Thinkin’ Out Loud: 2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma
What the hell was up with Jeff Gordon today? He certainly wasn’t making any new friends out there at Sonoma.
What the hell was up with Jeff Gordon today? He certainly wasn’t making any new friends out there at Sonoma.
Robby Gordon played defense at Michigan and successfully guaranteed himself a starting spot at Sonoma, a strategy that worked to perfection.
Carl Edwards led 35 of the 50 laps run in NASCAR’s debut race on the Road America road course with this division, stealing the lead for good on lap 41.
Back in the 1990s, it would have been hard to imagine Gordon scoring just one NASCAR win in a stretch of 92 races.
Did You Notice? Michigan’s attendance for the June race increased by 5,000 between 2009 and 2010? It’s an interesting twist during a year of continued declines.
Will the new engine be enough to turn things around in the Ford camp long-term, or is something else going on?
While Denny Hamlin may have ultimately won at Michigan on Sunday, the first half of the race was dominated by the one-man Dodge band of Kurt Busch.
Denny Hamlin got a huge jump on the final restart, then drove off into the Michigan sunset like the rest of the field was on tricycles.
A NASCAR driver essentially is the star quarterback, while the crew chief is the head coach and the pit crew is the offensive line.
Surprise, surprise. Joey Logano won the pole. Logano won Saturday night’s (June 12) Nationwide Series race at Kentucky. And Cup regulars finished 1-2-3.