[Sirrotica]

She totally played it safe and fell in line and followed the leaders, led one lap when she stayed out while the leaders pitted. Uninspiring performance and was fortunate all the wrecks were behind her. She's fortunate with the new gen car it's so hard to pass that the whole race was a freight train. Anyone that ventured to the lower groove lost positions for the most part and when she had to restart on the low groove she got to the upper groove ASAP.

To me the whole race was boring for the most part because with all the bitchin about making the cars look stock they totally screwed up the ability to pass. The only other super speedway race I can think of in recent times that was as lackluster is when NASCAR forbade the drivers from touching bumpers at Talladega a few years ago, The drivers were so scared that they'd be black flagged they just followed the leader most of the race.

We'll see how she performs when they get to a track where they can pass and not run around like a freight train with 43 cars on one track. One thing about today is there was no big one because for the most part there was no cars running side by side because it was so hard to pass. Daytona and Talladega continue to be the worst tracks on the NASCAR schedule and need re-engineered, and until NASCAR decides to spend some money on the tracks instead of making the car owners pay for the continual modifications of the cars to try and solve Bill France Srs. two white elephant problem tracks, these tracks they will continue to have problems with putting on good racing shows.

NASCAR, it's not the cars, it's the tracks.

One other thing I have constantly said was NASCAR had to police the cars on these 2 tracks to keep the top speeds down and many on this board basically told me that they should let them run as fast as possible at Daytona and Talladega with no restrictor plates. Think about that now as even with restricted engines yesterday in the Nationwide race debris flew up over 70 feet into the stands injuring 14-15 people. Do you still have the same opinion now? What if it were your friends or family were the ones to be hit with the debris? Just curious is all.

These tracks are outdated and were designed for cars to run around them at maybe 150 MPH maximum. 190-200 MPH is not going to keep spectators from being injured and NASCAR to this point has been lucky that there have only been limited injuries to fans. A good many driver in the past however have paid the ultimate price.