I enjoyed Saturday nights Richmond race on the NASCAR Cup tour. Great job by Kyle Busch in getting his first victory of the season. Friday night's Nationwide series event was even better with the same Kyle Busch getting his first win as an owner in that series. Kyle's older brother Kurt drove little bros Toyota to a bumping and banging victory over Denny Hamlin. Coming back to the Cup series Dale Earnhardt Jr. scored a competitive second with an angry Tony Stewart finishing third after his pit crew blew it on his final stop.
As an aside, I simply do not get the Carl Edwards penalty for pulling ahead of Tony Stewart on a restart. I fully understand that you should not be ahead of the leader when you reach the start finish line. I even get the acceleration box, but when the leader of the race literally stands on his brakes, (for the third time) and does not go, it would seem common sense for that leader to relinquish his right to that lead. NASCAR should have brought out the yellow once again, and told Stewart to use his right foot and told Carl of the potential for an infraction. A miscue by either one on the next restart would produce a penalty. The leader can pace the race for a starting speed of his desire, as long as he either stays at the same speed, or speeds up. He was attempting a"Texas Start" which will only result in wrecks and an unfair advantage.
Also, let's not go back to the early NASCAR days of phony "debris yellows" It's a great series and even the new generation of NASCAR fan can live through a few events without 20 restarts. Those crashes will be back soon (next week?) on their own and we will all have plenty of restarts.
On my next post I will include a few more of those "classic remakes" of stock cars. A series of look alikes from the old days. Real race cars running at Lake Geneva Raceway in Wisconsin.
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