Full Throttle

Yea that’s right, Pocono was entertainment. If Carl Edwards radio remarks ([asking if] “there was a penalty for kicking someone’s ass after the race.”) isn’t valid entertainment well, nothing is. Looking around at the blogs and websites the general consensus is to sentence both Stewart and Edwards for a taste of Hellfire and brimstone courtesy of Beelzebub.

I ain’t gonna do it. They get the obligatory swim in this weeks Cesspool but that’s for the sake of consistency more than anything else. Others pulling similar stunts received the same treatment. In the current NASCAR environment of plain vanilla drivers, interviews and scripted tripe like Fox’s 10 questions charade it’s refreshing to see a little short track spirit and mentality put on display.

Besides, it’s two weeks til Indy. The ink stained wretches should bow down and send copious thank you notes to Smoke and Edwards for giving them something to beat to death for the next 10 days or so. (Who remembers that Gordon thing?)

Penske South, hello how ya doing? Not so good if your Kasey Kahne. How do you go from being fast in practice, third in qualifying and “progress” to stinkin’ up the place during the race? (no need to mention Mayfield or Newman. They have both been lost in space, and the standings, for a couple months)

On to other things, like a pitiful crowd at Martinsville for the first Busch event in 12 years (10,000, 15,000 at most). With a crowd that small one would think it was the 7^th event of the week not the first in over a decade. So what was the cause? Maybe having only 7 Whackers in the field, or more likely a silent protest because this was a one shot deal. The Martinsville Busch date will be replaced by Montreal in ‘07. The official announcment of that should come after the August CCWS event at Montreal.

The media and Kurt Busch get a joint entry this week. Frankly who gives a damn about a troubled and or interrupted wedding ceremony that had the Feds sniffing around looking for and scratching through sand for a sighting of some stupid beetle? (Dung Beetle?) Give it a rest! Go find a Jackalope or something, I hear there are whole heards of them. On the north slope of Mt. Everest!

Oh boy… a week off. Can’t wait to see what the media dream up to fill column space. The first racing writer that turns fashionista and writes on the color, fit or length of train on Eva Bryan-Busch’s wedding dress gets sent to the end of the longest line at the dirtiest outhouse at the most mis-managed short track in America. After eating Ex-Lax spiked chocolates sent by yours truly. Candy-gram… Candy-gram…

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