I like Matt Kenseth, this year’s Daytona 500 winner. I also respect NASCAR’s weather prognistication acumen, for calling the race when they did1. I thought it might get better; wishful thinking is just that.
Kevin Harvick was 2nd at the time; Mark Martin was back 16th, with the freshest tires of the lot of them. Matt was in the right place at the right time; race strategy is important. There’s no way to guarantee that every lap of every race will be run, and the last 20 or so laps were run under the threat of approaching rain. If Ifs and buts was candy and nuts, etc ..
Still, I’d give a hundred bucks to see how that last 48 laps would have worked out.
Hats off to Matt and the Roush Fenway bunch, on their first win in the Great American Race. The Cat in the Hat deserves one.
And they’ll be strong at Fontana next week, too. It never rains in Southern California. I think there was a song that proclaimed that. Blue skies next weekend, guys! Rock on!
I still wish I had a sister to kiss.
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