Monday, February 25, 2008

Random California Observations













--If there was any doubt that Roush-Fenway was up to speed on their COT program, it's gone now. If the race would have actually been run on Sunday night, Biffle would have been a strong contender as well.

--It's officially a three team race. If we were to make tiers, this is how it would stack up

Tier 1:
Hendrick
Gibbs
Roush

Tier 2:
Penske
Childress
Evernham

Tier 3:
Ganassi
DEI

Tier 4:
Everyone else

--Brian Vickers is a legitimate top 20 threat. Heck, he may even contend for a Chase spot.

--Is this deja vu for Casey Mears? Last year he almost was outside the top 35 after the first five races, and the way he's going, he may be in the same situation this year. Tough luck.

--Robby Gordon is in 12th without that penalty. Not like he's going to stay there if the penalty is overturned, but that's still pretty impressive, even though it's only been two races.

--If Tony Stewart ran a full Busch* schedule, would he have the championship locked up by September?

(I completely forgot Penske at first. Maybe it's my compensation for what happened on the last lap at Daytona.)

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