Congrats to Kurt Busch on winning the pole for this race. His Stewart-Haas teammate Kevin Harvick shares the front row. Brian Vickers has blood clots so Brett Moffitt is in the 55 for the next three months at least. They’ve signed him up for Rookie of the Year. Continue reading “2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Race Five California”
2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Race Three Las Vegas
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. Continue reading “2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Race Three Las Vegas”
2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Race Two Atlanta
I woke up this morning on the north side of Atlanta to raining and 37 degrees. Reinforced my notion that this is not an ideal race weekend. It has stopped raining as race time approaches, and the temperature has risen into the 40s. Ugly weather for sitting outside. Glad I’m sitting inside.
David Ragan is making his debut in the Joe Gibbs Racing #18 Crispy M&Ms Toyota Camry. Go Thrilla! Continue reading “2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Race Two Atlanta”
2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Race One Daytona
It will be a Busch-less Daytona 500. Kurt lost both of his appeals yesterday and remains suspended indefinitely. He will have a Road To Recovery program provided by NASCAR, but the question remains will any sponsor touch him? Since Chevrolet has cut ties with him, will any manufacturer want anything to do with him? Kyle is in the hospital following surgery for a compound fracture of his right leg that occurred in yesterday’s Xfinity Series race. Kyle’s car hit a concrete wall. Kyle also broke his left foot. Team Owner Joe Gibbs says they’re keeping an eye on that, but there’s no rush on getting it taken care of and they’ll probably wait until he’s back in Charlotte to take care of that. Get well Kyle Busch. Good luck Kurt Busch. Continue reading “2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Race One Daytona”
2015 NASCAR Xfinity Series Race One Daytona
Congratulations to Tyler Reddick on his first Truck Series win last night. Heavy clouds in Daytona promise rain though it is warmer than it has been the past few days.
The rain came during Xfinity qualifying, but passed relatively quickly.
KHarv is in the booth doing color. He’s quite good. It is so refreshing to hear someone who sounds excited about the race, but isn’t yelling and losing their minds intermittently. He sounded as though he was watching the same race I was watching. He was enthusiastic, informative, and generally delightful. Continue reading “2015 NASCAR Xfinity Series Race One Daytona”