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My NASCAR JournalThis is where I rant and rave about everything NASCAR September 16 Goodbye for goodYes, sorry to say, but I've decided that I'm not going to continue updating this blog anymore. It will stay here though, floating in cyberspace, as an archive of all my thoughts about NASCAR. Still love the sport, but I'm trying to prioritize my time better and this actually did take a lot of effort to keep updated. Who knows? Maybe I'll start another blog again someday. Thanks to everyone who read! June 10 Goodbye for SummerWell everybody, I am off on a great adventure this summer. I am leaving tomorrow for Dublin, Ireland, where I will be volunteering for 2 months. I return August 16. Meantime, this blog will sit, lonely and un-updated, as I miss NASCAR's summer stretch. By the time I get back, it'll almost be time for the Chase. I'm going to have fun, but I will miss watching my races. My family will try hard to keep me up to date! Hope everyone else has a great summer. Goodbye for now! June 09 PoconoIf only they would knock 100 miles off this race! It would take away 40 laps and make it a little more bearable to watch. On lap 17, Kasey Kahne got the lead back from Jimmie Johnson, who had taken it on the opening lap. Around lap 40, Kurt Busch got loose and spun, taking a bumpy ride through the grass. He broke all the struts on his splitter, but they were able to recover and finish in the top 10. On lap 47, Kyle Busch tried to force his car into a spot that just wasn't there and smacked the wall. He drove right up in front of Jamie McMurray who tried to give him room, but there wasn't any. It was just stupid. At least Kyle took the blame for it. After another caution 10 laps later, Kasey Kahne was penalized for loose lug nuts and had to come back in and then restart way in the back. On lap 81, Clint Bowyer got loose coming off turn 3 and as he was spinning out, he got hit hard by Juan Montoya on the frontstretch. Juan's car was on fire at the end of pit road and that clean-up delayed the opening of the pits a bit. After this, there were some more cautions, some green flag pit stops, and a lot of strategy. Because Kahne was penalized early, he was able to work his way through the field the rest of the race. Kyle Busch spun and brought out the caution while riding around, setting up a restart with 20 to go. Brian Vickers was leading, but Kahne took it from him with about 15 laps to go. He won from the pole, but did it the hard way. NashvilleJoey Logano started on pole for the Busch race and led about the first 60 laps. However, after a caution and pit stops, Logano was further back in the top 10. Everyone got bunched up on the restart and he was turned around and wrecked. With 12 to go, there was a caution for a spin. David Reutimann was leading, Clint Bowyer was 2nd, and Brad Keselowski 3rd. Keselowski had the freshest tires and the most fuel. On the restart with 8 to go, Bowyer moved Reutimann out of the way. David Stremme did the same thing to him for the 3rd position. With 6 to go, Keselowski took the lead from Bowyer and he didn't look back. On the last lap, Stremme moved Bowyer out of the way and got 2nd; Bowyer ended up 4th. So Brad got his first win, only the second "regular" to win all season. Scott Wimmer won earlier in the year. June 07 CTS TexasRon Hornaday and Jack Sprague were the two main guys in this one. They swapped the lead several times throughout the race. Good work in the pits was able to keep Hornaday out front. He was able to hold off Kyle Busch in a GWC finish. Last week's winner Scott Speed had a couple incidents. First, he got into the side of Rick Crawford and spun out across the grass and through pit road. Everyone went running, but he managed to narrowly keep it off of the wall. Crawford wasn't so lucky. The contact cut his tire and sent him into the wall. Second, Speed made an overly aggressive move with 3 laps to go and made it 3 wide, but he couldn't hold it down there and ended up crashed, which is what lead to the GWC. In the category of slightly embarassing moments, one of Hornaday's crewmen injured his ankle after jumping up and down, celebrating the pit stop that put them in the lead. It looked as though it could be worse than just a sprain. Another moment in the history of celebrations gone wrong. Kasey Kahne won the Pocono pole. |
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