NNS Charlotte Motor Speedway - Carquest Auto Parts 300
Jess
RESULTS
1. Kyle Busch
4. Dale Jr.
5. Brian
11. David
Unfortunately Brian didn't lead the first lap - he had a very strong car all night but didn't end up leading until after the midway point! Pit strategy and some contact on pit road sent him back in the field for a while but you can't keep a good car down and it didn't take him long to return to the top 5.
David had a tougher time, although he started to make up spot quickly at the drop of the green. During their first pit stop they didn't take tires and ended up restarting 4th. This did not have the result they were hoping for because the little Dream Machine began to make a free fall out of the top 10. At one point it appeared that David didn't realize Clint Bowyer was under him while racing across the frontstretch - he drove him into the grass!
He ran around in the top 20 for a while before making a late race charge back to 11th.
Junior had a great piece under him and I was surprised that he only led three laps. He had his fair share of drama as he watched his driver Brad Keselowski get into some trouble. Under the last caution of the race Keselowski bumped Denny Hamlin through the corner, stuffed the nose of the #88 under the #20 and then drove up beside him to show some sort of displeasure. Hamlin responded by yanking his car to the right and denting Keselowski's left front fender! Okay...I'm not one for retaliation but come on Keselowski - you deserved that for ignorance alone. Did he really think that after knocking Hamlin around for over one hundred feet and then pulling up beside him that Hamlin was just going to tremble in fear? Yeah right!
Hamlin wasn't going to take Keselowski having as much of a hissy fit as that was. The #88 would have been better off giving him a good bump to show displeasure and then passing him during the race to send it home.
Remember a blog I recently posted where Junior went on and on about how Keselowski is getting a big head? Well it seems to me that Junior is probably one of the big causes of his arrogance. After Hamlin gave the #88 a good wallop, Junior drove up, passed Keselowski and then jacked Hamlin's back tires off the ground! Way to go, June, for encouraging bad behavior. I can understand an owner being disgruntled when someone messes with his driver, but let's get real here. You can't diss someone to the media for being full of himself and then pretty much show him that he has the right to be full of himself on the racetrack! Isn't that the number one rule of parenting? Don't yell at a kid about doing something and then egg him on later!
Kyle Busch went off and won the race (I'm sure he must have been very amused at the events commencing behind him!) and Keselowski finished 3rd because he couldn't get by Hamlin (duh, don't get your fender beat in next time). When the cars stopped on pit road the #88 crew dashed over the the #20 crew and started a brawl, led by Tony Eury Sr. Do men ever fully grow up? What's worse is that the "Navy boys" were clearly not listening to authority (NASCAR Officials) and were still lunging after the officials were right in the middle of the crowd. Nice. There was a funny part, when one camera angle caught Kyle happily doing a burnout as the carnage raged on pit road.
Keselowski whined that Hamlin didn't like him racing hard. This comment sort of confused me because then why was Keselowski the one instigating on-track bumping? That type of stuff is usually the other way around...like Hamlin racing Keselowski too hard. So that was odd. Hamlin had some funny quotes about when someone throws a rock at him he's going to throw a concrete block back. Junior said he doesn't like when his cars get torn up (I guess he didn't make the connection that it was Keselowski's attitude that tore this one up). By the end of it I was just hoping none of the #20 crew or NASCAR Officials got hurt by the #88 crew's lack of control.
Yesterday NASCAR handed down deserved penalties to Tony Sr. and two of the crewmen, one of whom was suspended for a race. Good. Apparently one of the officials was hurt as a result of the fight and that makes me think the penalties probably should have been harsher.
POINT STANDINGS
1. Clint Bowyer
4. David -188
1. Kyle Busch
4. Dale Jr.
5. Brian
11. David
Unfortunately Brian didn't lead the first lap - he had a very strong car all night but didn't end up leading until after the midway point! Pit strategy and some contact on pit road sent him back in the field for a while but you can't keep a good car down and it didn't take him long to return to the top 5.
David had a tougher time, although he started to make up spot quickly at the drop of the green. During their first pit stop they didn't take tires and ended up restarting 4th. This did not have the result they were hoping for because the little Dream Machine began to make a free fall out of the top 10. At one point it appeared that David didn't realize Clint Bowyer was under him while racing across the frontstretch - he drove him into the grass!
He ran around in the top 20 for a while before making a late race charge back to 11th.Junior had a great piece under him and I was surprised that he only led three laps. He had his fair share of drama as he watched his driver Brad Keselowski get into some trouble. Under the last caution of the race Keselowski bumped Denny Hamlin through the corner, stuffed the nose of the #88 under the #20 and then drove up beside him to show some sort of displeasure. Hamlin responded by yanking his car to the right and denting Keselowski's left front fender! Okay...I'm not one for retaliation but come on Keselowski - you deserved that for ignorance alone. Did he really think that after knocking Hamlin around for over one hundred feet and then pulling up beside him that Hamlin was just going to tremble in fear? Yeah right!
Hamlin wasn't going to take Keselowski having as much of a hissy fit as that was. The #88 would have been better off giving him a good bump to show displeasure and then passing him during the race to send it home.Remember a blog I recently posted where Junior went on and on about how Keselowski is getting a big head? Well it seems to me that Junior is probably one of the big causes of his arrogance. After Hamlin gave the #88 a good wallop, Junior drove up, passed Keselowski and then jacked Hamlin's back tires off the ground! Way to go, June, for encouraging bad behavior. I can understand an owner being disgruntled when someone messes with his driver, but let's get real here. You can't diss someone to the media for being full of himself and then pretty much show him that he has the right to be full of himself on the racetrack! Isn't that the number one rule of parenting? Don't yell at a kid about doing something and then egg him on later!
Kyle Busch went off and won the race (I'm sure he must have been very amused at the events commencing behind him!) and Keselowski finished 3rd because he couldn't get by Hamlin (duh, don't get your fender beat in next time). When the cars stopped on pit road the #88 crew dashed over the the #20 crew and started a brawl, led by Tony Eury Sr. Do men ever fully grow up? What's worse is that the "Navy boys" were clearly not listening to authority (NASCAR Officials) and were still lunging after the officials were right in the middle of the crowd. Nice. There was a funny part, when one camera angle caught Kyle happily doing a burnout as the carnage raged on pit road.
Keselowski whined that Hamlin didn't like him racing hard. This comment sort of confused me because then why was Keselowski the one instigating on-track bumping? That type of stuff is usually the other way around...like Hamlin racing Keselowski too hard. So that was odd. Hamlin had some funny quotes about when someone throws a rock at him he's going to throw a concrete block back.
Junior said he doesn't like when his cars get torn up (I guess he didn't make the connection that it was Keselowski's attitude that tore this one up). By the end of it I was just hoping none of the #20 crew or NASCAR Officials got hurt by the #88 crew's lack of control.Yesterday NASCAR handed down deserved penalties to Tony Sr. and two of the crewmen, one of whom was suspended for a race. Good. Apparently one of the officials was hurt as a result of the fight and that makes me think the penalties probably should have been harsher.
POINT STANDINGS
1. Clint Bowyer
4. David -188
