What did you all think of the NASCAR NATIONWIDE RACE?

Question

I thought it was really good. I liked the green, white checkered at the end and the clean racing between Busch, Earnhardt Jr. and Hamlin. Lots of racing; not too much drama.

Answer 1

The race was exciting for the first half of the race, then it seemed like no racing til the end. Overall, it was decent at best.

Congrats Denny!

Answer 2

I enjoyed it as well. I don't watch races for the wrecks so this was a great one in my eyes. There was alot of give and take, and sportsmanship. Bliss could have totally screwed Carl but he let off, there seemed to be alot of that type of racing, except for the Wallace's. Hehe. It was a good one.

Answer 3

boring= they better do more than that tonight

Answer 4

Joe Gibbs domination baby!

Answer 5

i missed it and it sounds like a great racing. i did hear hamlin won

Answer 6

that was some excellent racing. i loved to hear carl edwards after the race.  the man was still so mad steam was nearly coming from his ears, but that turned to a smile as he talked about how fun it was to race up there with denny, kyle, dale, and clint; about how much the cars were able to move around; and how much good racing went on through those long green flag runs.

the leaders (the above, plus keselowski and a few others who shuffled in and out) were running high, running low, blocking, switching lines, trading places, cutting back and forth - and almost all without incident.  yeah, kyle bumped reutimann a little bit and took his "warning." there was even humor as reutimann's crew chief tried calming him down by telling him to file it away to remember "for the end of the race" - as if reutimann had a snowball's chance of catching and keeping up with the leaders on any run over a few laps.

and what an ending, with the wallaces getting into it, everybody wondering what kyle and junior would do - work together to beat hamlin or split apart, carl getting put behind clint and then nearly wrecking out trying to get back by (great save by carl and bliss), and denny's performance coming back from two seconds back within the last ten or so laps and then fending off all comers made it incredibly exciting. and all three of the leaders had a great chance to win - what a race it would have been had carl not ended up down in the infield on that last restart...

and to finish it all off, denny's interview was actually one of the best i've seen him give in years - thanking his team and recognizing all they did for him when he came in, and now during this, his last ride in the #20. kyle was mellow and appreciative that he got his sponsor their first finish instead of tearing up the car again like at kentucky. junior was ready to start the head's a rollin' from the #88 crew, and then he spent minutes congratulating the gibbs guys not on their engines, but on their cars' bodies - going for "downforce" and handling over brute speed. and then to top it off, he congratulated tony stewart.

and then there's bowyer's brilliant comment that a "monkey" could win in the #20 car - classic clint sportsmanship: he had no problem running with and sometimes leading the gibbs cars, edwards, and junior throughout the race but couldn't close the deal - so he does his best to downplay hamlin's win. and mike wallace looked like a madman on the run during his interview.  i froze the frame a couple of times to explain what was going on to someone else, and i swear i've seen that look before in the county mental ward (in movies of course ;-) - the red face, wild eyes, mussed hair, and bizarre grin... especially while saying that he had "met" with steven already to discuss what had happened. and then there was steven's glaring absence from any post-race interviews.

who could ask for anything more...

Answer 7

I would have rather #88  or #5 could have won but #88 is back in 2nd place in Nationwide points...Wish Dale Jr & #5 could have pulled off a win...oh well there is tomorrow..

Go Dale Jr & Hms

Answer 8

Wasn't bad, wasn't great either. Just somwhere in between. Just kinda wish Bowyer and Jr drafted with one another to actually make it look like a race at the end. But then again green white checker restarts don't quite work that well at RP tracks.

Figure it takes them one lap alone just to get up to speed.

Answer 9

I beg to differ, fairly boring for the most part (single-file, spread out racing). Still looking forward to the Coke Zero 400, though.

PS: LOL, I've never seen Mike Wallace that mad before!

Answer 10

It was kind of boring.   Not much excitement when there is a dominant car.

Answer 11

ya i was expecting kyle to wreck denny

Answer 12

It was turning into a really great race until the last 10 laps when the lap-down cars got in the way of the racing. The Hendrick car (Jr) was trying to figure out his strategy to use on the two Gibbs cars that had teamed up. It would have been interesting to see that strategy play out (if he could have pulled it off). Jr didn't have any help.

I see Kyle was picking up on some of Dale Jr's plate race expertise.  It would have been nice to see if Jr could have put a move on Kyle and possibly Denny also. That is one of Jr's strong points is working the draft at restrictor plate races.

I was disappointed with the green white finish. It was also bad to see Mike Wallace get taken out by his nephew there at the end. Mike should have shown his nephew a little more patience. After all those old cars get upset easier aerodynamically than the new cot. That's racin' in those old cars at high speed tracks.

It was actually racing and not rain, fuel, pit strategy, etc... that determined the outcome and that made the race interesting in itself.

Answer 13

I thought it was AWESOME!!! Denny is one of my favorite drivers so to see him win was great. Especially since that is going to be his last race for that team for awhile! I thought it was amazing how before one of the commercial breaks Denny was 2 seconds back then when they came back he was leading the race!!!! I am just really glad that Denny got to spent the last race for that team in victory lane!!!!

Answer 14

The Cup race Saturday night with a whole lot of drama, would be so much fun!

Answer 15

it was pretty boring until the overdrive (fancy word for green-white-checker)...it was pretty good when mike wallace went storming across the tri-oval grass to find steve wallace....mike's interview was hilarious... i'd hate to be rusty b/c he's in the middle of it...