosebumps as they crossed the line, just a fantastic finish. Congrats to Jeff Burton who beat out teammates Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer to the finish line.

Here are a few random thoughts that crossed my mind as I watched yesterday’s race at Bristol Motor Speedway:

-- Let me just say this….what a cute little pumpkin Jeff Gordon’s little girl is. She actually looks like a spitting image of him, only cuter of course.

-- There should be a rule about allowing someone in the broadcast booth when you have laryngitis. It was more painful than normal listening to Darrell Waltrip try to talk.

-- I hate it when they only show the top-ten in the rundown during the race. Uugh, it really urkes me, like we aren’t watching other drivers that are outside the top-ten. Give me a break.

-- It’s getting harder and harder to defend Juan Pablo Montoya. That's all I'm saying on that.

-- Once again, I jinxed my pick to win the race. In this case, I’m not that sad about it. Kyle Busch’s power steering went on the car.

-- Dale Earnhardt Jr. was the best finishing Hendrick car again. Nice.

-- When they were interviewing Kevin Harvick after the race asking him about his error on the track when he took out Tony Stewart, I jokingly said: “He’s scared.” I mean, wouldn’t you be? You never know what that freak Tony Stewart will do when he’s mad. Seriously.

-- How much do you love Clint Bowyer?! That guy is the bomb. His post race interview was hilarious. If you missed it, he said something about Stewart and back waxing at Harvick's house and that it should be interesting. And then he said that he may have to go over and check it out and bring some boxing gloves for them. I think Bowyer's my new hero.

-- I blame Harvick that I have to look at Stewart for one more week without a haircut. I don't think Stewart's cutting his hair until he wins again. Thanks Harvick.

-- Goodbye Dale Jarrett. Sorry you couldn’t have had a better finish than 37th for your last race.

We're off to Bristol this weekend. I love the racing at Bristol. It's one of those tracks where anybody could win. It's tough to predict a winner here.

Nonetheless, I'll go with Kyle Busch to win this weekend. He is, afterall, the greatest driver there ever was. I think he'll be the point leader in all three divisions after this weekend as well. I am, of course, saying all of this completely sarcastically. But seriously, he is my pick this weekend.

Who's yours?

Let's see how much more Tony Stewart whines about the tires this weekend. I am sure he'll spout off again about them.

I wasn’t all that thrilled with the race at Bristol Saturday night. There really wasn’t all that much excitement, or at least not what I’m used to seeing when I watch a Bristol night race. Kasey Kahne appeared to be the car to beat but that didn’t happen.

While leading the race, Kahne came up on Michael Waltrip who was already two laps down, and instead of Waltrip getting out of the way, he decided to race the leader, which allowed Carl Edwards and Dale Earnhardt Jr. to close in on him. Carl Edwards took the lead and it basically stayed that way until the checkered flag.

Honestly, I can’t understand why Waltrip wouldn’t have just gotten out of the way and let the leaders battle it amongst themselves. It was a bone-head move and he cost Kahne the lead.

The bad luck continued for Jeff Gordon. He pitted under green-flag conditions. The caution came out due to a spin by David Ragan, which put Gordon a lap down on the restart. Then a little later in the race, Gordon was involved in a wreck due to Martin Truex Jr. getting into Ricky Rudd.

Let me repeat that. Martin Truex Jr. got into Rudd, kind of like he got into Juan Pablo Montoya at Watkins Glen. HHHmmm…

On to the Busch race…

Kasey Kahne won the Busch race on Friday night.

I have to admit I didn’t get a chance to watch it. And someone, I won’t name any names, stopped the dvr while it was taping. My brother-in-law said that NASCAR screwed Kyle Busch.

I guess Busch was acting like he was going in the pits and veered back out onto the track like so many drivers do, but NASCAR penalized him saying he hit the commitment line. The crew argued this with the officials but to no avail and NASCAR sent him back to 28th position on the restart.

NASCAR later said they were wrong and apologized. Now let me ask you, what good does that do? It certainly doesn't or didn't do a bit of good for Kyle Busch. Busch ended up finishing fourth but who knows where he would have finished if he hadn't had to start so far back.

Bristol's a tough race track to predict because just about anything can happen there. It is one of my most favorite race tracks. The night race, in particular is the absolute best.

I must say that I was a bit wavered in picking Dale Earnhardt Jr. in Saturday night's Sharpie 500 because of something one of my friends said to me. He said that he had a feeling that Junior didn't want to qualify into the chase just because of Teresa.

I do hope that's not true. I don't want to believe that for a second. Does anyone else feel that way?

In any event, I AM going to pick Junior for the win at Bristol tomorrow night. I know I must sound like a broken record in picking him but there you have it.

My other pick is a little more out there but I'm going with him, it's Ryan Newman. He has finished in the top-10 the last three races here.

Bud Pole Qualifying starts at 3 p.m. today. The weather doesn't appear to be a factor. The race is scheduled to start at 8 p.m. on Saturday.

Busch Pole Qualifying is today at 4:30. The green flag is scheduled to wave at the Food City 250 tonight at 8 p.m. And because I love Bristol so much, I will definitely be watching the Busch race this evening.

Kenny Wallace will again be the fill-in driver for Kyle Petty in Saturday night's race at Bristol Motor Speeday. Petty was so mad at his misfortune at Watkins Glen that he punched a door inside his hauler and broke his hand.

Sterling Marlin will try to qualify the No. 78, Furniture Row car at Bristol.

Let's hope that the weather doesn't play a roll in qualifying.

I am still waiting on the announcement from DEI on who will be driving the No. 8 car in 2008. A decision could be announced by the end of the week. Who do you think it will be?

It hasn't been announced yet which car number Junior will be driving.
(I think I'd like to see him drive the 6.7)