Its been a rough week. I was on vacation last week, so was busy, and didn't make it on here much. My sister got married on Saturday, so this weekend I didn't get to check out any sports. To top it all off, My wife was sitting on our porch in her rocking chair Sunday morning, the chair broke, and she went tumbling off the porch. After 22 hours in the ER, we find out she has a compression fracture in her T11 vertebrae. So needless to say, I know nothing much about the all star race, burnout competition, ect. So fill me in, and I will try to check back in as I have the time.
JB, Kahan won the fan vote to get in, I say it was questionable based on the reports on NASCAR.com during the week, and Kasey won the race. But all in all it was a boring race in that once someone got into the lead that segment was over, unless the leader had some type of trouble. Heard NASCAR is taking the "Crabbing" out of the cars before the 600 to hopefully, bring the field closer in race trim.
I can say the forcast looks nice for this weekend. Clear Skys, around 80 degrees, 0 chance of rain and little humidity.
Wow, JB, I thought I had a rough week. I hope your wife is ok, bad backs suck but they're making a lot of progress on treatment procedures. Thoughts and prayers going out, hope she makes a speedy recovery. Congrats on your sister getting married also.
I may be alone here, but I thought the race was pretty boring, the guy in tenth was about 15 seconds back, I still think they need to work on the COT, they can't pass eachother on these 1.5 mile tracks and they end up sread out too far. The 600 might end up with 1 guy on the lead lap.
I thought the burnout competetion was pretty cool, fun to watch.
My wife was sitting on our porch in her rocking chair Sunday morning, the chair broke, and she went tumbling off the porch
Wow JB, now thats what I call just plain horse-droppin luck. She gunna be alright? Looks like you're gunna have a great abundense of extra household chores now huh?
I cant fill you in too much on the weekend race festivities. Spring brings me a ton of things around the farm to do. I did see the all-star race tho. It was a touching moment at the beginning when Ned Jarrett lead the prayers. DJ let some of his emotion out with tears and it kinda gave me goosebumps. Too bad he could'nt have been up competing at the front of the pack.
IMO, the best part of the race was knowing that JGR used erector set parts in their motor packages.
I may be alone here, but I thought the race was pretty boring, the guy in tenth was about 15 seconds back, I still think they need to work on the COT, they can't pass eachother on these 1.5 mile tracks and they end up sread out too far.Nope Frank, I agree they need to do something with the COT. Not only the 1.5 mile tracks but every week you see drivers saying the same thing. "You just cant pass with these cars" Seems to be more about the pits than it does the driver and I have to admit I am not getting geared up for races this year like in the past.
Looks like you're gunna have a great abundense of extra household chores now huh?Nah, just a couple of ticked-off teenagers. I work too much to taxi them everywhere, so while they are stuck at home...................................
Well, in the All-Star race, Jarret raced the truck and obviously his final race, but finished 21 only to Kyle Busch, who led the 1st segment only to have a problem in the 2nd, then Denny, who also had failiures once he was leading in the 3rd segment. And to Kurt Busch, who is sucking it up this season. Other than that 2nd segment winner was Carl Edwards, who fell back after problems to finish 6th, JUNIOR also led during this segment. In the 4th, Khane took the lead and won. There were no cautions for the 1st all star race, a voted in driver actually won, and Sam Hornish Jr. who finished 2nd in the race into the all star ran from 3 laps down to get a 7th place finish, great for fantasy consideration!
In addition, the burnout competition was more of a fun thing than a real thing. Jimmie Johnson got 20 seconds in penalties for unpurposely breaking cones, Harvick did 3 or 4 donuts instead of 2 and passed the finish, Kyle just had fun, and Biffle won with Bowyer in a close 2nd.
Sorry to hear about your wife and the past events. I know how things can derail so quickly. My wife and I have had some health issues recently, but we are getting better. May the same be fo your family.
Ok, on what you have missed, MikeyFan has had two threads in a row that was not about Dale Jr.
Sorry to hear about the accident, JB. I agree with Frank because I thought I was having a tough week. I caught most of the All Star race but don't recall being glued to the tube for the event. The best racing I saw was the ALMS race in Utah that was televised on Speed. I had the TV on, had live scoring on one tab on the computer, the #45 Flying Lizard Porsche (GT-2 Class winner) in car camera on another tab on Speed's web site and another tab with in car audio with all three Flying Lizard cars available through their web site.
