Well maybe the unpredictability of Talladega will be enough to slow Forensic2 down, whose score in the last 2 trifecti (a combined 8) would still be low enough to take any week so far this year and almost all of last year.  A job well done Forensic, I don’t know if we should chalk it up to experience or if you have been extremely lucky.  If this keeps up we are going to have to introduce some sort of NASCAR style rule to equalize the field.

This week I wanted to share a few more pictures with you and as well as the Trifecta maybe answer a little trivia question.

 These pictures were taken quite a few years ago, when my brother and I went on our first major adventure to the south, to Talladega.  I was still young and a young NASCAR fan but the things we did see on this trip shaped the fan I have become. We stopped in Charlotte to see the shops.  At Hendrick motorsports we were able to walk right in to the race car shops and boy did our jaws drop when we went through the door of that non- descript, grey box, building.  This is what we saw.

This is actually three pictures from a point of view standing in the corner, sweeping 90 across the shop floor,  I have been to Hendrick more recently and boy has it changed, making this memory even sweeter.  We were invited in, to look closer at the car that my brother (the number 50 shirt) is standing beside and the car behind that one was the car they had raced at Martinsville with 3 days before. The back end sheet metal was all torn away and it was already being rebuilt.  It was pretty cool.

This one I have tried to post before is of our set up in the camping field.  We drove 20 hours in a chevette through the mountains.  We were young. The trip killed that car.

And this is the trivia question.  It was taken at Talladega, and is of a driver we followed up here in the northeast, racing on dirt for many years before this.  Do you know who it is? And what significance does Talladega hold for him?

 And on with the Trifecta…it’s easy this week

 First up, on Sunday at 8:00 am ET the Formula 1 cars launch in Spain at Catalunya. 

 Second the Sprint Cup parking lot races for restrictor plate supremacy at Talladega, starting at 1:00 pm ET

 And the final race is the last we will hear the IRL cars as they go into hibernation until the Indianapolis 500 in the biggest weekend of the year for the Trifecta.   They are in Kansas and the race is scheduled to go at 5 pm ET.

Picks are due at 7:30 on Sunday morning and all the same penalties apply.  Good luck to all (although Forensic doesn’t need it, apparently) and thanks for your participation.