Rain, Rain, Go Away...
Jess
Global climate change strikes again! 
They're saying it never rains in Southern California...riiiight...
They got the Crafstman Truck race in today, at least. While watching NASCAR Live I was surprised to see Brandon Whitt's name on the lineup. Wow! I knew that he'd been testing for Morgan-Dollar but figured he wouldn't get a ride with them, but I couldn't find anything about it on his website or on Morgan-Dollar's website. My happiness was short-lived, however, when at the beginning of the CTS broadcast it was mentioned that Brandon had been replaced by AJ Allmendinger in a last-minute deal. I guess that fact that I like AJ and love to watch him race made it even harder to swallow. But I was really upset for Brandon nonetheless because even as a CTS winner he's been having a lot of trouble finding a ride. Looking at a blurb on TruckSeries.com it sounds like Red Bull had something to do with this and beings that the 47 truck was sponsorless I'm willing to bet Red Bull offered Morgan-Dollar a good sum of money to put AJ in the truck. It was bittersweet to see AJ finish 17th and thinking that that could have been Brandon. I hope that Morgan-Dollar gives Brandon a second chance, but I have no idea of this was a one-race deal or for multiple races.
Well they just cancelled the Nationwide race for tonight - now that's interesting because they're planning on running it an hour after the Cup race! Assuming they even get the Cup race in, that's a big undertaking for the double-duty drivers. Eight-hundred miles! Wow! But realistically it doesn't look like they'll get either race in tomorrow anyway because the forecast is, again, for rain. But we'll see I guess!
I didn't realize that the Nationwide cars were set by owner points as well, so here is how they line up:
1. Jeff Burton
5. David
9. Dale Jr.
The nice thing about rain delays is that to pass the time we get a lot of interviews from the drivers and often ones we don't hear from much, especially in the Nationwide Series. Kelly Bires is such a cute little thing!
There was also a very amusing competition between Bob Dilner and Rutledge Wood during NASCAR Live over who could interview the most drivers before the show ended. That was hysterical!
Rutledge had the great idea of slipping over to the CTS driver intros to rack up his count and Bob had to run all the way there to have any chance of winning - which he did at the very last moment. It was great! The poor drivers, some of them looked so confused.
They're saying it never rains in Southern California...riiiight...They got the Crafstman Truck race in today, at least. While watching NASCAR Live I was surprised to see Brandon Whitt's name on the lineup. Wow! I knew that he'd been testing for Morgan-Dollar but figured he wouldn't get a ride with them, but I couldn't find anything about it on his website or on Morgan-Dollar's website. My happiness was short-lived, however, when at the beginning of the CTS broadcast it was mentioned that Brandon had been replaced by AJ Allmendinger in a last-minute deal. I guess that fact that I like AJ and love to watch him race made it even harder to swallow. But I was really upset for Brandon nonetheless because even as a CTS winner he's been having a lot of trouble finding a ride. Looking at a blurb on TruckSeries.com it sounds like Red Bull had something to do with this and beings that the 47 truck was sponsorless I'm willing to bet Red Bull offered Morgan-Dollar a good sum of money to put AJ in the truck. It was bittersweet to see AJ finish 17th and thinking that that could have been Brandon. I hope that Morgan-Dollar gives Brandon a second chance, but I have no idea of this was a one-race deal or for multiple races.
Well they just cancelled the Nationwide race for tonight - now that's interesting because they're planning on running it an hour after the Cup race! Assuming they even get the Cup race in, that's a big undertaking for the double-duty drivers. Eight-hundred miles! Wow! But realistically it doesn't look like they'll get either race in tomorrow anyway because the forecast is, again, for rain. But we'll see I guess!
I didn't realize that the Nationwide cars were set by owner points as well, so here is how they line up:
1. Jeff Burton
5. David
9. Dale Jr.
The nice thing about rain delays is that to pass the time we get a lot of interviews from the drivers and often ones we don't hear from much, especially in the Nationwide Series. Kelly Bires is such a cute little thing!
There was also a very amusing competition between Bob Dilner and Rutledge Wood during NASCAR Live over who could interview the most drivers before the show ended. That was hysterical!
Rutledge had the great idea of slipping over to the CTS driver intros to rack up his count and Bob had to run all the way there to have any chance of winning - which he did at the very last moment. It was great! The poor drivers, some of them looked so confused.
