Bring On The 'Bama Big One, Baby!
Welcome to another edition of NASCAR Wrecks.
Last week, while you were watching the Nextel Cup action at the "Monster Mile". I was trackside in Watkins Glen (my hometown) to witness the return of open-wheeled racing, after a 20+ year absence.
The Indy Racing League visited "The Home of American Road Racing" for the first time and quite frankly...It Sucked!
Here's why: it had nothing to do with the fact that Danica was racing, or that Dan Wheldon would win the IRL Championship..or even the fact that there was only 20 cars in the entire field, which meant...the cars would go by, then you would wait, and wait (beer and burger), and wait (more beer) until they came back around again. On what I consider, the most beautiful three plus miles of racetrack in the country. (Mark.. aren't you a little biased towards the Glen?...Damn skippy, I am)
Nope, what sucked was....I fell out of my little brothers damn truck getting firewood and shoved about a cord of upstate New York's finest cherrywood, right up my tuchas...okay, it didn't actually insert...but it was damn close....I am pretty sure that my lower vertebra became a "slinky" at that point and now all my pants are too long... which led to an immediate epidural (shots and beer) back at the campsite....Having sphictner splinters still hurts like hell, but, I'm going to "Cowboy Up" through the rest of this issue, before I inhale another handfull of Motrin and ask "Miss Warmth" (the ol' lady) to climb three flights of stairs to change the channel...Hey, I dropped the remote and it's a good two feet away...okay..
While Jeff Gordon won't be among the 10 drivers battling for the Nextel Cup championship when he competes in UAW-Ford 500 on Sunday, it could prove to be a race important in his quest for NASCAR history.
Has anyone noticed this season where Gordon failed to finish seven races and that he has won three races bringing him just four shy of the 76 career races won by Earnhardt Sr. Earnhardt was 49 at the time of his death. Gordon is just 34.Should Gordon find himself in victory lane Sunday, the win would also put him alongside Earnhardt in a couple of categories in the record book.
Gordon is one shy of Earnhardt's record of 11 wins on restrictor-plate tracks. He is also poised to tie Earnhardt's record of winning three restrictor-plate races in a season.Earnhardt won the Winston 500 and DieHard 500 at Talladega in 1990 as well as the Pepsi 400 at Daytona. Gordon won the Daytona 500 in February and won the Aaron's 499 at Talladega in the spring. In 25 career starts at Talladega Gordon has posted four wins, 11 top-fives and 14 top-10s.
Dale Jr. heads here not only as a favorite but also as the defending champion of this event. Last year he started fifth and led 78 laps en route to his fifth victory at Talladega; overall he has finished first or second in seven of his last eight races. He also holds a track record of four consecutive victories from Oct. 21, 2001 to April 6, 2003. In fact Dale Jr. has led laps in 10 of his 11 career races; the only race he didn’t lead a lap was his very first (April 16, 2000).
So the focus on the 10 drivers in the "Chase" won't be as huge as it's been for the last two races. There are 33 other drivers in the field that are all vying to play the spoiler Sunday.
Keep this mind, they are the two Chevrolets in the Chase, and they are at a track where Chevrolet has everything going for it. Ford has not won at Talladega since 1998 and Dodge has yet to win there since the brand's return in 2001.
However, only one of the ten "Chase" drivers has won at Talledega.
Here's a tip on who it is:...His sponsor's product can turn a man into a human tri-pod!
Mark
P.S. Erin Crocker...(NASCAR's version of Danica Patrick...I bet she loves that) will be in a Ray Evernham car forthe Busch race Saturday..and the sponsor is..."Betty Crocker!" No, really..it is...
Last week, while you were watching the Nextel Cup action at the "Monster Mile". I was trackside in Watkins Glen (my hometown) to witness the return of open-wheeled racing, after a 20+ year absence.
The Indy Racing League visited "The Home of American Road Racing" for the first time and quite frankly...It Sucked!
Here's why: it had nothing to do with the fact that Danica was racing, or that Dan Wheldon would win the IRL Championship..or even the fact that there was only 20 cars in the entire field, which meant...the cars would go by, then you would wait, and wait (beer and burger), and wait (more beer) until they came back around again. On what I consider, the most beautiful three plus miles of racetrack in the country. (Mark.. aren't you a little biased towards the Glen?...Damn skippy, I am)
Nope, what sucked was....I fell out of my little brothers damn truck getting firewood and shoved about a cord of upstate New York's finest cherrywood, right up my tuchas...okay, it didn't actually insert...but it was damn close....I am pretty sure that my lower vertebra became a "slinky" at that point and now all my pants are too long... which led to an immediate epidural (shots and beer) back at the campsite....Having sphictner splinters still hurts like hell, but, I'm going to "Cowboy Up" through the rest of this issue, before I inhale another handfull of Motrin and ask "Miss Warmth" (the ol' lady) to climb three flights of stairs to change the channel...Hey, I dropped the remote and it's a good two feet away...okay..
While Jeff Gordon won't be among the 10 drivers battling for the Nextel Cup championship when he competes in UAW-Ford 500 on Sunday, it could prove to be a race important in his quest for NASCAR history.
Has anyone noticed this season where Gordon failed to finish seven races and that he has won three races bringing him just four shy of the 76 career races won by Earnhardt Sr. Earnhardt was 49 at the time of his death. Gordon is just 34.Should Gordon find himself in victory lane Sunday, the win would also put him alongside Earnhardt in a couple of categories in the record book.
Gordon is one shy of Earnhardt's record of 11 wins on restrictor-plate tracks. He is also poised to tie Earnhardt's record of winning three restrictor-plate races in a season.Earnhardt won the Winston 500 and DieHard 500 at Talladega in 1990 as well as the Pepsi 400 at Daytona. Gordon won the Daytona 500 in February and won the Aaron's 499 at Talladega in the spring. In 25 career starts at Talladega Gordon has posted four wins, 11 top-fives and 14 top-10s.
Dale Jr. heads here not only as a favorite but also as the defending champion of this event. Last year he started fifth and led 78 laps en route to his fifth victory at Talladega; overall he has finished first or second in seven of his last eight races. He also holds a track record of four consecutive victories from Oct. 21, 2001 to April 6, 2003. In fact Dale Jr. has led laps in 10 of his 11 career races; the only race he didn’t lead a lap was his very first (April 16, 2000).
So the focus on the 10 drivers in the "Chase" won't be as huge as it's been for the last two races. There are 33 other drivers in the field that are all vying to play the spoiler Sunday.
Keep this mind, they are the two Chevrolets in the Chase, and they are at a track where Chevrolet has everything going for it. Ford has not won at Talladega since 1998 and Dodge has yet to win there since the brand's return in 2001.
However, only one of the ten "Chase" drivers has won at Talledega.
Here's a tip on who it is:...His sponsor's product can turn a man into a human tri-pod!
Mark
P.S. Erin Crocker...(NASCAR's version of Danica Patrick...I bet she loves that) will be in a Ray Evernham car forthe Busch race Saturday..and the sponsor is..."Betty Crocker!" No, really..it is...
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