Well Carl Edwards gets the easy season win by taking the day turned night race in Bristol. The call to leave Carl out on the last 2 restarts was the winning call for sure. 4 races in and we have 4 different winners.
I think we all knew Dale Jr. couldn’t keep up the back to back 1-2 finishes forever. But with the new point system I honestly think if you don’t have a win you won’t make the Chase. So Dale Jr. is all but in so what did they have to loose but do make drastic car changes all day long to try to get him the win. Guys like Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Joey Logano, etc. have to figure out good finishes aren’t worth anything but TV time which the sponsors do need but it doesn’t get them into the Chase with only top 5 or top 10 finishes. The guys that do have the win already can focus on the last 10 races for the year and work on how to make their cars the best for those races, huge advantage!
It was kind of annoying listening to Daryl Waltrip repeatedly saying this is the best Bristol race Fox has ever broadcast, okay we get it Daryl. Sure the racing is better this year but no one wanted to see it rain during the day so we could have a night race in the spring so enough of the “this is the best ever” over and over. The surprise for me is how strong Kevin Harvick has been this year. Honestly had he not had failures for the last 2 weeks I think he would have 3 wins already. It was the right call for him to demand Rodney Childers from the 55 team before signing with Stewart-Haas, what a great combination they are going to be this year. That is assuming they can get the cars to stay together, I am sure they will work out the kinks there.
In the pool we have Nana’s Pick takes over 1st place followed by Rusty-Cap, JoJo24, Glasses and Big Buzz.
Rounding out the top 10 we have Irv-1, Best of the Best, FordRacing19, Mitchman and Legion-of-Doom #2
Most Points for the week goes to FordRacing19 with 301
Biggest gain for the week goes to Scott Morrow up 45 spots.
Biggest slide for the week goes to Slickz 6 down 48 spots.
Off to Fontana we go this week. If you were good in Las Vegas you should be good in Fontana.
See ya after the race on Sunday.