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Greg Biffle Will Need Monstrous Fast Laps to Double Up

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by Charlie Turner

I'm Charlie Turner co-host of the syndicated, mostly NASCAR radio show On Pit Row. Thanks for stopping by OnPitRow.com and the Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie blog. Oh yeah, Steve is an idiot.

September 15, 2008 10:08 pm CDT 3 Comments

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Greg Biffle finally got the win that I and plenty of others had called for at various venues this year.  With what he called a “text-book pass” the Biff relegated Jimmy Johnson to runner-up status at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.  

Johnson was good again.  Tony Stewart was good for a change.  Dale Earnhardt Jr was tough early, and petulant late.  None of them won.  Kyle Busch sucked (maybe because of his crew).  Earnhardt bitched (at his crew).  Stewart apologized (to his crew).  Johnson probably shrugged and told his crew, “we’ll see how good they are at Dover”.

Chase week one is done and gone.  Chase race number two is on deck.  Biffle was probably a long shot to be a factor for the championship before Sunday night.  If he can win at The Monster Mile in Dover - and he’s been among the best there for better than three years - he will stamp himself as the “real deal” in the early playoffs.

This is the Fast Lap blog and it is a comment blog.  We want to read what YOUR opinions are to the four Fast Lap topics which follow.  And then we plan to assault your opinions and cause huge, vociferous debate.  Take a shot.

1: Should NASCAR be more flexible with qualifying and not so quick to cancel-but move it?

2: The much anticipated debut of Joey Logano was not too impressive; was it driver or equipment?

3: Can Kyle Busch’s championship hopes be realized now?

4: Last week it was Stewart/Zippadelli-this week its Earnhardt/Eury. Are these spats showing cracks in their relationships or just idle chatter?

Got any opinions on those babies?  Are you ready to defend your position.  Better yet, are you prepared to have your thoughts thrown out to the ON PIT ROW studio audience?  It could happen.  We want it to happen, in fact.  Come on, I want to argue with you!

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3 Responses to “Greg Biffle Will Need Monstrous Fast Laps to Double Up”

  1. User Avatar Matt Mercer on September 16th, 2008 8:37 am

    1: In a word, YES. What ever happened to moving it to Saturday? That’s what used to happen, but now if it rains for 5 minutes they cancel quals. I don’t get it.

    2: Some say it was equipment, and thats a fair point - it was set up to run at Richmond. More likely, it was just first race jitters from everyone involved. I would look for his next few starts to show improvement.

    3: For a while this year, I expected Busch and the team to have trouble when the Chase began - it’s so hard to maintain that sort of dominance throughout the year, and now that luck that enabled him to win 8 races is on the other foot.

    4: Idle chatter mostly. These guys say so many things to each other that doesn’t get reported, when someone listens in and it happens its like the sky is falling. I don’t read a lot into these guys during the heat of battle.

  2. User Avatar Steve Wronkowicz on September 21st, 2008 9:36 pm

    1– You bet your bippy. Boy did I just date myself. Why is it set in stone that qualifying can’t be postponed and moved to Saturday or even to Sunday morning. Qualifying is an integral part of the race and shouldn’t be tossed out without every attempt to make it happen.

    2– God himself couldn’t have been any better in that piece of crap.

    3– i said it on the show–Kyle is done. Kyle is done. He is too immature to battle back.

    4– This stuff has gone on forever. Just because race fans and the media have access to this chatter makes it seem more important. This is much ado about nothing. Nada mas.

  3. User Avatar Charlie Turner on October 3rd, 2008 9:45 am

    I feel like I’m slipping into my freshman e-con class late, as usual. Hopre nobody notices.

    1. Bring back second day qualifying. What’ so hard about that?

    2. That car is a black-hole for talent. Ask J J Yeley, who has as much talent as “Sliced Bread”. That said, one race doesn’t tell me anything.

    3. His eighty bonus points bought him one bad finish as a bogey. He’s used it. It’s a nine race Chase now and he’s still one of the favorites.

    4. It’s just a case of us having more access to what used to be private conversations. It does make for great blogger fodder though.

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