It has 16 years since a driver 50 years old won a Cup race! Back on March 20,1993 Morgan Shepherd won his last Cup race at the Atlanta Motor Speedway. Saturday nightg Mark Martin won the Subway Fresh Fit 312. It was Martin’s first win in 97 races, Kansas Speedway in 2005. The Hendrick Motorsports #5 Kellogg’s Chevy not only won the race, but also led the most laps-157 leading the race 5 different times!!
The Saturday night race was somewhat typical of a day into night race. There is usually a car that dominate the day portion, a car that dominate in the transition period and a car that dominates the night part of the race. The first part of the race Mark Martin really dominated everyone. During the sun-dark transition period, Kurt Busch was the hot rod to beat. However, when the chips were on the line, Martin’s team resurrected themselves by tuning all night on that car, which allowed it to get back to the front of the pack.
Even though Martin is 50 yerars old, he is as physically fit as any of the “young bucks” he races against!!! Additionally, we do know that NOTHING will make you feel younger than winning a Cup race when people thought that you were way past your prime!!!!!!
TAKE THAT JACK ROUSH!!!
COMMENTARY
Next week is Talladega Superspeedway!!! Off in the distance I can faintly hear, Lynard Skynard tuning up!!!! Need I say any more?????
Talladega is one of captainblowdri’s three most favorite tracks, the other two tracks are Daytona International Speeedway and Atlanta Motor Speedway. As a spectator, the racing at Talladega, Daytona, and Atlanta keeps you on the edge of your seat or recliner throughout the entire race. There is just some unique quality to those tracks that are not at the other tracks that NASCAR races.
Talladega has a destinctive start-finish line placement. Unlike Daytona with the start-finish line in the middle of the tri oval, Talladega put the start finish line after the the tri oval near the pit road exit point. That adds to the excitement running for the checkered flag!! This race reminds me of 43 bees swarming trying to find the hive!! But there is always one bee that gets in a hury and causes the rest to get all balled up!!! Therein…..THE BIG ONE!!!!!
So let’s get out our restrictor plate, dust it off, bolt it on, and LET’S GO RACIN’ BOYS!!!!
As always, I looked it up so that you wouldn’t have to!!!