One of the many reasons for being a race fan is because you can never guess the outcome of a race before the checkered flag has fallen and the stockcar race is in the record books.
The Nascar race at Bristol Motor Speedway was exciting to watch as the two and three wide (?)packs of stockcars struggled to gain position in the closing laps of the race .The only disappointing part of the race for me personally were the final results.Not because Jeff Burton won the race ;I like Jeff ,but because I'll admit to being a Tony (Smoke) Stewart fan and can't believe he was robbed once again at Bristol.You know the old saying it's not over until it's over.
Stewart dominated another spring Nascar race by leading more than 250 laps of the 500 total around the Bristol Motor Speedway, sometimes by as much as a 3 second advantage over the next closest competitor.Quite a feat on a short track. Aah....but as the saying goes the fastest race car doesn't always win the race; Tony Stewart 's Number 20 HomeDepot Toyota got wrecked after a brief caution with only three laps remaining in the race by non other than his good friend Kevin Harvick .
Harvick took on new tires under the yellow flag and when racing for a final green ,white checkered flag finish resumed ,Harvick got a bit over aggressive heading through the third turn and bottomed out his race car on the apron of the race track trying to get under Tony and slid up into Stewart taking him out of contention and leaving the door wide open for Kevin Hamlin's number 11 car thus allowing Tony's (Joe Gibbs Racing) teammate to duck under and take the led briefly just as he found himself having a fuel starvation problem with his stockcar and falling into the clutches of eventual winner Jeff Burton in the number 31 race car.
Is there some black cloud that looms over the Joe Gibbs teams at Bristol Tennessee?Tony Stewart has led the most laps at the track three years in a row and Kevin Hamlin has inherited the lead two years in a row only to experience a mechanical failure with the checkered flag within his sights with less than a lap remaining.Kind of reminds this race fan of the numerous times Dale Earnhardt Sr. struggled at the Daytona 500 after what seemed like a million times only to see that elusive prize stolen away.
What's your take on the Bristol race event? Leave me a comment.
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