As the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season continues to roll on into Talladega Superspeedway (the demo derby), the Tommy Baldwin interview on NASCAR RaceHub sparked two things with me.
1. I stand by my comments in both my previous article "NASCAR: Ryan Newman wins Goody's 500 at Martinsville as Johnson vs. Gordon in final laps denies Hendrick 200th win." & "NASCAR Martinsville Cup Race aftermath continues: Clint Bowyer vs. Jimmy Spencer on NASCAR RaceHub." on David Reutimann, Tommy Baldwin and NASCAR being at fault for late caution and top 35 in points nightmare.
But I do want to add this after the Baldwin interview on RaceHub in that Baldwin continues to in my eyes disrespect his competitors with thinking there was nothing wrong with leaving his dying #10 car out on track with a few laps to go in Martinsville race and ultimately causing a caution flag.
Personally, it isn't about Hendrick not getting his 200th win, it will come and that's nature of racing, but its about leaving a dying race car on track to collect points and effect the race with the race car being a safety issue. And now Baldwin doesn't know how to stop talking and attacking Dale Jr. and other drivers for speaking their minds on the issue. I have no respect for that at all.
And it's also time for the media to move on as well and stop asking about the Martinsville incident.
2. Even after the Reutimann/Baldwin controversy, I still believe that the Martinsville Cup race last month was the most exciting race after the first 9 races over Phoenix and Bristol. Of course the worst races were California and Texas. Kansas falls in the middle as it was a good, fast paced race with some good passing throughout the field and battles for the lead despite lack of cautions. Cautions breed good, exciting, action packed double-file restarts.
1. I stand by my comments in both my previous article "NASCAR: Ryan Newman wins Goody's 500 at Martinsville as Johnson vs. Gordon in final laps denies Hendrick 200th win." & "NASCAR Martinsville Cup Race aftermath continues: Clint Bowyer vs. Jimmy Spencer on NASCAR RaceHub." on David Reutimann, Tommy Baldwin and NASCAR being at fault for late caution and top 35 in points nightmare.
But I do want to add this after the Baldwin interview on RaceHub in that Baldwin continues to in my eyes disrespect his competitors with thinking there was nothing wrong with leaving his dying #10 car out on track with a few laps to go in Martinsville race and ultimately causing a caution flag.
Personally, it isn't about Hendrick not getting his 200th win, it will come and that's nature of racing, but its about leaving a dying race car on track to collect points and effect the race with the race car being a safety issue. And now Baldwin doesn't know how to stop talking and attacking Dale Jr. and other drivers for speaking their minds on the issue. I have no respect for that at all.
And it's also time for the media to move on as well and stop asking about the Martinsville incident.
2. Even after the Reutimann/Baldwin controversy, I still believe that the Martinsville Cup race last month was the most exciting race after the first 9 races over Phoenix and Bristol. Of course the worst races were California and Texas. Kansas falls in the middle as it was a good, fast paced race with some good passing throughout the field and battles for the lead despite lack of cautions. Cautions breed good, exciting, action packed double-file restarts.
