(referring to Harvick... I think Tony's crew chief mentioned Kevin was "nervous as a cat"... I think... maybe it was just the race announcers!) With about 30 laps Tony gave us another good bit of audio... To his crew chief, Greg "Zippy" Zipadeli... he asked, "Do you want a pillow. You looked quite relaxed up there."
Tony ended up taking the lead with about 10 laps to go & didn't look back!!
Not only that... at one point he was driving about 200 mph with his KNEES!!
Albeit was only for a couple seconds as he grabbed his water bottle to get a drink... AND the in car camera was on him at the time!Tony, later on Nascar Victory Lane, said, "I was thirsty!"
The unofficial results will show that my hubby's favorite driver, Matt Kenseth placed 10th.
This is Tony's 2nd win at his home track of Indianapolis (yes, same place as the Indy 500!)
I had a feeling about Tony for today's race! So much I had him on my roster in the Yahoo Fantasy game!!
As you know by the previous post, I'm a Carl Edwards fan (who placed 18th today), however Tony is in my top 5... mainly because he has my favorite number... 20!! (Which I just found out this was the 20th race of the season!)
Here's another fact for you... If Tony goes on to win the Championship, it would be the 7th time the winner of the Brickyard 400 goes on to win the Cup! (Tony did it in 2005 & current point leader, Jeff Gordon has done it a couple times, too!)
Juan Pablo Montoya, who won the Indy 500 and several F1 races, ended up racing to 2nd! (And I did NOT even THINK to put him on my Yahoo Fantasy team! ARGH!! Hubby thought of it, but went with someone else instead... so we're both "kicking" ourselves over it!)
Oh, Harvick ended up in 7th. Also, right after Tony passed him, his radio chatter was aired & he was yelling... Tight! Getting way to tight! (no sure if exact quote!)
Another notable about the race is that Jeff Green had the 1st accident, AGAIN!!! Right after it, I posed the question in Yahoo Answers if anyone remembers him being in one race this year where he has NOT spun or wrecked. So far no one has said he did. (Update, I guess he's had a couple good races this year.)
Jimmy Johnson was involved in a scary fiery wreck... well, it was actually a blown tire... which was caused by damage from an earlier accident he was in. In an interview, he did say it was the 1st time he had fire in the car... & the reporter had mentioned she could see his eye brows were singed.
(Source: All the driver links are to Nascar.com's site for that particular driver.)
P.S. Tomorrow, I will have a (easy) favor to ask...
hope you'll be able to help!!
hope you'll be able to help!!
Good night!!
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