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Entry #495032, added on 03-14-07 @ 11:07 am EDT.
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The cream always rises
How else can you explain the finishing order to Sunday's race? Not one team out there truly had the track beaten, but a few managed to trick it into thinking they did. Hendrick enjoyed his 150th victory...no small thing, that. And while I'm jumping up and down on in excitement at the 1-2 finish of Johnson and Gordon there are still a few things that are pestering my poor brain.
#1: Can somebody tell me what happened to the real J.J. Yeley? His #18 Interstate Batteries Gibbs Chevy is sitting #9 in the points! He actually led a lap on Sunday and in general provided no obstacles to the other racers. Did somebody push the 'don't wreck' button in his brain? I am so confused.
Last year when Gibbs put Yeley into #18 I was dumbfounded and Yeley went on to support me that this had been an idiotic choice. Instead of a sophomore slump, J.J. is gonna have a sophomore surge? I know it's early in the season, but mine eyes are totally puzzled by the lack of green wreckage up to this point.
#2: Mark Martin...the betting continues hot and heavy that he'll take to the track in Bristol because, well...#1 in points in a team that previously had trouble remaining in the top 20. I know Mark insists he's gonna go fishing and catch the race on TiVo, but I don't buy it.
#3: Toyota...not really making the splash they wished for. Only two made the race this week and Dale Jarrett provided the 33rd place finish he needs to continue racing and remains the only Toyota in the top 35. Waltrip, Red Bull and Bill Davis continue to struggle to field any of their cars. Things have got to change if Toyota even wants to play for the rest of the year. I'm disappointed, but not entirely surprised.
#4: Rusty improves...over at ESPN2. I wasn't about to throw the couch pillows at the TV this week because I heard another "Boy, I'll tell you what..." Somebody must've murmured into Rusty's ear. Keep working at it boys. Your crew is growing on me, although I still have difficulty getting into you nightly news programs for NASCAR.
#5: Wasn't it interesting that with the new configuration at this track that we still saw the leader pull away from the pack? Johnson completed the race with a ridiculous 3 second lead and that only illustrated what the leaders did during the rest of the race. OK...more wrecks, less control, higher speeds...I dunno. A second season will tell us whether this was a study in futility.
There was something else...but it must not have been too important as it has already departed.
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