Oct 17

Written by: The Commish
10/17/2010 3:45 PM 

Jamie McMurray won Saturday night's Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, beating most-laps-leader Kyle Busch, Jimmie Johnson, Denny Hamlin and Greg Biffle.  Matt Kenseth, Joey Logano, Kevin Harvick, David Reutimann and David Ragain filled out the top 10 with Juan Pablo, Carl Edwards, Regan Smith, Mark Martin, Martin Truex Jr. and Marcos Ambrose filling out the FMFL top 16.

Tony Stewart suffered damage when team mate Ryan Newman spun early to come home  a pissadointing 21st. Polesitter Jeff Gordon started stong and then got lousy to finish 23rd.  Dale Jr. was never in the hunt, finishing 29th in front of Kurt Busch (30th), Newman (36th) and Kasey Kahne in 38th.

The only reason I mention the No. 9 driver is because I started the son of a gun.

Brad Keselowski took adantage of pit strategy and good yellow flag fortune to win Saturday's Nationwide Series race at Charlotte. He didn't lead the most laps, those 44 points went to Kyle, but Brad drove his 2011-spec COT Chevy Nationwide car to its second victory in four starts with team mate Justin Algaier third behind Martin Truex Jr.  Joey Logano, polesitter Clint Bowyer, Busch, Reed Sorenson, Aric Almirola, Ryan Newman and Kevin Harvick.

Carl Edwards was 13th, the top Ford with fellow Roush Fenway drivers Ricky Stenhouse Jr. next in 14th, Trevor Bayne 17th and Colin Braun 19th.  Paul Menard started sixth and led but DNF'd thanks to overheating problems while Danica started 18th and finished 19th with no incidents.

I guess the new cars are growing on me.  Neither the Mustang or Challenger race cars look like Mustangs or Challengers from the side or any perspective other than front and back, mainly thanks to decals but at least they're different from the Cup cars.

Next week:  Cup and Trucks at Martinsville, Nationwide at Gateway and F1 at the inaugural Korean Grand Prix featuring a track that may or may not be complete before raceday.

Mmmm.  Intrigue.

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