A couple of notes from trackside...
---Don't know how much they talked about the weather, but...it was FREAKING COLD!!! With a damp mist and about 20-25 mph winds...Absolutely the worst weather I can remember for a 500...WARNING! WARNING! SEXIST MALE COMMENT TO FOLLOW!!!!...NASCAR just isn't the same without tube tops & tight shorts
...and when there's more coffee being sold than beer...
---Successfully avoided having to listen to bon jovi....down by the pits, a couple of hours before the race, they were actually COACHING some of the "fans" in how to properly SCREAM :blink: at the appropriate moments...must have been someone from the "Fay Wray School of Acting"...
---The 3 biggest cheers of the day:
#3--Stewart getting penalized for rough driving...absolutely NO excuse for that maneuver...at Bristol, maybe; but NOT at one of the fastest points at a superspeedway...
#2--Kurt Busch's car imploding....(he's a SORRY replacement for one of NASCAR'S greats... may be a decent talent, but he's gonna find it's REEEEEAAALLLLY lonely without having 4 or 5 teammates to cover your ass)
And, as usual, the biggest cheer of the day was for....
GORDON HITTING THE WALL!!!