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Published Sunday, June 1, 2008 | 5:58 p.m.
Updated Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008 | 10:15 a.m.
You might hate seeing Tony Stewart get caught up in someone else’s wreck, as he did early in Sunday’s race at Dover, but you have to admit his post-wreck interviews often are priceless. Stewart’s sarcastic take on the lap-17 wreck -- “I take 100 percent responsibility. It’s my fault for being even anywhere close to Elliott (Sadler). If I’m within a half a lap of him, I expect that to happen” -- was the highlight of the telecast. …
Is Stewart’s frustration the result of his rotten luck this season, the fact that he has not yet won a race or the realization that he might no longer be the top dog at Joe Gibbs Racing? …
One of the sport’s brilliant talking heads again made the comment over the weekend that Stewart will “step up his game” now that the summer months are upon us, suggesting that Stewart hasn’t been trying his best during the first three months of the season. That’s a little like saying the New England Patriots didn’t win the Super Bowl this year because they didn’t try hard enough. …
Whatever your personal opinion is of Kyle Busch, you have to admire the way he doesn’t hold anything back on the track -- even when he has a 3-second lead with 10 laps remaining. If you paid $100 for a ticket to Sunday’s race, you wouldn’t have felt cheated by Busch’s effort in the final 74 laps. …
One of the more impressive streaks is Kevin Harvick’s series record of running at the finish of 57 consecutive races. The streak is a testament to Harvick’s crew members at Richard Childress Racing. Incidentally, Harvick also had a similar 58-race streak earlier in his career, which is the modern-day NASCAR Cup Series record. ...
I know these aren’t the best of economic times, but wouldn’t you think some company would jump on the bandwagon and sponsor Travis Kvapil’s unsponsored Ford? Kvapil has finished 11th or better in three of the past five races and has improved from 24th to 18th in points in the No. 28 Yates Racing Ford. …
In case you missed it, Toyota is leading all three of NASCAR’s national touring series (Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Craftsman Trucks) in victories.
It's time for drug testing for the top 10 finishers in every Nascar race.
You bring up some good points about Tony! His comments are always 'priceless', but I hadn't thought about the possibility of him wondering if he's being usurped by Kyle.
The Shrub is going to win the championship this year come heck or high water.
As for Toyota - 19 wins out of 35 races ain't bad. JGR drivers are 5 of 5 in Cup, 10 of 10 in Nationwide, and 2 of 4 in Truck, that's 17 out of 19.
What can one say about our pondering at the beginning of this season, of the wisdom of Gibbs going to Toyota? He's proved again that he's no dummy.
Racing - because football, basketball, baseball, bowling and golf only require ONE ball!!
Get over the gender trap 'fan-in-a-can', Hillary Will put the hurt on a two time champion Dixon Sunday while the Busch Bros. were doing donuts in Dover.
But the surprise sports pleasure of 2008 is the Women's College Worlds Series...thanks to Dick's Sporting Goods for bringing us the goods.
And I raise my glass to John Force for the come back of the year to win his first Wally since his serious crash at Texas last year. Now there's a guy with lead in his pants.
Gee, a 'gender trap', how politically correct you are 'rocket_donkey', but I thought this blog was about NASCAR, not NHRA or softball, maybe I am wrong.
I am all for women in racing and am happy to see them succeeding in any sport, but it hasn't happened in NASCAR -- yet! Besides that, the female racers that I know and know of, have 'em as well.
All I can say to you is - look up euphemism in a dictionary, and lighten up!
Ok fancan, euphemism is a sign of an intelligent, considerate speaker---I'll drink to that...and as near as I can tell we're a lot more in agreement than not!
My comments wandered from the strictly na$car focus and perhaps it's politically incorrect to broaden the discussion beyond the France family business...maybe the Sun Na$car blog should be part of the business pages...
Lastly I'll admit: The Sun often does a great job of covering sports large and small, male and female, ball and stick, nitro, methanol and high test gasolene...with a small but talented staff who sit with the fans and interview the famous and the not so famous to bring a richer experience to their readers. And the fan comments are often a fun addition to the mix. See you at the track fancan, and until then try and keep it under a buck forty...
Thanks rocket_car, we will get along! I suspect that you may be female, and if not, most definitely a female supporter, and if that is true I really understand where you are coming from and everything is cool!!
Man-boobs not withstanding, most definitely male! And yes, my sports interests include the women...why not? Back to nascar: watching the Stewart-Sadler track blocking wreck with its chain reaction, I thought about the go-carts over at Las Vegas mini gran prix...when a car spins, the track attendant hits a button that sends a radio signal to all of the cars on the track causing their engines to drop to idle speed. Now that 'racing back to the line' is long gone, Nascar could reduce or eliminate this type of mess with a similar device. Of course, taking any control away from the driver isn't likely to happen any time soon, but that's a matter of choice, not a technological limit.
Indeed, women...why not!!
As to suddenly pulling the plug on forty-odd cars careening around a track at 160 mph plus ... nice idea, but I have to think that it may cause more havoc than the crash it's supposed to prevent.