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June 30, 2008

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NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. (88) spins out of control near the end the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series LENOX Industrial Tools 301 auto racing at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H., Sunday, June 29, 2008.

What we learned: East Coast

Posted at 8:32 pm by Scott Whitmore

Sorry it took so long to get this posted ... someday maybe I'll tell you a sea story about today.

Anyway, how about that race? Wasn't it great seeing the leaders go side-by-side for lap after lap.

No, not Sunday's snoozer of a Cup race. I'm talking about the super stock feature race at Evergreen Speedway on Saturday night. Seriously, it may be the CoT, it may be the tires, but there is several times more action on our local short track in Monroe, Wash., than NASCAR's top series this season.

It doesn't say much when the Juan Pablo Montoya-Kyle Busch dustup and Jamie McMurray running through a pitting Dale Earnhardt Jr. are the highlights.

My opinion? Montoya's frustration at all things NASCAR boiled over on Sunday. He may gain some fans for taking a cheap shot at "Bad Boy" Busch, but unless there was something that Busch was doing worse than the replays shown on TNT, Montoya over-reacted -- big-time.

I loved that after Montoya admitted to dumping Busch, the TNT guys said they thought he should've be more tactful and used the "standard" excuse of needing to watch the replay.

I have not watched the Nationwide race yet, and caught just the end of the truck race on the SPEED replay Monday morning. The IndyCar race? Well, my old VCR could handle only so much.

Opinions, we've all got them ...

I'm sure you don't just read me (the 12 of you who do), but here's a couple of other writers to check out:

1. Yahoo! Sports' Bob Margolis has some observations on the Cup race at Loudon: (CLICK HERE).

2. PA Sportsticker auto racing editor Scott Serrano has some ideas on who should drive the No. 5 car for Hendricks next season: (CLICK HERE).

3. CNNSI's Tom Bowles gives his 5-cents on New Hampshire: (CLICK HERE)

Scorecard

Nationally I was .500 for the first time, ever. I was right that Tony Stewart would win the Nationwide race, and I can now pick anyone else in IndyCar after Tony Kanaan finally got his win in Virginia.

My pick, Mike Skinner, scored a top 10 (7th) in the truck race, and Matt Kenseth was caught on the wrong side of the pit window in the Cup race, coming in 18th.

Locally, I was correct that Lane Sundholm would win the bomber feature at Evergreen Speedway, but my picks of John Zaretzke (super stocks), Ricky Deitz (super figure eight) and Chuck Richard (mini-stocks) did not come true.

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I'm not buying Bowles' opinions in his article ... It reads as though he's biased (like our buddy Jenna) ...

Montoya attempted the "Pick Manuever" like the police try in chases ... However, Kylie's car should NOT have swerved back to the left as hard & violently as it did unless the driver was actually cranking hard on the wheel in order to get revenge on the car that was passing him ... And based on the MO of Kylie, that's pretty much a given that he'd try to take out Montoya ... Plus, there was more action on the track between the two of them and TNT cleverly failed to show it (but MRN threw them under the bus) ... This incident smells a LOT like NBC's crappy coverage of the 2006 Daytona 500 & how they threw Tony Stewart under the bus, yet failed to show that Matt had been causing problems for him the whole race ...

Poor Jamie Mac ... He's gotten the short end of the stick like Casey Mears ... They're both the redheaded stepchild ... Maybe Jr's problem is that he needs to get OUT of the racing groove when he's got a problem as that's the 2nd time he's been rear ended on the track ... As close as he was to the entrance of pit road, he should've been ALL the way onto the apron (not part of the way) ... Jamie Mac's been getting the junky equipment since Roush teamed up with Yates ... Since Yates is desperately hunting for sponsors, Roush is helping him out with the best equipment he can get (Look at how Matt & Biff have "struggled" with bad equipment this season) ...
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