Jeff Burton makes the pass to win the Sam's Town 300 in Las Vegas and second place Kyle Busch spins out. (Image Credit: Motorsport.com)
What an interesting weekend in Las Vegas for the television viewers, first on Friday, if the drama of who is going to make the race wasn't enough, Paul Menard in the DEI #15 Menards makes the field on his first lap and going for more on the second takes a wild ride by spinning off of turn 4 and going through the grass with at one point going airborne and crossing the finish line, no time.
For Saturday, besides all of the talk about the newly paved track combined with harder tires, the Busch Series race ends up as it always does with the Nextel Cup Series dominating the event...the event in which I would describe as the first 185 laps as a Demotion Derby, followed by the final 15 laps of side-by-side on the edge racing and then capped off with a thrilling pass for the lead just off turn 4 with Jeff Burton winning at the line and second place Kyle Busch spinning across the finish line and nailing the outside wall.
What really shocked me, even though it shouldn't have, were Kyle Busch's reactions after the race, first a hand-shack to Burton and then his post-race interview saying this "He beat me fair and square. He got a run on me on the topside and I tried to block it, I just didn't get high enough in order to squeeze him in the fence. Congratulations to those guys, they had a better car definitely at the end." (Credit for Post-race comment: NASCAR.com Article) Unreal, he admitted he was trying to squeeze Burton into the fence, I wonder if anyone else heard him...
Finally, Sunday's UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 (267 laps), this race was most of the same as the Busch race, but less of a Demotion Derby with more lead changes, in the end, Jimmie Johnson "This is my West Coast House" with a sailing off into to the sunset victory....plus Dale Earnhardt Jr finishes 11th putting him 28th in points (+12) and Kenny Wallace grabs 24th.
Two things that I have noticed during the 2007 season that has got my attention in the sponsorships, first being, with all of the problems that Cingular is having with changing its name to AT&T on the #31 Cingular Chevrolet driven by Jeff Burton, they find new and interesting ways to spread the word about the name changing including most of the time the television cameras are on the #31 either on board or just talking about it, the bottom of the screen says "Cingular, The New AT&T". I'm surprised that Cingular just can't put that same saying on this racecar, the car would still say Cingular with the logo, come on, get creative.
Second is the stupid commerical with Sadler and Jimmie Johnson, with Sadler trying to giving Johnson some advice at the track about how maybe to get through the corner better and he counters with calling for the Nextel Cup and saying "I'm sorry, what was that..", personal, I would have restarted with saying the same thing, finished it and said, your Cup is dirty, you must do this alot.
Well, That’s all of got to say about this…another repaving job, combined with a untested tire change that created a Demotion Derby, what a shocker there…See Yeah!
