The sun is shining in Dover. Congrats to Landon Cassill and his wife Katie on the birth of their first son, Beckham Bear Alan Cassill. The birth topped off a week of good things for Landon. After racing in the NASCAR Xfinity race last Saturday and the NASCAR Sprint Cup race on Sunday, Landon ran 14 miles from the track to the NASCAR Hall of Fame. He also picked up a new sponsor for this week’s race at Dover. Good times for good people. Continue reading “2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Race Thirteen Dover”
2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Race Twelve Charlotte
Of course, this is the motorsports’ fan’s dream weekend starting with the Monaco GP Formula 1 race, the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600. I’m looking forward to great action tomorrow. I didn’t do a blog entry for the All-Star Race though I watched it. It really wasn’t worth talking about. So this week the boys are still in Charlotte for the Coca-Cola 600 – the longest race of the year. I’m hoping it will be a good one. I considered going, but couldn’t quite work out the logistics. Maybe next year.
One bit of news from the week thrilled me – Jeff Gordon will be replacing Larry Mc in the FOX booth in 2016! I’m excited. Continue reading “2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Race Twelve Charlotte”
2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Race Ten Talladega
NASCAR has a new qualifying format for Talladega – SINGLE CAR RUNS!!! Dude!!! Finally!!! I so miss the single car qualifying. It’s single car, single lap, which is different, but at least we can see everybody qualify and not a whole lot of sitting around on pit road playing strategy. Jeff Gordon won his 80th career pole. Congrats Big Daddy! Continue reading “2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Race Ten Talladega”
2015 NASCAR Xfinity Race Nine Talladega
Glory Hallelujah, the Xfinity Race is on FOX so we can actually watch it – instead of Championship Darts! Starting with a wreck on lap two the race at Talladega has been a bit of a mess. After a couple of early cautions, the field settled into single file racing for a while, then the chaos revved up again.
Later in the race on lap 73 of 113 a big wreck resulted from people slowing up to go to the pits and getting run over by people behind them. During the melee Brendan Gaughan hit the pit wall and injured two pit crew members of Aric Almirola’s 98 team. One was taken to the infield care center, the other has been transported to a local hospital. Continue reading “2015 NASCAR Xfinity Race Nine Talladega”
2015 ARCA Race Five Talladega
WOW! What a wreck at the ARCA race in Talladega. Austin Wayne Self went sideways, Brad Smith hit him as he came around and then the car well full speed into the inside wall, bounced off and went flaming down the track. Continue reading “2015 ARCA Race Five Talladega”