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What a difference a DAY makes,lol today's race in my opinion was a much better race than yesterdays. Let me start out by giving Denny Hamlin a big shout out for the win, he was strong all day and was able to hold off Harvick at the end. I'm not sure what happened to old Happy but it was like he ran out of gas with two laps to go, he still finished 2nd so I don't think he was out of gas. Like I speculated at Daytona the EFI is already playing a part in the end result, Kevin was not the only one to have a head scratcher, Tony Stewart also had the same kind of thing happen to him, he was able to get to the pits and after going several laps down they were able to get the car restarted. There were no big crashes today but there where enough cautions to keep things tighten up and in the end very interesting.  Where I didn't see big gains in cutting through the dog leg yesterday, today on the restarts several people were able to get a advantage by doing it. Although no one proved my point that it wasn't a good idea, a few came close.

The other thing everyone seemed to talk about this week end, is the six race suspension placed on Chad Knaus and the 25 points Jimmy was docked. First the suspension of Chad is just a inconvenience and I'm leaning towards a little heavy handed by NASCAR I mean I would think that the purpose of a inspection is to let the teams know if there cars are legal. If they are not, than go back and get them in line. Now if it is at the end of the race or any time after it has passed inspection it is found to have been changed, than this would seem to fit the crime a little better. From my understanding they worked on a area that the template didn't cover directly, a part in a open space in the template. Than to make things worse Chad said that they had run the same thing in the previous three races. You will remember last year cameras caught Chad telling Jimmy, "if you win. crash the back end..not a lot...but you have to damage the back end" and it's no surprise old five time and the boys have been cheating. Now I believe in racing "if you ant cheating...you ant trying" and "it's only cheating if you get caught" so here we go another year of "Boys have at it" and that looks like that means in the garage as well as on the track. The 48 team has appealed that ruling but if they lose, they will probably do the same thing this time, they did the last time Chad was suspended, I think they won two of three races. This is the fourth time this has happened and Jimmy has won five Championships, seems like a fair trade to me and to Rick Hendrick to, I guess..lol..because he just keeps them coming to work. I enjoyed today's race I hope you did to. I will check in next week end when they are in Vegas a town made for racing. Let me know what your thoughts are on today's race and the season so fare. Thanks for checking this out!!