Aug
16
Written by:
The Commish
8/16/2011 4:46 PM
Only two rounds to go before the end of the Super 7 Sweep Regular Season contest and every player still has a chance to pick poorly in all seven series.
Well it's not really the picks that are poor. It's what happens on the track that turns a decent pick into a big fat zero.
Like picking the No. 99 Gainsco car in the Rolex race at The Glen and watching it crash right off the bat, before you've even settled in to the couch to watch the darn race.
Starting from pole and leading the most laps it was the No. 10 SunTrust Dallara/Chevy that took the win over the No. 01 Pruett/Rojas Riley/BMW, and the No. 8 Riley/Ford with the No. 61, 60, 5, 9 and 77 following.
I heard someone mention on the TV broadcast that folks have seen the new DP that's supposed to look like a Corvette and it really does look like a 'Vette. I'll believe it when I see it with my own two orbs.
Kurt Busch took over the No. 22 Penske Dodge Challenger from an injured Brad Keselowski and beat out Jimmie Johnson and his No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevy, Joey Logano, Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards for the NNS win. Paul Menard, Ron Fellows, Aric Almirola, Trevor Bayne and Elliott Sadler filled out the top 10.
Marcos Abrose finally got a real, official NASCAR Sprint Cup W at The Glen in beating Bad Brad in the Blue Deuce Dodge, Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr. and Joey Logano with Happy Harvick, Juan Pablo, A.J. Allmendinger, Jeff Burton and Jimmie Johnson. Carl Edwards was 12th in front of Jeff Gordon, Dale Jr. was 15th in front of Ryan Newman and Tony Stewart was a pissadointing 27th.
And that brings us to the return of the IndyCars to Loudon, N' Hampshire, where Ryan Hunter-Reay got the win over Oriol Servia, Scott Dixon, James Hinchcliffe and Will Power with Danica, Takuma Sato, Ryan Briscoe, Charlie Kimball and Vitor Meira filling out the top 10. Helio was 17th, Dario was 20th after dominating but being taken out by Sato and Tony Kanaan was 22nd.
Maybe.
With a very few laps to go the race went yellow because it was sprinkling and then, despite almost every driver pleading on their radios to abandon the start due to moisture on the track, they threw the green flag and all hell broke loose.
Well, not all hell. It was Danica Patrick, who spun when she applied power coming out of four and caused a chain reaction that crash a bunch of cars -- including Will Power, who was hoping he could make up some ground on Dario since the Scotsman was already in street clothes by then.
So The Great Brian Barnhart decided they shouldn't have tried to restart the race and determined the final finishing order would be the same as the previous lap's lineup.
But hold on there. Both Oriol Servia and Scott Dixon passed RHR when they passed the cone and saw the green flag waiving. And no one can remember, in the entire history of CART/Champ Car/IndyCar, when an incident on the track forced going back to the running order of the previous lap.
Now there's news of a couple of protests and God only knows if IndyCar will make the mistake of changing their minds again.
It won't matter to the Commish. Our results are final no mater what IndyCar does.
But it sure makes Race Control look like a bunch of dopes.
This week we have Cup and trucks at Michigan, NNS and Rolex at Montreal and ALMS at Elkhart Lake. I'm counting on plenty of crashes everywhere but MIS and hoping I can again make up a few points on Adam Alexander in the SPEED Celebrity League!
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