After a heartbreaking penalty last week robbed him of a win in Dover, Jimmie Johnson got his vengeance Sunday by winning the Party in the Poconos 400.
Or did he?
“It doesn’t make up for much,” Johnson said
Jimmie Johnson won the Daytona 500 on Sunday, holding off Dale Earnhardt Jr., Mark Martin, Brad Keselowski and Ryan Newman to win the first points race of the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. Pole-sitter Danica Patrick finished eighth. Earlier in the race on lap 90, Patrick became the first woman to lead a lap at the Daytona 500.
With two laps left in the race, Johnson led Greg Biffle and Patrick, with Earnhardt in fourth, when the final charge began. Johnson, a five-time Cup Series champion, was able to dash away while Earnhardt made his m
The season finale featured loads of drama but no fist fights and a first time champion.
The pundits who follow NASCAR were calling last weeks race at the Monster Mile in Dover Delaware, "Separation Sunday". Those same pundits were calling the race at Talladega "Bring 'em Back Together Sunday". The
Tony Stewart is known around the NASCAR garages as Smoke. Jimmie Johnson is known as 5-time, a reference to the number of times Johnson has won stock car racing's series championship. Sunday afternoon at Las Vegas Motor Speedway "Smoke" slipped through a crack in "5-times" defense and drove away with the victory in the Kobalt Tools 400.
Here lately the NASCAR races have been less than entertaining, take for example last time at California Speedway where the only action happened in the last 10 laps. But when you throw in the restrictor plates and say Talladega, things change in a hurry and you better look fast if you want to see who won. Even if you don't like racing a win by less than 2-thousandths of a second is pretty dang close.
