About flippin time
Monday, February 25th, 2008 3:11pm CST
By Luke, Thunder Lounge
Published on Thunder Lounge.
About flippin time is right.
About flippin time someone won out in California.
About flippin timethe weather took a back seat to racing.
About time for a lot of things, but I’ll cut it at this. About time the racing was worth watching at this southern California track.
It wasn’t a perfect show, and yeah there is room for improvement. Isn’t there always, though?
However, love or hate this car, we saw again that it’s racy. It’s nice to see these cars around each other for lengths of time without one driver or another losing it. All seeping water aside.
One thing prevalent in this race, of many, is that this is the house of Roush. What looked last night to be the Gordon Show, turned a tick to Johnsonville, but the Roushketeers didn’t flinch. Had the race continued last night the outcome would be anyone’s guess. But it didn’t, so end of that story.
Another lesson here is that Roush has their act together with the car now, and they’re getting better. Further still, is that Hendrick is still as strong as ever. While taking home half the trophies this season seems out of the question, as the competition is much stiffer this season thus far, you can bet they’ll take home a fair share before the season is over.
Now it’s on to the Nationwide race, where a historic moment has a chance to take place. That moment being that for the first time, a driver could leave the weekend behind and sit atop all 3 Series points. Trucks, Nationwide, and Sprint Cup. That driver is Kyle Busch.
Filed Under: California, Carl Edwards, Drivers, Nascar, Roush Racing #99, Sprint Cup, Teams, Tracks
Tagged As: Carl Edwards, Cousin Carl, Hendrick Motorsports, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, kyle busch, Roush Fenway Racing, Roushketeers
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It was good to see the Roush Fords back up front. California has been a Roush Ford sandbox for most of its history and had the Roushys run badly, the season would have been less interesting. Now if NASCAR would just give one these Auto Club Speedway races to some other track, we might all get some sleep.
While I’ll dive into waters normally patrolled by Marc, I have a theory for this.
While I think a certain Mr. “DMIC” is off his rocker about giving it to that no good track operator in Kentucky (ain’t happening), I think one of those dates will end up at another track sometime. How soon depends on one thing.
One of those dates is sitting on the chopping block, but there is a reason for that. It’s being held in reserve for when the next ISC track is built. Right now it’s definitely an unknown with ISC getting kicked out of NYC, and Seattle not cooperating either. However, when ISC finally builds a track you can bet the date will come from one of California’s.
The question I see right now, is how long can they hold onto it, without making it incredible painful to their pocketbooks.
From what I’ve read, the attendance was about half the grandstand. How many tickets were sold I don’t know, which I guess it what counts, but the couple thousand left at the end of the Sunday Night Fiasco weren’t exactly pleased.
One of these days NASCAR will have to face facts and decide to put on shows in markets where they are wanted.
While it may be upsetting to NASCAR fans out there, if you don’t show up, what do you expect?