When you're good, well, you're good.
It was Kyle Busch's race to lose despite various snafu's that kept coming at him, he kept coming back from the back to take the lead. In the end, Kyle Busch in his special Indiana Jones paint scheme won the Dodge Challenger 500, followed by Carl Edwards, Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and David Ragan rounded out the top 5 finishers.
The race started out rough for Elliott Sadler and Tony Stewart as Sadler went low to give Stewart room and instead got loose and got up into Stewart taking them both into the wall. By virtue of that little fender wall kissing netted Stewart a 21st finish and Sadler a 42nd place finish.
Earnhardt had the better car for the first part of the race, but he couldn't keep at the front as the race ran on. Heck, in the first 10 laps, I think I counted 6 people in the wall and it just went on from there.
It was a fun race to watch indeed.
Cup Series Results
The race jumbled up the point standings a bit, but the top 3 stayed as they were, Kyle Busch, Jeff Burton and Dale Earnhardt Jr are up in the top 3. More to follow in my midweek report on the 'official' standings.
For more on the race, check out NASCAR.
I still think that Biffle had the car to beat all night long. During the early portion of the race, I was under the impression that he was just sorta turning laps and not really flexing his muscle, and then it started to show once he decided to go back up front.
ReplyDeleteToo bad we never got to see a shootout between the two at the end, though.