Tearful Truex Tames Twists and Turns

Martin Truex Jr. led the most laps on his way to victory at the road course in Sonoma, California.

It was the second win of his career and first since 2007.  The win was especially surprising, considering the fact that during qualifying the complete wiring harness in the 56 car burnt to a crisp. The other thing that I can't figure out is how Montoya ran out of fuel. No other driver ran out so why did Montoya? Either his crew chief screwed up the mileage calculations or his gas man didn't get the gas tank all the way full. Either way, for once Montoya didn't screw it up, rather his team did. And poor Kurt Busch. He is his own worst enemy. He may have had the car to beat but got penalized for speeding on pit row. Then while serving his drive through penalty, he got penalized for speeding on pit row. What an idiot!!! Here are the results and standings.

Week-Dennis 216, Neil 186, Michael 182, PT 182, Joe 182, Chuck 177, Freddy 173, Norb 157, Jim 154, Brent 153, Toby 138, Terry 125

Segment-Dennis 1264, Michael 1247, PT 1225, Joe 1185, Chuck 1153, Neil 1149, Brent 1130, Freddy 1127, Toby 1063, Norb 1033, Terry 973, Jim 898

Overall-Michael 2755, Chuck 2733, PT 2684, Dennis 2667, Freddy 2626, Brent 2588, Joe 2583, Neil 2571, Jim 2482, Toby 2401, Norb 2373, Terry 2329

 This week's race is Saturday night under the lights at Kentucky Motor Speedway. I need your picks by 4 P.M. on Friday. The race starts around 6:45 P.M. on Saturday night. This is the next to last race in the second segment. The last race of the segment is next Saturday night at Daytona. So that leaves the door open for four or five of our members to make a run at winning this segment. Keep hope alive! Keep hope alive!

For my song this week I was going to write a Truex themed song. I had plenty of songs to choose from. I could have used "True Colors" by Cyndi Lauper or "True" by Spandeau Ballet or "Be True To Your School" by the Beach Boys. However, I was not feeling any creative inspiration. Truex is a nice guy but he is not controversal like Stewart. He is not popular just because of his last name like Earnhardt. He is not married to a supermodel like Jeff Gordon is. He has not won 5 championships like Johnson. He is not hyped up on 5 Hour Energy drink like Bowyer and he is not an asshole like the Busch brothers. He is just an average ordinary guy who happens to drive race cars. So I went back to an old faithful theme. Dale Earnhardt Jr. is coming out.