The Richmond Experience Part 2


Here’s some pictures from my trip to the Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond International Raceway--Part 1 in the previous entry (and no "News" and Notes this week).
Herman
Matt Kenseth/Kenzets getting
ready for driver intros
Marty Smith prepares to report on
Tony Stewart's comeback
 
Me, risking getting beat-up
My favorite pit board 
Say what you will about the driver, but the
18 team always has some cool looking stuff
 
The Phillie Phanatic has NOT aged well
Scuff tires
Me with Carl Edwards behind my Dillon-sized face
The start-finish line
A crew member for the 78 team, talking
about the lugnut controversy
Four lugs glued-up--this was the last
race before the five-lugnut rule was
put into effect

The Richmond Experience Part 1


Here’s some pictures from my trip to the Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond International Raceway--Part 2 coming soon (and no "News" and Notes this week).
Austin Dillon addressing the
fans on the track
One of the Air Titans--thankfully not
needed that day!
A fuel I can support
Carl Edwards pauses walking
towards the intro stage to
sign some autographs
Claire B. Lang--ALWAYS there
Joonyah
More Joonyah (and a handler) 
A mobile DJ car.  Yeah.
Paul Menard's car gets some adjustments
Yeah, I didn't have a Sharpie that day

Jimmie Johnson and his daughter on
their way to driver intros (that's Chad
Knaus on the right)
Kasey Kahne signs some autographs


Nascar Relieved to Return to Boring Racing on Saturday Night


After a tension-filled Geico 500 this afternoon at Talladega, Nascar’s best and brightest were relieved to be done with the excitement, preparing for a dull, boring race at a cookie cutter track like Kansas on Saturday.
Thankfully its back to single-file racing
on Saturday!
“Any chance you can take to get a win, you’re gonna take that chance, Mike”, winner Brad Keselowski told a reporter (apparently named Mike) in victory lane.  “But I’m glad that next week we can get back to real racing—follow-the-leader for 400 miles around a cookie-cutter 1.5 miler.  Anytime you can have a race track where aero is everything, you’re excited.”
Perhaps not surprisingly some of the drivers involved in wrecks today were also happy to look forward to next week.
“Hey, we have to get through this wild and exciting afternoon to get to what we really want—plenty of debris cautions and the only passing happening on pit road”, said multi-wreck victim Jimmie Johnson.  “That’s what the fans really want anyways—when you think of me, you think of dull, grinding consistency, not daring passes for the lead from nowhere.”
In fact, it seemed that only one driver could be found who wasn’t excited about going to Kansas, a track that has two dates thanks to Nascar’s relationship with the neighboring casino development.
“Well, it’s Kansas, and I don’t really like that.”, said driver Kyle Busch while sipping on a water bottle.

Busch then stared blankly at the reporter for the next 10 minutes.