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I begrudgingly went to the track today with Mrs. Detector and TD, Jr. We rolled into my father-in-law's house around 12:30, BS'd with him for awhile and walked to the track. We got to our seats right before they began the driver introductions. Lots of Jr. fans, lots of Gordon fans & haters, lots of boos for Kyle Petty -- including me -- boos for Ryan Newman & Tony Stewart and cheers for Bill Elliott.
Couldn't do anything but roll my eyes when Andretti got sent to the back. Even more depressing when he got taken out. I'm not sure what happened but he said, "Mikey should thank me that I didn't hit him." I'm sure he was referring to Waltrip but I don't think he was blaming him.
Stewart & Jr. were the story early on. They were passing drivers at will. I was listening on the scanner to Robby Gordon after Stewart passed him on the outside of turns one and two. Gordon radio'd to his team, "That was impressive."
Great exchanges between Jimmie Johnson & McMurray. Johnson was a little...uh...displeased at #42's tactics.
Listening to Johnson's chief trying to talk him calm reminded me of listening to Ray Evernham trying to settle a young Jeff Gordon down during early BY400's.
TD, Jr. was having a blast giving a double thumbs up every time the #20 car came by. Mrs. TD was sad because Andretti had such a tough day. (She went to high school with him.)
I was extremely proud of the performances put on by several of the drivers I used to watch in USAC, but for some reason I don't connect with Newman the way I do with the others. I'm not sure why.
I really thought either #20 or #42 were going to win the race. I had all but forgotten about #29.
Overall I had a 100% blast. Lord knows I give Nascar a lot of grief but I had great fun today and wish I could do it again tomorrow.
One complaint: As near as I could tell there were two times they re-started the race with the tail end of the lead lap in front of the leaders. Each instance resulted in first lap crashes. Can this rule be scrapped?
Couldn't do anything but roll my eyes when Andretti got sent to the back. Even more depressing when he got taken out. I'm not sure what happened but he said, "Mikey should thank me that I didn't hit him." I'm sure he was referring to Waltrip but I don't think he was blaming him.
Stewart & Jr. were the story early on. They were passing drivers at will. I was listening on the scanner to Robby Gordon after Stewart passed him on the outside of turns one and two. Gordon radio'd to his team, "That was impressive."
Great exchanges between Jimmie Johnson & McMurray. Johnson was a little...uh...displeased at #42's tactics.
Listening to Johnson's chief trying to talk him calm reminded me of listening to Ray Evernham trying to settle a young Jeff Gordon down during early BY400's.TD, Jr. was having a blast giving a double thumbs up every time the #20 car came by. Mrs. TD was sad because Andretti had such a tough day. (She went to high school with him.)
I was extremely proud of the performances put on by several of the drivers I used to watch in USAC, but for some reason I don't connect with Newman the way I do with the others. I'm not sure why.
I really thought either #20 or #42 were going to win the race. I had all but forgotten about #29.
Overall I had a 100% blast. Lord knows I give Nascar a lot of grief but I had great fun today and wish I could do it again tomorrow.
One complaint: As near as I could tell there were two times they re-started the race with the tail end of the lead lap in front of the leaders. Each instance resulted in first lap crashes. Can this rule be scrapped?
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