Putting in my guess for the follow-the-leader 400 early, since I'll be out-o-touch next week...
The Win: Greg Biffle. Runs well on these sort of tracks, hasn't won for a bit so he's due, ran good at Kansas last year.
1) Dale Jarrett surprises everyone with a T5 run.
2) Kyle Busch is the top Hendrick car. Rumors of friction between the 24/48 team and the 5/25 team start to circulate.
3) Kahne & Mayfield run together for much of the race, before Kahne mysteriously fades late. Mayfield gets a T10.
4) The 77 is the highest finishing Penske car.
5) Kevin Harvick gets a T10.
Bonus: it is revealed before the race that the track gave away 20000 tickets to local businesses, to ensure a "sellout". None the less, the TV folk make a point of mentioning the "full" grandstands.
John McCoy 29 September 2007 03:50:27 [ permanent link ]
The Win: going to go out on a limb here, and pick Clint Bowyer to get his second career win. Dunno why, altho he's been passably quick in qualifying, so I should have a decent chance
1) Earnhardt is again the top non-chaser.
2) Three of the 5 Roush cars in the top 12 finishers.
3) Mikey Waltrip was, by a considerable margin, fastest of the Toyotas in qualifying. He's not in the race, and 2 or more Toyotas finish ahead of him.
4) All the Ganassi Dodges finish ahead of all the Evernham Dodges. Scott Riggs has put up some fast qualifying times before now, and not backed them up; I'm guess this race will be the same.
5) The top 3 in the chase points hold their positions (with only 4 points between them, this is so unlikely I probably should have used it for the bonus pick
bonus) following a pit road incident Menard, yelling "I've had all I can stands and I can't stands it no more" rams Stewart. NASCAR says "I zee nothingk, nothingk".
John McCoy 29 September 2007 20:55:26 [ permanent link ]
"Tom S." <tscalfjr@cox.net> wrote in news:52nsf3dcrl05j3mkfd48h698i36g9jp3gr@4ax.com:
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:50:27 CST, John McCoy <igopogo@ix.netcom.com>
wrote:
3) Mikey Waltrip was, by a considerable margin, fastest of the
Toyotas in qualifying. He's not in the race, and 2 or more
Toyotas finish ahead of him.
Do you mean he isn't a factor in the race or that he wrecks/breaks
early on?
"He's not the fastest Toyota in the race" is what I was thinking, if I remember arightly. Probably there ought to be a comma or something in that sentence somewheres.
The actual RPG is "two or more Toyotas finish ahead of Waltrip", the rest of it was just fluff for entertainment purposes
John McCoy 28 September 2008 03:40:22 [ permanent link ]
OK, gonna rush this out before heading out for dinner...
The Win: This has been a good track for Roush cars, so I'll go with a Roush driver - I'll pick Matt Kenseth to win.
1 - Top Chevy: I'll go out on a limb a bit, and pick Kevin Harvick to come home first of the Chevrolets.
2 - Top Dodge: not getting any real feel for the Dodges...even with a legal shock JPM will probably be fast, but I doubt he'll stay fast all race long. I'll go with Kasey Kahne for top Dodge.
3 - Top Toyota: these guys haven't quite looked like their usual selves this week. I'll pick Denny Hamlin to be best Toyota.
4 - Top Rookie: normally I'd go with Ambrose, but I think this is his first exposure to an aero-dominated track in the CoT. So instead I'll go with experience, and pick Regan Smith for top Rookie.
5 - story: man, it's hard to think of one for what's likely to be a big boring race at a big boring track. I'll guess that there will be 3 Roush cars in the T5 for the second week running.
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