[WestCoastGal]

Flash said........

They're asking him about his humbling year.
He says it's all media driven and he recognizes how competitive the sport is. He respects the competition. We're gonna have bad years and good years. Needs to be more prepared and more fired up. The media put criticism on himself and Dale Jr. He said he's lucky he missed the Chase the same year as Jr so he wasn't alone.

What's it like being on the inside looking in.

It wasn't fun, we just didn't have the right stuff. I don't want to just be in the Chase I want to go for the championship.

[steveegg]

My 2006 predictions are now up. My blog, No Runny Eggs, goes into detail over the course of several posts, but here's the recap:

• Field-fillers (35th and worse) (no particular order) - Scott Riggs, Derrike Cope, Scott Wimmer, Robby Gordon, Travis Kvapil, Randy LaJoie, Michael Waltrip, Kevin Lepage, Morgan Shepherd and Chad Chaffin (throw in most-of-the-timers Kenny Wallace and Tony Raines)
• 26-34: 31-34 - Dave Blaney, Kyle Petty, Brent Sherman, Sterling Marlin; 26-30 - Ken Schrader, Jeff Burton, David Stremme, Casey Mears
• 21-25 - Denny Hamlin, JJ Yeley, Bobby Labonte, Brian Vickers, Reed Sorenson
• 16-20 - Martin Truex Jr., Clint Bowyer (one of those 2 will be Rookie of the Year), Mark Martin, Jamie McMurray, Dale Jarrett
• 11-15 - Joe Nemechek, Kurt Busch, Jeremy Mayfield, Kevin Harvick, Elliott Sadler (likeliest to finish 11th and get the $1 million booby prize)
• 6-10 - Kyle Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kasey Kahne, Ryan Newman, Carl Edwards
• 2-4 and the champ - Greg Biffle, Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, and Jimmie Johnson will be the closest to Matt Kenseth at the end of the season.