Garrett Duke

Well, I will post the standings later on in the week, where they will be made official; as of now they are unofficial. Though normally, the points will stick as they are after the race. The officials have to go over every car to make sure everything is legit and all that kind of stuff. I just thought I'd post a little about what I knew about last night's Nationwide Series race. I didn't watch it, so if anyone did, feel free to write about it. I just saw the highlights of the end and the driver comments on NASCAR.com. Kyle Busch has won the truck series race at Bristol earlier this week...maybe Thursday, not sure, and he won again at Bristol in Nationwide Series last night at Bristol. If he wins today in the Sprint he will complete the sweep at a track. Though he did win it at a price last night...looks like he raced Brad Keselowski the last ten laps of the race or so and then did pass Brad, but had slid up right in front of Brad. Brad didn't back off and ran into Kyle's back bumper and set him sliding against the wall. Kyle Busch in return came back and spun Keselowski for it, ended up winning the race. Brad Keselowski is already on probation for the rest of the year for an incident in the Nationwide Series where he hit Carl Edwards on the last lap and Edwards retaliated against him, to spin him out. Which makes me wonder when Keselowski's going to realize that people are tired of him running into them like that. I personally am not a fan of either Busch or Keselowski due to their aggresive driving, I just hope that this incident doesn't spill over to tonight's race at Bristol for the Sprint Series since they both race Sprint full time as well. The last couple of sentence is only of my opinion...my two cents worth on the incident.

Very nice, Hoss! A lot of work and talent it looks like.

I am sooo excited for you Roger! I hope that you will have a GREAT time! Am looking forward to hearing all about it.

I agreed that it was frustrating about the double points thing and with the idea of the three way tie, but I never meant it to punish anyone by agreeing with it. It was my own personal opinion. Nor did I mean to cause anyone any hard feelings over by voicing it. It don't affect me one way or another if y'all do decide to go on or not.

Honest, MaryAnne, it was an accident! Rosco was chasing me and the poor baby hen ran right under my feet and I stepped on it. Blame Rosco, not me!

Well the Nationwide Series races at Bristol tonight. Sprint Cup races at Bristol tomorrow night at 7:30 EST and will be aired on ABC (not ESPN). Here is the starting grid that I got from Yahoo!'s NASCAR's page: 1. Jimmie Johnson 2. Carl Edwards 3. Joey Logano 4. Tony Stewart 5. David Reutimann 6. Ryan Newman 7. Jamie McMurray 8. Juan Pablo Montoya 9. Martin Truex Jr. 10. A J Allmendinger

I agree with Bo James. Don't know why people are taking double points, but this is why I stepped out last time, and it is frustrating. I think we should give them a three way tie as being the favorites on the board and move on to something else.

*Bo leans against the counter and listens to his uncle. His uncle's worry spreads worry through him. Jesse wasn't the one to worry easy. When Jesse finishes, Bo opens his mouth to say something, but only to close it again, not saying anything. Bo shakes his head and looks down at the floor while continually thinking that if Luke was here, he'd know what to do. But he wasn't and Bo was more good at getting into trouble and not out. Not alone to help someone else out of their own trouble they were unable or unwilling to talk about.* They're both as stubborn and strong. Obviously, something is wrong or going on with them. *Bo pauses for a long moment.* They know where we are if they need anything or when they are wanting some help with whatever it is.* Bo shrugs, thinking of how lame he must be sounding. *Or if we knew how to get around the swamp we could do some private investigating, but I'd rather not end up being some alligator. I don't know what else to say, Jesse. If Luke were here... *He lets his words trail off and falls into silence.

*Hearing the engine penetrate through the thick silence, Bo slowly makes his way to the living room window to find Jesse pulling to a halt besides The General. Sighing in relief, Bo makes his way to the kitchen to watch Jesse making his way up the porch steps before opening the kitchen steps.* Uncle Jesse* Bo says, giving him a smile before noticing the angry and worry look wrote across his beloved uncle's face. With little thought, he asks, "How'd it go? Any luck?"

Zoo starts with Z. My favorite zoo animal is the tiger and lion. Anything wrong with that, Roger?

Bo 42 Luke 33 Jesse 25

Darn right you will. Am getting ready right now...naw, I could never do that to you. Perhaps I'll just bore you with my NASCAR trvia.

So Roger, that's how you pick your friends? By their favorite color? Well then, my all time favorite color is red. Guess that makes me better than you!

*After pulling to a halt in front of the Duke farm house, Bo slowly climbs out through the open window to take a cautious look behind him before taking in the rest of the empty drive way. Jesse wasn't home yet. Sighing deeply, Bo makes his way up the porch and into the kitchen to be greeted by a thick eery silence. Only to remind him he didn't pick up a thing he had been sent to town for. No ice cream. Nothing.* Yeah Bo, you done real good today. *He says sarcastically aloud to break through the silence, his mind wondering from his run in with the law to Jesse's call about Swamp Molly and Alice. Of his short encounter with him. He never cared much about them two, especially Alice who seemed to have something for him and trying wrestle him. But he definately wouldn't want anything to go wrong for them or wish ill of them; they were just better left at the swamp and him at the farm, in his mind. And Alice not once asking him if he wanted to wrastle was a clear indication that something was wrong. But what? Bo was left with his imagination as he takes a seat and feels his heart racing from all the excitement he had with the law, only to remind himself of his own predictament and to send questions racing through his mind of how he can free himself of his own troubles.*

Yellow is one of my favorite colors.

Enos would agree with you.

Bo 41 Luke 35 Jesse 24 Welcome back TX Daisy...haven't seen you around for awhile.

*Feeling all four tires hit the solid dirt ground on the other side of the gapped land, Bo lets out another rebel call before watching Enos' patrol car come to a dead halt a foot from the edge on the other side. Sighing in relief, Bo quickly presses on the accelerator on the opposite direction of where he had noticed the sheriff's car speeding off towards before he had ran into Enos. He'd be dead out of luck if the sheriff found him again.* Nice work, General. Now if only we can get home without getting caught. *After saying that, he begins to wonder if going home is the wisest choice to make. Afterall, everyone knows where he lives. But he has no where else to go. Sighing heavily, Bo races towards the dirt road that'll lead to the farm in hopes of the sheriff and deputy forgetting about the past half hour and of the legit charges that he has been caught with.*

Well things shook up a little bit in the points with the Sprint cup series. Here is the official points in the Sprint Cup (top 15): 1. Kevin Harvick 2. Jeff Gordon (-293) 3. Denny Hamlin 4. Tony Stewart 5. Jimmie Johnson 6. Carl Edwards 7. Jeff Burton 8. Kyle Busch 9. Matt Kenseth 10. Kurt Busch 11. Greg Biffle 12. Clint Bowyer 13. Mark Martin (-35 points) 14. Ryan Newman 15. Jamie McMurray Three more races until the chase starts. With Harvick's win on Sunday, he is officially locked in the chase. Though, everyone else is not locked into the chase, I think the top ten drivers will most likely be in the chase unless any of them or all have DNFs or horrible races for the last three races and someone else has three great races to take their place. (DNF -Did Not Finish). I could be wrong though... (Just FYI...I do tend to update or post on most of the NASCAR threads at the same time, so if interested, you may want to click on the NASCAR link to check the rest of the NASCAR threads as to not miss any of them. )

Well I guess I missed a little altercation that happened between Joey Lagano and Ryan Newman after the race. A person I work with at work said they did show it on the after race program, but I must have not been watching or listening at the time, because I missed it. I found it on NASCAR.com. I can't remember what lap it was on, but Lagano and Newman were racing eachother pretty hard for position, they went in the corner and when Lagano slightly lost control of his car, Lagano bumped Newman to spin Newman and flatten his tires. After the race Newman confronted Lagano about it...wasn't very happy. There was a little shoving going on between the two before they were seperated by a couple of NASCAR officials. According to Lagano, Newman races him way too hard and everyone feels that way about Newman. THat he was losing control of his car and Newman was too close and wouldn't back off. Think he also made a statement about how there was no need racing that hard that back in the field and so many laps left. (Newman didn't comment on it.) (Was said on ESPN...but read it on Yahoo! Sports' NASCAR Page.) OK perhaps I shouldn't put my two cents in here...I don't know, but here's my two cents worth on it. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't it the objective of NASCAR is to race hard to get the win? Why should it matter on how many laps are left or what position you are? As long as Newman or any other driver isn't driving aggressive when racing hard, what's the big deal? I am sorry for my venting here, I just don't see where Lagano has much room to be complaining about Newman or his driving. Newman was the one that got hit and has his tires blow out from under him...not Lagano. Also...it takes two to race, so if Newman was racing hard, then to me, it makes sense that Lagano was racing hard as well. There wouldn't be much racing to watch if they didn't race each other hard...but then again, maybe I'm wrong. What y'all think?

Brad Keselowski won Saturday's Nationwide Series race. Here is the official standings: 1. Brad Keselowski 2. Carl Edwards (-347) 3. Kyle Busch 4. Justin Allgaier 5. Kevin Harvick 6. Paul Menard 7. Steve Wallace 8. Trevor Bayne 9. Brendan Gaughan 10. Jason Leffler Well now looking at NASCAR.com Nationwide Series point page (where I get this from) looks like the top ten in standings didn't move or change at all from last week. Half of them are Sprint Cup drivers (Keselowski, Edwards, Harvick, Busch, and Menard).

People can go to the races on Monday if they are rained out. Perhaps if they don't get to go on Monday, the could get a refund. I don't know. Tickets range from seats and what track it is at. They have been advertising pretty cheat tickets this year. I think they are trying to get more people to come to the races as the number of people at the track and viewers on TV have went down a lot. It is pretty sad to watch races with half full stands. Especially the Indy race. Michigan, where they raced today, they said they had a pretty good attendance at. I hope that helps you any. They put covers on their cars when it does rain to protect the cars. They do have big driers to dry the track when it does rain, though it takes a while to dry the track if it does rain a lot.

Well Jack Roush was at the track for today's race and did talk to reporters. I guess he did not lose his left eye as it read in the article I read, but lost eye sight in the left eye. He said he should get everything back, except eye sight out of that eye. His drivers didn't win today, but they did good for him.

Well the race at Michigan has just finished and for all the Kevin Harvick fans, it was a great race. He won his first Michigan race today to clinch his spot in the chase...plus now has 30 bonus points to go into the chase. Kurt Busch's engine blew early in the race to take him out of the race, Mark Martin ran into the wall early on as well to put him a lap down. Martin finished 28th and a lap down and is still struggling to get into the chase. They have two or three races left until the chase starts. As for me, it started out as a great race. Gordon started 36th and passed 16 drivers in ten laps. He had the fastest car on the track in the first half of the race. He got up to high of second at one point. But with 50 laps or so to go on a restart he was five wide and his front right tire blew to get bumped from behind by Jeff Burton. He ended up the last driver on the lead lap at 27th. Talk about disappointing...there is always something it seems to take that win away from him. (All that is of my opinion of course.) Jimmie Johnson finished 13 after leading a lot of laps in the first half of the race, but didn't do anything after that. Here is the top ten finishes: 1. Kevin Harvick 2. Denny Hamlin 3. Carl Edwards 4. Greg Biffle 5. Matt Kenseth 6. Tony Stewart 7. Juan Pablo Montoya 8. Martin Truex Jr. 9. Elliot Sadler 10. Joey Lagono The next race is at Bristol next Saturday night at 7:30 EST (I think...) and will be on ABC. I am assuming the rest of the races of the season will be on ABC. (So no more ESPN...)