Post Bristol Follow Up

Is it just me or was anyone else really sad about DW losing his voice? Now if only Larry Mac and Chris Meyers would lose their voices too!!

It was a pretty good race! A couple wrecks, a couple of spins, and how about that fire out the back of Skinner's car? Jeez, the impact that he had to cause his oil cooler to bust didn't seem bad enough to cause the resulting fire, but...

Bummer about Harvick getting up into Stewart and spinning him around. Karma maybe over his shitty attitude last week? I am sure there was no intent from Harvick, after all, they are both good friends. Stewart is getting his back waxed thanks to Harvick this week. Maybe Stewart will wax something on Harvick as payback, haha. They have had run ins before, seem to remember Harvick coming out on the short end of the stick battling for a win at Indy a few years ago. Hopefully they put it behind them.

Nice to see RCR cars finish 1,2,3!! Easy for me to say because I am an RCR and Harvick fan. Jeff Burton is a class act and I always love seeing him win... One of the reasons is because they usually show Kim, his wife, flipping out on the pit box. It's cool seeing the family get behind their drivers. Some drivers win and their pretty ladies never show much emotion... More like thoughts of "hmmm, where can I spend the money", but with Kim, she gets all jacked up and emotional.

Junior is still impressing! He's about the only Hendrick car that is this year. Maybe they're putting all resources behind junior to get him his championship. Haha, did I really say that?? hahaha.

Hope everyone has a nice Easter weekend off. Maybe we'll get out here and write about some off week happenings. Maybe Harv and Stewart will make some news with a big public feud.

NHRA is on ESPN now, cool! I love drag racing too. Shit, I love all kinds of racing!!

Bristol Baby and More Tire Talk!

I love short track racing! Bristol and Martinsville are a couple of my favorite tracks. Wish we had a few more short track races each year. At least with short tracks, if ya crash, ya can usually get into the pits or garage and make something drivable. We might not see a sponsor anymore, but, you can drive it and keep up with the minimum speed. Short tracks are where guys can get laps back, even without that stupid ass "lucky dog" free pass.

In the last week there sure has been plenty of Goodyear bashing. I am really surprised that Tony Stewart showed up to race this weekend! I mean he spoke with such conviction shitty and useless the tires and, the tire company, Goodyear, are. Why not stick to your convictions and really make a stand, get out of the car, fly home to Indiana and dismount all the Goodyear tires on all your vehicles, just as you had promised. I heard Tony was less than helpful at the tire test at Las Vegas in December. Even by his own admission he was on vacation and didn't wanna be doing the test. Waaaaaa!!! Waaaaaaa!! People that make gazillions of dollars each year playing in sports or driving race cars should learn to keep their friggin mouths shut when it comes to whining about not getting enough time off. Day-by-day, week-to-week, when all is said and done in a year, you frickin whiners work less hours and days per year than the white or clue collar average worker. The average worker who is struggling to put gas in their cars and pay their mortgages. The average worker, who when he has to go on a business trip, isn't afforded the luxury to fly a helicopter from where he was working to the airport and be on a plane and in the air in 20 minutes. No, we'll sit for endless hours in airport terminals waiting for the next connection. Or, be the average worker and spend a couple weeks in a cheese line because your company is going through a slow down. Next time, stop stompimg your feet and pitching a fit about being at a tire test and give some useful feedback on tire tests. That feedback will have a direct correlation to the tire you race on Sunday, someday.

Watching pre-race on Speed and it looks kinda cold at Bristol. Cold being 50 degrees for them. 50 would be a friggin heat wave around this neck of the woods and we'd be out in shorts and t-shirts, haha.

Toyota Wins

That shrub sure can drive a car. Wonder if Jr was at all wondering, as he watched the rear bumper of the 18, if he made the right choice to go with Hendrick, hahaha. Kyle won the truck race, were it not for a shock failure in the Nationwide race, he likely would have won that. Then, he wins the cup race. 1000 miles of driving and two wins, not a bad weekend.

Good race overall! I like the way the new car behaves. They get slideways and it doesn't seem to snap around as the COY did. They don't seem to have as much aero issues. I always hated how you could get to within 10 feet of the car in front of you and cause him to slide up the track. That wing, splitter, bump stops, and radiator opening is messed up. But, I ain't no Engineer...

Wow, Tony Stewart is pissed at Goodyear! Did you catch his post race interview?? I bet the next 20 sets of tires he gets mounted by Goodyear will have issues, hahaha.

Tough luck for Edwards. Karma stuffs from last weeks violations, perhaps...

What's up with Jr's interviews these days? Is it me or is it he is just trying to tow the Hendrick company line and not be too animated in his interviews?? He seems like a monotone bot. Almost like he has a handler just off camera with a shock controller that is attached to Jr's sack and anytime he feels like just talking, he's gonna get his gonads lit up. He just doesn't seem the same. I dunno, maybe it's just me.