Jimmy Johnson is on the pole. Denny Hamlin won Saturday's Busch race. Juan Pablo Montoya is on the front row. Clint Bowyer, Matt Kenseth and Carl Edwards were fast in practice. Oh, and Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart are entered too.
Take your pick NASCAR fans. According to the Channel 12 weather forecast at the Ryan Newman Fan, it should be a perfect day. Who do you like to win this one and kick off the Chase talk for the week? I think it is tough to go against Martin Truex Jr. In the second race of the season at any given track, I look at the winner of the first race - Truex this time. Then I look at the Busch race winner, if the Buschies are at the same venue - a sick Denny Hamlin yesterday. Hamlin may have been used up by Joe Gibbs Racing and Rockwell Automation, if he is as ill as reported.
Hey, maybe Gibbs will start Hamlin and then sub the driver sure to be in the fourth JGR Toyota before too, long - NASCAR Busch East Series champ Joey Logano. Won't happen, of course, but what a 
story that would be. Maybe we should start a rumor or something?
Enjoy the race and the rest of your Sunday.
Picture credit: Logano - Getty Images for NASCAR - Ring Girl - I don't know, does it really matter?
Ok now you will have me looking on pit road for the young lass with the sign....
Posted by: robert bourne | September 23, 2007 at 12:12 PM