It is Wednesday and I am still bored from the Talladega race Sunday afternoon. What an embarrassment for NASCAR. Many of NASCAR's critics already knock the "left turn only circuit" for being akin to watching the dryers at the laundramat.

After NASCAR dropped the "no bump drafting in the turns" bomb at last weekend, it seems the drivers collectively decided to make the race as boring as possible by falling in line quickly and just riding out the 500 miles "at 50% throttle," according to Jimmy Johnson during the race. It was boring. No exciting position battles, and very few 2, 3 or even 4 wide battles.

The draw to restrictor plate races like, Talladega and Daytona, is the mass of machinery racing by at nearly 200 mph. If the fans get nervous watching cars race 6 inches from each other,