Posted on 03/23/2006 5:07:15 AM PST by glock rocks
I only lost one position this week (I think), but then I don't have that far to fall either. ;)
What is it about the Bud-Drinkin' BBQ Smokin' Team and the score "288?" ;-}
Well he did spin Truex, who deserved it.
Dude!!! Make out your will and buy more life insurance and stay 3000 miles away from me...
Kurt Busch pretends to make a snow angel on the finish line after winning the Food City 500 on Sunday, March 26, 2006 at the Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn. There were several snowfalls on Saturday, March 25, at the track that caused problems with the weekend race schedule. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
I only have 230,000+ ahead of me!
Not only do you have three 288 point scores there is no else in the league with a 288 score!!!
The #1 team in all of FRFL is named Team Viagra . :-\
wow. what a performance so far.
Make that The #1 team in all of FR Yahoo's Nascar FLs is named Team Viagra
Now I hate Gordon even more, and I didn't even think that was possible!
I'm thinking Nascar is sticking their nose in too many places again!
Vote for the all time best moment at TMS.
http://www.texasmotorspeedway.com/10GreatestMoments.aspx
I can understand Jeff's reaction; he had a good run taken away by that last-lap bump. Of course, he had just used that same move to get by Matt, and then chose to drive late into 1 like he was qualifying instead of racing the last lap at Bristol, which invites the guy on the bottom to be into the back bumper right where Matt got into him. That situation had been done countless times yesterday; some times the guy bumped hung on, other times, the guy spun.
Best Radio Chatter:
Typical Bristol, Dale Jr. had already rubbed fenders by the time the first caution flew out on lap 12:
Dale Jr.: “Tell the 25 (Brian Vickers) I got under him there, I had a hole, but I didn’t try to wreck him.”
Steve Hmiel (spotter): “Nah, he’s cool. I went right to him. They said they slid up and they actually felt like they came back down on you.”
Tony Eury Jr. (crew chief): “What’s your water temp right there, Junebug?”
Dale Jr.: “Two-hundred-sixty.”
Tony Jr.: “Two-hundred-sixty on the water?”
Dale Jr.: “Oh, my bad… 200. The little needle was in the way. Heh heh… I’m just joking with ya. It’s good. (Long pause). It might be 260 later, so keep asking.”
It took great driving and a miraculous save for Junior to keep his Budweiser car off the wall on lap 118 after being hit from behind:
Hmiel: “Whoa, get it back, get it back. You’re fine. Cautions out… big wreck behind you.”
Dale Jr.: “What a save!”
Hmiel: “That’s why I said ‘You’re Fine.” I was hoping you could get your breath back!
Dale Jr.: God almighty, now that was my best save ever! No (doubt)! This concrete and stuff, that was a save right there… Get my in-car camera --- wop, wop, wop!”
Hmiel: “We got a little bit of bumper damage, Tony Jr., but no big deal.”
Tony Jr.: “Yeah, just cleaned that corner off. That’s good. That means they can get that far underneath us and not bother us.”
Dale Jr.: “Alright then. I’ll try to get them spots back. I hate I missed those spots there.”
Tony Jr.: “You’ll be alright. Just feel it out there. See if we got it turning better.”
Dale Jr.: “It felt like I was sideways for about a minute, but it probably wasn’t but just a second. Heh heh.”
Hmiel (using signage on the wall to make his point): “It was from the end of the Nextel Cup Series (sign) going into (turn) 3 right up to the Chevrolet. You’ll see it when you go by there.”
Dale Jr.: “I thought I was for sure going to get nailed. “
Hmiel: “Actually, Denny (Hamlin) did a good job staying off you.”
Dale Jr.: “If nothing else cool happens today, that was cool!”
The Bud team was somewhat fortunate it didn’t encounter bigger problems in the pits on lap 161, as Dale Jr. gassed the car out of the pit box before the stop was complete. Fortunately all the lug nuts were tight and no real damage sustained (despite a completely demolished jack).
Dale Jr.: “Sorry about that, but the stops have got to get better.”
Tony Jr.: “Yeah, 10-4 there.”
Dale Jr.: “Hope I didn’t rip anybody’s fingers off. I’m real sorry. I don’t know what I was thinking.”
As is usually the case at a short track, a tight pit road left many drivers momentarily trapped in their pit stalls by other cars. Dale Jr. wanted to avoid such a circumstance with friend Bobby Labonte:
Hmiel: “Four-thousand, June, we’ll have to come around that 43. He’s in the pit directly behind us.”
Dale Jr.: “Alright, tell him to stop short if he wants a chance getting out at all. Heh heh. (Pause) I just have to get the right-front in the box?”
Tony Jr.: “That’s all you got to do. Get the nose in the box. Nobody’s going to come in front of us.”
Monday, 03/27/06
Drivers have a bumpy day at Bristol
Busch nudges Kenseth in final laps to take win
By LARRY WOODY
Staff Writer
BRISTOL, Tenn. — Throughout a long afternoon of beating and banging around Bristol Motor Speedway's concrete cauldron, emotions continued to bubble and percolate — and finally at the end they boiled over.
With five laps to go and 160,000 roaring fans on their feet, Kurt Busch punted Matt Kenseth out of the lead and went on to win the Food City 500 by 0.179 of a second over Kevin Harvick.
But the action wasn't over. Kenseth, trying to scramble back and salvage a decent finish, wrecked Jeff Gordon on the last lap. When Kenseth came over to apologize following the race he was greeted by a hard shove in the chest by a furious Gordon.
"That's just Bristol, bumping and grinding," said Busch, a five-time winner on the rugged little half-mile oval. "It takes a certain tenacity to win here. This place breeds controversy.
"I had to muscle my way past Kenseth there at the end. Sorry Matt. I've been bumped before and I didn't cry about it. Matt's a friend of mine and we'll be friends next week. Our job is to win races and I'm going to race the same way in the last laps when the race is one the line. At the end of the day you have to be able to hold up the trophy without any grudges."
Said Harvick: "I hate to see Kurt Busch win. What a whiner."
Busch's response: "That's Kevin Harvick. If he'd won and I'd finished second I'd have congratulated him and that would have been the end of it. This is ridiculous. He talks a lot and that makes (the win) even better. You guys (media) keep talking about it but I'd like to end this (bickering), ice it down."
Kenseth, who finished third after spinning Gordon, said he was shocked by Gordon's post-race push.
"I guess I shouldn't have gone over there," he said. "I should have known better. I didn't mean to get into Jeff, but I don't blame him for being mad."
Gordon said of his uncharacteristic temper tantrum: "I like racing with Matt but I certainly didn't like racing with him today. I didn't like what he did and I showed him my displeasure. I get fired up too. I felt what he did was uncalled for."
Kenseth described Busch's winning bump as "a cheap shot. I wouldn't take a cheap shot like that … but maybe I should start."
Earlier in the race Gordon hit Martin Truex Jr. and when he tried to retaliate he got in the way of Tony Stewart, who promptly put Truex in the wall.
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060327/SPORTS09/603270344/1041
They should advertise that!LOL
To me, that is priceless. ;)
Of course I'm irritated, but I am a Gordon fan and that's part of being a fan. ;)
Who does he think he is kidding?
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