Martinsville Wrap-Up: Some quick observations from last Sunday’s race.

Well its 24hrs later and I bet Denny Hamlin is still celebrating, I know I would be.

Here are my quick thoughts about Sunday’s race.

- Jimmie Johnson is going to be tough to beat

- Montoya had every right to rough up Gordon a bit, he had the faster car and the leaders were pulling away and Jeff was slowing him down.

- I really feel for Carl Edwards, if it were not for bad luck he wouldn’t have any luck at all. Congratulations to him and his lovely wife on their upcoming addition to the family BTW.

- Johnson didn’t brake-check on that re-start, everyone else went before he did.

- Kyle Busch had a good run, maybe he’ll get some momentum at the end of this season and carry it over into the start of next year.

- At first glance I was wondering what the heck NASCAR was doing by letting it stay green until the checkers with Andretti sitting at the start/finish line but then I realized they put the caution out with the checkers and right at that moment they froze the field. NASCAR let the leaders race for the win and then froze the field. Makes sense from a competitive point of view, but what if some of the drivers in the back of the pack didn’t see the yellow lights/ flag ... whatever ... and their spotters were not on the ball? Could have been serious, but Andretti looked at it otherwise when he stated after the race, “It wasn’t a bad call. To me, I wasn’t in a great position, but I wasn’t in an overly dangerous position.”

I was going to go on a rant about Dale Jr.‘s situation but I’ll do that in my next post.

Catch you all later.