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Michael looked good at 'Dega

Mikey, I did'nt realize his motor failed. I was out callin turkies for a cousin so I missed most well almost all of the race . I thought he got tangled up in someone elses junk. To bad cuz I had him on 3 fantasy rosters ,and naturally I dropped Vickers so I took it hard this week. I will admit MWR is making some good progress tho.

Michael looked good at 'Dega

"Mike McDonald" is now driving for MWR?  Can you get Doobie Brothers concert T-shirts at his souvenier trailer?

I feel like you Mikeyfan, what a letdown to go from a fighting for a win to a 27th place finish in about 3 laps.  On the Monday night show on Speed Mikey said that he assumed the McDowell got into the remnants of his #55 engine blowup and caused the spin that took the 00 out of a good finish,  Amazing how bad luck can just stick to this team.   I didn't expect Mikey to hold on to the lead but I thought he could at least hang with the lead pack and get a top 7 or 8 finish, which would be huge for them.  I think NASCAR should also award points during the race as well as at the end like at the 1/3  and 2/3 mark so that if a team has a really good day and then bad luck strikes at the end they don't get slammed in points like they had just sucked the whole race.  I know that it 's where you are in the end that counts so they could weigh the finish position much more heavily than the in race positions.

Looks like Reuti is bringing the 44 team around a little after two awful finishes in his first two races since the switch,  I think he''s clearly the best driver at MWR.  He was averaging 92 points a race in the 00, since going to the 44 those two bad finishes have him down to 74.5 points per race in the 44, thats about 1 point per race better than Jarrett was doing in his five races.  If he could have stayed in the 00 and continued his average then the 00 team would have about 75 more points than it does now and that would put them in the mid 20's in owner points.  David is averaging nearly 85 points a race overall  while Mikey is at 78.6 and McDowell is at 73.75 (not bad considering his lack of experience).

Rules ? for you Mikeyfan.  When the Yellow goes out and the field is frozen, are they frozen in midwreck since the yellow is usually out before the wreck is actually over, especially at Dega and Daytona.  Like when McDowell spun out late in the race, IF that had brought out a caution would he still hold on to his spot since no other cars passed him (I don't think they did) before the yellow came out or would the other cars that  pass him as he ends his slide and gets his car going and back on the track gain that position.  I think that if a car is involved in bringing out a caution all other cars not involved in it on that lap shoud get to pass them (unless the wreck brings the car across the finish line at the checker, then he gets to keep that spot).

Anyway, time to finish this rant.  I'm not too optimistic about the next several races, seems like everything falls into the same order on the non restrictor plate races so I feel the best I can hope for for Mikey's teams this week is maybe a top 15 and maybe all three within the top 25.  Man I really look foward to Talladega and Daytona, too bad it's only four races out of 30 something.   With the great finishes we get at the plate races I wonder why when all these new 1.5 mile tracks were being built why someone didn't build another 2.5 high banked track.  Wonder if a new one was built in the near future if NASCAR would somehow find a way to give it a race?  I would think so considering the TV ratings and their history of exciting races.  OK, thats all.  GO MWR, Keep your car on the track and prey on the attrition of others and don't race the leaders when you are laps down in the final laps and get a tire cut down as a result which cost you a top 20 finish!.