Thank all things racing that this is the last Fox Nascar telecast of the season. TWO times this race they went away for five minutes of commercials, only to come back for 30 seconds of racing and then back to commercials again. And each new race brings more Visa racebreaks, race recaps and other horseshit interrupting the telecast. I swear they're not showing half the green flag racing that takes place.
Do we get ESPN back next year or the year after?
More crappy luck for the 43. Bobby Labonte has breathed new life into the King's ride and it's been great, but bad luck has turned many good runs into lousy finishes. This time running in the top 5 for most of the 2nd half of the race he's an innocent bystander and finishes in the 40's. Commercials interrupted that too incident as well as everything else worth seeing.
At least bad luck bit Jeff Gordon, someone who until recently never seemed to have any bad luck. He was caught up in a wreck not of his making about 5 laps after Labonte's accident.
Thank goodness for a couple of Shipward IPA's to take the frustration level down a notch.
Not enough beer to soften this rant though. What is the point of waving the caution flag for debris with half a lap to go? That means they don't race to the end but the race results will be determined by where the cars were at the time the caution came out. Nascar has lost control of caution flags this year and last. A car at the back of the back will spin out and immediately get it righted but the caution is already waving.
So this puts the crappy icing on pretty much a boring race, won by Tony Stewart. Not that I want to see the dangerous 43-car packs of recent past, but these current rules take what interest was left out of restrictor plate racing.
Zebster's favorites rundown: Kasey Kahne 25th, Kyle Petty 28th and Bobby Labonte with a DNF. My fantasy league pick, Dale Jr. with a lucky but disappointing 13th.
Kudo of the race: Clint Bowyer, another rookie with a top 10 finish this year.
Point leader: Jimmy Johnson
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4 comments:
Zeb, those commercial were irritating. I counted TEN laps that I missed because of those commercial breaks during the later stages of the race. If I'm not mistaken, I think we only have two more races to go before NBC picks up coverage.
BTW, although Smoke is my favorite I am a Dodge guy. I own a Dodge Motorsports Dodge Intrepid that was built to resemble Bill Elliott's car from 2001.
I'm hoping one day I can afford the brand new Dodge Challenger when it comes out in a couple of years.
When the #43 hit the wall, my first thoughts were of you Zeb. It is good to see the Petty dodge up front. Now we need to get it to victory lane.
Another good sight last night....the #2 MIller can in the top five where it belongs.
Come on Brew-Brat!
I'm a Mopar guy too, Robbie, always have been. Currently in the dooryard: '95 Intrepid, '85 Ram PU and '05 Sebring.
Coach, I need to find a way to put that icon Bomber made for me on this page.
Can't you copy the URL from your profile on the racing boards and paste it into your profile here?
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