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YES, Houston Supercross is here, about dam time, I can't wait to get out there and check the boys out. It' shaping up to be a great year, James is just now starting to come on strong. I also think we have not heard from Ryan Dungey yet, but we will. Who knows maybe it will be Kdub's night, he loves the houston races..

Also as you know Nascar is just getting going again as well, tomorrow night is the Bud Shootout. We have Kevin Harvick, two time repeating winner, now driving the Bud car, so that should be fun as well. I will DVR that of course since I will be at the Houston Supercross...

Starting to get back on the bike a bit more, so that feels good, here is a video Here

Chow...

Rp3

It's been a while since I bloged last so I thought I would log in and drop a quick note. Will discuss a couple things. Nascar Coke Zero 400 last night, and Ryan Dungey.

Nascar - what a race, it as fun from my point of view. Jeff moved up 3 spots in the standings with a strong 3rd place finish. I thought for a while there he might actually pull it off, but I don't think his car was all that great until longer into runs. So it didn't work perfectly for him. OH well, he still had a great run. Then there was the Carl/Kurt incident, which I thought was pretty funny. Carl just turned right and put Kurt into the wall, simple as that. I think he is loosing some of his good guy image...First the Brad K wreck, now this.. Hmmmm

Ryan Dungey - WOW, this kid is amazing, he won again this weekend at Red Bud, the guy is on a freaking roll. He is constantly beating Chad Reed so he must be good and the SuperCross championship was no fluke. Of course there are a couple guys that were out and still are but he is very impressive. We shall see if he can keep it up.

Ok enough for now... Until next time...

Rp3

Ok first off let me say I am a big, ok Huge Jeff Gordon fan.

I was very happy for Jeff's finish but a bit teed off at MK, as you might guess. Yes Matt wanted to win as well, but he was never up there contending for the win all day and to think he would 'bump and run' the master to get the win was a bit pretentious. He should have stayed in line and come in 2nd or 3rd, instead he finished 18th I think. I mean come on did he actually think Jeff wouldn't come back and 'bump and run' him back? When he knew his car was not as fast as Jeff's?

As for Denny, congrats my friend, although you did 'PUSH' your way to the front, and I think you got a lucky break from your teammate. Joey could have very easily NOT gotten out of the gas and spun Denny, but thats not what teammates do I guess. Over all a great race, it was a bit hard to watch since I had to work, but I did steal some time here or there to get some watching in..

It was a great race overall, at least what I saw.

So it's hard to comment on any drivers, etc..

Formula1 is back on, and while I didn't get to see the the race down under, I did see that Jenson Button is back to his winning ways in the McLaren, can't be too much fun for his teammate though, the great Lewis Hamilton, but he is last years champion. Ferrari did well, as Alanso and Massa are atop the standings! Way to go Ferrari. Now that the season has started back up I need to get back into F1, I always liked the cars, and the drivers...

Ok back to work, wanted to drop a quick blog about the delayed Nascar race...

Chow for now..

Rp3

I was waiting to post until Nascar released their decision on Carl Edwards. Well a couple hours ago they did and I have to admit I think they missed the mark. Carl should have been suspended for at least one race, hell he purposely wrecked Brad and admitted as much. He is on probation for 3 races, this is a slap on the wrist to the new BAD BOY of Nascar! It doesn't affect him at all.

Of course I can understand, with the amount of money sponsors pour into this sport I would bet that they had a say in this as well. Can you imagine his car parked in two weeks at Bristol? What would "The Duck" say about that. Nascar was and is in a tough spot, they told everyone that they could police themselves. Then this happened, but on the same token I bet they have had move viewers due to this new policy. A car going on it's roof and smacking the safer barrier is not what they envisioned of course, but ratings will be up. All the sports shows have there new clip to promote, etc..

So what is next? What will BK say about all of this, he was and is in the middle of this as he was kind of pushing his way to the front over the last year. In the big cars and nationwide, and got a lot of guys upset at him. It will be interesting to see what happens in Bristol in a couple weeks.

One side note, people have said BK deserved this due to what he did to Carl at Talladega last year, as far as I am concerned BK didn't cause that wreck. Carl came down on BK 'expecting' him to move over or go below the yellow line, which of course he didn't. I applaud him for that, and it turns out he won the race. More power to him. This year is definitely starting out interesting for sure..

Keep your eyes peeled, as I am sure there will be TONS of fire works at Bristol...

Until next time...

Rp3

Well the Las Vegas race is over and I am a bit sad. You see my favorite driver is Jeff Gordon and he dominated the race. Well at least 97% of it. The decision to put 2 tires on at the last stop with 34 or so laps to go was just the wrong decision. I know it's hard being a crew chief, but that was just wrong. Jeff was being NICE during his interview, even if a 'couple' more cars took 2 tires I don't think he would have been OK. I think he knows that too. What can you do though, it's the past, and now we move on to one of the fastest if not the fastest race tracks on the circuit Atlanta Motor Speedway. This place is slick and fast, the pavement is worn in a bit and there is 2-3 lines to run on. I can't wait for this weekend!!!!

So I went out this past weekend to my buddies 10 year old sons birthday party. They had it at the farm (30 mins from my house) and had a war games type theme. A guy setup a course, and the kids got slingshots, mini Nerf balls (about 1/2 size of golf ball), and masks. It was then game on. It was funny to watch them run around shooting each other. The game was capture the flag, and if you got the other teams flag you had to take it back to your base, the challenge was you had to go through the tunnel in the middle of the field on the way back to your base. This made for some pretty funny moments, as one boy would be crawling through and the others sitting at the other end waiting to shoot him. Great fun had by all. I was tired just watching them..

I did bring the bike (CRF450X) and got to take a couple spins around on it, but since we had the cows sectioned off I really couldn't get much going on it, but it was nice to get it back out in some dirt...

It's raining today, or was, this sux.

Rp3