Texas Tornado...huh!

This weekends NASCAR race held at what is considered by many as the newest of the really fast tracks was sorely dissappointing.Even with a caution flag thrown for debris with only 10 laps remaining the Stock car race resulted in a real snoozer.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. captured the pole position on Friday which surely had many of the 80,000 Stock car racing fans in attendance excited but, to no avail. Dale Earnhardt Jr's #88 Hendrick car took the green flag at the start but lead very few laps at Texas Motor Speedway's " Samsung 500" on this sunny and warm sunday afternoon.

The dominant drivers throughout the race were Kyle Busch #18 Joe Gibb's owned Toyota , # 99 Rouch/Fenway's Ford stock car driven by Carl Edwards and Jimmy Johnson's #48 carrying the banner for the Rick Hendrick's Chevrolet team .

Each one of the top three drivers took turns leading at various times during the race as track conditions changed throughout the day.

Jeff Gordan and Steve Letarte have work to do on the # 24 race car if they expect to compete at mile and a half race tracks like Texas Motor Speedway.On lap 109 Jeff Gordan's Hendrick owned Chevrolet brought out only the second of four caution flags decided to enter the fourth turn ass-end first and kissed the S.A.F.E.R. barrier wrecking the cars chance for a win and
relegating him to only the second last place finish in his sixteenth season career.

This all the while trying to prevent his loose handling stock car from going two laps down.

What is amazing is how this team that pounded the competition the entire NASCAR racing season last year can completely be so confused about their race car's chassis set-up this season. As good a stock car driver as Jeff Gordan is, I'd say that he simply doesn't get it when it comes to racing on the Texas track.

Teammate Jimmy Johnson ran up front all day long with the same equipment and finished second only to the dominant race car of Carl Edwards.

Carl Edwards has now finished first in three of the six NASCAR races held so far this season.

Do you think that the Rousch/Fenway Fords have figured out the C.O.T. (car of today) ? or has Toyota and Chevrolet simply not had their day in court ?

Let me hear what you think.