CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- You can always count on H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler to put on a riveting dog-and-pony show about this time every year.
Well, at least a dog show anyway.
Wheeler, the president and general manager of Lowe's Motor Speedway, went to the dogs Wednesday to reveal his annual pick of the winner of this Saturday's NASCAR Sprint Cup All-Star Race at his track (7 p.m. ET, SPEED).
Using four breeds of dogs to illustrate his logic, it wasn't the audience that flipped out in the end when driver Carl Edwards was tabbed as Wheeler's top choice. Nope. This time, the driver whose signature move after race victories is a backflip off the door frame of his No. 99 Roush Fenway Racing Ford took a back seat to a fox terrier named Princess.
And Princess did not take a bow. She took two backflips of her own on center stage before a curious gaggle of spectators and media at One Wachovia Center in uptown Charlotte.
Wheeler said it came down to Edwards, Tony Stewart and Kyle Busch when he was trying to figure out who to pick this year.
