Bristol review
The Car of Tomorrow survived its debut at the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, despite the fact that the winner, Kyle Busch, and the driver who led the most laps, Tony Stewart, despise the cars. The COT will race again next week at Martinsville, another short track, with its first real test at Phoenix next month.
It was just a ho hum race for Bristol, with a few spin outs here and there to bring the field back together. Improvements are going to be made to the track that starting soon that should help make racing there really exciting. Progressive banking is to be put in that will make it easier for cars to pass and such. It was commented during the race that other tracks that have done this continually have 3-4 wide all the time. Now that will cool to see at Bristol.
Kyle Busch held off Jeff Burton in a green-white-checkered restart to take the win, while Busch’s team mate Jeff Gordon finished third.
“I’m still not a fan of these things, they (stink),” Busch said. “I didn’t see any real highlights out there. It was just tough to pass. It was kind of boring.”
Stewart led 257 laps of the 500 to only finish 35th after having mechanical problems that put him 25 laps behind the front runners. Dale Earnhardt Jr. had a could race as he finished seventh and improved his placement in the points standings to 17th.
Mark Martin stayed true to his word and turned the 01 Army racing car over to Regan Smith, who finished 25th, and fell to seventh in the Nextel Cup point standings. Expect him to fall out of the top 10 as he takes next week at Martinsville off too.
The best part of the race, in my opinion, was that Darrell Waltrip was invited to drop the green flag at the beginning of the race. It was very exciting as he coaxed the crowd over the PA system into saying “Boogity, Boogity, Boogity” as he dropped the green while it was broadcast. And the best part was, I think it was a bigger kick for him. Great job Darrell!
Till the next Pit Stop…..
NASCAR, Bristol Motor Speedway, Kyle Busch, Tony Stewart, Jeff Burton, Jeff Gordon, Darrell Waltrip, Martinsville
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:15 pm
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