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I should be thrilled right now because my favorite driver, Michael
Waltrip, finished second in yesterday’s race, and I am, but I’m also a
little bothered. Why? Because it seems that instead of giving credit
where credit is due to the drivers and teams that finished up front,
more than a few people are bending over backwards to say why those
finishes aren’t legitamite and why they didn’t deserve to finish as well
as they did. Yes, they used pit strategy to finish up front and yes,
they had luck on their side, but these teams also did a good job of
putting themselves in a position to finish as well as they did.
With Michael specifically he started the race 42nd and had a good
enough car to where he was able to race through the field on a track
where passing isn’t all that easy and track position is everything. Even
if strategy played a role, how is it that going from 42nd to 2nd isn’t
something good?! Around lap 80 Michael raced Kevin Harvick, who was the
leader at the time, very hard for ten or more laps until the caution
came out to stay on the lead lap. That Michael was able to keep from
going a lap down is what enabled the team to later make the call they
did which got them the second place finish. So the idea that a lot of
people have that Michael (or J.J. who raced with Michael for most of the
day) didn’t do any actual racing to get his second place finish or that
he had a bad car isn’t accurate. This is actually the third race in a
row that Michael’s had a pretty good car but at Michigan and Sonoma fuel
mileage strategy didn’t work out for them - this week it did.
I’ve heard it said that Kurt, Michael, J.J. and their teams have
nothing to be excited about but they most certainly do! For Kurt, a win
is a win no matter how he gets it. For J.J. and Michael and their teams
these are finishes which can give them some confidence that if the
pieces fall into place in the right way for them once, it can happen
again. It’s some momentum for them to take with them to Daytona - a
track which happens to be one of Michael’s best. Above all, for Michael
and J.J. it’s something to be happy about in a season where neither of
them have had much to cheer about.
Like clockwork after every race there are those who have to find fault
in everything, be negative about how the race went and tear down the
race winner if it wasn’t their favorite driver. Everyone has the right
to like and dislike who or what they want, but it would be nice if
people were also able to recognize a job well done by teams and drivers
like yesterday with Kurt, Michael, J.J. and some of the others who
finished up front.
Sorry for the long email but I anticipate that there will be a lot of
people emailing/calling in to talk about how Kurt’s win and the finishes
of those in the top five were’t legitamite and I felt the need to defend
them.
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