Week 15 Commentary

With Jimmie Johnson into the outside retaining wall and Dale Jr. in the garage after blowing up while leading, Greg Biffle in his Ford Fusion claimed another victory at Michigan.

Michigan is usually very boring, but this race had some excitement.

In what can only be considered a very strange leaderboard, O Racing won the week, followed by L&M Racing, SPC Racing and Lucky Penny, with The Gas Man and Luckydog tying for fifth.

Major shakeups occurred in the standings. 

Those with significant advances were K Dog Racing, O Racing, DWL Racing, The Blue Deuce, The Gas Man and SPC, back on track after some time in the garage area.

With engine trouble in the garage were Team Cuda, OSteen Racing, Team Hot Stuff, GBR88, WTC Racing, Stroker Ace Racing, The Big Lebowski and MMSH.

Smokes Fury is out on point, followed by Man In Black Racing, Glynn, 88 AMPS and Mama's Boy. 

We are now in the dog days of summer (waiting for college football to start) and typically the racing heats up.  As usual, Tony Stewart seems to have gotten his groove back.

This week we head out to Sonoma for our first road course event of the season, which is usually great fun.  As usual,  road course races bring out some ringers and we have some of them entered in the race this week.

The Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Speedway will drop the green flag at approximately 3:19PM. The Grand Marshal for the race will be NASCAR Legend Darrell Waltrip, who will also give the command to start engines. American Idol star James Durbin, who I am unfamiliar with, will present the National Anthem.

The road course races can offer big opportunities for advancement in the standings, so stand on it and stay on course.