SCENE & HEARD
Sunday, June 18, 2006
How big was that win?
1:41 PM
If you were lucky enough to watch it, Saturday night's Busch race from Kentucky was one of the most thrilling and dramatic endings in, well, a real long time.
The irony of Sunday morning's e-mail roster was the discovery that race winner David Gilliland, son of former Winston West champion Butch Gilliland, and Stephen Leicht, the Robert Yates Racing development driver, each made their seventh career Busch start Saturday night.
Now, I'm not knocking Yates' development program nor CitiFinancial for backing it -- but I think someone missed the boat by letting Hype Manufacturing, which is Gilliland's sponsor "by default" since it's his team owner Clay Andrews' company, get all the play while Gilliland out-dueled Nextel Cup drivers J.J. Yeley and Denny Hamlin for the win.
And didn't you love the way Gilliland wore his Hype hat for the TV interview?
-- Dave Rodman
The irony of Sunday morning's e-mail roster was the discovery that race winner David Gilliland, son of former Winston West champion Butch Gilliland, and Stephen Leicht, the Robert Yates Racing development driver, each made their seventh career Busch start Saturday night.
Now, I'm not knocking Yates' development program nor CitiFinancial for backing it -- but I think someone missed the boat by letting Hype Manufacturing, which is Gilliland's sponsor "by default" since it's his team owner Clay Andrews' company, get all the play while Gilliland out-dueled Nextel Cup drivers J.J. Yeley and Denny Hamlin for the win.
And didn't you love the way Gilliland wore his Hype hat for the TV interview?
-- Dave Rodman
That was the best Busch race I've watched in a long time ... I personally think it's better when the only Cup drivers in the race are the ones that are running the full schedule. Kudos to the Busch regulars and the rookies! Big congradulations to Gilliland ... a nearly unknown no longer. Also great to hear that Jeff Fuller is okay ... that was a mean crash!
Congratulations to David. Goes to show that good guys can finish first. It was by far the best Busch race this season, certainly worth a rebroadcast.
I don't usually bet on NASCAR races because it's a sucker bet. Any one of 20 different guys can win a race though really, there are about ten guys who win most of them. So trying to pick one of those guys is insane. It's not as safe as horse racing for a bettor. And I never bet on Busch races. But for some reason yesterday I went online and placed a bet on "Field." That mean any driver not on the list, the guys with betting lines after their names. The guys with any real chance of winning were listed with their odds. The field contains all the rest, no-name guys mostly but some decent driveres like rookie Danny O'Quinn. I bet the field. Nuts. $5 so no biggie. If a field guy wins I get $90. And that is just what happened. I was unaware of what was happening until ten laps to go. It took another two laps for me to snap to what was going on then I got nervous. I was certain that this guy - with 4 starts this season - would get caught at a restart. Well, we know what happened. I'm a huge Hype Racing fan now. Huge.
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