Good afternoon everyone, the title says it all after last weekends battle on the bull ring of Bristol Motor Speedway for both of NASCAR top series. So what really happened, the battle at Bristol for both Friday and Saturday were basiclly the same, to battle not just rain, but a light snow storm, now I live in New England, so that light to us up here. After everything was cancelled on Friday, Saturday possed major problem again with snow storms, but NASCAR Busch Series officials not only raced, but put on a good show in between the snow storms. After six hours of stop and go action, it was Kyle Busch merging supreme in holding off Kevin Harvick to take the victory in the first 300 Busch series race at Bristol.

Sunday was a complete 180 with just cold weather in the air, this 500 lapper is simply described as pit bulls going at it for one piece of real estate and thats what race fans including me love about it, the bottom grove was the only groom, there was really not second grove all day, put that didn't stop the faster cars from passing on the highsides a couple of times. The 500 came with lots of stopping and going of its own with about 20 caution flags, that had to be some record. At Bristol there is only one way to really get by, is to bump them up out of the way. By the end of this race with just 4 laps to go, it was Kurt Busch in the blue #2 dodge doing a bump and run on Kenseth to take the lead and victory over a hard-charging Kevin Harvick.

After the race, Jeff Gordon showed his temper with pushing Kenseth after Kenseth in the final laps did a bump and run of his own on Gordon.

Note to all of the developers building racetracks: instead of building cookie-cutter racetracks, build another Bristol, maybe not using concrete just to see if we can get rim riding back. Bristol is sold out year after year with no problems. I love racetracks like Bristol, Martinsville, Richmond, you know close racing with out an airow war.

While at Bristol, yesterday NASCAR took advantage of the track and tested the Car Of Tomorrow with Brett Bodine at the wheel, along with Jeff Burton testing the Chevrolet COT version. Pictures of that test session are at Jayski.com . Well that's that from Bristol, now its another short track next week at Martinsville with the Truck Series and Cup Series.

from my desk at home, See Yeah!
(Writen on March 28, 2006)

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