Kurt Busch Steals One From Kenseth At Bristol
Kurt Busch’s friend and former teammate was in his way. So Busch
banged Matt Kenseth aside — the first of two hard shoves Kenseth
received — to win yet another race at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Opinions differed after if Busch’s brash bump with four laps to go Sunday in the Food City 500 was out of line.
Kenseth
was leading, but had slowed because he couldn’t get past Dale Jarrett,
who was fighting to stay on the lead lap. Tired of being held up, Busch
rammed Kenseth’s back bumper to send him into a slide. That allowed
Busch to scoot on by for his fifth victory in the past nine Bristol
races.
"I bumped into him a little bit and that was my window to
get the lead," Busch said. "If I was still a teammate of his, maybe I
would have let him live. But I was hungry."
Indeed, it was
Busch’s first victory since joining Roger Penske’s team at the start of
the season and taking over the famed No. 2 Dodge that nine-time Bristol
winner Rusty Wallace drove. Busch celebrated his victory by jumping
from his car, grabbing the checkered flag and doing "snow angels" on
the finish line as a nod to the wintry weather that plagued the track
all weekend.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quote
"Many people will walk in and out of your life,
But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;
If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
He who loses money, loses much;
He, who loses a friend, loses much more;
He, who loses faith, loses all.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.
Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
Friends, you and me….
You brought another friend….
And then there were 3….
We started our group….
Our circle of friends….
And like that circle….
There is no beginning or end….
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is mystery.
Today is a gift."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Kasey Kahne Wins Golden Corral 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway
Kasey Kahne showed early signs of being a championship contender by
winning at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Monday while Bill Lester finished
way back in becoming the first black driver to race in NASCAR’s top
series since 1986.
The top Cup rookie in 2004, Kahne slumped last
year. But he’s started this season with four strong performances,
including an 11th-place run at Daytona and two fourth-place finishes
before earning the second victory of his career.
His first win came last May in Richmond and was the highlight of a difficult sophomore season.
We
had momentum,” said Kahne, who also finished second to Jeff Burton in
Saturday’s Busch Series race here. "We’ve had momentum all weekend long.
"Man, to win at Atlanta, one of my favorites racetracks, is so cool.”
It was the first victory at Atlanta for a Dodge in 29 years, since Richard Petty won here in 1977."
Jimmie Johnson Wins UAW-Daimler Chysler 400
It took Jimmie Johnson 270 laps to get to the front Sunday, but that was soon enough.
Johnson
took advantage of a late-race caution flag Sunday at Las Vegas Motor
Speedway, catching and passing Matt Kenseth in a two-lap overtime
sprint to the finish in the UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400.
Johnson’s
No. 48 Chevrolet surged past Kenseth’s No. 17 Ford on the outside after
the two sped side-by-side through the third and fourth turns on the
1.5-mile oval for the final time. The winner crossed by finish line
0.115 seconds — about half a car-length — ahead as he led a lap for
the only time in the 271-lap event.
Johnson said he sympathized
with Kenseth for getting beat that way, noting he lost to Carl Edwards
on the same kind of move last spring in Atlanta and then edged Bobby
Labonte with an outside pass on the last lap in May at Charlotte.
Another Reason Charlie Weis Is Not Just A Great Football Coach
I found this great article about Charlie Weist and just had to share it.
Blue-chip recruits not the only kids Notre Dame coach is concerned about.
Hannah Weis will be all right.
It’s not their 10-year-old daughter that Charlie and Maura Weis are
worried about. It’s the autistic child whose father is not the head
football coach at Notre Dame. The child with Pervasive Developmental
Delays, the form of autism that affects Hannah, whose family can’t
provide the necessities for a better life.
They’re the ones the Hannah & Friends Foundation is for. The
"angels" here on earth, Maura Weis calls them on the charity’s Web
site, to teach us all to be better people.
"An autistic kid who wants to play in the back yard but the parents
can’t let him because he wanders off, we fence in the back yard,"
Charlie Weis said before his appearance at Thursday night’s Norfolk
Sports Club Jamboree.
"A kid with cerebral palsy who needs a computer to talk, we buy him
the computer. A kid with a breathing disorder who needs a dehumidifier
in every room, we buy the dehumidifiers."
Matt Kenseth Wins Auto Club 500 At California Speedway
Just want to keep you up to date on the NASCAR race results.
I found myself cheering when Tony Stewart’s car blew up this week. I used to like Tony but his hypocritical mess at Daytona has completely made me dislike him.
Even when he took the lead late in the Nextel Cup race at California Speedway, Matt Kenseth didn’t expect to win.
"I was sort of planning on running second," Kenseth said, grinning.
But
the 2003 Cup champion got a gift Sunday, winning the Auto Club 500
after the stronger cars of Greg Biffle and Tony Stewart went to the
garage with late-race engine failures.
"I feel bad for Greg,"
Kenseth said. "He was really the class of the field all day. But I feel
like we had the second- or third-best car. We had a great-handling car
all day."
