Captain Vanilla and the Chase
So the Na$car season is over. I didn't watch very much this year. (TV ratings back me up, they were down for almost every race). I think that Na$car took the wind out of the sails of what was once a great series. It seems that is you look cross eyed at another driver you are going to the big yellow and black (formally red) trailer for a severe tongue lashing and possibly the loss of precious points. So it seems that it really has become a bunch of cars going around in a circle.
Captain Vanilla (Jimmie Johnson) is the new champion. Na$car could not want for a better representative of their bland brand of racing. Toe the line, be kind to other animals, and you too could be a multimillionaire "race" car driver.
The Chase for the Cup sucks. Why? Let's look at my favorite driver Tony Stewart. He fell short by 16 points of making the Chase and finished 11th in the standings. But here are the top drivers under the old point system (Thanks Jayski.com)
Unofficial 2006 "Classic" Points Standings...
1) #48-Jimmie Johnson 5158
2) #17-Matt Kenseth, 5154, -4
3) #29-Kevin Harvick, 4838, -320
4) #20-Tony Stewart, 4727, -431
5) #11-Denny Hamlin, 4725, -433
6) #8-Dale Earnhardt Jr., 4641, -517
7) #24-Jeff Gordon, 4567, -591
8) #31-Jeff Burton, 4535, -623
9) #9-Kasey Kahne, 4497, -661
10) #6-Mark Martin, 4484, -674
11) #99-Carl Edwards, 4428, -730
12) #5-Kyle Busch, 4416, -742
13) #16-Greg Biffle, 4075, -1083
Tony would have wound up 4th and there is no reason to think he wouldn't have tried a little harder if he had a shot at the championship. It must be kind of depressing in a way.
On a positive note I want to give a big thumbs up to Bootie Barker, crew chief of the 00 Busch car. He calls things like he sees them, and he called out Na$car by stating that cutting testing dates actually costs the teams more money. RCR for example built this full scale simulator to reproduce track conditions at a cost of unknown millions. Bootie says every time Na$car tries to say them money they wind up costing the teams ten times as much.
Captain Vanilla (Jimmie Johnson) is the new champion. Na$car could not want for a better representative of their bland brand of racing. Toe the line, be kind to other animals, and you too could be a multimillionaire "race" car driver.
The Chase for the Cup sucks. Why? Let's look at my favorite driver Tony Stewart. He fell short by 16 points of making the Chase and finished 11th in the standings. But here are the top drivers under the old point system (Thanks Jayski.com)
Unofficial 2006 "Classic" Points Standings...
1) #48-Jimmie Johnson 5158
2) #17-Matt Kenseth, 5154, -4
3) #29-Kevin Harvick, 4838, -320
4) #20-Tony Stewart, 4727, -431
5) #11-Denny Hamlin, 4725, -433
6) #8-Dale Earnhardt Jr., 4641, -517
7) #24-Jeff Gordon, 4567, -591
8) #31-Jeff Burton, 4535, -623
9) #9-Kasey Kahne, 4497, -661
10) #6-Mark Martin, 4484, -674
11) #99-Carl Edwards, 4428, -730
12) #5-Kyle Busch, 4416, -742
13) #16-Greg Biffle, 4075, -1083
Tony would have wound up 4th and there is no reason to think he wouldn't have tried a little harder if he had a shot at the championship. It must be kind of depressing in a way.
On a positive note I want to give a big thumbs up to Bootie Barker, crew chief of the 00 Busch car. He calls things like he sees them, and he called out Na$car by stating that cutting testing dates actually costs the teams more money. RCR for example built this full scale simulator to reproduce track conditions at a cost of unknown millions. Bootie says every time Na$car tries to say them money they wind up costing the teams ten times as much.
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posted by eddie @ 11/21/2006 09:38:00 AM
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