Full Throttle

Didn’t you?

Come on admit it, after watching Bristol Saturday night you all got puffed up and were laughing at Kenseth’s poor finish and thinking of me.

Sorry, you only get credit for half of a gotcha. Matt Kenseth did win, I just got the track and day incorrect. His win came a few hundreds miles to the north-west and on Sunday.

Kenseth cruised into West Allis and the Milwaukee Mile Sunday, climbed into a late-model stock car built and maintained by the area’s top chassis shop, and ran away with the show.

Kenseth broke the late-model track record in qualifying and, with the top eight started in inverse order, made an eight-lap rush to second. Halfway through, he took the lead into the first turn.

“I think we were here racing for second place,” said Dean Cornelius, the 23-year-old weekly racer from Minnesota who finished 5 seconds behind in a race that went caution-free.

“We take it as a win. It’s just good to be up there.”

It was Kenseth’s first win at the historic mile oval in 12 races, including eight in late models and four in the Busch Series.