Race three of the 2014 season. The first mile and a half race. Yesterday’s Nationwide Race was boring. Keselowski won. Big whoop. He held off Kyle Busch. Yawn. Joey Logano has the pole for the Cup race. The sky in Vegas is a beautiful blue. The race command was given by ‘the most interesting man in the world’, but since he was introduced by Robin Leach, and his ‘real name’ given, plus he didn’t get to give one of his most interesting gimmicks, the call was rather lame. It seemed a more interesting notion than it turned out to be.
The new qualifying format doesn’t work for me. I used to love to watch qualifying, especially when there were a lot more cars than available spots. Now, I usually have no idea of how many drivers are going for spots and rarely bother to keep up with who’s doing what. It’s just not interesting to me. It looks like practice with an occasional flurry of activity. Much less special. Bunny thought it might have to do with how its shot, but I told her if it were shot any other way it would just look like a bunch of cars going around some faster than others, but no real order or seeming purpose. Just like the SPEED TV programming modernized and made the programming juvenile and boring, it seems NASCAR’s attempt to modernize qualifying is having the same effect. Oh well, since I’m not the target audience I’m sure it doesn’t matter. Of course, the changes have resulted in my not purchasing tickets for my local race. I’m sure that doesn’t matter to NASCAR either.
Looks like Brad Keselowski is going to resort to strategy to win a race instead of fine driving. I wish Brad would be himself, and trust himself, and stop trying to prove a point. I used to be a Brad Keselowski fan. Then he let the press go to his head. Now he’s just another head case making a spectacle of himself and being used by the media. He should treat himself better.
This has been an incredibly boring race. So boring it reminds me of Kansas and Chicagoland.
Keselowski and Wolf scheme to a win. I still believe Brad Keselowski is a better driver than that. Dale Jr. ran out of gas and finished second. Looks like Jimmie and Chad need to go testing.
Now time to find out the rest of the unofficial results from some website, since I still can’t read the stuff FOX has on the tops of the screen.
- Brad Keselowski
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Paul Menard
- Joey Logano
- Carl Edwards
- Jimmie Johnson
- Ryan Newman
- Kasey Kahne
- Jeff Gordon
- Matt Kenseth
Not a horrible day for Hendrick Motorsports; not great either.
It’s good of Carl Edwards to give Brad Keselowski a break and let him go run down Dale Earnhardt Jr. I don’t know that that’s the smartest thing for Brad to say on television, but okay, if that’s the way you want to win, I hope you’re satisfied.
Next Race: Bristol