Monday in Alabama
Another Monday, another Cup race. Crap.
No FX in the building. Who knows what the radio stations will do? The last time this happened, I had to use nascar.com - it's not the option I wanted, but it will do. We'll see how it goes this time.
We're about 30 minutes from racing. FX goes on air at 12 noon. Dustin Long says the command to start engines will come at 12:00:30. I think NASCAR just wants to get this thing over and get home. There's testing at Charlotte tomorrow and Wednesday, and everyone's on a short week because of the Saturday night race at Richmond.
While you're waiting for the green flag, here are a couple of Dustin offerings from the weekend.
On Sunday, he wrote about Jeff Gordon's recent slump: Former champions Rusty Wallace and Darrell Waltrip question Gordon's focus and say that is a key reason why Gordon has won less. Gordon says he's more concerned with rebuilding his team than winning after missing last year's championship chase.
In today's paper, he wrote on Kyle Busch, who hit just about everyone in the field during Speed Weeks at Daytona: Daytona clouds Busch's reputation and will until he gets through a restrictor-plate weekend incident free.
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It was a miserable Monday (for DEI fans like myself). Combine that with several drivers having the bad case of the "stupids" and it made watching the race even worse.
Posted on May 1, 2006 6:46 PM
I rather enjoyed the race today. The awesomeness of the final 10 laps almost made up for Johnson winning.
Posted on May 1, 2006 8:17 PM
Turns out the race was on Fox 8 and I got to see parts of it, including the end. The last 10 laps were pretty good - it didn't quite make up for Junior wrecking himself, but you take what you can get sometimes.
Posted on May 1, 2006 8:20 PM