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What happened?

Tuesday June 10, 2008 @ 03:52 PM EDT

So I sat after the race Sunday trying to figure out was it worth it? Did he really hurt his Chase chances? Did he just make winning the cup even harder and is it really the end? And as you are reading this these questions can apply to a myriad of drivers and all of which have been somewhat disappointing for different reasons.

First off Smoke, now I picked him actually as my runner up this year. And not because he couldn’t win the cup but because I thought another driver to win. This year for him seems alittle off, I am not sure if it’s the contract talks or the fact that he’s had so many almost and too many how did that happen?

He seemed to have the 600 at hand. Great pit strategy and great stops it was all but sealed a win before the summer heats up, but a flat tire deflated that chance. At Dover a accident that was not of his making but thats racing and thats how it goes. And he settled for a 41st finish. At Long Pond, he had a good car, crew worked on it all day great pit stops and on the final one, a mistake he will admit was all him, speeding relegated this former champ to a 35th place finish and more importantly clinging to the 12th place in the standings, not where you want to be with less then half of the regular season left. We know this driver can heat up but I think this year will be different. Too much talk of contract and in the end losing focus on what they need to be doing this year, winning races and psitioning themselves.

Should Tony have to make a choice about where he will drive in 2010 ? No. He has to fufiill his contract with Gibbs otherwise it going to cost him big time. But these apparent leaks to the media is unacceptable, and Tony playing with the media holding media sessions at the track to discuss something like this is ridiculus. The choice will come and I doubt that choice will be made anytime soon public to the media. He needs strong finishes now, and he needs to postion himself into the chase. even without wins he’s a threat. But he has to make the Chase first.

Now my pick to win the whole thing is Gordon. And I say is with great hesistation. I don’t doubt this team can rattle off wins but you first have to win one to rattle off those wins. They have a great pit crew and they have been perfect on pit stops but the car just won’t drive the way Gordon likes it too and that is the problem. They have been testing like crazy and trying to find something and lately they have been driving better and seeing results, but Sunday’s final pit call really hurt them, why LeTarte pulled him down because they didn’t run well on old tires well everyone else had basically old tires.

So why force him to come down and get mired back in traffic when he could have finsihed with at least a top 10 if not a top 5. We will never know what would happened if he had stayed out he might have finsihed exactly in the same spot but when you are struggling like they have been you gotta take a shot. This team can run better and expect to run better.

But something needs to change something needs to happen with the 24 for them to realize they ar e running out of chances to just get top 15 top 10 finishes. They are chase contenders for now, but something gonna have to happen….

Now I think Kyle Busch is an amazing talent but this weekends trifecta was boneheaded. I read all the articles claiming he is young let him do it, he has nothing to loose. if he is able to do it why not? Why not? Because even though everyone wants to say running in three different states didn’t affect him at all in the cup, was not watchign the same race, he never was higher than 17th place on sunday. And thats not because of poor quals its because he crashes his car in the final two minutes of practice.

Limited amount of sleep can lead to lack of focus yes he got some sleep, but traveling on any person can take its toll but multiple flights in less then 48 hours did you expect something different? Yes you did all wins in all three series, but when you are driving a 3400 pound car at speeds well over 150 mph limited amount of sleep has its toll on your focus. right now it cost him points but when the chase starts he will be a higher seed, but even so his focus needs to be on cup.

He is the given favorite to win the whole thing but its early enough in the season when races like Sunday can change alot . Especially when all three series are in three different states. Wheres the leadership? He might have a lot of talent but he is still a 23 year old.

Look its only race 14. And plenty of racing to be done. I think the players in right now will change. I said it early in the season the drivers who were running so well early on like the Ryan Newmans, and Kurt Busch’s and the Clint Boywers will come back and thats what happened. It comes in cycles and I Know Smoke and Gordon will each score more than one win, and will be real threats come September but first they gotta figure out what happened?

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