What victory celebration do you like the most in NASCAR and in Motorsports in general? Burnouts, Donuts, polish victory lap or?
in Motorsports, NASCARWith once again the Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte playing host to this coming weekend’s NASCAR All-Star race which will not only include the Sprint Showdown qualifier race that last year had both the winner Martin Truex Jr. and the second place driver Johnny Sauter a slot in the All-Star event, followed by the main event which for 2008 has an updated format Sprint All-Star Race that now has four 25 lap segments – 100 laps of beating and banging side-by-side racing that hopefully is better than last year which in the end Kevin Harvick held off Jimmie Johnson to win the Nextel All-Star Challenge.
With that said, there is a new element to this year’s All-Star event, during the preshow before the Sprint Showdown, fans will be treated to a Burnout and donut contest. This is something new, normally fans are treated to a burnout, donut or something once a driver wins an event, but not before an event, so this should be interesting considering I’ve never seen a burnout and donut contest before.
So with the new element of a burnout and donut contest, I ask this question, what victory celebration do you like the most in NASCAR and in Motorsports in general? Keep in mind it can be just about anything from a donut, burnout, a polish victory lap, to Tony Stewart climbing the fence or Carl Edward’s famous back flip.
I personally like a Polish Victory Lap that entails the driver turning his car around and driving in the opposite direction, which is clockwise on a NASCAR track which in most cases includes the driver holding a checkered flag outside the driver’s window. This lets the driver solute the fans in the grandstands and it doesn’t burn up there equipment. Alan Kulwicki was the first driver to do a "Polish Victory Lap" following the Checker 500 on November 6, 1988 at Phoenix International Raceway. (Photo and info on Polish Victory Lap: Wikipedia.com)
Predictions on who will win Saturday Night: Let's start off with the Burnout competition, I choose Kevin Harvick, he has some of the best burnouts, next in the Sprint Showdown, Kasey Kahne, in the Fan vote In, thinking Elliott Sadler since Dale Jr. has said he wants him in and we know how huge JR Nation is which includes me and finally staying with the winner of the 2000 All-Star Race, I choose Dale Earnhardt Jr. to win the $1 Million Dollars.
Let's Go Racing!
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- Racedriven
2 Feedback/Comments:
Personally, I like Smoke's fence climb ... mainly just because I think it's original, and when he did it for the first time at Daytona, you could tell it was just spur of the moment adrenaline taking over that caused him to do it in the first place.
By the way, Stewart's also my pick to win the race Saturday night.
I like Kyle Busch's smoke trick, where he raises a wall of tire smoke and appears out of the top of it.
Tony Stewart may not be the first to climb the fence, but he is the first one to climb all the way to the top of the flagstand. That is probably my favorite victory celebration.
I really want to see Smoke win the All Star race, but I think it's going to be Jeff Gordon. He will be the first four-time winner of the event, and it is the twenty-fourth All-Star race, after all.
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