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Dale Earnhardt Jr. |
Like we said, we don’t think many cars will show up at Rockingham. Considering the celebrations he had last weekend, he might not show up at Rockingham either. |
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Tony Stewart |
So he made $1.1 million by finishing second in the Daytona 500. Big deal. As an NFL coach, Joe Gibbs makes that in two weeks. |
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Kevin Harvick |
He said that 75 percent of the race was "pretty boring." Now, we have to ask, how did he get to see the commercials? |
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Jimmie Johnson |
So he's been in the top 10 in the standings for 70 straight weeks. 70 straight weeks! How long is that? When the streak started, Dale Jarrett was in the top 10. |
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Jeff Gordon |
In the new commercial with Vickers, Johnson and Labonte, it was obvious that they filmed it pretty soon after he shaved his head. Glad we have that for posterity. |
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Matt Kenseth |
He finished 9th again for like the 35th time in the last 35 races. He’ll be tough under this new points system, too. |
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Bobby Labonte |
For all the hype his special paint scheme got, it wasn’t on TV much. He should have ran it at Atlanta. |
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Dale Jarrett |
He’s finished 10th in the Daytona 500 for two straight years. And we all thought he was hoping not to repeat 2003. |
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Kurt Busch |
His brother's Busch Series car looks pretty funny. It’s got Jimmie Johnson’s decals and Terry Labonte’s number. We call it the Jimmie Labonte hybrid. |
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Scott Wimmer |
He admitted he doesn’t have a driver’s license anymore. Which really isn’t that unusual on today’s NASCAR. Until a couple a years ago, Brian Vickers and Kyle Busch didn’t have one either. |
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Ryan Newman |
It seems like he always gets into someone else’s problems at plate tracks. And he had one of the better quotes of the week: “The hardest part was the frustration of whoever ran out of talent in Turn 2 and caused that big mess,” he said. |
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Michael Waltrip |
He and Ryan Newman can start their own support group for drivers who have swallowed at least one cubic yard of Daytona dirt. |
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Terry Labonte |
He’s big supporter of President Bush. No shocker why. They are both Texans. And they are about the same age. |
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Jamie McMurray |
He had a tough day on Sunday. But his teammate, Sterling Marlin, had a worse day. Sterling went home to Tennessee and found eight inches of snow he didn’t know his hometown of Columbia was going to get. |
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Greg Biffle |
He’s going to have a tough time explaining to his sponsors why he sped down pit road. Jackson-Hewitt: I took some shortcuts on my tax deductions. Subway: I cheated on my diet. National Guard: I showed up for duty on Sunday morning instead of Saturday. |
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Elliott Sadler |
He said he knew Johnny Sauter was going to wreck two laps before he actually wrecked. Why didn’t he hop on his cell phone and call Vegas while he had the chance? He could have won a heckuva lot more than the $350,000 he got for finishing seventh. |
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Jeff Burton |
Well, he probably made it to the NBA All-Star Game on time. |
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Rusty Wallace |
It’s tough to believe that Derrike Cope still has more restrictor plate wins than he does. |
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Mark Martin |
He didn’t qualify for the Busch race and lasted only six laps in the Daytona 500. Not sure which weekend was more painful – his, or Boston Red Sox fans’. |
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Ricky Rudd |
Nothing really went his way at Daytona after all the promise that was shown during preseason testing. |
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Brian Vickers |
“It was just one of those racing deals,” he said about the big accident. Sterling Marlin must have advised him on what to say. |
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Ward Burton |
While we are on the subject of commercials, did you see the new one where Ward’s dog is all painted up in NetZero colors? Hope he doesn’t think it’s a bullseye! |
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Brendan Gaughan |
He wasn’t the highest-finishing rookie, highest-finishing yellow car-driving driver, black-haired driver, 5-foot-9-inch driver, Dodge driver or Nevada-native driver. But he was the highest finishing Penske driver. Go figure. |
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Joe Nemechek |
So who is President Bush? His Commander-in-Crew Chief? |
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Casey Mears |
He was the highest finishing Ganassi car. Maybe for the first time ever. We’ll check. |
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