Phoenix Recap: Incidents And Accidents, Complaints And Suggestions
Ryan Newman had a breakdown of communication, opening the door for Mark Martin advance to victory, while Robby Gordon organized voluntary retirement in the Michael Waltrip and Dale Earnhardt Jr and Casey Mears has been that everyone else in the cycle.
Yes, the Saturday Sprint Cup race at Phoenix was a little bit of everything in a big box in Talladega restrict or plate this week.
First, it is nice to see Mark Martin, and finally break his No. 5 Chevy in victory. Martin is not just a class act, was to pause after the terrible fate that has plagued career earlier this season. If you are a good indicator of how much Martin is, by his colleagues, his interview in victory on Saturday is a good example. Martin had little time to answer the questions, as a steady flow of the Cup drivers and team owners to congratulate the man seems to be universally respected.
Tony Stewart, who finished runner-Martin, said it best in an interview after the race.
“This shows how much we all respect him,” said Stewart, greeting, which is also a win. “There is nobody who does not like Mark, and Mark was responsible for many of us learn what has become a Sprint Cup driver and that the size of the driver.”
Meanwhile, Stewart has had equipment problems with their radio, but somehow come to an end 16. Ryan Newman’s crew chief Tony Gibson said he lost radio contact with his driver early and had to improvise in order to remain competitive.
“We basically lost the ability to listen to Ryan, 30 round,” said Gibson. “Ryan tried to talk to us in different parts of the track throughout the race, but that did not work. We have tried your hands – when you lose things like, touch the door and close the roof and touch – and we have tried to generate a code with the touch button to talk. It is a struggle. ”
Newman actually in the final laps when he was in the lead, if the whole world faced over the last caution. But on the restart, he fell like a stone on the ground through a series of old tires.
There were some fireworks on Saturday when one of the few drivers’ bad start of the frustration may be the best of them. Casey Mears and Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be spending the next six weeks after release of some commercial painting in the last laps.
Problems began when Mears Junior destroyed and continued during the race when Reinhardt spun Mears’ No. 07 Chevy to the so-called cooling back. Junior before his car in the garage area, Mears caught him and hit a few time to hammer his point.
While talking about Formula One is the driver “to be they and show their feelings,” the people in Daytona Beach and two drivers once punished, only for him. How to beat a man to 50 mph in a round of cooling is not everything to hurt, but NASCAR did not Let It Go. And they call the NFL the No Fun League.
Robby Gordon was not happy after the Michael Waltrip and his feelings known as the crew hammered away at Gordon’s No. 7 is an attempt to return to the track.
“I can not wait until No. 55 is a new driver next year,” said Gordon.
Thanks, Robby – after calling for Waltrip to retire in a column for the Food City 500, it’s nice to know that I am not alone.
