I found it interesting
that Kurt Busch was apologetic about taking Tony Stewart out of the race as well as himself of course. But the way I
saw it he really had no way to do much of anything other than what he did. It was also interesting that Jeff Gordon is credited
with a 10th place finish and Kyle Busch sits in 24th. I suspect it all hinges on just when NASCAR in there infinite
wisdom decided that the yellow hit the track although at the end of the race 27 cars were credited with 202 laps such
names at Jeff Gordon, and Kyle Busch included, I don’t think they actually crossed the start/finish line. Nor were many
of the cars in any condition to do so.
I would like to have
even ten percent of the money that was lost in all the wrecks. That would include the money that it will cost to put
the cars back together or replace them. I suspect it will run into the tens of millions of dollars, but hey race fans that’s
just the cost of doing business in the Nextel Cup Series.
When all the smoke cleared,
at the end of the race, I don’t think there were many more than a quarter of the cars still running that started the
race. I don’t know what the Las Vegas odds were on the 09 Miccosukee Resorts Chevrolet piloted by Mike Wallace
were on finishing in the top five, but I’ll bet if you had a twenty down on it you would be considerably richer
right now.
Next week the cars are
off the sunny Southern California
let’s hope that the racing is a little less violent. And we can all thank the good lord that nobody was seriously
hurt at the “Super Bowl of Stock Car Racing.
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2006 StockCar Review.
