Dale Earnhardt Day and Fixing races?

Today is the late Dale Earnhardt Sr's birthday and Dale Earnhardt day was celebrated in Mooresville at DEI. And also on this day Jeff Gordon won his 77 th race of his career to pass Dale Sr. on the all time win list at Talladega superspeedway under caution as the green, white checker attaaempt failed with an accident on the first try of overtime. And much to the dismay of some fans who threw beer cans and debris on the track after the race. which brings me to this point, what the hell are people throwing stuff on the racetrack for anyway. Is this the new "fad" and going to happen at every race for now on no matter who wins? Or is it because of Tony Stewarts accusations that the races are fixed with late cautions cramming all the cars back together with a handful of laps to go. I sure hope that NASCAR is isn't employing this tactic as I seen being talked about on Speedtv's Windtunnel tonite. Then the fans would have a reason to throw things on the track but that would be a severely ugly turn for NASCAR into the future!
Kyle Busch had a hard time at Talladega this weekend barrel rolling in the Busch race and crashing in the Nextel cup Race.
And what's up with Dale Jr, trying to buy part of Robert Yates racing, is he going to be in a Ford next year?

NHL

And speaking of fixing, the reffing in the NHL playoffs has got to be the worst I have ever seen in the playoffs ever. Are they trying to fix it so certain games won't get into overtime by having a ton of power plays for either team? It seems as soon as one team gets ahead near the end of the game they are pretty much guarnateed there won't be a penalty called against them unless is really obvious ...but these refs these days miss everything and sure love the phantom hooking calls. Anyway with no overtimes, certain or many companies won't lose any money as there are no tv timeouts (commercials) in overtime. See the connection here? It seems as if someone has put money and politics above a Canadian passtime....the NHL playoffs.....and the playing for pride idea has long since been removed from the game. It is getting hard to watch powerplay after powerplay. It takes the flow from the game. So Mr. Bettman I know you have something to do with this so stop screwing with the game, it was fine before you changed it.

3rd COT nextel race

Well the 3rd "Car of Tomorrow" (COT) race of the season was run in Phoenix on Saturday night and it looks like they fixed the burning foam issue they had with some earlier races. Jeff Gordon and tony Stewart battled hard near the end of the race for 1st place while a lapped Martin Truex Jr. was in the fight as well. Jeff Gordon
eventually won and tied Dale Earnhardt's record of 76 wins. At the end of the race Jeff Gordon did a victory lap with the #3 flag.
There was a crash near the end of the race as well as Dale Jr. and Martin Truex were in the pits at the time and went a lap down to the leader Jeff Gordon.

Jr. Nation gets a disappointing resuilt

Well after a crash on the first lapat texas, things went pretty well, especially when Dale Jr. was leading the race. 72 laps actually. Jr. Nation was alive in well in Texas. Jaun Pablo Montoya had an incidient with Tony Stewart who then came out of the pits a few laps later to spin out again, that's when Kurt Busch ran into Dale Jr's rear end of his car and lifted it in the air, ruining Jr's car and day. What's up with Kurt Busch's driving these days?

Well for the first time in ions John Force failed to qualify for this weekend's NHRA event.

Habs Lose, No NASCAR, New Guitar

Habs Miss Playoffs



Thanks to the Toronto Maple Laughs (oh sorry,.... Leafs) the Habs are out of the playoff race and will be joining me on the golf course! Well not really would be cool though to met a few on the course. Anyway my beloved Habs sit out the post season once again. Kind of their own fault when you have to wait til the last game of the season to make it into the playoffs then really you don't have a team worthy of going far anyway, but I still hope they would make it maybe next year!
As it being Easter weekend there is no Nextel Cup race this weekend so now what am I going to do? Well seeing I have taken up guitar playing (don't worry wife says I'm getting better) I might as well play that today. I bought a second guitar yesterday as my first one is in the shop getting the nut on the neck fixed, (don't think I broke it but who knows!) So I bought a new Yamaha, pretty sweet locking guitar, could use some airbrush artwork on it though I think, that is my next project to find an artist who can do airbrush work on guitars

Nascar COT and a sad NHRA note

Well it seems as if the NASCAR Car of Tomorrow still has some bugs to be worked out as a few cars had the foam, which is added to the sides of the car as an extra safety measure, catch fire by teh heat from the exhaust system. And Kevin Harvick was on fire today in Martinsville as seen in this picture from Nascar.com. Seem like they still need more testing before they really put it into full racing year round.
Anyway Dale Earnhardt had a good run and finshed 5, and Jimmy johnson held off his boss Jeff gordon to win the race.

NHRA

Eric Medlen has passed away from a testing accident in Gainesville while testing his funny car. John Force racing did not race in Houston this past weekend in honor of their fallen teammate.