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What will the Shootout bring?
By DAVID GREEN
Anybody think the Budweiser Shootout tonight might be a little action-packed?
If not, things will take a distinct turn from the pattern established in practice so far, with the rollbacks and clean-up crews staying busy -- not the mention the mechanics who have to repair wrecked cars, or get back-ups prepped for their understudy roles.
At this point, it would be safe to guess there won't be any multicar crashes in qualifying this afternoon. But I'm not betting even on that.
Tonight's non-points special will be an unrestricted (pun intended) test of the new policy of allowing drivers to police themselves in bump-drafting. Then, there will be NASCAR's reaction to how the drivers fare in the exhibition race.
It is entirely possible that the self-policing policy will be modified, or even rescinded entirely, before the 500. I'm not predicting that, merely suggesting that it is possible.
Then again, tonight's race be turn out to be the next to take its lumps for being boring.
Either way, I suspect we'll be talking about it tomorrow.
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Comments
OK -- liked what I saw. The cars seem much more raceable.
Hated to see the Biff and all those other guys get taken out. Looked to me as if Gordon wrecked the 16, but I'm not accusing Jeff of doing anything deliberate or even reckless. Just one of those things; late laps + close proximity + minor misjudgment = wreck.
Highlight of the night: Stewart's mid-race thread-the-needle move to take second place. Pretty darned impressive.
Congrats to Harvick and RCR.
Posted by: David Green | Feb 6, 2010 10:33:09 PM
David, I also like what I saw. A pretty entertaining race. And yes I think that last wreck was Gordon's fault. Just hope we don't have too many of those next week. Might see a few on Thursday though.
I'm off to Daytona on Tuesday and looking forward to it more now...
Posted by: Peter | Feb 7, 2010 8:06:14 AM
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