Looks like Matt Kenseth has this seasons championship squarely in his sights. With now 7 wins this season, last 2 in a row and also Matt's 500th start. Only 1 driver has ever won in their 500th start and that was Richard Petty. So Matt is in good company for sure. While teammate Kyle Busch has stepped up his program this time and sits in 2nd after 2 consecutive 2nd place finishes. His normal MO is self exploding and ending in last place. He has surely stepped up his program and has managed to keep his temper under control and starting to show the talent everyone has known he has had. If he does not win this year I would look for him to be the front runner next season, and believe me it isn't easy for me to say that because I really don't like the guy personally. My opinion is he is a big ol whinny cry baby who freaks out when he doesn't get his own way.
Hey I have to give a shout out to Greg Biffle, where the hell did he come from? That last restart he had some balls to make the moves he did, that was some crazy passing. I don't think he will be a factor in the end and I really don't think he will ever be a factor for the championship, not with Matt, Kyle and Jimmie always finishing in front of him and for sure not while he drives a Ford.
The race this weekend was actually a good race, very short at only 300 laps, more like a Nationwide race then a normal Sprint Cup Series race. Passing as always was hard to do and was at a premium, but that didn't stop a lot of guys from passing a lot of cars on the way to the checkered flag. With 19 lead changes between 11 drivers with Matt leading 106 laps. The next closest lap leader at 98 was Martin Truex Jr.
Kasey Kahne had yet another hard start to the chase by ending his day early only finishing 278 of 300 laps, the only bad thing with not finishing all the laps in this race is only 5 cars were out at the end of the race, so Kasey ended up 37th and delegating him down to 13th place, the last place possible in the chase with a 71 point deficit and 8 races to go, he will need everyone in front of him to have multiple bad races for him to catch up. Better luck next year Kasey.
I do believe the Jimmie/Chad parring has finally met their match. Think about this, Matt is in his first year with Joe Gibbs Racing. New team, new manufacturer, new pit crew, new engineers, new crew chief....New new new and look at them now, 7 races won, first 2 chase race wins, I think he has won all but 2 races that have been at mile and a half tracks (not sure its 2, but I believe that was it at last count.)
Folks I think Matt is on the proverbial roll and will be very hard to beat this year and maybe several years to come. I will say this, everyone from 4th on down....might at well sit back and relax and get their teams ready for next year because they do not have a chance one in hell to win this championship with Jimmie, Kyle, and Matt running like they are.
Congratulations to Ryan Blaney for his great win at Kentucky. His first Nationwide win and I am sure not his last by any chance. Austin Dillion is making a slow but steady climb back towards the front of the points. Sam Hornish Jr needs to pick it up and continue getting top 5s or Austin might catch up with him being only 15 points behind him.
Well folks that's it for today, I will have a race run down for the AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway around friday. Oh one last thing..... you ever hear the old saying "everything is always bigger in Texas? Well Eddie Gossage out did himself on this one, he has a new toy at the track and he has a big name for it, "Big Hoss" its a 218 feet wide, 12 story high, 20,666.64 square foot video board that's 1080p HD, that was buit by Panasonic for the track. It has nearly 4.8 million pixels that can display 281 trillion colors. IN FREAKING SANE!!!!!!
Until next time........
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