Jimmie Johnson Wins 50th Cup Race, 1st Win at Bristol

Hi Everyone!!

Well, Sunday's race started out with Joey Logano, driver of the #20 Home Depot Chevrolet on the pole and it ended with Jimmie Johnson driver of the #48 Lowe's Chevrolet winning the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway! We've all heard that for the 3rd time this year...Johnson wins! It was actually quite an exciting race in my opinion, great side by side racing, lead changes, a fairly "big one" at one point and a driver winning at Bristol who had never won at that track previously. I thought for sure Kurt Busch had Sunday's race in the bag, considering how much he lead through out the day and the car he had but once again by boy didn't fail to disappoint, you can never count out the 48 car until it's over and done with.

I was quite impressed on Sunday with how a few drivers ran including  Paul Menard, Martin Truex Jr and Scott Speed to name a few. If you didn't notice Menard sites 8th in the Cup standings heading into Martinsville next Sunday, that's awesome! He has proven he can drive a race car and run a clean race, when someone was faster than him on a number of occasions on Sunday he didn't push the issue, he let them pass...the way it should be if you know you can't hold your line and maintain that position any further. I'm surprised Truex had such a great run, finishing 12th at Bristol...but than I'm not considering Michael Waltrip Racing has shown they can build and bring quality race cars to each race, David Reutimann was up front and having a decent day and than before you knew it he was out...I missed what happened to him but it must have been something mechanical because I never saw him out on the track for the rest of the day. And finally on to Scott Speed, he sits in the top 15 in points heading into next weekend's race and has only not run 1 lap I believe they said of competition all year so far...that's impressive!! His team mate Brian Vickers in the 83 car finished 15th so a great run for both Red Bull guys! It's nice to see some guys up front and running well that normall you would think wouldn't, it makes for a better race!

I know many people are sick of Johnson winning but they need to get use too it, he has proven week and in week out he has a car capable of winning! I've heard rumors of how Knaus should be put with Dale Jr and how any driver could win a race as long as they had Chad Knaus as their crew chief...I highly disagree with these opinions that I hear. Having a winning crew chief isn't all about how many wins that crew chief had with another driver or a team, it's about communication and chemistry! Certain drivers get along with certain crew chiefs better than someone else might, it's just the way the sport works.

Your top 10 at Bristol was as follows race winner Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart, Kurt Busch, Greg Biffle and Matt Kenseth round out your top five. Carl Edwards, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Jamie McMurray, Kyle Busch, and Jeff Burton rounds out your top 10. Next week their on to Martinsville, so that's two short tracks in a week, I prefer Bristol over Martinsville for some reason but of course I'll be tuning in! Watch out once again for Mr. Jimmie Johnson as he's won the last 5 out of 7 races at the short track.

What's everyone's thoughts on Bristol, we had a first time Nationwide winner in Justin Allgaier on Saturday and than Jimmie Johnson win's at Bristol for the first time in his career, making it 50 Sprint Cup wins now. If you haven't, please check out the blog I posted about Saturday's Nationwide race, it came out quite well if I do say so myself. Any input or comments on the races this past weekend, please share in the comments below or on the Facebook Fan Page!!

Take Care everyone and have a great week!

Justin Allgaier Wins 1st Career Nationwide Race At Bristol

Wow! What a race that was, but than again isn't Bristol always entertaining? I'm so happy I tuned in earlier to watch the Nationwide Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, not only did Allgaier win his 1st Nationwide race, it finally wasn't a Cup guy winning in Nationwide. I've been saying for a long time that these Nationwide regulars need a chance to shine, win races and compete for the Championship, it's hard to do when their are so many cup drivers entering the race week in and week out. The long debate has it that the cup guys help boost ticket sales, so maybe they do but let's take a look at the truck series, they seem to be doing perfectly fine without cup drivers entering each of their races, a few is fine but 10 or more, please...let's not.

If you missed the race Allgaier  passed Keselowski on a restart with 27 laps remaining in the race. The finish gave  Penske Racing it's first 1-2 finish in the Nationwide Series...it amazes me this is the first one for Penske but than there is a first time for everything, right? Not a whole lot happened through out today's Nationwide race except at the end when Joey Logano was battling with Kevin Harvick for position when Harvick spun Logano on the final lap to finish 5th, Logano finished 14th. This bothered me, Harvick is battling Logano as if it's for the win, it was for one position higher than he was running...on the final lap...he clearly races very dirty from time to time. I could understand if it was a bump and run for the win but for 5th place? C'mon now, that's not common sense too me.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow's Sprint Cup race at Bristol, hopefully it doesn't rain as their saying it's suppose to be cloudy and it could rain. I want to see how Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski race against each other, they did have that meeting with NASCAR today and Edwards has a 3 race probation to abide by but sometimes that doesn't mean anything in the sport of racing. Joey Logano has the pole for tomorrow's race,  his first career pole so it's been a great weekend in racing so far when two young guns are showing their stuff...first Logano winning his first Cup pole and than a young Justin Allgaier winning his first Nationwide race.

Who's everyone's pick for tomorrow's race? Jimmie Johnson looked strong in practice but if you look at the past two races at Bristol the winner was none other than Kyle Busch...so we'll just have to wait and see what happens but I wouldn't mind seeing a first time winner this year or a driver win their first cup series race, that's always exciting! I will be adding a new poll in the side bar, I'm thinking of having it to do with Edwards and Keselowski, how's that sound? If anyone has an idea for a poll, please by all means let me know, I'd love to use one that a fan of this blog/facebook fan page comes up with!