Kurt Takes the Checkers

And now I know Alex is gonna be really happy tonight, cause her boy Kurt Busch took the checkers in the Cup race at Pocono. There we're several guys who had good runs that really suprised me Rusty Wallace being one and Ricky Rudd being another.

There are two guys who you have to feel for, ruining top tens or top 5 finishes in the last 8 laps for being involved in accidents not of their doing. First hard luck award goes to Mikey Waltrip, who had battled and fought his way into the top 10 only to get wrecked with less than 10 to go when Greg Biffle had a flat tire. Poor guy can't buy any luck this year. The statement applies to Kasey Kahne as well; getting wrecked with two laps to go after nearly clearing Carl Edwards for 4th place and getting turned into the wall.

I have to admit though that I seriously wonder how worthy a place like Pocono is to have both of its dates. After seeing the race at Memphis and Pikes Peak, I wonder if maybe the Nextel Cup series needs to take a hard look at diversification of the schedule and allowing very few tracks to have second race dates. I'd love to see Cup racing at places like PPIR or Milwaukee or Memphis or Kentucky even.