Well I guess we all know
that didn’t happen, or at least it hasn’t happened yet. So far this season he has shown the big boys a thing
or two. Like in Sunday’s race, you know the one at Texas? He showed “Smoke” (Tony Stewart) that he couldn’t
be pushed around and we all got to see a spectacular 360 that pretty much ended the day for “Smoke.” As
far as having a decent finish “Smoke” ended up 25th and as a bonus he collected Jimmy Johnson in the process and
they both finished way out of the money.
Be that as it may, JPM
has a respectable average finish to date at 18.3 a low of 32nd at Bristol where
at least he finished the race on the track and only a handful of laps down. His best finishes have a top five at Atlanta
and an 8th at Texas. We also shouldn’t forget that he won in the
Busch race in Mexico. But in all this has he won any friends?
Somehow I don’t think so and maybe he still has to learn how the hogs eat the cabbage.
He stands thirteenth
in the points ahead of some very good drivers including three past Cup Champions. As for the rest of the season who
knows? He has made some pretty good drivers rather cross with him and we all know Pay Back can be a real bitch.
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2006 StockCar Review.
