Apr 24

Written by: The Commish
4/24/2011 5:56 PM 

The prize winning THEEWJEARNHARDTS team won the bobblhead for RD#12 by tiebreaker over GORDONMANCRUSH, with the win going to the team that scored the most points in the previous round.  Great name for the first loser team.  And he's from that American bastion of liberal thinking and progressiveness, Lincoln, NE, the birthplace of the mancrush ... in some circles.

The last two-race weekend until October was a good one for those who started the right usual suspects.  The NASCAR Nationwide and Truck series were at Nashville and to no one's surprise Kyle won the Friday night truck race and Carl cemented his reputation as one of the best concrete track drivers on Saturday.

Did you know puns are, and have always been any society's lowest form of Yuma?

Did you know that no society or civilization on earth has avoided discovering how to rot some kind of fruit or vegetable matter to make a liquid that when consumed makes them feel goofy?

But I digress.

Of course Kyle won on Friday night in the truck race but how' bout a little bossa nova rift and a thwarted mugging or carjacking celebration for Nelson Piquet Jr.  The disgraced-or-not former Renaul F1 driver and son of a World Champion qualified fourth and finished an honest first loser in his Kevin Harvick Chevy.  Good for you, Nelsino.

Timothy Peters was third in front of Hornaday, Ron Buescher, Matt Crafton and Johnny Sauter.  Parker Kligerman was 10th and got 33 mfr points for driving the one Dodge in the field, the third different manufacturer behind all those Toyota's and Chevy's.  Austin Dillon was 11th and Todd Bodine was 19th for zero FMFL points.  Darn.

On Saturday Carl Edwards won over Kyle, Brad Keselowski, polesitter Joey Logano and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. with Trevor Bayne, Austin Dillon, Reed Sorenson, Josh Wise and Aric Almirola sixth through 10th.  Justin Allgaier was 11th ahead of Kenny Wallace, Elliot Sadler, David Reutimann, Jason Leffler and Ryan Truex.

This was an amazing race in terms of how the coverage clearly showed the big advantage the Roush Fenway Fords, powered by Roush Yates engines, has on all others on the mile and a half type tracks.  It's called torque and the amazing part was seeing how a Ford car could pull all others coming out of turns and down the straights.

I love torque.  Torque is what makes the world go 'round, even if it doesn't teach the world to sing or result in fewer toilet tissue sheets or extend dimensions and stamina for up to four hours with relative safety.

The Cat in the Hat has figured out that most NASCAR races are run on tracks that will favor torque over max horsepower and the best chip off Robert Yates' block, with help from Big Blue, has delivered an engine with a competitive advantage.

And that's why I'm picking a Cup championship for Carl, Greg or Matt and a Nationwide series championship, even if its just for owner points, or even mfr points for Jack thanks to Carl, Ricky or Trevor.

Note:  I am of a civilization that long ago figured out how to distill grain to eventually create a liquid that makes one feel goofy.  Such liquid has nothing to do with my prediction but I've wagered a bottle of Gentleman Jack that FoMoCo will take home at least one championship trophy this season.

Big news but not news yet:  The little bird definitely not called Tweety, twitter, Foghorn Leghorn, Heckel, Jeckel or the roadrunner told me we're going to have one kick ass prize for the Super 7 Sweep team that scores the most points in May.

Rumor has it the prize will be an autographed helmet.  Wishful thinking says it will be a helment autographed by every one of the 33 starters for this year's Centennial Indy 500.  Heck though; if the helmet has the autographs of all the starters maybe it will also have the John Hancocks of four time winners A.J. Foyt, Rick Mears and Al Unser and some guy named Mario.

Oh, please.  That would be impossible.  No way could SPEED and/or Robin Miller and Indianapolis Motor Speedway pull that off.  Not even with Sunoco's help.

A helmet like that would be worth a fortune.  And to think it would be offered as a prize for a team that scores the most points over four rounds in our FREE Wind Tunnel Super 7 Sweep game?

I must've had too much Gentleman Jack today.

Next week, RD#13, presents us with two NASCAR races at Richmond and IndyCar in Sao Pablo.  Still lotsa open wheel noise about double wide restarts and different rules for superstars (say thank you, Helio) but this latest race is sure to be better on both counts; everyone's under the microscope now -- including race control.  Lineups are due by Thursday at midnight or 12:00 a.m. on Friday, the day of the round's first race.

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