First up was early this morning's Formula 1 race in Suzuka Japan for the Japanese Grand Prix, going in, the championship was tied between Alonso and Schumacher, but after this race, the championship would once again take a huge right turn when with 17 laps to go, Michael Schumacher's Ferrari engine let go in a huge cloud of smoke, giving a already closing Alonso the lead and the victory.
Now with the final race in two weeks in Brazil, the championship fight is on Alonso's side with a 10 point lead over Schumacher. One way to look at it for Schumacher fans going in to the season finale is that Michael Schumacher must win the race and Alonso scores no points resulting in a tie with the tie breaker being the number of victories giving Schumacher the championship. Like I said, thats one way to go, its all in Alonso's hands, he scores points, he could drive off with his second straight championship, anything can happen.
Simply put, NHRA drivers, teams, fans and more are going to have to wait another week for these championships to resume with another race postponed by rain until next weekend.
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Finally, the huge bang with the Chase to the Nextel Cup Championship, enter Talladega and the fear of "The Big One". With that said...two big one's happened from this fans stand point and this race was not for the weak at heart, the championship took a big hit with some of the contenders ending up having problems either on pitroad or having gotten into the big one that happen going into turn 1 and 2 on lap 137 with 10 cars involved.
Going beyond that I take you to the final lap going down the backstraight into turn 3 with Dale Jr leading and teammates Jimmie Johnson and Brian Vickers in 2nd and 3rd getting a run with the almost pass for the lead happening and then a outragis movewhen Vickers hooked Johnson that sent him into Dale Jr. sending them spinning and giving Brian Vickers his first career victory in a unpleasing fashion (to say the least) to everyone.
The headline is "Brian Vickers wrecks teammate to win at Talladega", this was not the way that anyone should get there first career victory and I am thinking black flag instead. Finally...I am reminded that this is restrictor plate racing and I agree they should bulldose the banking and reconfig the track with less banking and lets go racing. Bottom line, its a "Demotion Derby" plain and simple.
The championship...No Results or Standings as of Sunday late night, Jeff burton still leads the points, but who knows how much. Wait until afternoon on Monday. (NASCAR.com)
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