1. Tony Stewart will refuse to discuss his shoulder injury. He will, however, discuss his extracurricular racing activites (ie Motorcycling across country with the Kyle Petty Charity Ride, sprint cars, midgets, arena racing, Buschwacking). Joe Gibbs will be panicking somewhere in the DC area.
2. Seeing the outpouring of publicity for Tony Stewart, Casey Mears, and Brian Vickers, Kyle Busch will try to get in trouble by staging a sit in at the Nascar trailer. All he will accomplish is a nice sunburn. Which will be discussed ad nauseum during the race on Sunday. "My, Kyle Busch is having a fantastic drive, what with that horrible sunburn and all."
3. Casey Mears will start growing his hair out for the hair care sponsor of the #25. He'll ask Jamie McMurray and Brian Vickers for tips. They will refuse. In frustration, he will be left to consult with Elliott Sadler.
4. All the Hendrick drivers will be peppered with questions about the Vickers-Mears swap. No one will say anything too exciting about it. Kyle Busch will have the most difficult time with this. I don't think we've seen the last of the Mears-Shrub battle on the track.
5. Dale Earnhardt Jr will be the sentimental favorite to win- a retro paint scheme honoring his Grandfather and Dad and a race on Father's Day. Conspiracy theorists will say "I told you so" if he actually wins (shades of the 2001 Pepsi 400 anyone?).
6. Kid Rock will be at the race. Camera crews will only focus on the date he brings to the track (so now you know who the mystery bombshell is).
7. Since Batman started the race last year (and had a cool ride to do so), Superman will be at the race this year. I doubt he'll be flying in, but stranger things have happened.
8. We will hear the phrases: "pit strategy" and "fuel mileage race" at least 354 times; Scott Riggs' failure to qualify for the Daytona 500 will be mentioned 2 times; "The Biff" at least 6 times; "Smoke" 4 times; comments on Jeff Gordon's "hard hit:" at least 11 times; and Denny Hamlin will be praised for his run last week at least 23 times.
9. The unannounced debate in the garage will be over the renaming of the series to "Sprint" So will it be the "Chase for the Sprint Cup " Or "Sprint for the Sprint Cup" Or "Race for the Sprint Cup"? Confusion will reign as the former open wheel drivers will point out that "sprint" in their world refers to a particular type of car. They will refuse to call the series that. At least until next year.
Oh, yeah, at the end of approximately 4 hours, someone may actually get to take home the trophy.
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