Tony Stewart wins the Bud Shootout
Tony Stewart was able to hold off David Gilliland at the end to win his third Bud Shootout last night at Daytona. For those who don’t know what the Bud Shootout is all about, I will tell you; race that pits the drivers that won a Budwieser pole award in the previous year and all past winners of the Bud Shootout. It is a 70 lap, two segment race; 20lap opener and 50l ap dash for the cash. The teams are given a 20 minute break in between the two segments where they can make adjustments, change tires and pack fuel in the fuel cell.
My favorite driver was haing a few issues with the car and he started to fade at the end, but he was involved in a late race wreck and he finished 15th out of 21 cars when he bump drafted the #19 Dodge (driven by Elliot Sadler) causing him to get loose and he was hit by the #11 car (driven by Denny Hamlin) and that put him into the wall right in front of Dale Earnhardt Jr. (my favorite driver) which collected Junior causing him to spinout.
Fortunately for Dale Jr. that was not the same car he was going to be racing in the Daytona 500 next week or in qualifying for the Daytona 500 coming up later today. The team had two completely different cars ready for this weekends festivities so him wrecking the car last night will not impact his qualifying for the big race coming up next week.
Jeff Gordon’s night ended early when his motor just shutoff on him and he went straight to the garage area and was done for the night. Most of the commentators in television booth were speculating the Jeff Grodon may have hit the engine kill switch by accident and it shut the motor off. I think he hit it on purpose when he saw that he was being out gunned on the track and didn’t want to embarrass himself. 
Sorry Don, I couldn’t resist.
It all officially starts today with qualifying for the kickoff race to the 2007 NASCAR season and good luck to all of the 61 cars that are attempting to qualify for the big race next Sunday, but only 43 cars will make it to the big show.
My prediction for the winner of the Daytona 500 will be the exact same it has been since he first broke in the NASCAR Cup Series back in 2000; Dale Earnhardt Jr. in shiny red #8 Budweiser Chevy Monte Carlo SS.
Jon
You may be right, as bad as he was running I don’t blame him if he did.
And if Jr had hit his kill switch the race would have been wreck free
Sorry couldn’t resist
Comment by DonB — February 12, 2007 @ 8:57 pm
Touche my friend. !!! The 500 should be interesting.
Comment by Administrator — February 12, 2007 @ 11:14 pm
I’ll be there, just hope I don’t freeze again like I did last year
And Hope Tony controls himself this year
Comment by DonB — February 12, 2007 @ 11:37 pm
Get some good pictures to send to me.
Comment by Administrator — February 13, 2007 @ 7:01 pm