Carl Edwards won Saturday night’s Bristol Motor Speedway race. It was his second win of the year.
Edwards was unchallenged for the last 166 laps after he passed Kasey Kahne, who finished second. Edwards cemented his place in the top 12 in the chase. He’ll have that all important 20 bonus points to start the chase at 5020 points, unless he wins again.
Dale Earnhardt Jr finished fifth in the race, but only gained 5 points on Kurt Busch in 12th, because Busch finished 6th in the race. Junior is now 158 points behind Busch. Kurt Busch is holding on, especially with recent wins at Pocono and Michigan. We’ll see what Busch does with Michigan’s sister track at Fontana next week.
Kasey Kahne won the Busch Series race Friday night and Johnny Benson won the Truck Series race Wednesday night at Bristol. Both series thought very highly of the new track surface with two or possibly three grooves of racing. But the Cup Series said that it was follow the leader again.
Also this weekend, Dale Earnhardt Jr complained to the media. “When we don’t make the chase everybody makes a big deal over it, they talk about it pre-race and post-race. It’s a bummer when you see that and watch that. You’re just trying to let it go under the radar, when you can’t get it done,” Junior said.
Junior also tried to cleanup the horrendous language being used on the internet by his fans against his step=mother in the fight for the number 8. Junior has read several comments on various blogs and chatrooms about his step-mother. I have even wrote about the “Prince and the evil step-mother.” I now accept the fact that someoneelse will be driving the 8, possibly Mark Martin. I will accept whatever number he selects. But I will join other fans and boycott a purchase of DEI Merchandise or DEInsider Membership. A fight still may exist about the licensing agreements for his name.
Finally; NASCAR won round two in the appeal against AT&T. Saturday night the #31 car had no logos or lettering about AT&T or Cingular on the car. NASCAR even advised media outlets that the 31 car should be noted as the #31 RCR Chevrolet. But when ESPN started there broadcast, they noted the car as the 31 AT&T Chevrolet. Good job ESPN.
If good competition is on the track, then their should be good competition between sponsors. All sponsors. Even the title sponsors. Maybe NASCAR Fans should boycott Sprint Nextel too. I’m a Sprint customer and I’m considering it. Why black list companies for having similar interests of other companies in NASCAR? NASCAR needs sponsors now, especially the teams. NO competition in NASCAR doesn’t fit on the track, why off.
