Sunday, March 16, 2008 | 3:35 p.m.
After putting on a terrible race in the fall, the newly reconfigured and resurfaced Bristol Motor Speedway acquitted itself rather well Sunday. The last 12 laps looked like the Bristol of old. …
Do you think Tony Stewart would have been so reserved in his post-race comments had it not been his good friend Kevin Harvick who took out Stewart two laps from the scheduled finish? …
It was nice to go a whole race weekend without hearing a driver complain about tires. …
Kyle Busch, not known for his patience on the track, was showing an unusual amount of it before a mechanical problem – while he was leading – took him out of contention 200 laps from the end of the race. He’s looking more and more like a serious championship contender each week. …
Wondering if Rick Hendrick is regretting his decision to keep Casey Mears over Kyle Busch? Even with his 17th-place finish Sunday, Busch is leading the Sprint Cup Series points standings while Mears is struggling to stay in the top 35. …
Would it have killed Darrell Waltrip to call in sick Sunday? Watching him receive a restored No. 11 Mountain Dew Buick that he raced in the 1980s was a nice touch, but listening to him battle a case of laryngitis was irritating. …
AOL breathlessly asked, “Who’s the next ‘Intimidator’?” a couple of weeks ago in an online feature. A better – and timelier – question should have been, “Who’s the next DJ?” Dale Jarrett’s class on the track and in the garage will be sorely missed. Jarrett drove in his final Sprint Cup points race Sunday.
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