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April 03, 2005
Bristol Race
Either it was the time change or the never ending cautions, but I fell asleep somewhere around lap 200. Luckily TIVO was going, and I picked up where I dozed off. Harvick won, and that is all I will say about that. Martin got caught up in a bad wreck, and I have something to say about that. There are far to many accidents being caused by rookies. I have been on a tear lately about young drivers, but this time it was Bobby Hamilton Jr., who took the day off from representing the lollipop guild in Oz, and made a dumb ass mistake that took out 14 cars. He (Hamilton) did own up to it, but still, an idiotic move by a rookie causes a lot of grief for a lot of drivers.
Of course Hamilton wasn't the only one making stupid mistakes. Jimmie Johnson, who is normally a very smart driver, got over eager and turned Jeff Burton around. Burton spun into the infield, hit the inside wall and bounced back up into the track. At that moment Kurt Busch, plowed head on into Burton at over 100 mph. It was one of the hardest hits I have ever seen in NASCAR. Thankfully, both drivers where able to get out of their carson their own. I suspect they will be sore, but will race next week. I think it is a real testament to the safety and engineering of these cars that no one was hurt.
Posted by pmadsen at April 3, 2005 07:38 PM
