Kenseth wins...Again

I think Matt's new Crew Chief, Drew Blickensderfer, has brought some life to a team that seemed to have lost it a year or so before Robbie left. I think it is cool to see a Wisconsin boy do good. Good job, Matt! Was happy he held off Gordon, haha.

The race itself was pretty uneventful, read boring... Not a huge fan of that track (I don't know what they call it these days), too wide, too long, too flat. Yeah, it gives you lots of options for lines to run, but, that also means you can get all stretched out. The biggest action seems to be the battles of high-line versus low-line and seeing who gets the better run off a corner or who can slide job who.

Bummer that Harvick's streak of running at the end of every race ended at 81(?). Hendrick engines had some issues with Martin and Junior having valve issues.

I have to admit, I watched the end of the race from bed and was simply wiped out from not getting a good nights sleep the night before and bottling and brewing beer during the day. As much as I could pay attention to the race, I don't recall them mentioning Jeremey Mayfield much. Yeah, I know he was a couple laps down... He's got no big sponsorship that greases FOX's greedy palm, so not much mention of him. Was happy to see that with the late race attrition that he was able to move up 5 spots. I saw he was back in 40th spot and eventually finished at 35th. Now, I am no big Mayfield fan, but the way he is trying to make a go of it with all the money coming out of his pocket, not paying himself a salary, and seemingly fielding his crew with misfits who will work for little or nothing. I say misfit only as a dig against one of his crew members who failed a drug test. haha. That is not a blanket statement covering his entire team. I really hope he can get into the top 35 and stay there, comfortably, all year. Riggs, racing for Tommy Baldwin is another I would like to see do well. As for some of the others, like Nemecheck, Gilliland, and Allmendinger, I could care less. Nemecheck and Gilliland I really can't stand and Allmendinger rubs me wrong and comes off, to me, as an arrogant punk... Any one of them can finish 41, 42, and 43 every week for all I care.

On to Vegas. I actually got to do a couple laps around that track in a rental car when I attended the VMWorld party in 2008 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. That was fun! Andretti school instructors took us around the track in all kinds of decent cars with top speeds of about 100. Not like a real Richard Petty experience or anything, but still very cool. Especially when yer all hammered!! haha.

I still can't stand that effen Digger rodent that FOX insists on showing! Horrifying, that is all I can say! I wanna get an anti Digger website, haha, any ideas??