This is the sentence with which I almost started today’s blog:  Let’s face it folks, Hendrick Motorsports is the New England Patriots of NASCAR.  But something about that sentence rings false.  While the Patriots this year are freakishly good, there’s no guarantee they will be next week, or next month, or next year.  Thanks to […]

So that was a pretty wacky night at the races.  It turned out that the drivers I picked over the weekend hit something, except Carl Edwards who finished fifth.  I said I had no backing to picking Carl. . . I should have listened to the statistics.  Hendrick car +
Charlotte = victory.I’ve heard/read some disparaging […]

So I predicted Casey Mears to win at ‘Dega and he finished 6th.  I predicted Jeff Gordon (with darkhorse Ryan Newman) to win the Charlotte pole and he ended up 4th.  My darkhorse won.  In other news I’m also really good at horseshoes and hand grenades, too.
So tonight’s Busch race is going to be so […]

So tonight the Cup boys will attack the Beast of the Southeast (very corny, Humpy, but it makes for good billboards) for qualifying.  I’ll be in the cheap seats at my home instead of the track, but will be in attendence for Busch qualifying tomorrow, as well as the race.
Hendrick Motorsports is hot (understatement of […]

I hold in my hand the Golden Ticket.  One ticket to Charlotte Motor Speedway’s (read my bio, it’s always CMS) all-you-can-eat + racing extravaganza.  Okay, I added the extravaganza part, but it sounds like something Humpy Wheeler would say.
I’ve been going to Charlotte since the 1994 Coca-Cola 600.  That’s been my only 600, but I’ve […]

You gotta hand it to him…Jeff Gordon did a masterful job.  He waited until the end to move toward the front and when he saw the line coming up on the outside, he jumped ahead of it and used it to his advantage, leaving his teammate behind.  There was a split second when Dave Blaney […]

So how far off was I with my predictions?  David Gilliland did not win the pole as I forgot it’s an impound race and the go-or-go-homers always show up big in qualifying because they focus on it more.  Once I realized that, it was a forgone conclusion that a go-or-go-homer (read Toyota) would win the […]

All the way through The Chase, even before The Chase (since the field was such a foregone conclusion anyway, limiting drama), we’ve heard how Talladega is going to be the wild card, the mystery, of the final ten races.  Five hundred miles of white-knuckle, side-by-side, bumper-to-bumper drafting excitement…at least from the cheap seats.  From the […]