Smokin!

What a race and awesome warm-up to the 500! My guy Kyle ran in the top 3 almost the entire race and drove Tony Stewart's bumper right into the last turn. Somehow he thought he could do what he failed to do Friday night in the Truck Series: bump draft up to the line, pull out and around and swing across the finish line in first place.

Yeah. It didn't work Friday and it didn't work Saturday. The restrictor plates just don't give you enough to make it work. The result? Kyle swung out high and two other calls drove underneath him and left him in 4th place as he crossed the line! Eiyeeeee!

He ran such a great race! But Tony "Smoke" Stewart was just that much more. With about ten laps to go a caution came up and Tony took a pit stop. Only five other cars did the same. As Tony pulled into his pit, he could be heard to say 'sorry guys. I made a mistake. I'll get them back." When he left pit row he was in 22nd place!

With about ten laps to go he gained it back and won the race! All props to "Smoke" for a hard ran race! But now my guy, Kyle, is steamed and ready to race! Unfortunately, sometimes he races his emotions so I'm hoping he listens to his Crew Chief, thinks with his head, and races with his heart.

Rain is expected at race time (3:40pm) and through most of the race. They'll be racing on different tires under conditions they haven't practiced in. Of course, the track is so big (2.5 miles) that it could be raining on one side of the track and not the other!