Monday, February 28, 2005
Race 2 Roundup
Well, in my opinion, Dale Junior would like to forget that race all together. With 2 flat left front tires, he obliviously had some kind of fender rub (well, duh!). Well, let's just get on to the recap:
NNC: Well, I feel bad about Joe Nemechek, having his engine let go late in the race, and while leading. Ouch. Greg Biffle ended up winning the race, having to come from a lap down to do it. Biffle said before the race that he will get the lead by lap 5, and sure enough, by lap 5, there was that number 16 in the lead. The pole sitter, Kyle Busch, the youngest NASCAR NC driver to ever win the pole, ended up finishing 23th. Hendrick Motorsports had a bad day as far as their engines went: Joe Nemechek, Scott Riggs and Jeff Gordon all had some form of engine problems.
BGN: Mark Martin started 3rd, and finished 1st in the Starter Bros. 300, making it Mark's 46th win. Pole sitter Tony Stewart finished 29th after having a trackbar break on him on the last lap. Martin Truex Jr blew a tire with about 10 to go or so, sending him into the wall, ending his night. A good run though for Shane Hmiel, who started fifth, then finished 3rd, tieing it with his best finished in his career.
CTS: Steve Park became the 10th driver to win in the NNC, BGN, and CTS in his career, after having a terrible season last year. Park started 25th in that race, and made his way up to the front. Pole sitter Mike Skinner finished 18th. Brendan Gaughan, teammate to race winner Park, started 10, but went a lap down near the end of the race and finished 30th. Gaughan helped slow down Bobby Hamilton a little bit on hte last lap, but I doubt that Park needed it.
Well, the NNC and CTS have the week off, but the BGN series goes south of the border to La Ciudad de Mexico, or Mexico City, for the inagural Mexico 200 at the road course Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, a 2.786 mile track that has been configured to handle the stock cars. This is the first time in NASCAR history that a NASCAR-sanctioned race is held outside of the US that pays points.
Well, see you then.
NNC: Well, I feel bad about Joe Nemechek, having his engine let go late in the race, and while leading. Ouch. Greg Biffle ended up winning the race, having to come from a lap down to do it. Biffle said before the race that he will get the lead by lap 5, and sure enough, by lap 5, there was that number 16 in the lead. The pole sitter, Kyle Busch, the youngest NASCAR NC driver to ever win the pole, ended up finishing 23th. Hendrick Motorsports had a bad day as far as their engines went: Joe Nemechek, Scott Riggs and Jeff Gordon all had some form of engine problems.
BGN: Mark Martin started 3rd, and finished 1st in the Starter Bros. 300, making it Mark's 46th win. Pole sitter Tony Stewart finished 29th after having a trackbar break on him on the last lap. Martin Truex Jr blew a tire with about 10 to go or so, sending him into the wall, ending his night. A good run though for Shane Hmiel, who started fifth, then finished 3rd, tieing it with his best finished in his career.
CTS: Steve Park became the 10th driver to win in the NNC, BGN, and CTS in his career, after having a terrible season last year. Park started 25th in that race, and made his way up to the front. Pole sitter Mike Skinner finished 18th. Brendan Gaughan, teammate to race winner Park, started 10, but went a lap down near the end of the race and finished 30th. Gaughan helped slow down Bobby Hamilton a little bit on hte last lap, but I doubt that Park needed it.
Well, the NNC and CTS have the week off, but the BGN series goes south of the border to La Ciudad de Mexico, or Mexico City, for the inagural Mexico 200 at the road course Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, a 2.786 mile track that has been configured to handle the stock cars. This is the first time in NASCAR history that a NASCAR-sanctioned race is held outside of the US that pays points.
Well, see you then.
Monday, February 21, 2005
Race 1 Roundup
Well, as the title says, here is the round up for the NNC, BGN, and the CTS.
NNC: Tony Stewart led for 107 laps, but a late-late race rally by Jeff Gordon relegated Stewart to 7th, leaving Gordon with the win. It was Gordon's 3rd Daytona 500 win, 5th for Hendrick Motorsports. There were 11 cautions, damaging 5 cars, with Scott Wimmer taking the worst of it: tumbling down Turn 4. It's Gordon's 70th win. Dale Jarrett, the pole sitter, finishes 15th.
BGN: After 42 starts in the BGN series, Tony Stewart finally got his first win in the Hersey's Take 5 300. After being sent through the Turn 1 grass after a bump from Carl Edwards sent Stewart there. 6 cautions flew over the race track. The pole sitter, Joe Nemechek, finishes 14th.
CTS: Bobby Hamilton barely edges out Jimmy Spenser for the Florida Dodge Dealers 250 after a last-lap caution came out. The pole sitter, Kerry Earnhardt, was involved in a crash that took him out of the running. Wild rides went to Rick Crawford and Chad Chaffin, who all took tumbles at the track.
Well, I would like to hear your thoughts about these races here.
Next track: California (NNC, CTS, BGN)
NNC: Tony Stewart led for 107 laps, but a late-late race rally by Jeff Gordon relegated Stewart to 7th, leaving Gordon with the win. It was Gordon's 3rd Daytona 500 win, 5th for Hendrick Motorsports. There were 11 cautions, damaging 5 cars, with Scott Wimmer taking the worst of it: tumbling down Turn 4. It's Gordon's 70th win. Dale Jarrett, the pole sitter, finishes 15th.
BGN: After 42 starts in the BGN series, Tony Stewart finally got his first win in the Hersey's Take 5 300. After being sent through the Turn 1 grass after a bump from Carl Edwards sent Stewart there. 6 cautions flew over the race track. The pole sitter, Joe Nemechek, finishes 14th.
CTS: Bobby Hamilton barely edges out Jimmy Spenser for the Florida Dodge Dealers 250 after a last-lap caution came out. The pole sitter, Kerry Earnhardt, was involved in a crash that took him out of the running. Wild rides went to Rick Crawford and Chad Chaffin, who all took tumbles at the track.
Well, I would like to hear your thoughts about these races here.
Next track: California (NNC, CTS, BGN)
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Budweiser Shootout
Well, I had typed out my entire response to the shootout, but then the computer shit the bed, freezes up on me before I could post it, so all I am going to to here is congradulate the winners: Greg Biffle and Jimmie Johnson for their wins in the 1st and 2nd segments of the shootout, repectively.
