Doesn't look good for him unless he pulls a massive rabbit from you know where, and the bad news is his last 7 finishes at Charlotte have been improving.
Hey, Martin is still VERY much in it, I'm pulling for him, I remember watching his rookie season and the battles with Big E, Waltrip, Rusty and later on Burton, so after 27 years, it be nice to see him finally pull it off. It would also be nice to see Stewart do it as a first time owner/driver, but since the power plant is oh, gee big surprise, Hendrick, it's not too much a feat in the long term reality of it. HMS has there arms all around the R09 motor and they are tough to beat. Oh, and after Charlotte, the rest of the tracks, Stewart has good performances at.
Kenseth, well, what in the blue heck happened to the ENTIRE Roush stable? Something went seriously awry there. They need to get out on some non-sanctioned tracks and figure out what in the wrold is wrong, whether it's the equipment or all the personel changes they made over there. Something is seriously mis-firing in that camp and Roush is going to be just about the only team running Fords next season. I would suspect the former Gillete-Evernham teams to swtich to Ford next year since they dropping Dodge, but if I were them, I'd be looking at Roush's perfomance since all Fords in the circuit pretty much run a Roush-Yates power plant, and I would be very skeptical about that. Geesh, imagine nearly 75% of the field being all Hendrick power? That's scary.
JR? Well, I can't honestly say what in the world is the story there. First it was DEI's equipment "being dated", then the tension with Theresa, then, switching over to Hendrick which should of been a slam dunk move, eh-eh, not when you continually argue with your crew chief(s) over pit strategy. The most logical concept for him is stating to float around in the past couple of weeks: a swap, releasing Kevin Harvick from RCR who is no longer "happy Harvick" there, has always sought to have all conection of the #3 removed from the car, and let Jr. ride it out at RCR.
So that's my take in a nutshell.
Why couldn't I go? Well, I can't even affor dgas to get back and forth to work, so a plane ticket and hotel, didn't look none to promissing and it was sort of last minute when I saw how low the ticket prices were.
Me 35/XW 33 S13 & S12 M: 10/17/98 OM & S: 07/08 D final 06/09/09 12/03/09 - 06/13/10 "Piercing" 06/13/10: Engaged to Re-marry 10/17/10 06/25/10: Expecting baby #3 2/14/11
