SATURDAY AFTERNOON’S JOURNEYMAN RACE AT P.I.R. PROVIDED AT LEAST SOME… DECENT RACING ACTION…BUT THE SHOW WAS MOSTLY AN EXERCISE OF ”WATCHING…CARL EDWARDS POWER HIS WAY TO HIS 3RD CONSECUTIVE JOURNEYMAN SERIES NOVEMBER…P.I.R. RACE WIN AS THE BACK FLIPPER LED 156 LAPS ON WAY TO HIS CAREER 4TH… P.I.R…JOURNEYMAN WIN… WHILE EDWARDS WAS IN A LEAGUE…
CARL EDWARDS MADE IT A TWO FOR TWO PHOENIX WEEKEND WHEN HE MADE IT TWO WINS IN TWO DAYS AT THE D-SHAPED OVAL IN A RACE WHICH SAW HIM DOMINATE EARLY AND THEN…GIVE WAY TO POINT LEADER…DENNY HAMLIN WHO HAD A SHOT AT THE WIN BUT…LIKE MANY OTHERS STUMBLED ON FUEL MILEAGE COSTING HIM…POSSIBLY A…
LAST YEAR…THIS RACE WAS PRETTY MUCH ALL KEVIN HARVICK & COMPANY AS HARVICK WON THE RACE…AND HIS DRIVER…RON HORNADAY…WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP… THIS YEAR…IT WAS HARVICK’S DRIVER CLINT BOWYER…IN A BRAND NEW…K.H.I. TRUCK PARLAYING HIS 3RD SPOT QUALIFYING RUN INTO A WIN AS HE…DOMINATED…MAKE THAT COMPLETELY…DOMINATED THE SHOW…WHICH IN TURN GOT…2ND PLACE FINISHING KYLE BUSCH…OFF TO…
“HUMDINGER”…LIKE…”SHUNT” ARE REAL F-1 RACE ACTION DESCRIBIN’ WORDS…DIRECT FROM F-1 (NO LESS) AND THE F-1ER’S PUT ON A ”HUMDINGER” OF A RACE AND IT WAS APPARENTLY THE EARLY RACE ”BRAIN FADES” IN JAPAN THAT IGNITED THE ”HUMDINGER-LIKE” QUALITIES INCLUDING THE… PLETHORA OF… ”SHUNTS”…IN THIS PARADE… UNLIKE NASCAR WHICH LIKES TO CLUSTER THEIR CRASHIN’ ACTION AT…
THE U.S.A.C./C.R.A. “CAL SPRINTERS” AND THE “BACK-EASTER’S…(MOSTLY FROM INDIANA) HEADED TO…WEASLEY NAMED…PERRIS SPEEDWAY FOR THREE NIGHTS OF…HEAD TO HEAD SPRINT CAR RACIN’…OVER THE WEEKEND…AND HERE’S HOW THINGS…SHOOK OUT… BEGINNING ON THURSDAY NIGHT WITH 51 SPRINTERS CHECKING IN THE OPENING ROUND SAW NATIONAL POINT LEADER LEVI JONES PASS…BUD KAEDING…WITH… 3 TO GO…TO TAKE THE OPENING NIGHT…
IN FRIDAY NIGHT’S TRUCK RACE…AT TEXAS KYLE BUSH PICKED UP HIS 7TH WIN OF THE 2010 TRUCKIN’ SEASON AND ON SATURDAY HE JUST MISSED BACKING IT UP IN THE JOURNEYMAN RACE WHEN HE LOST THE GREEN-WHITE WRECKER RESTART TO CARL EDWARDS WHO MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE JUMPED THE RE-START…BUT TWO LAPS LATER WHEN THE…
DESPITE BEING ALONG…LONG…RACE…THE TEXAS CUP SHOW WAS INTERESTING ENOUGH FOR US TO SLOW DOWN OUR D.V.R…AND GET SOMEWHAT INVOLVED IN THE BROADCAST FOR A CHANGE…AND THE “SLOWING DOWN TO WATCH”…WAS TRIGGERED…NOT ONLY BY THE ON TRACK ACTION…BUT…THE ANTICS OCCURRING IN THE PITS…AS WELL… MIXED IN WITH SOME PRETTY GOOD RACING…INCLUDING THE CONTINUED RESURGENCE OF THE…
THE TRUCKERS…LED OFF THE TEXAS WEEKEND…WITH KYLE BUSCH DOMINATING THE SHOW YET AGAIN…AS HE LED THE MOST LAPS…AND HAD THE FIELD…YET AGAIN…RACING FOR 2ND… BUSCH…VISITED VICTORY LANE FOR THE 7TH TIME IN 14 TRIES THIS YEAR AS HIS FIRST FORAY AS A TEAM OWNER…SEEMS TO BE PAYING DIVIDENDS…AS HE NOW LEADS THE…OWNERS POINT STANDINGS BY…
THE MINUTIAE PICKIN’S ARE A LITTLE SLIM THIS WEEK…BUT HERE’S… WHAT WE’VE GOT… THE WORLD OF OUTLAWS WINGED SPRINTERS WERE OFF THIS WEEK AND PREPARING FOR THE BIMBO BAKERYTH, 5TH, & 6TH… HERE’S A LOOK AT THE POINT STANDINGS… SPONSORED SEASON ENDING SHOWS WHICH FEATURE THE CLOSEST CHAMPIONSHIP POINT BATTLE IN SERIES HISTORY…AND WITH JUST…
THE WORLD OF OUTLAWS WINGED SPRINTERS SPENT SATURDAY NIGHT AT EL-BRIDGE, NEW YORK’S…ROLLING WHEELS RACEWAY WHERE STEVE KINSER HAS BEEN COMING SINCE 1980 AND IN 2010… (30 YEARS LATER)…IT WAS KINSER PASSING HIS SON KRAIG ON LAP 17 OF THE 25 LAP ”CAUTION FREE” RACE TO RECORD HIS 12TH WIN AT THE TRACK…AND THE 561ST…
THE F-1…SEMI-FINAL…IN BRAZIL…THE HOME OF THE 2016 OLYMPICS… HAD SOME “MOMENTS” BUT MOSTLY…IT HAD PARADING AND A SOMEWHAT SURPRISE WINNER…BUT THE “SURPRISE” WAS LIMITED MOSTLY TO LONG TIME…F-1 WATCHERS…FAMILIAR WITH THE… “NORMAL” POLITICS…OF THE…PARADING SERIES… THE BRAZIL SHOW SAW ROOKIE…NICO HULKENBERG…SURPRISE THE…F-1 WORLD BY PUTTING HIS WILLIAMS…ON THE POLE BUT COME RACE DAY THE ”SURPRISE”…WOULD…
THE WORLD OF OUTLAWS…WINGED SPRINTERS SPENT THE WEEKEND AT WILLIAMS GROVE SPEEDWAY IN PENNSYLVANIA SQUARING OFF AGAINST THE PENNSYLVANIA POSSE…WHERE THE FRIDAY NIGHT OPENER SAW 58 WINGED SPRINTERS CHECK IN AND WHEN THE DUST CLEARED AT THE END OF THE ”ALPHABET MAINS (A,B,C,D)”…IT WAS POSSE MEMBER GREG HODNETT HOISTING HIS 5TH CHECKERED FLAG IN THE…
THE SEASON ENDER FOR THE I.R.L…EASILY THE BEST RACE OF ANY TYPE OVER THE WEEKEND FOR THE OPENING 65 LAPS…ANYWAY WAS A TRUE “NAILBITER” AS CHAMPIONSHIP CONTENDERS…DARIO FRANCHITTI & WILL POWER WERE THE FOCUS OF THE WHOLE SHOW UP UNTIL LAP 65…WHEN…POWER…SCRAPED THE WALL AND RUINED THE SUSPENSION OF HIS PENSKE RIDE…WHILE…FRANCHITTI…KEPT HIS NOSE CLEAN…
THE WORLD OF OUTLAWS WINGED SPRINTERS CONTESTED A PAIR OF SHOWS IN THE MIDWEST OVER THE WEEKEND BEGINNING FRIDAY NIGHT IN SPENCER, IOWA WITH THEIR 60TH SHOW OF THE SEASON WHICH SAW JAC HAUDENCHILD COLLECT CAREER WIN # 55 AND 1ST AT THE CLAY COUNTY, IOWA TRACK…AS HE HELD OFF ”KING OF THE OUTLAWS” STEVE…
THE…I.R.L.-ER’S HEADED TO THE LAND OF THE LISING SUN FOR A SATURDAY NIGHT RACE AND WHILE THE RACE WASN’T ALL THAT RIVETING…THE CHAMPIONSHIP POINT CHASE SURE IS AS DARIO FRANCHITTI PICKED UP ANOTHER 5 POINTS ON LEADER WILL POWER WHICH MEANS THE 2010 CHAMPIONSHIP WILL COME DOWN TO THE FINAL AT NORTH CUBA…(A.K.A. HOMESTEAD) ON…