Martinsville
Two laps into Sunday's race, I faced a dilemma:
Go back outside and work in the yard (it was a sunny 70-something here in Greensboro) or watch a few more laps and see how everyone else not named Dale Earnhardt Jr. was going to do.
Glad I stuck around. The final 30 laps were classic: Not only did Tony Stewart rattle Jimmie Johnson's cage to get by him, he showed the Master of Martinsville that he rules the restarts. (More on Gordon's second-place finish here.)
The next-best performance of the day, though, was Junior's. Did anyone figure he would get into the top 20 after tearing up his car after just two laps? Me neither. You try driving around Martinsville with no right front bumper. Bet it's not easy.