Second to None

I just got an advance copy of the book, 'Second to None - A History of the NASCAR Busch Series', by Rick Houston. It looks pretty good, there's a lot of pictures in it that I've never seen.

Review will be up shortly.

It’s Not Easy Being Green

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Well, he’s gone and done it again. Jeff Green came in first at the Mr. Goodcents 300 in Kansas Saturday, followed by: Hank Parker Jr., Greg Biffle, Matt Kenseth, Jason Keller, Jimmie Johnson, Tony Raines, Buckshot Jones, Mark Green, and Mike McLaughlin.

Is it my imagination, or has Jeff Green lost the pudgy cheeks (and other pudgy body parts) that he used to have? He looks positively svelte.

Anyway, Green managed to pull off the win despite complaining about his engine for the entire second half of the race. Apparently, he had good reason to complain, because he blew a hole out the bottom of it as he was doing his victory burnout. Green said, "I thought that it run out of gas, but it blowed up. I was complaining about it for half the race -- no one complains about engines more than I do. This time they knew I was right." I’m not sure that "blowed" is entirely grammatical, but I think you get his drift.

So just how did Green win with an engine that was going bad? "We didn’t have to put tires on because Goodyear had an awesome tire. I knew if I could get clean air it didn’t matter if I had two tires or four tires. I was smelling a little bit of smoke, but the NesQuik car was running so good through the corners it didn’t have to run down the straightaway."

Kevin Harvick, the current points leader, didn’t have such a good day. He got tangled up with the lapped car of Andy Kirby on lap 54, and after a bit of serious wrenching by his crew, managed to limp home in 38th. He had strong words for Kirby, stating, "The problem is we’ve got cars running half speed and you don’t know what they’re going to do. Sometimes they speed up, sometimes they don’t. It’s a shame. It’s a disgrace to our series and a disgrace to the drivers on the racetrack. I’m absolutely amazed they can let people drive around at half speed. The car is pretty much destroyed." Harvick said all this (and more, I’m sure) to a strapped-in Kirby, who later defiantly said, "I was pointing to the outside as he was coming around. He was a fast car and we weren’t as fast as the leaders, but the other cars passed me fine. My left side was on the white line and I don’t know if he thought he was clear or not, but he came down and barely clipped my right front and it put him into the wall. He was over there raising Cain with me but I wouldn’t take out a fast car on purpose."

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