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Friday, June 25, 2010
By Natalie Anthony
LENOX Industrial Tools 301
June 27, 2010 (Sunday)
1:00 pm – TNT
Joey Logano - 2009 Lenox
Industrial Tools 301 Winner!
Jimmie
Johnson stole the thunder from down under last Sunday at Infineon
Raceway (IR) by being at the right place at the right time when Marcos Ambrose took a win ending order from his crew
chief. I think there should be some kind
of “reorganization” at JTG Daugherty Racing.
Frank Kerr, crew chief for the #47 actually received an award following
the race for being the NASCAR® MOOG® “Problem Solver of the Week.” The only problem Frank solved was how to
dominate an entire race and blow his driver’s first win because of gas
conservation. I just keep shaking my
head a lot. I can’t quite figure it all
out.
Teammate to Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, made his own new and waves of enemies
during the race last weekend by being stingy and aggressive with each turn and
each inch of open real estate at IR. I
think it is about time. If Jeff Gordon
wants to strive for his 5th Championship, he needs to take every
position he can get on a track. Jeff’s
behavior is a bit out of the norm, but I hope to see more of it because it made
Sunday racing that much more intense.
His success last weekend might turn into a DNF at New Hampshire Motor
Speedway (NHMS) since a handful of other drivers have put a virtual target on
the #24.
Make way for a late season charge
for Tony Stewart who doesn’t care if he makes
waves and usually ends this East coast race in the Top Ten. It will be nice to see Tony running strong on
Sunday. Tony’s
early domination and late race charges make each lap exciting.
As for the rest of the field at
Loudon, just fall in behind one of the Busch brothers who will be racing each
other for a spot in the Top 5. Both Kurt Busch and Kyle Busch
finished the last two races at NHMS in the Top Ten and they finished right
behind each other in the September race.
I was just thinking, wouldn’t it be surreal to have twin brothers racing
in the same series in NASCAR?
Here is an odd tidbit of hidden
signs to sports theorist. Let us take a
look at the initials of the four-time champion Jimmie “JJ” Johnson. With a little stretch of the imagination, if
you slide the right-handed initial “J” over the reversed left-handed initial “J”
and overlap the bottom of the curves you can create a slender “horseshoe.” Lucky!
Other drivers always said he had to have one stuck where the sun don’t
shine. Take the right-handed initial “J”
and move it over to touch the reversed left-handed initial “J” and you made a
“W” for “Win”. And the spookiest one of
all; Invert the reversed left-handed initial “J” and slide it over to meet the tips
of the right-handed initial “J” and voila you have the shape of an oval
track. Jimmie Johnson was born and named
to be a NASCAR champion. He will prove
these theories right by winning again this Sunday at NHMS.
Track Stats
Lenox Industrial Tools 301
(June 28,
2009)
Top 10
Results
1. Joey Logano
2. Jeff Gordon
3. Kurt Busch
4. David Reutimann
5. Tony Stewart
6. Brad Keselowski
7. Kyle Busch
8. Sam Hornish Jr.
9. Jimmie Johnson
10.Kasey
Kahne
Sylvania 300
(September 20,
2009)
Top 10
Results
1. Mark Martin
2. Denny Hamlin
3. Juan Pablo Montoya
4. Jimmie Johnson
5. Kyle Busch
6. Kurt Busch
7. Ryan Newman
8. Elliott Sadler
9. Greg Biffle
10.Clint
Bowyer
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