Well first practice for both NW and Cup are in the books. The most hated dude in NASCAR blogland sits atop the leaderboard for now, with Denny (Public enemy #2) right behind. Are these two flippin the NASCAR Nation the bird?? Ahhhhh...a point to ponder!  Behind them comes Mr. Give me at least 50 ft of room on all sides because of my name...Earnhardt Jr. The big (yes I said big) Smoke is 5th and Mr. Travis Kerbopple hangs there in 4th.

I know that practice means exactly...well....nothing when it comes to a race but I found it interesting none the less and just couldnt resist taking a poke at whoever may be around with an unprotected body part to poke!

I was also surfing around on the ever popular Google and found myself an interesting pic. Now I dunno if its been photo-shopped. I suspect that it has been, but it did make me laugh and I just had to share it with ya'll. Talk about things that make you go HMMMMM....LMAO!

Now if it was Jeff and Jimmie, I'd be more inclined to think it was real!! :P Maybe ole Junebug is going to fit in better at HMS than anyone ever dare dreamed....oh I know..I'm bad...but I just cant help it! I'm so good at it... :D

Now bring on the hate people....cant wait to hear what this is gonna stir up!

Love ya!

Words to think about. Powerful words. Words with generic definitions, yet words with terrific undercurrents of meaning defined by the individual, based on personal beliefs and experience. To each one of us, these words mean something different if you dig beyond the generic.

To me, these words are linked by invisible threads. These threads, although invisible, are made of indestructible material. They are not simply threads of gossamer broken by gentle breezes. They are threads of special titanium-like fibers that can withstand the severest storm and batterings of monumental proportions.

Friendship is a precious gift, given and received infinitely, with love and RESPECT between 2 people. It is something to be cherished and nurtured. It is earned and it is not to be taken lightly or abused.  Much effort goes into the building of a friendship, it is not something that just ‘happens’ and if effort is not sustained, it soon withers and dies. In order for one to maintain an adult friendship (For the sake of alleviating argument I will concede that adult friendship and childhood friendship are somewhat different, mainly due of course to age and maturity.) a certain level of MATURITY is required. One must be mature enough to realize that people are different and opinions differ, again based on personal beliefs and experience. One must realize that every person looks at a situation through a filter of those same beliefs and experience and no two filters are ever going to be the same. So times of conflict are sure to arise and to the filters anger, hurt and resentment will be added. But if each one remembers the importance of FRIENDSHIP and can be MATURE enough and RESPECTFUL of each other enough, to be able to talk about the differences and to really be able to listen to each other’s reasons behind those differences, the conflict can often be resolved or a compromise can be reached. Give and take…RESPECT for differences and the MATURITY to disagree. FRIENDSHIP.

Now you add several people to the mix and suddenly you have a COMMUNITY. Within that community there are several different friendships and not all will be the same. Several smaller circles will develop, but all will overlap at some point or other and every person will have a vested interest in the community as a whole. Now if one bad apple happens to insert themselves within said community and that apple continues to rot, yet is adept at covering the slightly moldy smell with flowery words, and sleight of hand tricks, things can go seriously amuck.

Because this apple knows nothing of MATURITY, and has little RESPECT for anyone or anything, it starts whispering in people’s ears and coercing some of the people of the community to lose RESPECT for each other and forget the meaning of FRIENDSHIP.  But the smell and oozing rot cannot be hidden forever, and sooner or later something happens and the apple explodes, leaving an icky mess dripping off the walls and the faces of those closest to the apple. The apple’s true colors and horrible smell are soon reveled.

But the apple soon finds that not all of the community was under its evil spell, and they have not forgotten what COMMUNTIY, RESPECT, MATURITY, and most of all FRIENDSHIP really is. They’ve seen the apple for what it really was and were merrily waiting patiently for the inevitable explosion, ready to help clean the faces of the friends affected. They soothe, they hug, they accept apologies and most of all have the MATURITY and RESPECT for their FRIENDS to forgive them their transgressions. The COMMUNITY is once again intact. What is left of the apple and its colossal and totally unfounded ego is left alone in the gutter, to once again consort with its equals.

Ahhhh kiddies....The Lady In Black.... This week's race is under the lights in Darlington SC. The egg-shaped oval steeped in history and one of the very toughest tracks on the Cup circuit.

This is one track where the boys have to beat the track, not each other. Notoriously hard on tires and turns 1 & 2 lying in wait to give you the infamous 'Darlington Stripe', its a matter of saving your stuff, taking 4 tires on each and every caution, and being there at the end. The real racing happens during the last 50 laps...the rest is there just to weed out the men from the boys.

Here's a pic of the busiest guy on the track! LMAO. He's painting over a few of the 'stripes'. The object of turns one and two is to be as close to the wall as possible, without actually trading paint. Extremely tough to do. The Lady's waitin and she's hungry.....

Predictions are impossible here really, especially now that they've repaved the track. There have been 9 winners in the last 10 races and people are throwing names out like Biffle (who won 2yrs ago) to Kahne to JJ and last year's winner Jeff Gordon...and lets not forget that this track is notorious for chewing up the rookies and spittin them out. . And of course there's Kyle B, Kenseth,Stewart and Jr. I'm not gonna pick one this time. Of course my heart's with Tony, but who knows what the Lady's got in store for us!

The race is under the lights Saturday night, so the boys have Mother's Day off to spend with their wives, moms, grammas etc. I'll be spending the day at home, having a family barbeque with my own Mommy. Hope ya'll have a great weekend!!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SMOKE!!

My God, all of ya'll should be ashamed of yourselves, on both sides. All the hate and name calling - what's up with that. We all have our fave drivers, its part of what makes NASCAR great. We also have our favorite drivers we love to hate, I get that. But all these personal attacks? Is that really necessary??
Some of you keep bringing up what a class act Jr is. Well Jr Nation, you should take a page out of his book. Is he blaming anyone? Whining? Threatening lives?? NO...YOU are. Does he have to go to the press and ask ya'll to behave again like he did with the throwing of full beer cans at Jeff Gordon? God knows I cant stand Gordon and wasnt worried about him, but what about the innocent bystanders?? Same goes here...ya'll are calling for blood and thinking it's cool that KB has to have extra security to 'protect' him from you fans. Wow. Thats great. All in Jr's name too. Im sure he's thrilled to death about that.

Same goes for the other side, you've been just as bad. And all the conspiracy theorists need to take it down a notch too. I really dont think the whole plan for JGR last week was "Ok..Denny, you go out there and spank em all for 380 laps, then we will give you a bum tire, you cause a caution, then when they are all bunched up, Kyle its your job to out there and wreck Jr." Please. Give me a break.

What Denny did was not good, I'm not defending him, but I think it came more from a stand point of him being completely heartbroken and disappointed, not from a 'help my teammate' deal. I doubt he gave a rats behind at that point who was doing what to whom. Remember, for Denny, Richmond is his Indy, his Daytona.

We will see what happens when NASCAR hands out penalties tomorrow. Regardless, it hardly calls for violence and immature name calling.