Revised with new information, created a part two with Montoya coming to NASCAR.
Well, another NASCAR Nextel Cup Series 500 mile Chicagoland Speedway race in the books were the headline reads "Jeff Gordon spins out Kenseth with four laps to go to win at Chicagoland."
First off, NASCAR made the call of a racing deal so far and if they were to give a penility to Jeff Gordon, the call would have come before the restart.
My Take, either this was a racing deal or a payback from Bristol or just a bump and run...this is not the first bump and run that we have seen this year, yet along in Motorsports racing and most of the time one of the drivers involved was Jeff Gordon...thinking Bristol and Richmond between Rusty Wallace and Jeff Gordon, Gordon vs. Gordon at NHIS and etc. With that aside, Gordon hit Kenseth in the back bump and spun him out, case closed.
There was one thing at the Chicagoland that I noticed that bothered me, in the TNT pre-race show, one of the pitroad reporters was trying to get an interview with a driver, that reporter followed the driver up on stage and off again to get interview of how his car was for the race and also get into photo ops with drivers to get an interview. There is enough time before the race to interview each driver let along crew chief/owners without interfearing with pre-race stuff. Stay off the introduction stage and out of driver photo ops.
As for the race itself, Chicagoland has finally become a two-three grove race track were you can pass both high and low and there was a good amount of two wide racing and sometimes three wide racing going on everywhere but at the front, if you were the leader, no one could touch you for most of the race. That's all I have to say about the race.
Sometime this week, Dodge will be submitting a new incarnation of the Charger to NASCAR for approval for the 2007 season.
Also the rumor was about that car could be the Challenger, However the Challenger won't see NASCAR action unless the Busch Series moves to a Pony car Type body style. As it stands the Challenger's wheelbase is too short for Cup and Busch action. - HT to a comment left in my comments section, thanks Marc.
Preview of Next Weeks Motorsports:
NEXTEL CUP and Busch Series in Loudon, NH (NHIS)
Craftsman Trucks in Memphis
IndyCar Series in Nashville
Formula 1 in France
ALMS in Salt Lake City
NHRA in Denver
(Erica Enders who parted ways from Slammers racing last week, will be driving a 4th Don Schumacher racing Dodge Stratus RT in the Pro Stock.)
I look forward to New Hampshire International Speedway for both the Nextel Cup and Busch Series this weekend as this is New England and I am trying to go on Saturday for both the Modifieds with Tony Stewart and the Busch Series.
See Yeah!
