Wow. What a far out finish. You know Busch is little sore this morning.
I noticed, while surfing the various NASCAR sites this morning, that there's a trend of blaming this kind of stuff on restrictor plates - even though last night's finish was almost a carbon copy of the famous Petty/Pearson Daytona finish in 1976.
Can't anyone accept that last lap blocking/wrecking is just the way the sport works out sometimes?
Only thing I'm sorry about is that Stewart felt he had to do so much apologizing.
 The first block is a given, that is fair game. The second block is stupid and asking for trouble. The ironic thing is if Shrub would have RACED Stewart to the line he would have had a better than 50% chance of beating Stewart. The outside line stalled all night and nobody was pushing Stewart. Shrubs spotter is partly to blame here also as he said "going high" when Stewart already had a fender on Shrubs quarter.
 Stewart has no reason to feel bad about winning but I understand his feelings about the outcome.
 These guys feel so invincible in these cars that they feel they can get away with anything. Restrictor plate racing has inherent dangers but the track doesn't drive the cars nor do the fans so before anyone starts on the "Wrecking or Racing" deal there is nothing wrong with a fan being awed by what happened last night. Especially since no one was seriously injured.
 About the only way they are going to be able to stop these front stretch wrecks at Daytona and Talladega is to straighten out the tri-oval. At least that way if they do wreck the chances of a car going into the grandstands is pretty much eliminated. Either that or NASCAR has to clamp down on the second, third and forth blocking attempts.
I have to dis-agree with the spotter comment. He was still finishing the sentence when the cars RPM's went up, and at that point in the race (finish line in sight) he was watching the mirror more than the hood pins or listening to his spotter. He started moving up long before the spotter started calling it, at least that's the way I saw it.
I have to dis-agree with the spotter comment. He was still finishing the sentence when the cars RPM's went up, and at that point in the race (finish line in sight) he was watching the mirror more than the hood pins or listening to his spotter. He started moving up long before the spotter started calling it, at least that's the way I saw it.
Could be. A lot of the time the spotter's voice is out of sync with the picture.
I've always thought the spotter was too easy a scapegoat.
Maybe I don't understand "modern day" racing, but in my gut I still find the idea of a spotter somewhat ludicrous.
Sure...someone to tell you there's a crash high in turn 3 makes sense, but someone to tell you what the guy behind you is doing, or to tell you when your quarter panel is completely past someone....I thought it was the driver's job to know this stuff without someone telling him.
I just don't quite get it.