Atlanta Wrap
NASCAR Raceday Celebrates 100 Races at the ATL
The 100th race anniversary of Atlanta Motor Speedway was not lost on the NASCAR Raceday crew who opened the show with a special montage from the archives.
The show then shifted to the differences between Las Vegas and Atlanta. A well produced piece by Hermie Saddler.
Wendy Venturini then interviewed the race favorite, Kyle Busch. Sadler then jetted off to talk to Kasey Kahne about his performance so far this season.
About 30 minutes into the show, a great package of the AMS airs complete with historical footage of the greatest Motorsports reporter ever, Chris Economaki reporting for ABC’s Wide World of Sports.
Digger Makes Fun of F1
Ok, now over to the FOX coverage. Oh look, there is the weekly Digger cartoon. This week Digger’s relative who is French and races in F1 (where have I heard this before Ricky Bobby)? Digger and the F1 driver trade barbs like this one.
“But you NASCAR isn’t faster its so slow it makes me sick, Like ring around the rosy, it’s a joke for little kids.”
Nice work. Digger comes back but just says it’s better because it is better. Stereotypical NASCAR fan. Frenchy hits a tree and looses the race. Typical F1, hey wait, how did a tree become part of the racetrack of a cookie cutter oval?
Never mind. Before we green flag the marathon of unbridled speed, here is my pick for commercial of the race. Looks it’s a talking fish asking for some of him back.
“What if it were you hanging on this wall? If it were you in that fish sandwich you wouldn’t be laughing at all!”
That makes about as much sense as an NASCAR gopher racing and F1Gopher.
Big Brother Wins in the ATL
Carl Edwards says he will be looking for a cushion today with a hot slick race track. Look for the Open Wheelers to do well. Ok, lets light this candle. Mark Martin leads them to the green. A few laps into the race and Reed Sorenson sides into the wall with our first caution.
Ten laps Later Bobby Labonte spins. To lap 104 now and it looks like Labonte’s car is not handling any better as he hits the wall.
Lap 205 now and Sam Hornish hits the wall and then hits Bill Elliott. (Please come back to the IRL Sam!) Lap 217 and the pole setter Mark Martin wrecks after something went south on his car.
62 laps to go and coming off of a restart for debris, Scott Speed gets up into David Ragan.
David Stremme then hits Greg Biffle and Biffle hits the wall hard. The accident knocked Scott Speed out of the top 35 in points.
One late caution for debris thanks to a Robby Gordon tire. Time for final pits stops. Carl Edwards wins the race off of pit road with a two tire stop. Kurt Busch came off of pit road 2nd. On the restart with two laps to go, Busch takes the high line and Edwards the low. Kurt Busch rockets to the lead and Gordon follows getting by Edwards who would finish 3rd as Kurt Busch wins one for Roger Penske.
Busch then celebrates by driving around the track with the checkered flag backwards.
Atlanta Cup Open Wheelers Finish
1. Kurt Busch
2. Jeff Gordon
3. Carl Edwards
7. Kasey Kahne
8. Tony Stewart
16. Casey Mears
17. A J Allmendinger
22. Ryan Newman
26. Robbie Gordon
27. Juan Pablo Montoya
29. John Andretti
35. Scott Speed
37. Sam Hornish Jr.
41. Dave Blaney
43. Mike Bliss
Images appearing in this blog courtesy of SPEED, ABC, FOX and NASCAR Images.
The 100th race anniversary of Atlanta Motor Speedway was not lost on the NASCAR Raceday crew who opened the show with a special montage from the archives.
The show then shifted to the differences between Las Vegas and Atlanta. A well produced piece by Hermie Saddler.
Wendy Venturini then interviewed the race favorite, Kyle Busch. Sadler then jetted off to talk to Kasey Kahne about his performance so far this season.
About 30 minutes into the show, a great package of the AMS airs complete with historical footage of the greatest Motorsports reporter ever, Chris Economaki reporting for ABC’s Wide World of Sports.
Digger Makes Fun of F1
Ok, now over to the FOX coverage. Oh look, there is the weekly Digger cartoon. This week Digger’s relative who is French and races in F1 (where have I heard this before Ricky Bobby)? Digger and the F1 driver trade barbs like this one.
“But you NASCAR isn’t faster its so slow it makes me sick, Like ring around the rosy, it’s a joke for little kids.”
Nice work. Digger comes back but just says it’s better because it is better. Stereotypical NASCAR fan. Frenchy hits a tree and looses the race. Typical F1, hey wait, how did a tree become part of the racetrack of a cookie cutter oval?
Never mind. Before we green flag the marathon of unbridled speed, here is my pick for commercial of the race. Looks it’s a talking fish asking for some of him back.
“What if it were you hanging on this wall? If it were you in that fish sandwich you wouldn’t be laughing at all!”
That makes about as much sense as an NASCAR gopher racing and F1Gopher.
Big Brother Wins in the ATL
Carl Edwards says he will be looking for a cushion today with a hot slick race track. Look for the Open Wheelers to do well. Ok, lets light this candle. Mark Martin leads them to the green. A few laps into the race and Reed Sorenson sides into the wall with our first caution.
Ten laps Later Bobby Labonte spins. To lap 104 now and it looks like Labonte’s car is not handling any better as he hits the wall.
Lap 205 now and Sam Hornish hits the wall and then hits Bill Elliott. (Please come back to the IRL Sam!) Lap 217 and the pole setter Mark Martin wrecks after something went south on his car.
62 laps to go and coming off of a restart for debris, Scott Speed gets up into David Ragan.
David Stremme then hits Greg Biffle and Biffle hits the wall hard. The accident knocked Scott Speed out of the top 35 in points.
One late caution for debris thanks to a Robby Gordon tire. Time for final pits stops. Carl Edwards wins the race off of pit road with a two tire stop. Kurt Busch came off of pit road 2nd. On the restart with two laps to go, Busch takes the high line and Edwards the low. Kurt Busch rockets to the lead and Gordon follows getting by Edwards who would finish 3rd as Kurt Busch wins one for Roger Penske.
Busch then celebrates by driving around the track with the checkered flag backwards.
Atlanta Cup Open Wheelers Finish
1. Kurt Busch
2. Jeff Gordon
3. Carl Edwards
7. Kasey Kahne
8. Tony Stewart
16. Casey Mears
17. A J Allmendinger
22. Ryan Newman
26. Robbie Gordon
27. Juan Pablo Montoya
29. John Andretti
35. Scott Speed
37. Sam Hornish Jr.
41. Dave Blaney
43. Mike Bliss
Images appearing in this blog courtesy of SPEED, ABC, FOX and NASCAR Images.
posted by Blake Johnson at 8:21 PM
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