My Favorite Blank

The weather has been beautiful all weekend in Atlanta for racing. Today NASCAR travels to the racetrack located just below Atlanta, Georgia in Hampton for the Kobalt Tools 500 race. The race car fans in the Peach State love NASCAR and their favorite drivers; when they see them make those fast laps around the Atlanta Motor Speedway. The track in Atlanta is the fastest track NASCAR has on their racing circuit. The residents of Georgia like to know that their track offers the highest speeds possible for these talented drivers that make up the NASCAR racing series.

The veteran Mark Martin will be sitting on the pole for Sunday’s race and Kurt Busch in the number 2 car will be on the outside row; next to the pole winner. The 2nd row will be Jamie McMurray and Juan Pablo Montoya that will try to apply as much pressure as possible to those front row guys. Starting from the 7th position will be Jimmie Johnson and he is usually a factor in any NASCAR race.

Kyle Busch was the winner of last year’s race in Atlanta. I think this year’s race might belong to Jeff Gordon and he’s off to a good start in 2009. Jeff Gordon is tops in the standings right now and he will be trying to increase his lead on Sunday afternoon. Most fans in the stands at Atlanta Motor Speedway will be rooting for Dale Earnhardt Junior and you should hear a big roar from the crowd if he manages to take the lead on any lap Sunday.

Conditions are great for racing in Atlanta and it’s looking like the air temperature will be around 66 degrees at the start of the race. The track temperature will quickly warm up and will be much warmer than the air temperature. 43 cars flying around the Atlanta Motor Speedway in Atlanta is a great site to see and I’m looking forward to the start of the race. Let’s just hope all the drivers take it easy early and we don’t have any big crashes at the start of the race. These super high speeds can cause a lot of damage to these cars if they do get in a fender bender. The field will stay pretty tight in the beginning and every driver will have to be up on that steering wheel guiding them around a very fast race track. I doubt we make it 100 laps with no caution, but 40 to 50 laps of green flag racing, will let us know early who may have the car to win it all on Sunday.

The guys are now pacing their self around the track and the green flag is about to turn them loose in Atlanta. If you like NASCAR and like a good race, make sure you tune in to FOX and watch the race live on TV. You won’t see the cars going this fast until they return to Atlanta’s track again in the fall. This is the race that every fan should watch, so they can see just how fast these guys can go around the track. Let’s go racing!

Dale Earnhardt Junior is not a very good driver. I think most of the true NASCAR fans and other drivers on the circuit know this already. A lot of die-hard Earnhardt fans would never admit this and this goes back to them being fans of his dad Dale Earnhardt. Little E clearly caused a major wreck at this year’s race in Daytona, but the young, unexperienced driver is taking no blame. He some how is blaming others for his raming of Greg Vickers car. He first starts out blaming someone else and then shortly after turns the blame to Greg Vickers saying that Vickers is no Saint.

Not sure when Dale Junior is going to figure out this grown up thing in life. We have to take responsibility for our actions and everyone knows the wreck in Daytona was your fault. Just own up to it and go on, trying to blame others for your mistake only makes you look worse than what you really are. You have had everything handed to you on a silver platter and now it’s time to start earning some of that silver. You have no problems celebrating the good times and the wins, so learn to take the bad times in stride and quit the blaming game. Even if it’s the other driver’s fault, still accept responsibility and people will look at you in a much greater light. The light is casting very dark in your corner now and it’s only going to get darker if you don’t start taking responsibility; like the rest of us adults do everyday.