Well Dale Jr finally won a race and doesn’t it make sense that it would happen on Fathers Day. In what was one of the strangest races of the year that was filled with fuel mileage and pit strategies. It came down to a green/white checker finish as almost every race does nowadays.
With not much gas in the tank Dale Jr held everyone off as he circled around the bottom of the track to save fuel when the last caution came out for a sliding Sam Hornish. It seemed like no one knew who had enough gas to last for the end of the race as everyone was conserving fuel to make it to the end.
When Jimmie Johnson pitted with 20 laps to go and he took on 4 tires I thought he was just nuts but he passed enough cars to end up in the top ten. There was many different teams on different schedules that it made it hard to know exactly who had enough gas. Even the announcers on TNT were struggling to figure it out.
So now that Dale Earnhart jr has won his first race for Hendrick motor sports it seems that they will come more frequent as the team really worked well together. They also have a bunch of information between the teams today to use in upcoming races as Johnson, Jeff Gordon and Casey Mears were all running different lines and a lot of stuff didn’t work for their teams.
I was expecting Jeff Gordon to win today’s race as it’s his first time being a dad, just a feeling I had that would have made a good story. Nascar needs a good story with that lawsuit hanging over their heads. I am sure we are going to hear about that for months now anytime they bring up the word Nascar on television. I already can’t watch ESPN news as I am sick and tired of hearing about it.
Anyway, racing gets to put that behind them for a day and celebrate Dale Jr winning in Michigan. Go Dale!!
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