What Happens in Vegas, I Write About
I think that’s the way the Vegas tagline reads, anyway…
Canadian Patrick Carpentier has to be as happy as a slab of back bacon smothered in lard.
After three idle weeks imposed on the ex-IRL star by, first a deflated tire during Daytona quals, then the monsoon season in Fontana he timed in the #10 GEM Dodge outside the sixth row at LVMS.
Carpentier bumped A.J. Allmendinger from the field with the last drive of the day.
While sitting on the sidelines his fellow Quebec native Jacques Villeneuve is at the bottom end of the NASCAR roller coaster. In what must have been a tough pill for Jacques Mike Skinner drove the #27 Toyota to the fifth-best time. I can’t imagine how that happened. Really!
Leave it to TMS president Eddie Gossage to say something that no way in hell would ever stay in Vegas. Eddie’s got a plan ya see. A plan to spice up NASCAR. A plan that will also benefit charity.
A plan that entails reprising the good ole days of the Robby Gordon Helmet Toss Game.
Gossage has pledged $15,000 to any driver who throws his helmet during competition between now and the April 6 race in Texas.
What a shame Tony doesn’t get off probation until Texas. He’d have probably done it just for the fun of it. And to take Eddie’s money for the Victory Junction Gang.
John’s last blog post..Tony Registered for Knoxville Nationals
BTW, what penalty did the child Robby cop last year when he deliberately punted Montoya on the road course? I don’t recall.
MONTOYA???? sorry I mean’t Ambrose…wow, long week end my brain has not recovered fully
I would much rather pay to see three cars nose to tail during the last 5 laps of the race than some grown man behaving like a two year old by throwing his helmet. Competition is what makes NASCAR great not drivers acting like idiots.