Over The Wall

Bristol

    This weekend was a big weekend for racing.  In my opinion Bristol puts on one of the best pre race shows around.  The only other comparison would be the all star race.  Any ways, this weekend had great intros starting with the drivers.  For the first time that I have seen the drivers were introduced by themselves to a song that they picked out.  One of the highlights was Elliot Sadler and Marcos Ambrose.  Sadler came out to the Rick Flair intro and the crowd went wild.  My favorite was the Marcos Ambrose song, I come from a land down under.  I’m sure that song has a title but I don’t know it.  After that they did a whole tribute to the soldiers and our armed forces.  I’m a big supporter of the people that give us freedom and I was glad to see the track applaud there services.  Not only do they do all that but they let the kids of crewman and drivers sing the National Anthem.  Every year that gets better and better.  My little one is 11 months old and maybe one day he’ll make it up to Bristol and do some singing.  That’s all for now.

What a crash

  For anyone who was watching the race on Monday you know what I’m about to say.  The race was pretty good and I don’t mind seeing Tony win but nobody was talking about the finish when the race was over.  The wreck that happened between the 77,24 and 31 was one that you don’t see very often.  The 9 car got loose and sent the 77 into the side wall.  At that particular point in the track the retaining wall is angled back into the track.  So when the 9 car pushed the 77 into the wall the 77 came flying back onto the track right in the middle of oncoming traffic.  After the wreck the Jeff Gordon said he saw what was going on in front of him and tried to speed up and get thru it but the 77 came across way faster than expected.  The crash happened near pit road so we all got an up close view of it and it sounds a lot worse when your close to the action rather than watching a replay on TV.  The good news is that all the guys in our race shop should be proud of the car they built and that it could hold up to a crash like that.  As a driver I would be happy to see a fellow driver walk away from an accident like that and know that Nascar is doing a good job on keeping driver safety where it needs to be.  Well, that s about all for now and it’s off to Michigan.