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Robby Gordon: To get back on the lead lap, and hopefully finish in the top 10, which he did. Not to keep Jeff Burton down 2 laps - he was just an outspoken victim of circumstance.

Jr: I agree, both.

He was awarded the lucky dawg when that caution came out. He knew he was in line to get it. However, you are not awarded the lucky dawg when you cause the caution. Dale Jr. learned this 2 years ago when he spun someone out to try to do the same thing. Robby Gordon is a cheater and now a liar. NASCARs spineless decision on this matter really has me pissed off.

Thanks. I remember a Busch race a year or so ago where a water bottle on the back stretch brought out a caution. NASCAR didn't really seem interested in finding the dehydrated driver. Which is odd - you figure they'd want to bust someone for obvious cheating.

Yeah, Junior got busted. But remember that he bragged about it (over the radio, I think). NASCAR had no choice.

Stewart fan - congrats to your driver. I'm sure Sunday's race wasn't boring to you at all.

Boring? We had evil villians throwing pieces and parts onto the track (however the jury is still out on that one)...Mark Martin gets taged...again...and again gets a DNF, but he is still happy!

Kahne goes brain dead and takes out Stremme, takes full blame and responsibility...yet Stremme still wants to get in Kahnes face? Um, which part of, "My fault, I knew he was there then I just forgot and got into him" did Mr. Stremme not understand?

Jeff Gordon at first gets real mad and whiney that McMurray got into the back of him, but cools off when it did not hurt him that bad on the track. I think I heard Mr. Gordon say, "That was just stupid"...and later say that it was o.k. because he could not see anything going into turn 1 because of the sun. How about the fact that the #24 was slowing down because of a cut tire, and maybe inadvertanly got in the way? Noooooooo, couldn't have happend that way...yep, must have been the sun.

Tony Stewart climbs the fence again, and looked rather limber doing so...looks like his new diet is working well for him, and did any one notice that he was in no hurry to climb down from the flag stand this time? And who was the guy up on the ladder that the NASCAR officials keep telling to get down? Look like Hulk Hogan!

Lets see, anything else...yep, Jr. had a great final run battling with Kenseth for third. Sure it would have been great had Jr. been able to get into pit lane for some new rubber, but Smoke did what he does best, went down to pit, pulled back...then dove right in there. Heck, Johnson almost caused quite the pile up diving down with him, so there was no way that Jr. had even the most outside shot in heck to get in there. He got stuck on the outside lookin in. Could someone tell me though why Eury Jr. wont pump up his driver and make him feel like he made the right calls on the track...or is it just me?

Maybe not as fun filled as sugar amped 5 and 6 year olds, but not boring by any stretch.

Thanks Chris, the race was hardly boring. No race at Atlanta is just because of the actual racing.

Thanks for straightening me out, Chris. Atlanta usually puts on a good race. I can't recall a track that has produced so many side-by-side length-of-a-bumper finishes in recent years.

I did see the Junior-Kenseth battle. The rest of it I missed.

I'm still waiting for NASCAR to investigate the water bottle caution that saved Junior's butt earlier in the race.

But I guess because that caution helped a Chaser instead of hurting one, it's perfectly okay.

John: Your thoughts on NBC ambushing Robby? He starts from dead-last, runs his butt off the entire race and finishes in the top ten (where he would have finished whether or not he got his lap back) and they don't say a word about him. But they dig deep and hard for the debris footage (wish they'd dig that hard and deep every time they get accused of fake debris cautions) just to ambush him with it.

I have no problem with them investigating it. They have done it before. My problem is with the ambushing and it's not the first time TV has done it for the sake of controversy.

It is what it is Carrie...People love controversy, and that's what gets ratings. There has to be some kind of villian in every race, and who better than Robby Gordon.

Carrie: NBC's post-race dealings with Robby were kinda odd. It looked familiar. I'd seen something like it before. And then I realized what it was:

Journalism.

It wasn't pretty, and it wasn't smooth, and it wasn't a star. But it was journalism.

I agree with you, though: I think the TV folks should dig deeper more often. They've got the footage and the time. They might just like it.

P.S. I saw the video Monday, not live. I have to say Robby's denial didn't sound convincing. Then again, I'm not 100 percent sure what NBC captured on tape.

Hey John,

You're a reporter, though, you might want to stick Dustin on this story instead. I'd like to know what changed from Sunday & Monday when NASCAR said Robby's car was fine & the video was inconclusive to today when they penalize him? They have yet to provide a shred of real proof.

Oh and maybe you can find out why intentionally wrecking several people intentionally (which could hurt or kill them) gets Tony Stewart nothing in the way of penalties but Robby 'supposedly' throws a little bit of rollbar padding that won't hurt anyone and loses 100 points & 15K in coin.

And NASCAR wonders 1) why they aren't taken seriously as a sport by the 'real' sports and 2) why fans believe they favor certain drivers over others.

Jerks.