Yeah that title does say it all (in this my 400th post...), after a rain postponed race, Monday brought cloud cover, but no rain for this one and what a race this one turned out to be in the sixth Car of Tomorrow race and for the most part it made for even better racing as it has in the past five races.
Amazingly enough there was very few caution flags during this one, but no late race caution, NASCAR did throw two competition cautions at the beginning of this one for tire ware issues (no rubber on track) which in both cases sent everyone to the pits for tires. Really there were only a couple of COT issues in something about shock mounts and running the tires down to the cord.
Two things really made this one, first was the incident between Kurt Busch and Tony Stewart that came to a head after racing in a pack for several laps and coming up off of turn four, Kurt Busch either thought he had Stewart cleared or just wanted position and clopped down in front of Tony and Tony didn’t lift which sent Busch into the wall and both cars to the garage.
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However the real stupid move of it all (pictured above) was after when Stewart pitted to fix his car, a crew member standing on the rightside of the #20 suddently had to jump in front of the #20 as Kurt Busch skidded in to have a talk with Stewart about his actions. NASCAR nor I was impressed with that one, Busch parked for the day and team, driver, crew chief to the NASCAR transporter for a meeting asap.
I don’t know what Busch was thinking here and even in a post-race interview he even said it just added to it. Expect a penalty from NASCAR on this, I wonder what it will be, endangering a crew member with a car…think about that one.
The second, the highlight in my opinion was the impressive drive of Martin Truex Jr. as he was battling for the lead and leading the most laps all day long, what a run, as Truex jr. in his #1 DEI Chevy picks up his first career Nextel Cup victory. Great job and that makes two weeks in a row for first time winners. This was one race worth watching and even for a Monday, the stands were packed.
Well that will do it here, FOX coverage is done for the season and its off to Pocono with you guessed it, TNT coverage with Kyle Petty in the booth (that should be interesting..) See Yeah!
