Hello Nascar friends. Hope everyone had a good weekend. Well I am not much of a road course fan, but if we have to deal with it, at least the scenery was nice. I dont know what it is about the road courses, maybe its the lack of left turns that are normally seen on the weekend. I hate when they confuse me like that. Just kidding. But hey, I like Kasey Kahne and the first thing I thought of was a story Genna told me about him. I immediately smiled and started laughing to myself. Maybe someday we can get her to relate it to you all. It was a great little story.
Anyways congratulations to Kasey Kahne. I have always liked him anyways and frankly the boy was due a win. Congratulations to Richard Petty Motorsports on their first win as a newly formed organization. You will remember that they were bought out by Gillette Evernham last season when all the consolidating and so forth was going on. And that the once great Petty organization was now part of a team. Well that team proved to be the winning team this past weekend so way to go Kasey and team.
Well Jeff continued his streak at Infineon, not with a win but another top ten finish. Jeff has the most victories at Infineon, the most top five and the most top ten finishes. Congratulations Jeff. Not the finish I was hoping for but we will take that 9th place victory. Speaking of Gordon, my grill should be on its way to my house now. We should have a barbeque when it gets here. Or maybe I can take it to Daytona next weekend and do it up there!!! That would be fun. Anyways thats still another week and a half away.
Well lets run down the top ten finishers at Infineon this past weekend.
Kasey Kahne 9 Budweiser Dodge
Tony Stewart 14 Old Spice Chevy
Marcos Ambrose 47 Little Debbie Toyota
Jimmy Johnson 48 Lowe’s Chevy
Denny Hamlin 11 FedEx Toyota
Juan Pablo Montoya 42 Target Chevy
AJ Allmendinger 44 Best Buy Dodge
Clint Bowyer 33 Cheerios Chevy
Jeff Gordon 24 Dupont Chevy
Elliott Sadler 19 Stanley Tools Dodge
After last weekend’s race at Infineon, the race for the chase is heating up. Lots of drivers are looking to seal that last spot in the 12th position to just get into the chase. They still have a few weeks but not many. Tony is still leading the points race and Jeff is a mere 84 points behind him. Johnson is third in points and Kurt Busch and Carl Edwards round out the top five contenders.
Well here is the latest on the Jeremy Mayfield suspension for drugs. The last thing that I heard was that he going to be countersued by Nascar who said he knew the policies and rules in Nascar and that there should have been nothing left to speculation as far as what happened with Mayfield. But as you know, anyone who is accused of something like that is going to fight to clear their name if the charges are unfounded and maybe even if they are founded. People do some strange things. At any rate though the latest that I have heard is that there will now be a hearing in federal court on July 1st. The judge has added his injunction to the list of dockets for that day and if things go his way he could be racing that weekend at Daytona for the Coke 01 400. Mayfield’s suspension took effect on May 9th and Jeremy’s team has not been at the track in the last four weeks for any kind of anything even though I am pretty sure they could race without Jeremy as a driver and as long as he has nothing to do with the team. But my guess is they have chosen not to do that.
Well thats about all for now. I am getting ready to go to work. So I will try and find some fun facts and information on the next place we are racing which is New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Alright well everyone have a great day and I will be back soon. See you later Nascar friends.
