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Kurt Busch |
He and his brother have a real shot at sweeping the Busch and Cup titles this year. Unless Hermie and Elliott Sadler put on a late rally. |
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Kasey Kahne |
He wasn’t too happy about the amount of laps they ran under caution at Texas. Hey kid, if you think they ran a lot of caution laps at Texas, wait until you see Martinsville. |
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2 |
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. |
Did you see the National Enquirer article that says he went to Panama City Beach in James Finch’s plane? You know, the same guy who owns the team Joe Ruttman drives for? Does that mean the plane went to Panama City Beach, made a few laps, and went home? |
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Matt Kenseth |
We finally got around to reading Matt’s official website. On the site it says that Kenseth’s cat scratched Dale Jr.’s cat. But the incident went unreported in the National Enquirer. Dale Jr.’s cat bloodied in vicious bar brawl! |
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Jeff Gordon |
He had a great quote on the radio during the race at Texas when Derrike Cope was all over his bumper: “Is that yellow car for position?” |
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Tony Stewart |
He’s made over $100,000 in each race in 2004. You know, Joe Gibbs Racing gets to keep some of that money, which is good, because it helps pay J.J. Yeley’s sheet metal bill in the Busch Series. |
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6 |
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Jimmie Johnson |
A couple of Jimmie Johnson fans were married at Texas Motor Speedway. We’re not making that up. We’re assuming that they were officially registered at Johnson’s souvenir hauler. |
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11 |
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Elliott Sadler |
Whoa, he sure was mad about Johnny Sauter’s lapped car getting in his way. Come on, Elliott, cut him some slack. He just wanted some TV time. |
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7 |
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Jamie McMurray |
He’s going to host a CMT Awards show in Nashville later this month, which is about the closest thing Nashville will have to a Nextel Cup race. |
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Rusty Wallace |
The losing streak used to be funny. Now, it’s annoying. The good thing is that it’s about to end, and we won’t have to hear about it anymore. |
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Kevin Harvick |
So we saw the new FX promos for his reality show, where it looks like Harvick scoops up doggie poo off the garage floor with a shovel and heaves it over a fence. Presumably, he flung it on Kurt Busch’s lawn. |
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Ryan Newman |
He and Rusty Wallace have the exact same stats this year: 0 wins, two top-fives, 4-top-10s. Now all Newman has to do is go winless until 2007. |
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Jeremy Mayfield |
Starting from the back really cost him a shot to win at Texas, but he’s getting close. |
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13 |
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Sterling Marlin |
He attended a Colorado Rockies game on Monday night in Denver. To make the visit more genuine, he reenacted his race at Texas by shagging flies in the outfield and hitting the wall. |
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Dale Jarrett |
All of his friends (Elliott Sadler, Phil Mickelson) are winning things. Which means Robert Yates needs to play Powerball this week. |
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Bobby Labonte |
A reporter in Texas actually asked Labonte how it felt to have his car confiscated at Texas in 2003. Which, of course, happened to Tony Stewart, and not Labonte. But the look on Labonte's face was classic. |
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17 |
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Greg Biffle |
He lost two engines in two days at Texas. The good thing is that his sponsor can probably find a way to write off the expense. |
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Casey Mears |
We guess you already saw that he got to fly the Fuji blimp around Texas Motor Speedway. The bad thing is that he still ran into massive traffic. |
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Mark Martin |
If you discount the Daytona 500, where they qualify during the Twin 125s, he hasn’t scored a top-10 qualifying start in 16 races, dating back to last fall. |
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Joe Nemechek |
He could have won the race at Texas – he was that strong, but it’s a good thing he didn’t, because we kind of like the fact that he only wins in odd-numbered years. |
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Michael Waltrip |
So we saw that he wants to become a Nextel Cup team owner in the future. Which means we are going to be seeing a lot more of Mikey’s commercials for the next 40 years. |
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Terry Labonte |
Two of his streaks were broken at Texas – His streak of races without a DNF ended at 48, and his streak of finishes between 17th and 24th ended at six. With the black paint scheme last weekend, he ended his streak of 50 races where he ran a blue or yellow car. Unless you count the brown car he ran in 2002, which would have extended the blue-yellow-brown streak to 250. |
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Ward Burton |
So we’ve heard that he is going to attend the Roanoke Ballet on Thursday. Ward Burton at the ballet. What’s next? Tony Stewart at a Dr. Phil taping? |
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Robby Gordon |
So now the rumors are flying that Robby Gordon’s job is on the line, that maybe he is out of the car as early as June. Too bad it isn’t 1995, when they ran Sonoma the first week of May. |
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Jeff Burton |
Since Elliott Sadler won last week, Jeff Burton now has the longest losing streak among Nextel Cup drivers from Virginia. Unless you count Hermie. |
