NASCAR Chase Makin’ or Breakin’ Fontana Fast Laps Next
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.
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Bristol was interesting wasn’t it? Nothing like a little short track carnage and door banging to spice up the final two weeks of NASCAR’s Race to the Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship.
There is still a race for the last few spots in the Chase top twelve. Clint Bowyer, in 12th is only 12 points up on steady David Ragan. Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth and Denny Hamlin are in right now and Kasey Kahne is not. The two race showdown is all that is left.
First up is the two miler at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. The track is a near twin to Michigan and two weeks ago, MIS hosted the Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards show. Of course, last weekend’s Bristol night race was a Carl and Kyle show - with a side of short track fireworks.
These two really only have the twenty remaining bonus points - that are up for grabs to the winners of Fontana and Richmond - to race for. Carl grabbed the ten extra points for Bristol with his bump-to-pass move. Can’t wait to see what happens next.
Until then, we have four fast variably banked and slickly paved Fast Lap questions for your debating pleasure.
1: Given his history with Hendrick and Ganassi; can Casey Mears’ move to the #07 car be successful?
2: Is the racing better to watch at the new Bristol?
3: Will “Magnetgate” change the way you view Joe Gibbs, JD Gibbs and/or Joe Gibbs Racing?
4: Will having the Labor Day weekend race move to Atlanta at night be enough to stop the nostalgia mongers from calling for a return to Darlington?
You can bang doors, bump pass, even wreck your competitors in this race. The Fast Lap doesn’t cater to whiners. Kyle.
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Thunder Valley Fast Laps on the menu
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.
March 11, 2008 9:27 am CDT 2 Comments
The pump has been primed. Kyle Busch won the Kobalt Tools 500 and grabbed the first win for Toyota in Sprint Cup Series competition. That should have been the biggest story ON PIT ROW in Atlanta, but it wasn’t.
Like an old Paul Simon song, those New Cars were slip-slidin’ away, all day long and a cadre of drivers led by Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr let loose on Goodyear for bringing an inadequate tire to the party.
Smoke didn’t complain - he attacked Goodyear and in the end did everything but blame the California weather on the Akron tire maker. Tony was pretty hot for someone who actually finished second to his rowdy teammate, Kyle Busch.
On Monday, several drivers, current and former, stepped up to defend Goodyear. Michael and Darrell Waltrip along with Ryan Newman praised Goodyear for erring on the side of safety with the Atlanta tire compound. It seems kind of funny that Stewart and Gordon, the drivers most recently involved in hard crashes, would be the ones on the flip-side of that argument.
The first Bristol race of 2008 is on tap and it’s a near certainty that heads will be hot in the post-race pits on Sunday. Goodyear could use the diversion of some hotly contested Fast Laps. Let these four high-banked testers divert you for a few hundred words.
1. Is Tony Stewart’s criticism of Goodyear justified?
2. Now that Toyota has it’s first win, are Jack Roush’s worst fears set to come true?
3. Was Kyle Busch the right guy to get Toyota’s first win?
4. Was the #99 team of Carl Edwards, guilty of premeditated down-force addition?
Four Fast turns and you get 100 words or less to respond. Of course, you can use as many words as you want to put your fellow commenters into the wall. The Fast Lap blog is about NASCAR debate. Bring your best and we may use it on our next show.
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Fast Laps! Welcome to the On Pit Row Fast Lap blog. Every week On Pit Row we pose four Fast Lap questions. Four corners - four questions. On the radio show, Steve and I have 30 seconds each, to give our response to each of the four. If you are a listener, you already know that we rarely agree on any answer. The Fast Lap is NASCAR debate. Hannity and Colmes. Lincoln and Douglas. Wronkowicz and Turner. OK, maybe not Lincoln and Douglas. We have more fun than Lincoln and Douglas. Here's the challenge. We will post our Fast Lap questions some time each Monday. Four questions on topical NASCAR related subjects. Your mission is to comment with your answers and each answer is limited to 100 words. The questions, answers and comments will form the basis of this blog for that week. Comment on the Fast Lap questions. Comment on the comments. Insult the commenters. Witty ridicule is rated at least as highly as cogent commentary. Just remember that you have limited words and penalties are severe. Or not. Steve and I will select worthy blog entries to be featured on an edition of On Pit Row. That's the plan. I'm sure we will have some other things to post about each week but the intention is to pose most posts as questions. I want to argue with you! Bring it on.
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