Pre-Race Top 5 - Ford 400
Damn you Jimmie Johnson. Damn your coporate, middle-manager good looks. Damn your cheating bastard of a crew chief. Damn your soul crushing consistancy.
That being said, it is time the 48 team took home one of these championship deals. No matter how much disdane you might have for the man, you have to admire his ability to be competitive every single race, no matter the track. Sort of a rich-man's Tony Stewart...
Speaking of soul-crushing, the Homestead-Miami Speedway can be seen as the antithesis to everything good and holy about Nascar. For one thing, the entire project was concieved in the wake of Hurricane Andrew. Built upon the wasteland left behind, HMS strove to eliminate the downhome feel and on-track variability of Nascar's older Southern tracks for a more perfect racing experience. The speedway prides itself as "the most beautiful racing facility anywhere on the planet," with its Art Deco architecture, and its fancy, computer designed vairable-banked turns. We can't imagine why Nascar would chose to hold its season-culminating race at a track where the best things going are the 15 different species of palm trees. We do, however, enjoy that the folks at HMS like to brag that the power to illuminate the track could light up 17,143 blocks with residential street lighting in South Florida. I'm sure Jim-Bob in the West Virgina Appalacians is happy to hear about that responsible use of energy while he's trying to heat the doublewide against winter's chill.
As for the race, it is entirely possible that something will occur to bring the Chasers not named Jimmy within reach of the title, although they'll fall short in the end. Unlike Mark Martin, Johnson won't be content until he wins his first title, which will happen today. Kenseth will run up front, and someone from Roush will put a Fusion in victory lane, saving the embarassment of a Monte Carlo winning Ford's title event.
5.Johnson
4.Kahne
3.Harvick
2.Kenseth
1.Edwards
That being said, it is time the 48 team took home one of these championship deals. No matter how much disdane you might have for the man, you have to admire his ability to be competitive every single race, no matter the track. Sort of a rich-man's Tony Stewart...
Speaking of soul-crushing, the Homestead-Miami Speedway can be seen as the antithesis to everything good and holy about Nascar. For one thing, the entire project was concieved in the wake of Hurricane Andrew. Built upon the wasteland left behind, HMS strove to eliminate the downhome feel and on-track variability of Nascar's older Southern tracks for a more perfect racing experience. The speedway prides itself as "the most beautiful racing facility anywhere on the planet," with its Art Deco architecture, and its fancy, computer designed vairable-banked turns. We can't imagine why Nascar would chose to hold its season-culminating race at a track where the best things going are the 15 different species of palm trees. We do, however, enjoy that the folks at HMS like to brag that the power to illuminate the track could light up 17,143 blocks with residential street lighting in South Florida. I'm sure Jim-Bob in the West Virgina Appalacians is happy to hear about that responsible use of energy while he's trying to heat the doublewide against winter's chill.
As for the race, it is entirely possible that something will occur to bring the Chasers not named Jimmy within reach of the title, although they'll fall short in the end. Unlike Mark Martin, Johnson won't be content until he wins his first title, which will happen today. Kenseth will run up front, and someone from Roush will put a Fusion in victory lane, saving the embarassment of a Monte Carlo winning Ford's title event.
5.Johnson
4.Kahne
3.Harvick
2.Kenseth
1.Edwards
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