Saturday, October 28, 2006

Pulling away from the pack.

An almost amazing thing happened today at Atlanta motor speedway. Johnny Benson almost took over the points lead in the Nascar Craftsman Truck series. But then tada he blew it or more precisely his truck blew it,spin out and that was that, chassis problems no more lead lap, no more points lead, go 7 laps down lose the championship. I guess an amazing thing did happen Todd Bodine despite being 2 laps down and finishing 25th actually gained 7 points on the 2nd place contender. With luck like that who needs to be good? With 3 races to go it is not over but close to it. So wait and see.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Poor Jeff Burton

What went wrong with Jeff Burtons motor? I may have missed it but I do not recall ever actually being informed of the final cause of death. Was it mechanical ? or was it something to do with No way a driver sponsored by The Cingular phone company is going to win the championship cup sponsored by The Sprint Nextel phone company?

Saturday, October 07, 2006

The Whims of Nascar

Amazing Nascar on friday after the top speeds in practice were closing in on 200 mph again Robin Pemberton stated that he saw no reason for concern and there would be no change in the size of the restrictor plate. Ah wrong answer. Saturday morning teams arriving at the track were informed that the restrictor plate would be 1/64th of an inch smaller than the one everybody had practised with for 2 days. So much for no concern on the part of Nascar about the higher speeds obtained thru the repaving of Taledega Super Speedway. Unfortunatly for the race teams they are now without any information on how the race cars will perform with a smaller plate than the one they geared their cars for. Oh for sure 1 and all put a good face on the situation after all they have no choice in the matter, it is Nascar's ball, field,bat,hoop,goal post and they will take it and go home whenever they feel like it.