UPS: Impressions, four drivers including three first time winners and one winning since his crash last season, we start on the east coast at the speedway in Dover with NASCAR action, mainly the truck series race where after a good pitstop and some pit strategy, a first time winner was born as the former Formula 1 driver, ARCA winner and now Truck Series driver Scott Speed pickup his first career Truck Series victory in interesting fashion. The Toyota victory was the first off three in dominating performances at the Monster Mile.
When it came to first time winners, one surprisingly came in the IRL IndyCar Series race at the Milwaukee Mile when after a dominating performance by Scott Dixon, the Penske racing rookie Ryan Briscoe stepped up and challenged the Indy 500 winner by taking the lead late on and never looking back as he won his first career IndyCar Series victory. The only thing was there was no late race duel because the late caution came out with less than 4 to go, a crash with Marco Andretti on the backstraight lead to Vitor Meira going airborn over Andretti and the race ending under caution. IRL, you need a green-white-checkered rule or something, the 3 lap duel for the victory would have been huge.
From the Milwaukee Mile to the O’Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals in Topeka as they took center stage this weekend and ironically with all racing going on, I didn’t even get a chance to see the ESPN coverage as first in the Funny Car finals, John Force beat Tim Wilkerson to win, which was his first victory since the crash last season, however the most memorable moment of the race and the weekend came in the Top Finals when Hilary Will beat Larry Dixon to become the 11th woman in NHRA history to win a national event (Photo Credit: NHRA.com), that’s cool, not for one reason, but because she has been racing for a while in the NHRA and she earned it, great job Hilary Will, what a victory.DOWNS: This is a sad one to be put into the down column of the weekend as this was the race I so looking forward to the most this weekend, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series 400 miler at Dover, why, say it isn’t so… yeah, one stupid move left Jr Nation (including me), smoke fans, Harvick fans and others with looks of disgust as on lap 17 of 400, Elliott Sadler came down in front of David Gilliland while trying to pass Sam Hornish Jr. sending the No. 19 of Elliott Sadler into the wall collecting Tony Stewart, Clint Bowyer, a speeding straight in Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Bobby Labonte, Paul Menard, Kasey Kahne, Bill Elliott and Scott Riggs, what a nightmare and a mess which ended the hopes of so many. The rest of the race was long and drawn out with three drivers leading mostly, Greg Biffle, then Carl Edwards and finally Kyle Busch running away to claim his 4th victory of the season and 5th overall for Toyota. I’ll have more on Toyota later in the week.
FINSH LINE: Before I get to the biggest moment of the weekend, I have to say good-bye to NASCAR on FOX including the Digger cam, they do a good job televising each and every NASCAR Cup Series race from the Daytona 500 to this past weekend’s Dover 400 and with the exception of their Kyle Busch fan club, hats off to you, good job and in the word of Darrell Waltrip, Boogity, Boogity, Boogity, See Yeah in Daytona boys.
With that said, I take you back to Dover, while Toyota was dominating the Nationwide Series race to a long degree, all eye’s weren’t on the leader, but on the much hyped debut of the 2007 NASCAR Busch East Series Championship and the NASCAR Toyota Showdown at Irwindale winner last season Joey “Sized Bread” Logano as he took to the track and what an impressive run he had as his only issue was a little contact on pit road after his first pit stop, however other than that, he run up front most of the day and finished in 6th position, like I said, very impressive, I will be very interested in seeing what he does the rest of the season as Logano will race next weekend in Nashville while the Cup Series is in Pocono with NASCAR on TNT Summer Series. Comments.
Joey Logano poses with his No. 20 GameStop Toyota before NASCAR Nationwide Series qualifying. He was ninth-fastest. (Photo Credit: Geoff Burke/Getty Images for NASCAR via NASCAR PR)
- Racedriven
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