Oct 12, 2006

Jimmie Johnson and Brian Vickers

As of the composing of this blog piece, the word on the street is that Jimmie Johnson is in no mood to forgive and forget.

Last week, Brian Vickers clipped the right quarter panel of Jimmie Johnson's Chevy as he was passing Dale Earnhardt Jr. Johnson and Earnhardt Jr wrecked and Vickers celebrated his first career NASCAR Nextel Cup victory.

While Earnhardt Jr seemed more focused on Jeff Gordon and his comments- which is another story of interest- Johnson and crew chief Chad Knaus blasted their former teammate. Yeah, former, any driver who is not allowed to attend team meeting is no longer a team member. Basically, Vickers is keeping the seat warm for Johnson's good ole buddy Casey Mears.

Vickers has made several attempts to contact Jimmie Johnson, with hopes of possibly working out this little tift. Unfortunately, for the time being, Johnson would rather let the friendship fizzle. Johnson has an opportunity to take the high road. He was the one who was wronged, and Vickers has admitted to that. But when a driver wants to make piece, it would be mature to at least try to talk things out.

Johnson's quotes show no indication that he is ready to rekindle a once close friendship with Vickers.

"I know it wasn't intentional...But I have a hard time feeling like he's sorry for what he's done."

Okay, it's Thursday, four days after the whole ordeal went down. It's time to at least hear Vickers out.

And I need some enlightenment. Did Jimmie Johnson attempt to contact Elliott Sadler last season when he caused the big one? Did he explain to Carl Edwards why he ran into the back of him earlier in the event, which actually took out Jeff Gordon?

Additional Rant

And Foxsports has a poll asking, which driver would likely be leading the points after the race at Lowe's, and Jeff Gordon, who is 147 points behind has 92% of the votes. Huh? Fox webmasters need to take a look and check for some robot voting. NASCAR fans are not stupid people, even Jeff Gordon fans know that he has about as good as chance as leaving Charlottee with the Nextel Cup points lead as I do. Over 16,000 people have voted and Gordon has over 13,000 or 14,000? Jeff Burton has 2% of the votes, and he currently leads, Matt Kenseth is 6 points out of 1st place and he has 2 %. Why even have a poll?