NASCAR’s Thursday Trivialities
For the third time this month another one has bitten the dust over at the shops of Michael Waltrip Racing. Matt Borland, formerly a crew chief at Penske Racing South, can add “formerly a crew chief at MWR” to his resume.
The question I have is why? What made Waltrip think shifting Borland from a long established team to a brand spanking new one, with a new marquee, would work?
Borland had one year that can be called reasonably competitive, 8 wins with Ryan Newman in 2003, and a whole bunch of pole positions.<div style=”clear:both;”
He also displayed a distinct inability to play catch-up. If the then current team of Newman/Borland missed the race set-up ever so slightly they never seemed to have the ability to rectify the situation and move back into contention and spent the remainder of the race dicing for 15th position.
MeThinks, and I could be wrong, MWR was blinded by all those poles and the Newman/Borland combo making the Chase on a consistent basis.
NOTE to Mikey, quit rearranging the Titanic deck chairs, quit floating ideas on changing the qualifying rules and get your butt into a broadcasting booth where your special brand of bloviating buffoonery might be appreciated. I repeat might be appreciated, by some.
While on the subject of “madness,” Carl Edwards is going “mad” this Friday. Not mad is in Tony “Phantom Yellow” Stewart but mad as in Edwards will back-flipping onto the set of Madtv Friday.
Wow. Even Justin Wilson can’t make catfish and hush puppies out of a shit sandwich.
Since Matt isn’t quite a Mr. Wilson caliber, it shouldn’t have been a surprise that he couldn’t work miracles in a handful of races.
Also, I guess Scott doesn’t check his mail regularly. Last I check Bill didn’t send them kinda notices as registered mail, but maybe in the future he’ll start.
I just posted a short note about Borland…it makes very little sense to me. He was probably one of MRW’s best assets
Mikey is imploding!
Carl’s face has potential as a morph subject–into Alfred E. Newman.
Somebody explain to me how Michael Waltrip’s #55 season or Dale Jarret’s, are worse than Kasey Kahne’s. If you spot the former(s) anything for being brand, spankin’ new–Evernham looks worse to me. Just sayin’.
I agree Charlie, for whatever reason Evernham Motorsports has fallen off the face of the Earth.
In a way I find it a bit ironic, they spent all of ‘06 blubbering croc tears about the Charger nose. They get the new nose approved for ‘07 and the Charger sucks far worse in traffic than it did before.