Monday, July 18, 2005

Tony Stewart Climbs the Fence

Tony Stewart 190
Jimmie Johnson 124
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. 138
Jeff Gordon 88
Sterling Marlin 61
Total 601

Tony stayed out front the whole time. Jeff Gordon ran strong until the end - even his crew chief thought he was going to get a top ten finish after his brakes went out. Junior was tired and sore when it ended from driving a brand new car. Jimmie Johnson slipped back at the end, and Sterling Martin hung in there.

Saturday, July 16, 2005

This week's picks.

The roadrunner problem was weirder than I thought. Lightning traveled up the cable and blew the cable modem, the wireless router, and the 10/100 PCI card in my desktop. Fortunately it stopped there and the desktop still lives. Diagnosis was more difficult because I kept getting a wireless signal to my laptop which made me think I had fixed it when I was actually picking up my neighbor's wi-fi.

I can't blame roadrunner for the lightning . . .

So here are my picks:

Jimmie Johnson, #48 22.8
Tony Stewart, #20 21.9
Dale Earnhardt, Jr., #8 20.3
Jeff Gordon, #24 19.8
Sterling Marlin, #40 14.6

Total 99.4

Sunday, July 10, 2005

Death by Roadrunner

On Friday I decided to put Junior back in the lineup and ditch Boris Said, along with some other changes I can't recall. After a week of problems with my Roadrunner connection, I realized today before the race that my changes never got in.

Needless to say, my numbers this week stink. But I was glad to see Junior in victory lane.

Saturday, July 02, 2005

Picks for Daytona - Dark Horse Boris Said

Jimmie Johnson, #48 22.8
Tony Stewart, #20 21.9
Jeff Gordon, #24 20.2
Michael Waltrip, #15 19.9
Boris Said, #136 13.6

Total 98.4

I was about to dump Boris Said until I noticed he's running after all- and he qualified 4th! So I kept him in.

I wanted a DEI driver in, but as much as I love to root for Junior, I just couldn't bring myself to put him in, so I picked up Mike. I may regret dumping Mark Martin; he will surely run hard to get one win at Daytona.

Racing under the lights. . . .