The winner of the Aaron\u2019s 499 in
\nTalladega comes as no surprise as Dale Earnhardt Jr. once again takes top honors
\nand with Michael Waltrip, once again, bringing it home in second place. These
\ntwo cars have dominated the last three restrictor plate races, and it appears
\nthe Chevy\u2019s have had the advantage.<\/p>\n
I find it amazing that the number 8 can
\nactually pull away from the rest of the field on a restart, where no one else
\ncan. I guess Sterling Marlin pretty much summed it up when he spoke these words:<\/p>\n
"We\u2019ve got to work on our car. We
\ndidn\u2019t have anything for that 8. He had a rocket or something in that car. It
\nlooked like that thing that guy shot through the Grand Canyon. No one was going
\nto outrun that 8 car. We weren\u2019t close to him. He was in a league of his own.
\nEverybody is still bunched up. They just need to cut the spoilers off and the
\nvalance off and make these cars drive better where you\u2019ve got to get out of
\nthe gas. It\u2019s pretty wild the way it is. It kind of favors the Chevrolets the
\nway it is now. They\u2019ve got a good package."<\/p>\n
Even with new rules in place for this
\nrace, the racing hasn\u2019t changed much. The cars remain all bunched up, and when
\nsomeone makes the slightest mistake, the big accident happens. And it seems even
\nharder to pass. The cars run full throttle the entire race, there\u2019s no room
\nfor mercy and as we all saw, once again, late in the race, twenty-something cars
\nget taken out in one fell swoop.<\/p>\n
My seat was on the front stretch, and
\ntherefore, I wasn\u2019t able to see much of what happened except via the big
\nscreen in front of me. I watched Tony come through the second turn four across,
\nand thinking here it comes, when that\u2019s exactly what happened. Sorry all you
\n\u2018Dega fans, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s fun.<\/p>\n
Record-breaking crowd \u2013 you can\u2019t
\nargue with that. But it is my opinion that somehow this race needs a
\n"fix" to where there is truly an ability to pass and run this race
\nwithout spending the entire time praying that you somehow make it through the
\n"big one!" I think it is a mistake to think that the way the race is
\nrun now is the reason why the seats are full. The people come because it\u2019s
\nTalladega, period. And they will always come; it\u2019s a party place, the
\ncampgrounds are filled to overflowing days in advance, and when the weather is
\nnice, that will always be the case, regardless.<\/p>\n
This point is reinforced as evidenced by
\nwhat happened during the Busch Series race on Saturday. Jason Keller came home
\nwith top honors, but there were only ten-twelve cars left on the track, with
\njust the top three able to run together and be competitive. Just fifteen laps
\ninto the race, the "big one" occurred, and over half the field was
\ntaken out. Needless to say, the remainder of the race was a "snoozer"
\nwith so few cars left to compete. The damage to the majority of these cars was
\nso substantial, that few made it back on the race track. Those who did were
\nlucky \u2013 making just two or three laps, a driver was able to pick up something
\nlike fifteen spots for the finish.<\/p>\n
<\/u><\/p>\n
\n
Other notes:<\/p>\n
Yesterday Jack Roush\u2019s condition was Changes in the Petty organization \u2013 it\u2019s Mark Martin was running well until he got The "young guns" continue to Look for Kurt Busch to run well in Jeff Gordon may not have that win yet, but The word is that Joe Nemechek will be Word from our friends with the ARCA RE\/MAX That\u2019s it for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The winner of the Aaron\u2019s 499 in Talladega comes as no surprise as Dale Earnhardt Jr. once again takes top honors and with Michael Waltrip, once again, bringing it home in second place. These two cars have dominated the last three restrictor plate races, and it appears the Chevy\u2019s have had the advantage. I find […]<\/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-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","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=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racindeals.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nupgraded to serious. After all that happened to him, that is truly amazing. Mr.
\nRoush met his guardian angel, Larry Hicks, on the night of his 60th<\/sup>
\nbirthday. The circumstances surrounding his rescue \u2013 well it gives a person
\nchills just thinking about it. Mr. Roush has been blessed by the grace of God,
\nand our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends as he continues to
\nrecover from this accident.<\/p>\n
\nbeginning to show more and more that the right changes have been made. Kyle
\ncontinues to improve; finishing tenth this past weekend, and Steve Grissom, all
\nthings considered, ran a fairly decent race finishing in the top 25.<\/p>\n
\ncaught up in the big wreck, and would not be surprised if he is one of the top
\nrunners in California this week.<\/p>\n
\namaze us \u2013 Kurt Busch finished third, Jimmie Johnson, seventh, and Ryan Newman
\nraced for the lead for a few laps. Unfortunately for Ryan, something blew in the
\nmotor and he was forced out of the race early.<\/p>\n
\nCalifornia. The Roush cars seem to like the wide-flat tracks, and don\u2019t be
\nsurprised if we see all four in the top ten at this race.<\/p>\n
\nthe consistent finishes are starting to come around. He wound up in fourth
\nplace, and I\u2019ll go out on a limb and make the prediction that we may see his
\nfirst win this week.<\/p>\n
\ndriving the number 26 for Frank Kimmel this weekend, as Frank has a commitment
\nwith the ARCA RE\/MAX Series that day. Frank will be back in the car the
\nfollowing week in Richmond.<\/p>\n
\nSeries is that they will have their first ever, short-track track broadcast live
\non the Speed Channel beginning at 1:00 p.m. Eastern. The race is being held at
\nSalem Raceway in Salem, Indiana where this series has been racing since 1955.
\nWord is it\u2019s a big hit with the fans, and should be fun to watch!<\/p>\n