Chase Cesspool - Texas Edition
Many times in writing the weekly NASCAR Cesspool the lead item ends up being a toss of the coin. Not this week. The “Rocketman” was the prohibitive favorite to take the lead paragraph which is the first lead he has taken since Friday’s qualifying.
Through the first five Chase events it looked as though Ryan Newman would make the NASCAR Nostradamus look like an aged fool when he picked Newman to end the season in 10th place. After the last two weeks there still is hope and his precipitous drop in the Chase standings may rival that of Kurt Busch.
Newman having gotten greedy during quals smacked the fourth turn wall and started the race from shotgun on the field, not an unusual circumstance I admit, and not one that would normally send a driver into the Cesspool. It was his total effort on the day that “earned” him the “Honor.” He never got higher than 19th during the race and wound up finishing 25th, the last car on the lead lap. It was how he gained the lead lap position and words said after the event pushed him over the edge into the fetid feces.
“Once we got out front, we were the fastest car there at the end of the race,” said the Rocketman. Out front because of a late race caution and he decided it was “best” to dice with the leaders going for an important win while he was mired in twenty something country. “I knew I was taking the air off the 41, but that
i was at the race, the reason for the long intro of Sara Evans and her streeeeetched version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” was to wait for the fly over. speaking of the fly over, everyone loves the bomber, but the jets flying over in the friday night darkness with their after burners on was the coolest thing ever.
Being a witness to the racew and introduction I can’t dispute your reason for the long introduction.
I just thought it was too long. But I will change who should listen to the looped tape, make it whoever scrambled the bombers and got them “on target” late.