Ahh...Yes..." If you are forced under the yellow line you will not be penilized "

     What a BuIIZhit rule that only applies to others. Nascar stripped Regan Smith and the #01 team of there first win. They made a bad call. I know they didn't want Jr's AMP sponsors trophy sittin in DEI's shop. They also wanted to have Smoke end his drought. Cant they just give it back?

 Comming on to the trioval Regan looked under Smoke. He clearly had the front end of his car under Smoke. At that time Smoke cut left, forcing Regan below the yellow line. Tell me last 400 yards of a race you are going to lift? I think not.

 So Regan get the pedal to the medal and passed Smoke. He could have held his line and all HeII would have broke loose. He did the smart thing in gowning lower and passing Smoke clean.

 Now dont think I am a Smoke hater. To the contrary. I like Smoke. Love Eldora. Glad he is coming back to the BowTie side of life. He does good things at local tracks. Has fun on dirt. I dont like the fact he forced Regan lower than the yellow line. But he was going for a win. He should give Reagn that trophy though. He didn't win that race. I think that win should have an * near it.

 So will Nascar change its mind on the bad call? HeII no. You and I both know they wont. So 18th is were the #01 car will be listed as finishing. What B.S. Ok I ranted. Nascar made a bad call.

 Now about the Tires. All weekend. GoodYear bad. Hoosier on friday with the ARCA cars had bad tires as well. We seriosly need to dig deeper and find the problem. Ok enough about the weekend that was. Lets go to Lowes. Faster....More beating and ####ing. Cant wait.

 Ahh...Yes... The Shrub has steped out to an almost un touchable lead.

 2. is Jr. He is 253 back

 3. Burton 271 back

 4. Jimmie 315 back

 5. Edwards 320 back. Now these for a seperated by only 67.  Carl back to Gordon is 140 points I think the top 5 will stay the same. They may change spots but I dont think they will fall out of the top five.  Now Shrub has 7 wins. Thats 70 points into the chase. Jimmie and Carl both have credit for 2. Thats 20. 50 back of Shrub. Jr. and Burton have 1. Thats ten 60 back.

 6. Gordon 460 back. no wins.

 7. Biffle 544 back no wins.

 8. Hamlin 551 back 1 win.

 9. Kahne 563 back 2 wins.  Now here we have a 103 point diffrence from 6th to 9th. Now Gordon is 184 points ahead of 13th Harvick. I think Gordon will be in. Kahne is 93 points ahaed of 13th. That is a big gap as well. If Kahne keeps running the way he has he will be in. With Kahne 2 wins and Hamlin with one they will both be ahead of Biffle and Gordon chase time.

 10. Smoke 605 back.

 11. Kenseth 638 back.

 12. Boyer 642 back.

 Outside looking in.

 13. Harvick 644 back only 39 back of 10th and Smoke.

 14. Ragan 698 back only 57 out of 12th and 93 back of Smoke.

 15. Brian Vickers 774 only132 out of 12th. Thats alot to make up. Indy and losing a motor hurt bad. Still has a shot. Just a very long shot.

 16. Newman 786 only 142 back. Also a real long shot. He I think can concentrate on looking for his new home.

 Well As you can see I think the top five are a sure thing for the chase. 6th through 9th have to keep doing good. They could have 2 bad weeks and be on the outside looking in. I dont see that happing. Everham teams are getting on track. Rousch is making a run with multiple cars. Gibbs enough said. And Hendricks as well.

 Now the race to watch for the chase is 10th thru 16th. I know 15th and 16th are a long shot but a shot none the less. 10th thru 14th can change in any givin race. You could have Ragan in 10th and Smoke looking in from outside the glass after one race.

 So my picks. I still have dim hopes of Vickers making it. Maybe it wont happen but always hopefull. Tony will win. He doesnt want to go a year with out one. He also I think wants to leave Gibbs proving he is as good as day one.

  Kenseth needs to get lady BadLuck off his back. He will have a fight to stay in. He has the Cat in the Hat to help. I dont think they are going to give up anytime soon.

 Boyer has alot of work to do as well. He has the team. He has the car. Does he have it in him? We will see. I know he will fight for all he can get.

 Harvick to no cause of his own got smacked out at Indy. He will be one to move up past 12th. He is hard driven and has everything going well. The wreck was nothing to do with his driving.

 Ragan is a pleasent surprise. The Kid is proving he has it all. If he misses the chase it will be only from bad luck. He has a great future. Just think maybe not the chase this year.

 I see at this time. 1. Shrub. 2. Johnson 3. Kahne 4. Edwards 5.6.7.8.9.10. all tied with a win. Hamlin has won. Jr. as well. Burton has another. Gordon Stewart and Harvick will win yet before the chase and round out the tie for 5th to 10th.

 Now 11th and 12th with no win. Biffle will not win but is in the chase and 11th. 12th I think is going to be Kenseth. He will come back the next few races and race hard. Who knows he might get a win.

 That is my chase list. It will be fun to watch. I hope Nascar and GoodYear get past this problem from Indy and Moves to a great racing tire for the rest of the year.

 Heard Martin Truexx is denying making aggreement to stay at TEI.

 Hope that is true. The women is running the great late Dale Sr.s team in the ground. With Mark following Jr. From TEI, were will Martin Truexx Jr. go?

 Well RCR has a great 4th car open.

 Smoke has a second car.

 Penske has a seat.

 What do you think? Share your thoughts. I think Dale Jr. will help guide him to Smoke. But thats just my thoughts.

 Good job Landon. Ran in the top 10 most of the night. Stayed out of trouble. Did alot of passing. Nice debut for the Randy Moss Racing #81 truck. Your 14th place finish really doesnt show how good you ran most the night. It was nice to see you run High and Low as needed.

 Look forward to watching you run in the Nationwide race this evening. Good luck to you.

 Also congadulations to Johnny Benson on another win. Not the fastest truck all night. But saved enough at the end to beat Ron Hornady for the win. Looked like Rons tires went away.  Good race.

 Ahh...Yes.. from the mouth him self  " I know Roger fired Ryan Newam. There was no we are parting ways, from Roger to Ryan" This from Rusty Wallace.

 Ok I thought broadcasters are to be bias on things like the he said, she said. What is with Rusty adding what he thinks is and or was done? This coming from the guy that has the 22 H.P. peice of paper here showing that Toyota has this over every one. What the Hell does he think he is Brian France?

 Rusty needs to keep his friggin mouth shut. When it comes to his thoughts on what Toyota is doing. On what he thinks his old team owner did to current drivers. This is making him look like more of an #### than we already though he was.

 If Roger Penske truely fired Ryan as a driver. He would be shoping this weekend in Gasolin Alley for a ride since he doesn't have one. Roger would have grabbed a young gun out of the nationwide series to give a great shot to. I dont think that Roger and or Ryan would do it that way. I know Roger wants his cars winning. Also Ryan thinks he needs a new combination to put him self in the chase. They talked, came to an agreement. Between the two of them. Not with Rusty Wallace. And are parting ways at the END of the season.

 So here it is again. Rusty trying to stir the pot. I hope ESPN is seeing this and will try to keep him from his personal thoughts on the air. I hate having to listen to him call the races. But even more sick of his "They have an advantage, he got fired" B.S. Rusty call the races. Not your opions.

 I just had to share my 2 cents on this. Hey Rusty, when you have an opinion like that. We have this thing we fans call a BLOG. You should try it some time. Thanks for reading. Let me know what you think about BIG mouth Rusty.

My source: Darrell Waltrip from the Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain.

 "Nascar has take a bunch of motors from the cup cars" says D.W. "They want to make sure Rustys accusation is false"

 Now this came from D.W. tonight of the Wind Tunnel. For all those thinking Toyota has an advatege. I am guessing this is to see if there is anything to the story. If there is what will Nascar do? Will they even tell us? Who will all be there for the test?

 That will be a story to follow. They also took 10 Nationwide engines. 3 Toyota, 3 Chevey, 2 ford, 2 Dodge. That is what I have heard. I dont know the # of engines from cup. I am hoping it is similliar. This week or next I hope we hear something.

 Now the big Wind blowing on the Tunnel show was Tony and Hass. D.W. made it sound like Tony was Givin 50%. Also that Tony had to buy out of Gibbs. In one way I am sure he is right. But lets Look a little deeper.

 Hass has one top ten in the last couple seasons. They have no car in the top 35. They dont have drivers with a history of winning multiple races in any givin year of cup. The one good thing they have that makes them money is there "Rolling Wind Tunnell". It has the abilty to test a rooling stock car at 180 mph in the wind. The only one that I know of.

 Now Tony on the other hand. He will bring sponsors that want to pay to be on the side of his cars. There are drivers that want to be his teamate. Componys will all most be throwing money at Stewart/Hass to be there. So that shouldnt be a problem.

 Now as for Cars and engines. Hmm. Hass as of now gets them from Hendrick. Will that change? No not in the near future I dont think. I think Hendrick will make sure they get great cars and engines. But I dont see Tony and or CHEVY taking out of shop engines. Soon I think Tony will have a top tear engine shop.

 Well that was from "The WInd Tunnell" Dave Despain, and D.W. I just gave you my thought on it. The show is great. They always take calls and talk to us fans. So let me hear what you think.

 Will Nascar let everyone know about testing?

 Will there be teams there?

 Will Stewart/Hass make it? Wouldn't it be wasome for the winner of 2009 Daytona 500 be #14 Tony Stewart?

 Well thats all I got before work on this sunday evening. Hope ya all yell back at me...

 1st Kurt "Rainman" Busch. He and his team made the right call. Congrats.

 2nd Michael "Am I on the leadlap" Waltrip. Pinch me. I am second.

 3rd J.J. "I still have a ride" Yeley. Wow. Thankyou Rainman Busch.

 4th Martin " I am leaving DEI" Truexx. Bout time as good of driver he is he gets the results.

 5th Elliott " Ray this is for you" Sadler. Told you we have top five cars.

 6th Reed "I hit the Target" Sorenson. Well I didn't take anyone out to get the finish. Juan...

 7th Casey "I need a ride" Mears. Later Rick, I will get a ride.

 8th Denny "I know I belong here" Hamlin. Finished ok despite a poor day.

 9th Jimmie " I shoulda won" Johnson. Finish doesn't say how good he ran.

 10th Bobby "For you King" Labonte. Hey the King is the King.

 23rd Dale "Jamie I hope you didn't plan on me helping you get a ride" Earnhardt Jr. Hey he was pitting and Jamie was looking ahead. Oh wait he should have saw the car right in front of him.

 24th Kyle " I hate Jaun" Busch. "Nascar needs to look at the wreck" What a controled interview for the most out of control person. Hats off to Kyle for holding tounge.

 25th Juan "I will spin ya" Montoya. He took matters into his own hands. Enough said.

 Tony Stewart finished 13th with the best car. The weather played a factor. Jeff Gordon looked about the best he has this year as well. Again the weather stepped in.

 That being said. Every team had access to the radar. They all new the big storm was moving quick. I know the broadcasters talked about it. So Penske and the #2 team made the right call today. Great job for a bad year. Congrats Kurt.

 Now on to the night race at Daytona. Lets go rainless racing.

 Ok first is Tony "Smoke" Stewart. He is a hell of -a guy. He was like a kid in a candy store the night of the Dream at Eldora. You saw the love when he dedicated the statue of Mr. & Mrs. Baltes That saturday night he was happy.

 Now for his future. I think him and Dale Jr. will buy out the Hass team. It will be at least a two car team. Tony and Truexx Jr. driving.

 Ryan Newman I dont see leaving Penske. I think Penske will try to give him what he wants.

 Mark Martin..Hendrick? Kinda makes me think two things. Either he gets a part time ride with one or two young guys getting in a sharing. Or one last shot at the cup. Either way Hendrick will ask Mark for something, and give Mark what ever he wishes.

 So What about Jamie McMurray? I have no idea. He will do good who ever picks him up. If Newman leaves the #12 that would be my first guess. But also we have RCR.

 The 4th RCR car. Mears? Newman? McMurray?  There are alot of good drivers looking for rides. I know alot of people saw Tony there. I dont think it would make him happy. Time will see who  gets it.

 I also just heard Menard might get out of DEI. If so to were? Also more on DEI. If Truexx is out. Also Martin out. And Menard leaves. Who will be left that has real seat time? This will either be a young driver team, or a flop of-a great shop.

 With the talk of DEI falling. I dont know how true but maybe. Could that open up another big Garage sale? Would Smoke and Jr. look in to it? How ironic would it be if Dale Jr., who left DEI, buys DEI out. Who would the sponsors be? With the size of Jr. Nation they would pound on his door.

 Jr. is truely his fathers son. I am not a fan, but respect the names. His father was one of the best ever of are sport. Jr. has his fathers smarts. He knows what it takes to be at the top of his game. He will do what it takes to one, win a championship. Two, get a team together that will be at the top of its game. Three, if he could take that team, would he?

 This will be intersting to watch.

 You also have to figure smaller teams in the mix. RedBull with Vickers success and A.J. not making races. Changes there. I se a seat maybe for Scott Speed. He won in the trucks. He is good. That good though, only time will tell.

 I kow I am missin alot. So if you would like add some. I hope this sillyness turns to gold for some looking for rides. I just am going to sit back, eat bratts, drink a little beer. And enjoy the ride.

 Ok I dont know how this will work but here are a few photos from Eldora with Noah. The first won is from that saturday night. Its Tony "After giving me a slap on the hand of a five" Taking the 100 grand to Scott Bloomquist after winning the Dream.

 The car on the stage is Tony after winning the Prelude.

 The one with Noah in the white t shirt, is him getting ready to flag the Prelude.

 Noah with the Checkard flag at the fence is him congradulting Scott for his win of the Dream.

 I hope everyone can see these. It is me learning how to do the photos.

 Thankyou Photogr for sharing this imformation with me.

 Ok. Its not that I think I know it all. Just going by the way drivers are at the present.

 1. Kyle "Shrub" Busch #18 easy pick.

 2. Jeff Burton #31 Suttle but like Mark Martin there when it counts.

 3. June Bug #88 he is doing what needs to be done with good cars that dont break...

 4. Carl "Flipper" Edwards #99 The guy is getting all his ducks in a row. He has been winning.

 5. Jeff Gordon #24 I hope the #24 team can hold it together and be willing to take a chance at a win or two.

 6. Greg Biffle #16 The guy is proving he is the right choice for the "Cat in th Hat"

 7. Clint "JackMan" Boyer #07 Yea he is bring the Ohh#7 back in the fight.

 8. Tony "Smoke" Stewart He wants to leave gibbs on great turms. He will win before the chace.

 9. J.J. #48 why so far back. I think him and Chad will stumble in the heat of the summer.

 10. Matt "The Brat" Kenseth #17. I dont know he has a championship car and team this year. But looks like with Robbie gone they are getting it together.

 11. Brian "I know he aint there yet" Vickers. He would be here if at Charlottoe he wouldn't have lost that tire. He is having a career year. He will give RedBull its first win soon.

 12. Its a toss up. Kahne#9 I know he was hot. He cooled quick. Hamlin #11 stumblin over his own two feet. Harvick #29 If he would stop trying to come from 5th or 6th to win a race that is to far out of reach. These three cars and teams will be fighting it out at Richmond.

 It will be a good race. I will not predict who will get it. Only the team and driver that step up to the plate and hit it out of here will make 12th. I know I will enjoy watching the races to get there. I hope you enjoy it as much as Noah and I.

 I did rant to much. Jr. Did what he needed to do to win. The man is good. I will give him that. The #88 team is doing better in the COT than the Champs from Hendrick. My biggest driver Jeff GOrdon is fighting to finish on the lead lap.

 I hated when Hendrick got rid of Kyle for Jr. Kyle is a KID with alot of tallent. I like that. When you go back to Richmond it looked like to kids fighting for first at any dirt track. That was racing. I dint want that wreck to happen. But I did like the fact they both went harder for it. And they both lost. Bet they would do it again if they had the chance.

 That is good racing. Kyle is doing it his way. Kinda like Sr. in his first half of his career. Jr. does it his way. Kinda like Hendricks call and collective drivers. No Kyle didn't fir the Hendrick style. Jr. does. That still wont make me a fan of his. Yet he did what he had to.

 Nascar has done that alot with the passing shutting off and coasting. My fav. Guy Jeff got it back in Dega years ago. Thankyou frevr3 for reminding me. Nascar has done that alot. I wonder if the rule after this will be in Black n White? Or will they leave it grey as it is?

 Again I am sorry for my rant. This weekend will be a good one. Noah and I will be in Milwaukee for the trucks and Nationwide cars. Then we will be home to enjoy the race in Cali. Were the drivers will turn Right as well as left.

 Be sure to watch and see if you see Noah he as always will be near the flagstand flagging. And thankyou Frevr3 for reminding me of what has been for a while.

 ALSO one last time..(And it hurts) congadultions to Dale Jr. and the #88 team.

 Well Kyle in the stats is kicking the rubber off Jrs. car. We have 14 races down and 22 to go. It is fun as an anti Earnhardt fan. "Still hate he is at Hendrick"..LOL..It is kinda fun to watch. What the black sheep from Hendricks camp is doing. I am enjoying this.

 Ok lets break it down.

 Kyle has 4 wins. Jr has.......O wins..Hmm Kyle is winning here.

 Ok lets do top fives.

 Kyle has 9 top fives..wow nine in 14 races.  Jr. has 6. Not to shabby there.

 Ok top tens 6th-10th.

 Kyle 1. Well 9 others are top fives...ok what about Jr. 3. well that puts them almost even with total top 10s. So Jr. isnt doing to bad.

 Now Kyle also has the worst finish of 43. Jr has 40th. So Jr. is better there.

 They are also even with outside the top 20 2 A piece.

 So I guess they are not to far apart on the year. Other than the 4 wins.

 Jr. has to be happy with just  not blowing up. And Kyle he is on top of the world.

 Oh wait another stat. Kyle has won in all 3 big series this year...How many has Jr. got..Hmm.O again. Ok Ok.. I will stop picking. Jr. is doing better than last year.

 Kyle on the other hand. Well he is Kicking #### and taking names. This is a fun thing to watch. Cant wait till Kyle wins in Chevy,Dodge, and Fords back yard...Though I am still a Chevy man...And hope Jeff Gordon pulls out the victory. It is a great year..

 Yea Noah and I made it back. Weather was bad. Racing was great. We are both tired. But now that I am back at work I can have a bit of time to update.

 Saturday night at ELDORA. The DREAM won by Scott Bloomquist. He drove a great car. He was awsome. I guess from the Prelude we knew he had great cars. Robby Gordon took Scotts back up car to a second place finish to Tony. Anyway. Scott took the lead around 30 or so laps in and never looked back. He went in and out of traffic like a knife threw butter. He showed why this was his fifth win of the Dream. He was a class act.

 When Noah and I got to meet Scott last year in Knoxville Iowa he was a great guy. He took the time for photos with him and Noah. He seemed to enjoy the fans. I am sure it was that way in victory lane.

 Anoth great finish came from Brian Birkhofer. Brian won the B main. That put him in 21st to start the a main. He like Scott had a great car. It took him a while to get through traffic. He made it up to the back of Scotts car. Near the end on restarts he could see the back of Scott. The only time he got close is when the two of them were in lap traffic. Brian didn't have the car to win, yet he got second from winning the b main. Great run. Remember the b main was 20 laps. Brian had under 10 minutes to change tires and do a couple adjustments. Then pick his way through 23 other cars. The best of 123 total cars and got second. That was a great race.

 Also Tony saturday night showed of the new sculpture of Mr. & Mrs Baltes. It is a life size sculpture. It will be there to great all fans on the way in to the track. That was a great touch. Thankyou Tony for a good racing week. The weather was bad. The racing was great. I will try to get a photo blog this week. Thanks for reading. And again Thankyou Tony Stewart.

The man ran a flawless race. He was high near the wall and looked almost perfect. Even at the restarts nobody could catch him. It was Tonys night. Enough about the race. The thankyou goes like this.

 It rained all day. Well before that. on tues night. Tony went through the camp sites telling people to battin down everything. He new a bad storm was coming. Yes Tony Stewart in a golf cart went through some of the camp sites telling people to get ready for the storm.

 Now when it came to wensday and the track. It didn't stop raining till around noon. Tony was on the track and working it. He did everything and anything to make it ready for the great race.

 The cool shot was when Tony pulled up to the flag stand in the packing truck. The old beat up chevy. Kyle Petty walked down through the crowd and got in. To good old friends working the track and laughing and having fun.

 That was what it was all about. What Tony was doing all this for. That was the best moment of the night. Yea TOny won a great race. He even climed the fence. But when him and Kyle were in the truck together, and the smiles they shared. That was what this was about.

 I hope they made the million..Oh wait I forgot. Tony said if for some reason they came up short on a million, he was making the diffrence. Yes Tony you were the star of the night. From before the race. Setting the race up. And to top it all off you won the darn thing.

 I am glad I am here to see it. If you as a race fan ever get a chance. Come to this track. Eldora. And prepare to get dirty. This place is awsome.

 Oh if you had payper view. Noah and I made it on., My friends said they saw us. I cant wait to watch it. But for now we are going to eat, rest and get ready for friday racing at Eldora. They are qualifing friday and raciong mains on saturday for the DREAM...

 Again thankyou Tony. Hope to see him back for saturdays race. He said he might be here.

 Talk to you all again when I am home. I had to come to Greenville to get HiFi access.

Oh I almost foregot. Great Job Robby Gordon on his latemodel debut. He ran great and finished second..Good job Robby.

Wow..What a weekend for Shrub..Winning the trucks race. Taking the points lead....Finishing 4th in cup..Giving Toyota its first ever points lead in Cup racing. Maybe only 2 races old but Wow..

 Dont forget..Now 40 laps in to the Nationwide series race he is only 10 points out of the lead here. Is Shrub the best of the best? Maybe right now. You know what I see in him? Rember that old black #3 driven by Dale Earnhardt Sr.? Yea rember when he would pass a car high or low? Kyle has that fire in his eye.

 Do I think he will take his place? No. Knowone ever will. Did Sr. take the Kings place? No. He made his own mark. But Kyle is outspoken about how he feels about the cars the racing and he like Sr. will tell you what he feels.

 My good friend frevr said nascar needs a new spoksman..Is Kyle it? No.. Not yet. But like Kyle his teamate, Tony would make a great nascar spokesman. I dont see him steping up till after this year. After he sees how his future will be and where he drives next year.

 Back to Shrub. The kid is everything a driver is to be. He is like Tony. Put him in it and he will drive. It doesnt matter..Four wheels, Helmet and cage. Drop the green and he races. From this weekend proof how well he races...Yes this year my pick started out to be and will be till after Homestead the pick for the championship Kyle Busch..

 This is from late febuary I just wanted to see how I picked the Shrub before he won his first race for Yoda.....Thanks for reading..