Tony "the Tiger" Stewart wins the Budweiser
\nShootout!!<\/p>\n
For the second year in a row, Tony Stewart is the winner of
\nthe Budweiser Shootout. With 24 laps to go, Stewart retook the lead from Kenny
\nSchrader and held on over second place finisher Dale Earnhardt Jr. Five cars in
\nthe lead draft had pulled away from the remainder of the field, and it was a
\nrace to the finish for that group. With six laps to go, and in fifth place, Jeff
\nGordon pulled up to the high side of the track and ducked past Kenny Schrader to
\ntake over fourth place. Gordon and Schrader then hooked up with two laps to go
\nto pass Sterling Marlin, successfully sending him to the back of the group.
\nMeanwhile, Junior was using the brake to see if he could get Tony to lose some
\nsteam and get the run on him, but Stewart played defense to that maneuver, and
\nwas able to stay in the lead. With one lap to go, Gordon pulled alongside of
\nJunior and with the two of them battling side by side, it left Stewart in
\ncharge. Schrader had a great race coming in fourth, with Sterling Marlin
\nfinishing fifth. It seemed Sterling waited just a bit too long to make a move,
\nand is probably kicking himself for it today.<\/p>\n
Rounding out the top ten were; Dale Jarrett, 6th<\/sup>, The second group never seemed to get in line to be able to This race may have been indicative of how the Daytona 500 The Fords didn\u2019t run well and as a result, NASCAR once Other than the Fords, many of the drivers seemed satisfied "You could pass. The nice thing is that we feel like we\u2019re When asked how the draft compared with other years, Kenny Jeff Gordon, on how he felt the public is going to react to The 125s will give us another opportunity to see how it\u2019s Since I picked the winner of the Shootout, I\u2019m going to That\u2019s it for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tony "the Tiger" Stewart wins the Budweiser Shootout!! For the second year in a row, Tony Stewart is the winner of the Budweiser Shootout. With 24 laps to go, Stewart retook the lead from Kenny Schrader and held on over second place finisher Dale Earnhardt Jr. Five cars in the lead draft had pulled away […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTerry Labonte, 7th<\/sup>, Bobby Labonte, 8th<\/sup>, Kenny Wallace, 9th<\/sup>,
\nand Todd Bodine in 10th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n
\ncatch the lead pack. It appeared that Ryan Newman was back there vying for
\nposition and not getting the clue that the priority was to catch the leaders and
\nthen worry about passing to pick up positions. It\u2019s all about winning, and it
\nwasn\u2019t going to happen, and didn\u2019t, when they are back there juggling
\naround, while at the same time, the front five were in line, getting farther
\nahead and waiting for the right moment to make a move. (Maybe these
\n"kids" don\u2019t quite know everything yet!)<\/p>\n
\nwill run, and I\u2019m sure there will be many people complaining that it\u2019s not
\nas much fun for the fans as watching them all bunched up, with several lead
\nchanges, etc. I, for one, have said on numerous occasions that the
\n"old" restrictor plate racing was not actually racing when it never
\nreally mattered what went on until the last lap. Any driver, from any position,
\ncould basically gain the lead at any time. That, to me, is not racing. With the
\nnew package, we saw drivers\u2019 having to think about what they were doing, and
\nmake some calculated passes. They may get spread out on Sunday, but so be it.
\nThe "best of the best" will be in the hunt at the end, and that is how
\nthe game is played. And please, no unnecessary "debris" calls during
\nthe race!<\/p>\n
\nagain, changed the rules to give them some relief. The height of the rear
\nspoiler of the Taurus\u2019 will be cut another quarter-inch in an effort to even
\nup the competition. The new rule will be put in place following the second round
\nof time trials on Monday, and will be in effect in time for practice on Tuesday
\nand Wednesday. I don\u2019t know what to think about all this, except I kind of
\nliked Junior\u2019s response when asked "What about the Fords?" <\/b>Junior
\nsaid, "They got what they deserved. They laid around all winter."
\n(Ouch.)<\/p>\n
\nwith the new rules package as evidenced by their response to questions about the
\ndraft and ability to pass, etc.<\/p>\n
\ndriving the car again. With last year\u2019s package I felt like the car was
\ndriving me and I was just riding along. This year I feel like I\u2019m at least in
\nmore control of my car. It doesn\u2019t mean that it drives perfectly. We were
\ntight at times during the race; we were loose at times during the race, but at
\nleast I felt like I was in control of what my car was doing," said Tony
\nStewart.<\/p>\n
\nSchrader responded; "It\u2019s just like in the past. It\u2019s not like it was
\nthe last couple trips with those aero rules, but it\u2019s like it used to be. I
\nlike it. I don\u2019t know about the people sitting in the grandstands, but from
\nwhere I was it was plenty exciting."<\/p>\n
\nthis year\u2019s race, "It was a great race, a great finish. There might have
\nbeen a lull in between. We were shuffling it up and the people were standing and
\ncheering. It\u2019s not what we had before, but you\u2019re not going to make everyone
\nhappy. If they\u2019re going to make the drivers happy, a rules package similar to
\nthis will make more of the guys happy. If they want to make the fans happy, then
\ngo back to the old rules. I\u2019d rather be a spectator, actually, with the old
\nrules. There might be some things that they might be able to do to create more
\npassing. But is that going to make the cars spread out more or less? I don\u2019t
\nknow. I felt more comfortable out there and enjoyed it."<\/p>\n
\nall going to play out next Sunday. The Fords will be running with the new
\nspoiler, and maybe in a position to race and just get on with it. I hope so! On
\nThursday, we also get a chance to watch the other drivers and see who\u2019s
\n"cocky" and who\u2019s "smart." I think it\u2019s all gearing up
\nto be a great race on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\nkeep going until I lose. Early favorite to be the winner of he Daytona 500 is
\nJeff Gordon. I don\u2019t think he showed all his cards yesterday, and after the
\nShootout he had a grin on his face that said "there\u2019s more." I may
\nchange my mind after the 125s\u2019, but for now, I\u2019m going to say the winner
\nwill be Jeff Gordon.<\/p>\n