Three Kings Of The Mountain

By Mark Young

WHEW!!  What a weekend.  Between the computer at home crashing, and my daughter's birthday party we had a weekend full of racing.  I missed the F-1 race that aired early Sunday morning but didn't miss the marathon Indy 500 and a very interesting Coca-Cola 600.  Though I really don't care for fuel mileage endings to races this one provided us three very deserving candidates for KOTM that will share the throne this week.  All hail the three kings; Casey Mears, J.J. Yeley, and Kyle Petty.

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Why three Kings?  To me is just seems right.  Casey Mears ran a very good race Sunday and considering how far back in the points they were (35th at that time) it only made sense to stay out and gamble the gas man.  The result was his first ever NASCAR NEXTEL Cup victory in the longest race of the season.  The same gamble was taken by Yeley and his team as well and thus he was rewarded with his best ever Cup finish also.  Yeley has seen a ton of bad luck this season and it was nice to see him get a very deserved top five finish.  Kyle and his Coke Zero team also gambled on gas and won thus giving him his first top five finish since the late 90's.

Sure these guys had great finishes because it was worth the gamble.  Sure they might not have been there if it were not for the two big wrecks that took out a lot of very fast race cars.  BUT, they stayed out of trouble, kept the fenders on the car, and saved as much fuel as they could and in return they got their moment in the sun.  Say what you want my fellow blog-heads but these guys deserve to be KOTM.

What say you?