The end of Budweiser Shootout could have been a scene from Days Of Thunder?

Well thats how Darrell Waltrip described it after the last lap wreck of Greg Biffle.

This time i agree with DW, Biffle's wreck was something out of a move, not because he turned sideways without sowing any signs that it was going to happen moments before, but because his wreck almost took out all the remaining cars that was behind him.

Now sure there were drivers that were behind him like, Joey Logano, Tony Stewart, and Dale Jr got through without a scratch.

But for just one moment there, when Greg went sideways and the smoke went flying, i saw a wreck that i surely thought could take out all the cars that were behind him at that time.

So maybe for a few of us the end of the Budweiser Shootout did look like it could have been a scene from a movie.

Is Danicamania Overrated?

I have to say yes, Danicamania is very overrated.

Everyone compares what her to Tony Stewart, which she is not. Sure Tony use to drive in the IRL and made the switch to Nascar by driving the whole IRL season and select races in the then Busch Series now Nationwide, But Tony then went Nascar racing full time the next year. Something Danica will hive to wait three years to do.

That delay alone makes me feel that she will have little to no success with the Heavier stock cars then Tony Stewart has had in Nascar.


Tony also had three wins in the IRL before coming over, one at Pikes Peak International Raceway in 1997 and the other two coming in 1998 at Walt Disney World Speedway and New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Danica has only one and that came at Twin Ring Motegi which is in Japan.

I don't think Danica fully knows what she will be getting herself into, she may say she does, and Tony Stewart, may say she understands but just because Tony and her sing the same tune doesn't mean thats the facts.


And If Tony believes that she is commented to racing in Nascar then why doesn't he offer her a ride in a car owned by his race team, oh yeah thats right his team doesn't have a Nationwide team and besides he said he doesn't have the money, but hasn't everyone said that said that Danica's sponsor will probably be GoDaddy.Com since they are her sponsor in the IRL and already sponsor a car in the Nationwide series, you telling me that Tony Stewart will turn her down even though she may have a sponsor and he surely could get a few cars from Kevin Harvick Inc, which is run by his friend Kevin Harvick or his friend Dale Jr and Supplier Rick Hendrick who are owners of JR Motorsports. And if Danica is going to be such a big thing then team owner Tony would be crazy not to cash in on her, so the question is does Tony know something everyone else doesn't?

It is time that everyone started to take notice that all this "Danicamania" is either a big stunt or just a way for Danica to get money.

If Danica really wanted to race in Nascar she should wait until the last year of her contract with Andretti Green Racing so then she can do exactly what Tony Stewart did, run one year in the IRL and in select Nationwide Series races then go full time in Nascar.

Whose to say that she won't race selected Nationwide races for the next three years, then resign with Andretti Green Racing, or sign with Chip Ganassi Racing or Penske Racing in the IRL, then declare that she has experience in Stock cars and starts hitting up owners for rides in the Sprint Cup.



To convince me that she is serious about driving in Nascar, she should finish out her contract in the IRL then join Nascar like last three IRL transfers Juan Pablo Montoya, Sam Hornish Jr and Dario Franchitti did to show that they were truly committed to running in Nascar. I do know that Franchitti did leave Nascar but i contribute that to lack of sponsorship.

Otherwise i feel that the term 'IRLwhacker' will have to be invented.

Nascar Fantasy racing is just like the sport.......unpredictable

I have to say that i like playing fantasy sports, especially on Yahoo!, though I'm not really good at it.

So over this Nascar Sprint Cup Series season, i noticed one thing, every driver i picked either didn't do well or they would get involved in a wreck. Out of the 33 Cup weekends so far i have only picked a driver who would go on to win only once, and when you are playing against almost a million other people, who are most likely fans of the same driver as you and doing a lot better then you that isn't something i would be bragging about. And trust me I'm not.

Well while i was making my picks for last weeks 'Dega race, and using most of the drivers that i could for the last time, i was having trouble deciding if i should use some of them, i noticed that the fantasy racing was just like real racing.

You can never know how a driver will fair on a certain weekend, unless the guy is Jimmie Johnson who almost never happens to have a bad weekend anymore, even if you are like me and pick a driver based on how they did on years past.

Yahoo! breaks their Fantasy racing picks into three groups, group A, group B, and group C.
In group A you can only pick two drivers but can only start one, in group B you can pick four drivers but can only start two, and group C you can again pick two drivers bus start only one.
I think how Yahoo! set up their fantasy racing is pretty cool, but the big draw back for me is that you are only allowed to pick a driver nine times for the whole season.

This is how i picked for last weeks race.

In Group A i picked Jeff Gordon and Greg Biffle, but i started Jeff Gordon because of how well he did at Talladega in past season. Now Gordon's 20th place finish netted me 62 points, but that ten of those points was because he led 12 laps. had i started Biffle, who had finished 4th, i would have gotten more points but i wouldn't have gotten any extra points since he didn't lead any laps.

In Group B i picked Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Martin Truex Jr, and Micheal Waltrip, however i only started Stewart and Jr. Stewart got me 32 points with 35th place finish and his one lap led, Jr got me 80 points with his 11th place finish and nine laps led. if i had replaced either one with Treux it wouldn't have done any good since he had lead only one lap and finished 31st. If i switching Waltrip with Stwart would have been good since Waltrip lead two laps and finished 7th.

In Group C i picked Marcos Ambrose and Bobby Labonte, but only started Ambrose. Ambrose got me 34 points with his 34th place finish and three laps led. but Labonte would have gotten me more in the end with his 10th place finish, even though he didn't lead any laps.

All my picks got me a race total of 208 points, the highest out of the two Talladega races this season, (and i started almost the same drivers both times), and the second highest points for all four Superspeedway races this season.


Now its easy to sit here and say what i should have done, but if i did chance my picks before race day who is to say that the drivers i decided to change and start wouldn't have done good and the drivers i changed and didn't start would have done better, which has happen to me a few times this season.

All and all Fantasy racing is just like real racing unpredictable.