Sunday, May 20, 2007

Let's go Allstar Racing!!!

I love the Allstar race! It's just great old school beating and banging racing. This year the Crew Chiefs got to jump in cars and race also. That was a fun race, lots of beating and banging in that race too. Andy Petre won the race with Chad Knaus finishing second. Not without effort mind you, Chad really tried and nearly got Andy a couple of times.

Martin Truex Jr got his first cup win in the Nextel Open. It's just a matter of time before he gets his first win during a points paying race. He's just on the cusp of getting it. D.E.I is getting their ducks in a row and it's not going to be to much longer before they are winning again.

Kevin Harvick won the Allstar race. Perhaps the most exciting part was when Kyle and Kurt Busch got into each other. Everyone wondered what would happen if the two of them wrecked into each other. Kurt really showed how mature he's become by taking the higher road and while he did comment on saying it would be a while before he'd eat Kellog's again, he was very cool and collected with the incident. All in all it was a good Allstar Race.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Junior is leaving...


It's official Dale Jr is leaving D.E.I at the end of this season. I can't say I'm surprised but yet at the same time I am.

However, I'm very proud at him for standing up and doing what is right for him. I'm a Dale Jr fan and I'm very proud to say that I'm a Dale Jr fan and I wish him a ton of luck wherever he decides to go next year.
He hasn't decided where he's going to go yet, he wants to talk to everyone who wants to talk to him. I think that is great! Here is the transcript, podcast and further down the page you can read Budweiser's statement

I can only imagine how hard it was for him to make this decision but he made it and in my opinion his father would be proud of him for standing up for what he feels is right. I wish him nothing but the best for the rest of this season and next season.

The Internet has been swirling with rumors of where he was going to go for the last couple of days. My personal favorite was that he was going to Hendrick Motorsports. Nothing against HMS, I happen to like Jimmie Johnson too but I just can't see him driving for HMS. The other one was he's going to start his own Cup team and run it out of JR Motorsports and lease HMS engines. PLUS he was taking Martin Truex Jr with him. Truex is still under contract until after the 2008 season.

So from this Junior fan.... Good luck buddy I think next year is going to be a very exciting year!