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Hello Nascar friends.   Well Tony really fired it up this weekend in Kansas.  He “smoked” the competition including Jeff Gordon by mere hundreds of a second to take the checkered flag this weekend at Kansas Motor Speedway.  With this win Stewart effectively put himself back in chase contention and cut 39 points off of his defecit to chase leader Mark Martin who is still leading the pack with 5551 points.  Martin finished the race in 7th position and holding on to his points lead over second place Johnson by a mere 18 points.  

Well my man Jeff Gordon finally had a great run after a really mediocre season so far.   Jeff was not even a full second behind race winner Stewart.   This second place victory places Jeff in seventh place in the chase.  Stewart by the way is solidly in fourth position just 67 points behind chase leader, Mark Martin.  Montoya is in third behind Johnson and Kurt Busch is holding onto 5th position in the chase behind Tony in 4th. 

Well the Mayfield saga just continues to get more bizarre by the week.  This week it has been announced that Mayfield has hired and is not a client of Mark Geragos, a high profile attorney that has represented some big names including Michael Jackson, Winona Ryder,  and most recently Chris Brown.  He was also the attorney for convicted killer Scott Peterson.  All I can say is that doesnt really speak  to Mayfield’s character knowing that his attorney actually defended someone as heinous and horrible as Scott Peterson.  

 I would wonder what kind of individual would be willing to defend someone accused of killing not only his wife but an unborn child as well.   It doesnt set to well with me.  But as always I will continue bringing any updates as they come about.  There is a scheduled hearing for the first week of December to appeal the upholding of his suspension so hopefully there wont be anything else before that.  

Now here’s something that is out of the normal routine for Nascar.  Instead of taking just the winning car of Stewart and a random car for post race testing this week, Nascar has also taken two of Hendricks cars to the research and development center for further testing as well.  The cars of Jimmie Johnson and Mark Martin were both taken there as well.   It seems according to Nascar officials that both Hendricks cars were perilously close to the limits imposed by Nascar regulations.  Nascar warned Hendricks teams about being so close to the limits while series officials say that the cars were in compliance.   

Joey Logano seemed to be suffering no ill effects from his spectacular ride last  weekend at Dover. Logano says it is what it is but it is over now and time to move on to the next race.   He says however that he does appreciate that everyone wants to know if he is ok but  that its part of racing and now its time to move on to the next race.  However the wreck did garner some national attention for the young race driver who was asked to appear on Good Morning America after last weekend’s spectacular crash.  Alright Joey, I wont ask how your feeling I will just say what a ride that was and good luck this weekend keeping all four tires firmly on the ground. 

One chase driver who did not fair so well this weekend was Brian Vickers.  Vickers who entered the race at Kansas in 10th position in the chase standings, had a rough weekend with a spin early on in the race and then later an engine issue which dropped him from 10th to 12th in points.  That drop leaves him 250 points behind the chase leader Martin and virtually out of contention to win the championship all together. 

Greg Biffle on the other hand had a pretty good run at Kansas gambling with tire wear and how many tires to take on pit stops during the race.  Well strategy may or may not have played a hand in Biffle’s day grabbing the lead early on and then finishing the day third behind Stewart and Gordon.  Biffle is now 8th in the points standings and still feels he could come alive with 7 races left in the chase.   At this point its probably more about winning races to make up points rather than just finishing up front to get the points to close the gap.  But with both Martin and Stewart performing well this season, its going to be hard to catch them without some kind of misfortune befalling them like a DNF or something.   Let’s hope that is not the case.  I would really rather see them all battle it out on the track than to see someone drop due to a DNF.  Best of luck to all drivers in the chase. 

Well that’s about it for now.  This weekend coming they are racing at Fontana.  My good friend Riki Ratchman will be running around there doing some driver interviews so if you see him say hi.  He is a great guy and one hell of a Nascar fan.   Alright well have a great week and keep your fingers crossed for your favorite chase driver, its not over yet!!!

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