Crappafoni Pictures presents to you in high definition this week's The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, served with California wines and cheeses. Enjoy!

THE GOOD

Kyle Busch: as the race winner, he gets first billing. Had the best car much of the day and as such he's earned his first road course win.

David Gilliland: an impressive career-best second place run by the native Californian, considering he's had a more down than up season.

Jeff Gordon: he turned a crappy car into a top-5 car at his home track. Home cooking has been good to him this week.

Clint Bowyer: excellent run. Was caught in the first caution by bad pit strategy. He decided to pit with his RCR teammates and the caution came out shortly afterward, locking him in excellent track position. 

Casey Mears: like Bowyer, used excellent pit strategy to lock himself in great track position. Took advantage of the wreck that his fellow Bakersfielder Kevin Harvick caused to gain even more positions.

Honorable Mention: Juan Pablo Montoya, Ryan Newman, Matt Kenseth.   

THE BAD

Kevin Harvick: a bonehead move not only cost him a top 5 finish, but he's in danger of missing the Chase. His bonehead move was that he went into the turn too hard and took out THREE good cars. The silver lining is that he's coming to tracks that have been good to him throughout his career.

David Reutimann: never felt confident up in the wine country of California. A late race crash was the capper to his crappy week.

Robby Gordon: for someone that was expected to contend, he was never really a factor. Finished three laps down in 36th.

Brian Simo: a field filler. He was the first driver out of the race just 20 laps in. This will probably be the only time this year I'll mention him.

Boris Said: see Robby Gordon. He finished even worse than Gordon, finishing 41st, 18 laps down. 

THE UGLY

Marcos Ambrose: he had a GREAT run spoiled by an accident. The accident damaged his gear box and spewed oil and other liquids all over the track.

Kevin Harvick: rarely does a driver make both the Bad AND Ugly categories, but I must put Happy there. The Ugly being the result of dropping out of the top 12 and having to scramble to make the Chase. He'll make the Chase IF he doesn't make any bonehead moves the rest of the season. He needed a strong run at Sonoma and for the longest time it looked like he was going to be in the top 5.

Those are my nominations for the race. Feel free to come in with yours!