AndyMarquisLive
I love short track racing (Taylor's Version)
Honestly, 2010 is pobably the only "fluke" championship. All the other years, Johnson still was close under the "traditional" points system.
Under the traditional format, Kevin Harvick would have run away with the championship. And even in the Chase, Jimmie got lucky because Denny Hamlin had a total meltdown after the Phoenix race, despite still having a 15 point lead, and completely choked at Homestead.
Harvick's just an amazingly consistent driver and always has been. Honestly, I didn't think he was ever gonna win a championship. The new format played out perfectly for him, since Phoenix was the final race before the Homestead Bowl.
The Harvick Hate is amusing on here sometimes.
I'm not a Kyle Busch fan but I can admit he's the best driver in NASCAR right now. And almost everyone who dislikes Kyle will admit he's a legend and first ballot Hall of Famer.
I'm never going to accept that championship because I'm never going to accept the entire process that led up to it. Just like I'm never going to accept the theory that Dale Earnhardt won the 1990 championship. It has nothing to do with Kyle Busch, it has to do with how it all unfolded.
First, there was the whole thing of letting Kyle into the Chase after missing 11 races, coupled with the talk that was going around that, if Kyle didn't make the top-30 in points, they'd let him in anyway. Then, there was Joey Logano wrecking Matt Kenseth at Kansas. Then, Kevin Harvick wrecked the entire field at Talladega. Then, Kenseth got suspended for wrecking Logano -- a couple weeks after Brian France said it was "quintessential NASCAR" when Joey dumped Kenseth. That's not even the kicker for me.
That race at Phoenix still makes my blood boil. Earnhardt getting the lead because of a scoring technicality. NASCAR taking 20 minutes to clean up a single car wreck and then, right when they got it finished, magic, it's raining! Then, five minutes after bringing them down pit road, they call the race -- at like 9:30pm local time, four months after STARTING a race at midnight. It has nothing to do with "Harvick would have won" because he probably would have if they got it restarted. It had to do with the fact that Joey Logano, who was third when the caution came out, already got ****** out of a Chase spot with the wreck at Martinsville and was denied an opportunity to get a jump on Jr and Harvick to race his way in.
That Phoenix race was the bunch of bullsheot I've seen since NASCAR penalized Robby Gordon because Marcos Ambrose intentionally wrecked him under caution at Montreal in 2007.
