Less than a week from having a huge shunt at Vegas, Jeff Gordon snared pole position and headed an all-HMS front row as Dale Earnhardt Jr had to settle for second. This also means that Jeff jumps up from third to first followed by Jr, Carl Edwards, Kyle Busch and Jimmie Johnson round out the top five (Jimmie getting it over Mark Martin by dint of his Daytona pole).
Kurt Busch, Patrick Carpentier, Matt Kenseth and Elliott Sadler all fall out this week while Clint Bowyer, Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr sneak their way into the top 20.
with his pole position, Jeff assumes the lead from his teammate, Dale Jr.
Tez's NASCAR Qualifying Championship - top 20 standings after 4 rounds:
After last weeks race, Carl's car failed post-race inspection and he was docked points from both his points standings as well as the bonus points he'd get for the win should he make the Chase...well, he might prefer reading my standings since I never bothered with taking points off a driver last year and am choosing to do the same; win on Sunday and get the points for TNRC, end of story.
Moving on, Atlanata saw Jr, Kyle, Clint Bowyer and Carl all take turns out front but Carl's visions of three in a row when up in smoke as he had to pull off with around 50 laps to go which all but gifted the win to Kyle...the first for Toyota. Tony Stewart backed up his teammate to finish second and jump from equal sixth to equal second overall while Ryan Newman and Kasey Kahne dropped from third and fourth to seventh and eighth respectively.
Out completely this week are Robby Gordon and Travis Kvapil, making room for Clint Bowyer, Denny Hamlin and Bobby Labonte.
Kyle managed to translate his early season pace into a win.
Tez's NASCAR Race Championship - top 20 standings after 4 rounds:
Next week sees the series head to Bristol...and the Busch brothers have won the last two races there at this time of year so we'll have to see if that trend continues. Amazingly, this blog also happens to be done exactly a year to the date (snuck in by three minutes the timer reckons) that my first foxsports blog was posted...can't believe it's been that long already.
happy anniversary buddy. i hope you and yours celebrated your 1 year of posting in style. its great reading the view from down under.
oh ya and its nice that marcos could get that yellow tape off the back of his ride. he's a threat to win montreal and the glen again this year, in one of the lesser funded team( in my estimation).
Last edited by williamwilman on March 12th at 7:16 AM.
Did the term "shunt" originate in Britain? I usually hear/read a crash called a shunt from the F1 media, but is it a term Aussies/NZealanders use too? I'm just curious.
Nascar (mainly DW) use the term "wadded up". I like that.
Motocross has some good crash phrases too, such as "rag-doll", "faceplant", "yard sale", and "bike test" to name a few.
LOL, I'm not sure why I latched onto the first sentence of your blog entry. Anyways, good write-up dude and of course, happy blogiversary.
Tez - Happy anniversary on the blogs. Dont think I can top Forensic's photo. Yep...I think that Carl would definitely prefer the TNRC systems to the one in Cup, lol. I was wondering how you did this so quick...a spreadsheet with formulas...makes sense. Ahhh, logical engineer thinking. :P
Tez is a rare creature; an Australian who was living in New Zealand before moving to Canada. He's also a Civil Engineer who is hoping to spend his Monday to Friday sitting in front of a computer surfing the inter...uh, working hard for an Engineering Consultant or Contractor when he finds a job. His heart is torn between his two loves; F1 and NASCAR.
Due to his high interest in those, his blogs will likely focus on them with the occasional foray into sports that don't get much (if any) mention on this website. All blogs and/or comments will more than likely have his usual dollop of sarcasm and general Aussie spin on them.
Amazingly, he also managed to score 2 MiB nominations on consecutive days (August 5 & 6, 2007) after announcing he had been keeping track of them...he's considering hiding under his bed as a result.
