Oops! I forgot about the NASCAR race. I was watching episodes of How It’s Made and pretty engrossed not realizing race time had arrived. I miss watching the pre-race shows. I used to enjoy the SpeedTV show on Friday, Trackside, and Race Day, and This Week In NASCAR, not to mention Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain. I would rush home on Thursday to watch hours of practice (on a good week), and on Friday for practice and qualifying from all three series, and sometimes ARCA. Hours and hours of motorsports programming on a dedicated/diverse channel. It was tv Utopia and then it all fell apart eventually morphing into FoxSports(1|2). I’ve become unable to watch qualifying – which bums me out, because I adored watching qualifying, so I have no idea of the starting line-up or how things are this week. Since I have Uverse, the Xfinity race wasn’t available to me. I did see, on Good Morning America, that the district attorney decided there isn’t enough evidence supporting Patricia’s claims to move forward with charges against Kurt Busch. I’m glad to hear that and wish KuBu well.
So it appears we’re at lap 71 of 207 (or maybe 267, or maybe 287). Green flag pit stops have started. Gotta find something with larger font to figure that out for certain.
Turns out its 267 (I checked the NASCAR lap-by-lap).
Two tire issues sent Jimmie to the garage for a number of laps after hitting the wall twice.
Carl Edwards ran Kasey Kahne into the wall, and Kasey expressed his displeasure sending Carl to the garage for a while. They were around third and fourth when the incident occurred.
Kevin Harvick wins.
Martin Truex finishes second and Dale Earnhardt Jr finishes third.
Jeff Gordon got into the back of Jeb Burton who was slowing down due to Jimmie’s tire issues. There was nice video of him, after the race, apologizing to Jeb.
In NASCAR news this week:
- No Charges in Kurt Busch Case.
- Kurt Busch Applies for Reinstatement.
- Kurt Busch agrees to NASCAR terms.
- Kurt Busch Suspension Remains.
- NASCAR Answers Busch Suspension Questions.
- Gordon Rolls to First Vegas Pole.
- Gordon, Ragan Forced to Backup Cars.
- Jeff Gordon to meet with NASCAR.
- Moffitt to Drive No. 34 for Front Row.
- Brian Vickers Back On Track.
- Dubois Named BK Racing General Manager.
- Website for Tony Stewart-owned speedway hacked with message referencing ISIS.
- Want better racing? Carl Edwards pushes downforce reduction.