Gordon won his first
championship in his third year of Cup racing. Will Montoya follow the same line? How about some of the other new
open wheel drivers, will they rise to the top of the list? I’ll bet there are a lot of fans out there that will say
that Montoya and his like haven’t paid there dues either.
For the most part Montoya
didn’t get much help on the draft that is when they weren’t running around the top of the track in single file,
which was really boring for us and more than likely for them as well. Never the less JPM not only raced with the best at one
of the most difficult tracks in the Cup series but for the most part ran with the big dogs at the front of the pack and with
just a few laps to go was theoretically at least in a position to win the race. Maybe his fifteenth place finish doesn’t
really tell the story. For the last hundred or so laps he was in the top five a lot of it.
For the most part the
race was a real ho-hum deal. But when possible I watched the two new open wheelers and was impressed with both. Jacques Villeneuve
hung out in the back with Gordon, driving a sane race and staying out of trouble. He avoided the wrecks and laid down lap
after lap getting used to the Car of Tomorrow (COT) and the draft.
2006 StockCar Review.
