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Week after week, Hamlin keeps on winning |
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The man who appears to be the answer to Jimmie Johnson’s dominance of the Spring Cup Series just keeps on going. After winning at Pocono for his fourth of the season, and his fourth career win at the Pennsylvania triangle, Denny Hamlin came right back at Michigan Sunday and notched win number five of the season.
With Sunday’s win, the 13th Cup of his career, Hamlin has taken the lead in the seeding in the Chase for the Sprint Cup with 50 all-important bonus points. He sits third in the race for the Chase, 25 points behind teammate Kyle Busch, and 47 points behind points leader Kevin Harvick.
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Kyle Busch: a young man in a hurry |
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It seems lately the news on the Cup circuit is all about the Busch brothers. Older brother Kurt Busch completed the rare All Star, Coca-Cola 600 sweep, the seventh time that has occurred. The 600 victory was Kurt Busch’s second of the season, and gave him another 10 potential chase bonus points. The older Busch brother is off to his best start since his championship year in 2004
Including the All Star race, Kurt and Kyle Busch had won four of the last five races heading into Pocono last weekend, with Kyle at second place and Kurt in sixth in the points standings.
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They call it doing the double. A few have tried it back in the days when they dropped the green flag at Indianapolis at noon. Donny Allison, John Andretti, Robby Gordon, and Tony Stewart come to mind. Since the Indianapolis 500 track management has moved its start time to a bit after 1:00 p.m., it is just not physically possible to run the full 200 laps at Indy, helicopter to the airport, fly to Charlotte, and helicopter to the Charlotte Motor Speedway in time for the 6:00 p.m. start of the Coca-Cola 600.
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All Star Race, Hall of Fame weekend recap |
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Last Saturday night was the annual Sprint Cup All-Star race. If you missed it, you missed a great evening of racing. After storming from fifth place when teammates Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch tangled on lap three of the final ten lap shoot out of the night’s race, Kurt Busch survived two late caution flags, and held off Martin Truex Jr. to win his first All-Star race. The older Busch brother took home a check for a bit over $1 million for his evening’s efforts.
The real story of the All-Star race was the dustup between Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin. Battling for the lead on lap 93, Busch had a strong run on the outside and Hamlin moved up the track in front of his teammate. Busch hit the outside wall, blew a tire, and into Kasey Kahne, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. A very frustrated Kyle Busch was heard on the radio questioning Hamlin’s ancestry and moaning ‘I had the race won.’ He went on to tell his pit crew to “Keep me away from Hamlin or I swear, I’m going to kill him.”
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All Star Race and Inaugural Hall of Fame |
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For race fans it just doesn’t get any better than this. The next couple of weeks, as we count down to the Memorial Day holiday weekend, we can enjoy one great event after another.
The 26th annual Sprint Cup All Star race returns Saturday night from Charlotte Motor Speedway. No points racing this weekend. Just a no holds barred dash for the cash. Speaking of cash, there is a cool $1 million to the race winner on the line. The race is open to drivers who have won a Cup race in the past year, plus past All Star race winners, the two top finishers of a 40-lap preliminary race, and the top vote getter in an Internet vote by the fans.
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