Humpy, Kentucky, a bit of NASCAR news this week

There's been a bit going on this week in the world of NASCAR.

Humpy Wheeler resigns - Humpy Wheeler will officially resign after this weekends running of the Coca Cola 600 as President and General Manager of Lowe's Motor Speedway.  From everything I've read about this, the timing and everything was not as Humpy had expected, I guess it was scheduled to announced later about his retirement, but a disagreement between him and Smith kind of pushed it up I guess, so it wasn't all amicable. 

Bruton Smith's, SMI, buys Kentucky - Smith said he will add more seats and try and get a Cup date for the track, although NASCAR said there is no guarantee.  It was also said that they may be in the process of buying another unnamed track that might help with that goal.  Rumors are floating around about him possibly buying Pocono and moving one of those dates, but Smith denied that he had been in contact with them.  This is NASCAR, so who really knows what's going on behind the scenes?

Ganassi makes another crew chief change - In another surprising move, Ganassi fired Jimmy Elledge and will bring up Brain Pattie to be the new crew chief for Montoya and the #42 team, less than a month after swapping the crew chiefs of the #41 and #42.  I was surprised to read that Montoya supposedly was told that they were wanting to "get rid" of Elledge and Montoya didn't want them to, he was happy with the way things were working despite the not so great finishes.

Tony Stewart is supposedly "getting closer" to knowing where he'll be next season, but they've been keeping it pretty quiet and he still is saying he has "not" asked to get out of his contract with Gibbs.  Until an announcement comes out, the rumor mill will still fly about where Tony will be, whether it be at Gibbs or somewhere else.

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