Nov 8

Written by: The Commish
11/8/2010 10:32 AM 

Kyle Busch won his seventh NASCAR truck race of the season at Texas on Friday, holding off ThorSport teammates Johnhy Sauter and Matt Crafton with Todd Bodine and Elliott Sadler fourth and fifth.  Ron Hornaday crashed early and was classified 32nd.

It's rumored that Jack Roush wants to be back in the truck series with two teams and a couple of young drivers next season and not just to run but to win and compete for a championship again.  As usual the decision will come down to sponsorship and support but it sure would be nice to have 'factory' Fords up front again.

Carl Edwards had the fastest car all day Saturday to win the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at TMS with a pissed off Kyle Busch second and Brad Keselowski third.  Joey Logano was fourth, Kevin Harvick eighth in front of Paul Menard, Roush Fenway shavetails Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Trevor Bayne were 11th and 12th with Erik Darnell 14th to put all five RFR Fords in the top 15.

Keselowski clinched Roger Penske's first NASCAR championship, Danica finished 22nd and Kyle was screaming after the race about Edwards jumping the final restart.  He had a right to complain but water down the loo as they say.

On Sunday Denny Hamlin completed his 2010 sweep of the Cup races at Texas, holding off Matt Kenseth, Mark Martin, Joey Logano and most-lap-led driver Greg Biffle.  Happy Harvick was sixth in front of Clint Bowyer, David Ragan, former series points leader Jimmie Johnson and Paul Menard.  Tony Stewart was 11th, Carl Edwards was 10th in front of Ryan Newman, Kurt Busch was 24th in front of Dale Jr., Juan Pablo finished 28th and Kyle Busch was 32nd.

Purses flew early when Jeff Burton wrecked Jeff Gordon under caution, knocking both out of the race.  Wonderboy walked over to Burton and shoved his chest and then a scuffle almost started; two far larger than either driver officials kept them separated for the walk to the meat wagon where they could kiss and make up on the way to the infield care center.

Kudos for Jeff on taking some action.  Hardly noticeable was the fact that when Gordon shoved Burton the No. 24 driver pushed himself backwards far more than the No. 31 driver was propelled.  Physics, I guess.

Team Red Bull led every lap at the Brazilian GP with Sebastien Vettel taking the win over Mark Webber while one-race-to-go championship points leader Fernando Alonso finished third.  Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button followed with Nico Rosberg, Michael Schumacher, surprise polesitter Nico Hulkenberg, Robert Kubica and Kamui Kobayashi filling out the top 10.

Red Bull clinched the manufacturer's title but with one race to go Vettel has to win at Abu Dhabi and hope Alonso is fifth or worse and Webber has to win with 'Nando no better than third. 

Yes, I'm starting all three next weekend.

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