It certainly looked yesterday like NASCAR car owner Rick Hendrick, was going to get his 200th victory in NASCAR's premier division. In fact it appeared like he might receive a 1,2,3 finish. A move by Ryan Newman and an attempted block by Clint Boyer, put an end to that. Both of those moves were kosher. Just hard fought attempts to bring home a grandfather clock from the famous Martinsville Speedway. It turned out to be an unfortunate day for Jeff Gordon and Jimmy Johnson but a great one for Newman.
Jack Roush and all of the fords Fords were almost non-existent. In the end Matt Kenseth (4th) proved to be the only Ford really in the race. Have you noticed how over the years, when Ford is having one of those "we forgot to show up" days, it is usually Kenseth who manages to save face for the group.
Martinsville provided some good racing but was uncharacteristically safe and sane throughout much of the day. There were very long green flag runs. With no crashes every other lap, I assume (dangerous I know) that all them NASCAR fans will lobby the track owner to tear up the track and start over again. If this season turns out to be a relatively crash free experience, owners of NASCAR tracks better dig into their pocket books to re-configure each track to be more "crash friendly" It seems as though the most vocal of NASCAR's fans are not satisfied with competitive wheel to wheel racing, only crash fests. Those (quiet) auto racing fans who follow NASCAR along with other racing series, will (once again I assume) come out second best to the loudest of the NASCAR contingent. Once Bruton has re-paved Bristol, for his sake I can only hope that the first event held is crash filled and void of any racing or he will be sent back to the proverbial drawing boards once again.
Unfortunately I was unable to watch any other racing this weekend.
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