SCENE & HEARD
Sunday, June 18, 2006
The gauntlet, minus the sticks
1:50 PM
That was all I could think as I walked into the Nextel Cup garage at 11 a.m. -- 40 minutes before the drivers' meeting -- and saw a diagonal, four-deep wave of people that completely blocked the passageway behind Matt Kenseth and Tony Stewart's end-of-the-row haulers.
I assumed the fans were there to observe the drivers coming from the motorhome lot to the drivers' meeting, until I wriggled through a foot-wide space that need to simultaneously accommodate both me and a crewman pulling a gas-can cart, and went beyond it 20 yards to stop and visit with another bystander.
Moments later, I saw a mobile dust cloud, a la the Charlie Brown comic strip character ''Pigpen'' coming toward me. In the middle of it was Jimmie Johnson, trying to sign as best as he could while never slowing his moderate pace.
-- Dave Rodman
I assumed the fans were there to observe the drivers coming from the motorhome lot to the drivers' meeting, until I wriggled through a foot-wide space that need to simultaneously accommodate both me and a crewman pulling a gas-can cart, and went beyond it 20 yards to stop and visit with another bystander.
Moments later, I saw a mobile dust cloud, a la the Charlie Brown comic strip character ''Pigpen'' coming toward me. In the middle of it was Jimmie Johnson, trying to sign as best as he could while never slowing his moderate pace.
-- Dave Rodman
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