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Hamlin wins… Hamlin loses… Shrub shrubs… Junior ponders

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by Steve Wronkowicz

I am co-host of the syndicated radio show: ON PIT ROW. Charlie likes to call me an "idiot". I'm not an "idiot"; I just prefer not to let the facts get in the way of my opinions.

May 5, 2008 4:33 am CDT 12 Comments

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Hollywood couldn’t have scripted the weekend’s racing any better.

Untitled PostNASCAR’S doubleheader at Richmond International Raceway along with ARCA’s return to Rockingham Speedway proved to be a great weekend. Friday nights Nationwide Series race at Richmond was entertaining enough throughout; but came to a old time ending. For all you old-schoolers out there; Kyle Busch and Steven Wallace played some bumper tag during the race and then, partook in a post race helmet grabbing–finger pointing–screaming incident. The Saturday highlight shows ran with the video of Shrub sticking his head into Wallace’s car and Steven grabbing Rowdy’s helmet; only to see Kyle jerking his head free and nearly falling on his butt. All this on a Friday night.

Saturday’s Crown Royal presents the Dan Lowry 400 at Richmond again provided for some exciting racing through much of the event and had set itself up for an entertaining finish. Denny Hamlin was dominating the race–leading every green flag lap until a slow leak developed in his right front tire. Hamlin decided to ignore the slowly deflating tire until it was too late and the tire blew out on the race track.

“You don’t have days like this,” said Hamlin, “Dominating days like this just don’t happen. There’s just nothing you can say other than it just wasn’t meant to be.”

Hamlin’s troubles set up a battle between Dale Earnhardt; Jr and Kyle Busch to determine who would go to victory lane. Junior was looking to get his first win in two years and Shrub was looking to post another win for Joe Gibbs Racing. What happened was a last lap skirmish that has Junior lovers and Junior haters seeing two very different race endings–an ending that saw Clint Bowyer take home his second Sprint Cup trophy. Lovers are looking to hang Busch from the nearest engine hoist and haters are applauding him for his hard driving style.

Which as usual leads us to this weeks short and sweet BUZZ ON PIT ROW:

Who was to blame for the Shrub and Junior dust up?

Then to finish off the weekend, the ARCA ReMax Series re-opened “The Rock” to competitive racing and saw future Cup star 17 year old Joey Logano dominate the race in his Venturini Motorsports Chevy. Sprint Cup vetren Ken Schrader came in second as only five cars finished on the lead lap. For more on the ARCA event check out arcaracing.com. and listen to INSIDE ARCA via live stream Tuesday at 8pm ET immediately following ON PIT ROW which can be heard on selected radio stations in the Midwest or right here at onpitrow.com from 5 to 7pm ET.

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Filed under: ARCA Remax Series, Clint Boyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Denny Hamlin, Inside ARCA, Joe Gibbs Racing, Joey Logano, Kenny Shrader, Kyle Busch, Nationwide Series, On Pit Row The Fastest Two Hours on Radio, The Rock 

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12 Responses to “Hamlin wins… Hamlin loses… Shrub shrubs… Junior ponders”

  1. RevJim on May 5th, 2008 8:00 am

    Who was to blame? The guy who invented the wheel, because ever since that discovery, people have been racing. That is what happened Saturday night — racing.

  2. User Avatar Luke on May 5th, 2008 12:11 pm

    I’ll agree with the good Rev up there. Racing. Hard, pure, hanging it out racing.

    It just happened to end up with someone getting unintentionally punted.

    I guess Kyle should feel fortunate that this isn’t horse racing, although I’m sure some of the Jr. Nation wouldn’t mind seeing him “euthanized”.

  3. User Avatar Marc on May 5th, 2008 3:43 pm

    To quote Doc Hudson: I’ll put it simple: if you’re going hard enough left, you’ll find yourself turning right.”

    In other words, it was just racin’ boys!”

    Unless you’re a biased writer/mind reader from the Great White North. Not to be confused with the lovely Bob of the same location. (lovely?)

  4. Tim Zaegel on May 5th, 2008 7:13 pm

    So, what exactly does Shrub do when he shrubs?

  5. User Avatar Steve Wronkowicz on May 5th, 2008 7:21 pm

    Tim–

    That’s an easy one:

    shrub (v). the act of doing just about anything, right or wrong, that pisses off somebody for some reason.

  6. User Avatar Charlie Turner on May 5th, 2008 9:41 pm

    Oh….. shrub. Now I get it.

  7. User Avatar Steve Wronkowicz on May 6th, 2008 7:24 am

    I forgot one important part of the definition:

    shrub (v). the act of doing just about anything, right or wrong, that pisses off somebody for some reason…USUALLY REVOLVING AROUND KYLE BUSCH.

  8. User Avatar Luke on May 6th, 2008 9:13 am

    Why is Marc calling Bob “lovely”?

    That’s scares me right there.

  9. User Avatar Charlie Turner on May 6th, 2008 12:31 pm

    I heard that he thinks you’re a hunk too. Ha.

  10. Tim Zaegel on May 6th, 2008 10:38 pm

    What kills me about Kyle Busch is how everyone’s raving him as NASCAR’s “bad boy” … let’s not forget that older brother, Kurt, used to be the exact same way on the track until ol’ Jimmy Spencer cleaned his clock. One of these guys is gonna catch Kyle outside of his car, and once that happens, I’d imagine that Kyle might straighten up a bit. He doesn’t exactly strike me as someone that can, oh, I dunno - defend himself.

  11. User Avatar Steve Wronkowicz on May 7th, 2008 6:40 am

    Bad boy? Maybe not a bad boy in the truest form. He’s no Cagney with a gat. He’s no Dean with an attitude. He’s no Senior, trying to “rattle someones cage”.

    But, he is a pain in everyone ass at the moment. He has talent–a huge amount of talent–and he either chooses to, or doesn’t know how to, harness that talent without pissing everyone else off.

    Larry McReynold’s described him on last nights ON PIT ROW in such a way that I thought he was talking about a young Darrell Waltrip.

    Is he a bad boy? nah. But he is NASCAR’s public enemy number one right now and it is a lot of fun to watch the hating.

  12. Does Kyle Busch remind you of Dale? We ask Larry Mac | On Pit Radio on August 12th, 2008 1:58 pm

    [...] everybody has an opinion on this one.  Does Kyle Busch remind you of the late Dale “The Intimidator” [...]

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