This is going to be a little harder than usual, but let’s give it a
shot.
Winner: Tony Stewart. I’d love to go for Mikey or DEJr, but Smoke
showed a lot of muscle in practice.
1. Mikey gets a top 5. He does know how to draft and how to run the
restricter plates races. He should be able to stay up top today.
2. 5 Toyotas in the top 15.
3. DEJr top 10. Jr didn’t show a lot in practice or qualifying, but
he should be able to stay near the front of the draft.
4. Jacques Villeneuve qualified well, but he will have trouble
finding a drafting partner. He finishes 30th or worse.
5. Robby has been pretty quiet since Montreal, but that changes this
week. The big one – 10 or more cars – comes in the third quarter of
the race and Robby causes it.
Tom S.


On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 18:18:23 CST, "Tom S." <tscal…@cox.net> wrote:
>This is going to be a little harder than usual, but let’s give it a
>shot.
What a race….. what a finish… Ryan almost had it…. Jr was
capable of winning and was in the lead pack when his engine let
go……Mikey showed some muscle and restrictor driving skill…….
So lets see how we did.
>Winner: Tony Stewart. I’d love to go for Mikey or DEJr, but Smoke
>showed a lot of muscle in practice.
0 Smoke was there but got shuffled back to 8th …..
>1. Mikey gets a top 5. He does know how to draft and how to run the
>restricter plates races. He should be able to stay up top today.
0 Coulda, shoulda, woulda except for a blown tire. He was up front
all day, usually in the top 10 until that happened.
>2. 5 Toyotas in the top 15.
0 Only Blaney in 3rd.
>3. DEJr top 10. Jr didn’t show a lot in practice or qualifying, but
>he should be able to stay near the front of the draft.
0 Coulda, shoulda, woulda except for a blown engine. Third RCR/DEI
engined car to grenade. They have got to get that engine program on
track.
>4. Jacques Villeneuve qualified well, but he will have trouble
>finding a drafting partner. He finishes 30th or worse.
0 21st
>5. Robby has been pretty quiet since Montreal, but that changes this
>week. The big one – 10 or more cars – comes in the third quarter of
>the race and Robby causes it.
0 Robby kept his nose clean. It was Bobby Labonte who caused it and
he says he doesn’t know what happened. Not a cut tire (that is what
it looked like at first) so who knows.
Race total 0
Chase total – 2
second segment total – 10
first segment total – 5
Tom S
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