With last nights or early this mornings NASCAR Nextel All-Star Challenge in the books for yet another year, the racing last night was anything but boring, the new pavement, harder tires and 13 gallon fuel cells all played a part in last nights carnage of aggressive driving...turn 4 was the biggest problem all night showing great saves and off the wall spins and wrecks.

After the Nextel Open were Scott Riggs domainated with taking the lead on lap 2 and never looking back, it was on to the main event, the Nextel All-Star Challenge, the introductions were mixed, polesitter Kasey Kahne getting a great responce while Kyle & Kurt Busch getting the worsest reponses I have heard yet. Kyle Petty was voted in for the fan voting, most people including myself voted for him because if he got in, Victory Junction would get a large donation, so why not...

The Nextel All-Star Challenge has 3 segments, in segment 1, mandatory green flag pit stops had to happen and after a caution period, the next lap would be the first of pit stops with a hole pack of cars coming down with Jimmie Johnson making his pit stop and sparking off a spin...the next two laps would give others there chance to pit under green, when it was all over, segment 1 ended with Kyle Busch picking up $75,000 leading at the end.

Segment 2 included an invert of the top 10...During segment 2, the big one happened just off of two 2 with two cars hard into the outside wall and a huge chain reaction taking out a good chunk of the field. Kevin Harvick survivied leading at the end.

Segment 3 (the finale) Tony Stewart and Matt Kenseth got together going into turn 1 taking them both into the wall and out of the race, I will leave the comments aftermath out...after the restart, it was single file to the end with Jimmie Johnson winning in his house...and 1 million dollars.

Thoughts: If this is a preview of what might happen next week in the 600, all I can say is for fans and drivers, be ready for anything...as for the all-star races, I didn't know what to expect going in, even after I enjoyed Friday night's trucks, but I don't know about the All-Star race, I had had enough after the big one in segment 2...

See Yeah!
By Brian from Racedriven