“I don’t go around wrecking people on purpose.”
Dale Earnhardt Jr., on the incident with Carl Edwards.
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Ok… Dale Jr. ran, with what seemed to be every other Nextel Cup driver in the series, the BUSCH Series Carfax 250 at the Michigan International Speedway this past Saturday. With less than two laps to go Jr. bumps into the back of Carl Edwards which causes Edwards to go spinning out of the lead and leaves Jr. to win the race. Edwards retaliated by slamming into Jr.’s car during the final caution flag laps and then walked into victory lane to exchange heated words.

All I can say is get over it Carl! Ha!

I have no idea why the fans booed Jr. And I’m not just saying that because he’s my favorite driver either. He’s one of the few drivers that I believe when they say that they didn’t mean to do it. The proof is that whenever Jr. has bumped or hit someone on accident in the past he’s immediately gotten on the radio and admitted fault. I don’t believe that he just turned into a complete jerk overnight and decided to wreck Edwards. Besides, Edwards got loose out of that turn and Jr. had no where to go. Well, no where to go if he wanted to still have a chance at the win.

Since Junior is one of, if not the most, popular driver in NASCAR today it was very disarming to hear fans booing him. Now, I was watching the race and I started to wonder what he would have to do for me to boo him.

It would take a lot, maybe if he started liking the Raiders or dating Paris Hilton. Oh, I can’t even go there, that would be a dark day indeed.

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If you haven’t picked up your tickets for the Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma weekend, set for Aug. 25-27, yet then I think you should mark your calendars for Thursday, August 17th. That’s the day that IndyCar

With this blog I wanted to talk about things that you’re not going to hear Benny Parsons, Wally Dallenbach or Darrell Waltrip mention during the races on Sunday. Ya know like who’s that new blonde chick standing next to Kasey Kahne during the national anthem??? Or didn’t Jeff Gordon’s fiancee Ingrid Vandebosch look like she might be preggers last weekend at the Brickyard?? (For the record she’s not as far as I know, but that shirt she was wearing made me do a double take, note to Ingrid: don’t wear that top again it makes you look a little pudgy in the stomach region)

Anywhoo… I couldn’t possibly get to all the gossip and insider info that’s out there and why should I when there are others who do it so well already. Like, for instance, this blog called Answer This… has a great section just about NASCAR wives and girlfriends. It’s a must read to get caught up on your favorite drivers love life.

Towards the end of August the IRL series makes its way to Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, August 25 through the 27th to be exact. Yours truly will be there blogging from the race track. It’ll be great to get an up close look at the big names of the IRL, like Danica Patrick, Dan Wheldon and Marco Andretti. But honestly, I’m really hoping that Ashley Judd is there to support her husband, Dario Franchitti. I love her family and you just never know what she’s going to say.

I’ve never been to an IRL race before but I hear that the atmosphere is different than that of a NASCAR race. For the IRL fans it’s more about seeing and being seen. I guess I will have to see for myself, and of course I’ll report it all back to you.

So my heart softened just a little bit for Jimmie Johnson this weekend. Normally he’s on my crap list, especially with that suspect crew chief of his Chad Knaus, but this week I could really sense genuine feelings and emotions from him, like winning this race really meant something to him.

And so it should, it was the Brickyard 400 after all, oops I mean the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard. This is one of the few times I’ll ever take issue with sponsors but when the race is at Indy it should be called Indy or Brickyard. They’re never going to change the Daytona 500 to the McDonalds 500 at Daytona. Indianapolis Motor Speedway is steeped in history for Indy cars, but not so much for stock cars. But if you watched the pre-race show on NBC you’d think Jesus walked on those bricks. I kid, I kid…

The thing I hated about the race was that the finish wasn’t a nail biter. It didn’t come close to this year