From Bristol to You (Tube)

Well, here are my first tries at posting video.

I mentioned them Thursday in all about Bristol. And the Nationwide race is happening, so there's a little racing fix for the weekend.

In the one video, Jimmie Johnson was down a bunch of laps and had some issues keeping up with the pack, even on a restart, and there were a good number of those. I'm not saying the entire Bristol Motor Speedway was cheering and smiling, and even laughing, but certainly everyone around me did.



The next videos are Kyle Busch. C'mon, he'd just won the third race of the weekend, give the 20-something some credit. I didn't see him hung in effigy like last year. And some young men tried to come back to West Virginia with us. They had consumed mass quantities of adult beverages. But they knew West Virginia didn't have a beach within its borders.

Well, folks, there you have it. My first attempt at video with my camera. I hope you enjoy them.

Have to give KB props...

Love him or hate him, you have to give Kyle Busch his due. Winning the Camping World Truck Series, Nationwide and Sprint Cup races, at Bristol last weekend, hats off to KB.

The other story of the Bristol night race was Jimmie Johnson finishing up, oh, 85 laps down. That converts to what, more than 42 miles behind everyone else? It's only a 250-mile race! But at the outset, Jimmie was hot! There was a glimmer of hope for Tony when he finally passed for the lead, but it didn't last long.

JJ's had some issues since winning back to back at Sonoma and Loudon. He's finished outside the top 10 since way back in June. He's fallen like a paver block from a home improvement store, plummeting from 3rd to 9th in points. Yikes!


This shot is early in the night and I must say, JJ and Smoke were slugging it out for the lead.

Not long after, Juan Montoya tapped Jimmie and that's all she wrote. I shot some video of him waaaaaay behind the pack after a restart. But these things take forever to load. It will come in a different post. Maybe with the Kyle Busch burnout, for good measure. But they do take for-ev-er to upload.

Now, I will admit, my driver Tony Stewart had issues at Bristol, too. He had some choice words for his crew during the evening. He violated two of Coach John Wooden's three rules for success - 1. Always be on time (he obviously made the driver's meeting on time); 2 - never use profanity (he loses there) and 3 - never criticize a teammate (lost out there, too). And here's the crew trying to make the car right.


We have a break from Cup action until my birthday weekend, Labor Day Weekend, when the action moves to Atlanta.

So TiVO of Bristol and a truck race will have to suffice this weekend.