Oversight
Today's Sports section had a nice Associated Press story on the Telcel Motorola 200 (a.k.a. the Busch race), but we didn't get the results in the paper.
Your winner (but you knew that if you read the paper) was Martin Truex Jr. He was followed by Kevin Harvick, Carl Edwards, Pleasant Garden's Shane Hmiel and Big Bad Boris Said.
Other notables: Rusty Wallace was sixth; Adrian Fernandez, the best-finishing Mexican driver was 10th; and pole-sitter Jorge Goeters came in 38th after his car blew up with 15 laps to go.
This week's Bad Move of the Race award doesn't go to Goeters, who pitted in the wrong stall. It goes to Miami Herald writer Cammy Clark, who wrecked an otherwise decent story (reg. req.) with this intro:
MEXICO CITY - Nobody was kidnapped. No team haulers were ambushed. Once again, NASCAR proved the naysayers wrong.
Nice, considering that this is the 21st century, Mexico has paved roads, and the hauler convoys had police escorts. All that was missing was the obligatory "don't drink the water" mention. Which, sadly, popped up in a headline on NASCAR.com last week. I can't find it, which means either I can't navigate the search function or someone with some sense rewrote the headline.