csberry

Holy Moly! What a race today! The 50+ lead changes with more than half of the 43 drivers spending time in the lead is the type of racing that propels my love for races at Talladega. With the new car, the little taps that instantly equaled wrecks in previous years were easily handled today. The way many of the cars were absolutely glued to each other was fun to watch and provided amazing drafting boosts.

I hope the tire problem isn't primarily due to the surface of the track like the Goodyear guy and...Harvick(?) mentioned on TV.

I really like Carl Edwards as a person and do like his driving 90% of the time...but when the guy makes mistakes, he really makes STUPID mistakes. Bumping his teammate in the corner is bad enough. Having that contact be on one side of the bumper and not the middle made that wreck a certainty. Poor Jr. gets love, but what he really needs is a win. Talladega will give him another; today just wasn't the day, I guess.

Big congrats goes to Tony Stewart for finally winning a race here in Alabama. That last lap pass by Regan Smith was fun to watch - whether or not it was actually legal. While part of me would like to think there would be a last lap exception to the yellow line, it just doesn't make any logical sense at all. Seeing Tony in Victory Lane really makes me hope that Good Tony will be on display next year with his new team so I would be willing to support him and JD won't be so readily moved to vomit if I say something nice about the guy.

Big props also need to go out to ABC for not immediately ditching the race after the checkers fell. There were too many times in the past were NBC, in particular, just dumped out of the race when it was late. With the finish we had today, to close the coverage without interviews with Regan and Tony would have been a crime.