Saturday, May 12, 2007

Darlington Raceway - Diamond Hill Plywood 200

RACE WINNER: DENNY HAMLIN

Casey Mears: 9th (started 5th)
- A pretty solid night, although the wrecks were happening all around him (and he got to witness the tiff between Tony Stewart and Ryan Newman occur right in front of his nose). He was ESPN's in-car reporter, which was nice, though they didn't talk to him too much.

David Reutimann: 24th (started 33rd)
- David just plain doesn't like this racetrack! He got into several wrecks but always managed to keep it together and stay on the lead lap. I think he would have finished much better if he hadn't gotten involved in accidents, which kept pushing him to the back. All in all, despite the crazy night, David is now 3rd in points!

Todd Kluever: 38th (started 38th)
- Got into a wreck not of his own doing when Aric Almirola got into him while Todd was passing him on the outside. *Sigh*

Other Notes
- I'm getting so sick and tired of listening to Juan Pablo Montoya treat Brad Parrott like a worthless piece of crap. I can not believe how he talks to him! This isn't the first time Montoya has blatantly disrespected Brad and I'm sure it won't be the last. I miss Brad like crazy...I want him to come to HMS and be with Casey again. Casey didn't make him cry out of anger when he won his first Busch race and Casey didn't act like he was above his crew chief.

- The Newman/Stewart feud was interesting. What was even more interesting was that Stewart (of course) blamed it all on Newman like he was the victim. And, of course, I'm sided with Ryan.