Kathy's Pit Stop

Logano gets the win at rain-shortened NH race

While the big news should have been Logano's first Cup victory, the biggest news seemed to have been the wreck and who's fault it was.

Most seem to put the blame clearly on Kyle Busch, including a few drivers involved in the wreck, but haven't we seen this kind of thing happen before in many races?  In other races we've seen it blamed on the lead car and the car that spun it's tires, but actually isn't it just a racing deal?  I mean I highly doubt that Jr. intended to spin his tires and although I'm not a fan of Busch, I highly doubt he intentionally wrecked 8 cars.  Busch even apologized for what happened and accepted blame, something he usually doesn't do, even when something is clearly his fault.

Yes, drivers and fans were mad, rightly so, they got their cars tore up, but you can't put the blame solely on Busch, it was one of those racing deals, could he have lifted a bit more, probably, but still it's a racing deal.  No matter, people love to hate on Busch and I'm sure he will take the brunt of the flack for the outcome.

Your thoughts?

Kahne gets his first road course win at Sonoma

Kasey Kahne held off Tony Stewart to get the win in a green/white/checkered finish at Sonoma.  Congrats to Kahne!

I have to say that this race was a bit more interesting than in has been in the past, these guys are getting a lot more aggressive on these road courses and it was definitely more interesting than last weeks race.  The double file restarts added to the action, especially in the latter laps and definitely on the last restart.  Lots of beatin' and bangin' during this race and it wasn't a short track, but it made for some interesting racing.

With his 2nd place finish, Stewart added to his points lead over Gordon, he now leads by 84 points, Johnson is in 3rd, 157 points down.

Congrats again to Kahne for his win.

Your thoughts?

Boring Michigan

Michigan definitely proved itself to be the typical follow the leader track, with the leader getting a huge lead.  It seems to be that way at all the d-shaped ovals, add the loose factor in and it makes a boring race. 

I don't know about the rest of you, but I like to see racing for position from first on back, not just a line of cars, looking more like a parade than a race.

Congrats to Mark Martin for his win.

I'm not sure if everyone heard about Benson's wreck on Saturday, he is expected to be fine, but he has multiple injuries from that wreck.  Ironic is he wouldn't have been in that race if he still had his truck ride, his team folded last week due to sponsorship troubles.  My best wishes go out to Benson for a speedy recovery.

Stewart wins!

Tony Stewart, shut up his naysayers by getting his first win as owner/driver at Pocono.  While this has never been an exciting race, it was great to see Tony get his win. 

So many people said Tony and Ryan wouldn't do well this year because of the new team, well I think they've both proved those naysayers wrong.  Tony leads the points standings over Gordon by 71 points and Newman is 4th in points.

I also read an interesting stat about Tony, he's only led the points in two other seasons and he went on to win the championship in those seasons, maybe he could do it again this year.

Your thoughts?

Double-File restarts ~ starting this weekend

NASCAR made the announcement this afternoon, starting with this weekends race in Pocono, all restarts in the Cup series will be double-file, regardless of how many laps left. 

The leader will be able to choose whether he wants to restart on the inside or outside and second will line up next to him and the rest will double up behind them with odd number positions on the inside and even on the outside.

At this time it's only for the Cup series, but will be implemented in the Nationwide and Truck series in the near future.

I'm glad they finally decided to do it this way, no more lap cars getting in the way, but they (lap cars) are still able to race against each other for the free pass.  NASCAR made a great decision on this one!

Your thoughts?