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Goodbye ‘Busch’ Series?

Posted by Penni On April - 2 - 2009

It looks as if the “Busch” series may have come to an abrupt end Sunday at Martinsville Speedway as Jimmie Johnson won his first race of the season. Neither Busch brother was a factor for the win. Kyle could have been if he hadn’t been the cause of an early race caution after getting into Scott Speed sending them both spinning. And Kurt just wasn’t there all day. He did managed to finish on the lead lap in 18th.

As for the rest of the race, well, it looked as if Denny Hamlin was going to win. He took the lead early on lap 156 and pretty much never looked back. That was until Jimmie Johnson decided he wanted the lead and the win. Read the rest of this entry »

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Attendance Not Impressive At NASCAR’s Atlanta Motor Speedway

Posted by Penni On March - 12 - 2009

The Atlanta race proved to be a beautiful day, as many meteorologist predicted, especially for winner Kurt Busch, who lead 234 of the 330 scheduled laps.

Despite the beautiful weather, the attendance wasn’t so beautiful. The attendance is one of two things that sparked conversation and news online after (and during) Sunday’s race.

Atlanta Motor Speedway is not known to have a sellout with either of their two races, but the race track is usually full come race day, or close. With the economy the way it is, NASCAR fans can’t afford to attend races.

Granted, AMS, along with other tracks, have reduced ticket prices in an effort to help ticket buyers. On Sunday, however, there were patches of empty seats all around. Many of the drivers took notice of the emptiness and were baffled. Read the rest of this entry »

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And You Call That Racing?

Posted by Penni On July - 30 - 2008

I apologize in advance for the shortness of this week’s column, but I have never been more embarrassed to be a race fan than I was Sunday. The race was a mockery to the sport.

A competition yellow every 10 or so laps, really, are you kidding me?

During the four practice sessions (two Friday and two Saturday) teams had noted the tires were wearing down too quickly — 10 laps in as opposed to the usual 30 laps in at Indianapolis. NASCAR wanted to prevent problems and in effort for safety said Sunday morning that they’d throw a competition caution 10 laps in to check tire wear. NASCAR also said they’d throw another competition caution several laps later to be on the safe-side. It was also noted that Goodyear had shipped tires for the Pocono race just in case they were needed. Read the rest of this entry »

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A Night Full Of Fireworks

Posted by Penni On July - 9 - 2008

The Fourth of July weekend is full of food, fun and fireworks.

To a race fan, the Fourth means all this and more. It means NASCAR makes it way back to Daytona for the annual Pepsi 400. However this year, with Coca-Cola taking over as the ‘Official Cola of NASCAR’ the Pepsi 400 was renamed the Coke Zero 400.

It also means any driver has the best possibility to win under the lights. Of course there are the drivers that excel at Daytona International Speedway, but there are always those drivers, or that driver, that surprises even their biggest fan(s).

Who were you rooting for too win Saturday night? Read the rest of this entry »

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Disappointments, Anyone?

Posted by Penni On July - 2 - 2008

Loudon, N.H. last weekend was the site for the first race in the “Race to the Chase” — the 10 races leading up to the final 10 races — the “Chase for the Sprint Cup.”

The “Chase” begins in Loudon also — in Septemeber.

Both races there tend to be either boring from start to finish or boring with a little excitement toward the end. This first race to the Chase was pretty much the first option. It had no real excitement but was filled with lots of disappointments from beginning to end.

It wasn’t totally without surprises.

Surprise number one came when Patrick Carpentier qualified his No. 10 Dodge on the pole position for Sunday’s Cup race. Read the rest of this entry »

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In Dominating Fashion…

Posted by Penni On June - 11 - 2008

Pocono races tend to be very uninteresting.

Anything you want to see typically happens early and maybe at the end. There isn’t usually anything “that interesting” in the middle, just a whole lot of racing. This weekend was no exception.

During Friday’s Cup practice session and qualifying, it was Kasey Kahne’s No. 9 Dodge on top. Kahne picked up his first pole of the season; he was the only driver to top 170 miles per hour around the tri-oval that is known as Pocono Raceway.

“It was perfect,” Kahne said after taking his qualifying laps.

Kahne continued to call his car “perfect” throughout both of Saturday’s practice sessions in which he was in the Top Five. Read the rest of this entry »

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