Well, Darlington didn’t disappoint did it?
Between the edge-of-your-seat suspense of waiting for the next car to hit the Lady in Black’s turn four exit wall and the plain gorgeousness of the spectacle of Darlington at night—if Saturday didn’t have it all, it sure had most of it.
The popular favorite to win, Greg Biffle, made an early exit. Biffle edged out Elliott Sadler for pickle-boat status. That's not at all what Greg’s fans pictured when he was topping 200 mph at the Darlington Speedway tire tests back in March.
The front of the race belonged to Kyle "Boo me, throw beer at me, because I don’t care what you think" Busch. Again. NASCAR is better with someone successful to hate, don’t you think?
We’ll find out what you think. This is the Fast Lap after all, and that’s what the Fast Lap is all about. What do you think of the following four fast, made-for-the-Internet questions about what’s hot on the Cup Racing scene?
1. Should the Darlington race stay on Mother's Day weekend or move back to Labor Day?
2. Should NASCAR be concerned with Jeff Gordon’s complaint about Carl Edward’s car looking as if it is going down the track sideways?
3. Is Greg Biffle’s frustration with getting second-rate equipment a reason for not signing a contract extension yet?
4. Which retro paint scheme looked best at Darlington; Junior’s, Elliott’s or Kvapil’s?
Tell us what you think. Limit each answer to 100 words or less. Then come back often to defend your positions from the slings and arrows of your fellow Fast Lappers.
This is the Fast Lap ON PIT ROW. We have plans for the best—and silliest—of the comments we get here. You might just get an invitation to defend yourself on the radio, live.
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5 months ago
Just my two cents worth, but I think if NASCAR really is serious about getting back to "its roots", then they need to keep the Mother's Day date and add the Labor Day date back into the schedule, and of course, call the Labor Day date, "The Southern 500." Having been there a couple of times, there is no doubt that this is THE track that epitomizes what NASCAR is all about. Where we came from, who we are, and who we always want to be. Darlington IS NASCAR!!!!
4 months ago
Darlington should return to it's labor day date but lose it's mother's day date. I remember reading on nascar.com that Darlingotn owners say ticket demand has been way, way higher since there's only been one race on the schedule. So move it back to labour day, take away the second California date, which is losing demands because of the second date(the crowd they had in February shows). So now the mother's day date is open, so either add anothe road course, Circuit Gilles Villeneuves in Montreal which should great success with the Nationwide Series last year. Or add Kentucky Speedway which can actually hold more fans than Darlington and Homestead.
4 months ago
Richard... the loss of crowd at Fontana this Feb was because of a loss of demand?
So what does that mean, that you totally discount the effects of higher gas prices, something that effects California more than any other state because of how the population is so spread out and the president of the speedway not having clue #1 on the correct demographic to market to?
As far as your other suggestions, want all you care to but the Sprint Series will never see a date in Montreal, let alone another road course (something I would support BTW) and a Sprint date in Kentucky unless they win their lawsuit (right after hell freezes over) will never happen either.
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