I’m not a fan of plate races, but this was a good one. On a scale of 1 to 10, with ten being perfection, I give it an 8. It would have been a 9 if not for the last lap caution.

But enough about my thoughts. Do You NASCAR? rates the race:

If you were one of the many fans that came into Sunday afternoon’s Aaron’s 499 expecting to not be able to expect what would happen in the closing laps of the race, then you got exactly what you expected! …read more

Trouble in Turn 2’s “View From The Couch” series is always an entertaining  and thorough race review.

Halfway through Sunday’s race, Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin were leading the pack, pulling away with ease from everyone else. Kyle Busch, a lap down from an earlier pit road problem, was hanging with the lead pack, displaying an obviously fast car. At that point, it would have been easy to pick one of the three Joe Gibbs Racing cars out of a hat because they were all so strong…read more

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Diecast Dude at Restrictor Plate This is back with his weekly real-time race commentary. His pre-race commentary is pretty entertaining as well.

Pretty much everything that can be said about Talladega has been said.  It’s breathtaking and unforgiving in its brutality, punishing guilty and innocent bystanders alike.  It’s the perfect track for this weekend, distracting one and all from contract and free agency track.  You can get your fill of that by watching the NFL draft.  I’d rather watch some racing…read more

Marc, of Full Throttle has something to say about the top 35 provisional rule, it’s effect on qualifying for those outside, and the ramifications of the whole thing concerning impound races.

Kyle “Desperado” Busch won, again. But you can read that in any one of a hundred sites and news services.

Instead I’ll touch on what results from NASCAR clinging onto the top 35 and impound rules. I would also suggest you read Steve “The Idiot” Wronkowicz’s (we luv ya Steve, really we do) piece as he covers the overall effects of both rules where I stick to Talladega and how it affected the results…read more

Rev’Jim’s RantsnRaves says that, for the most part of the race, the “Wow Meter” was pegged:

…on lap 29, the Wow Meter starts to rise to the upper end as Denny Hamlin has pushed Jamie McMurray to the front, then drops down in front of Tony Stewart to take the lead. The real racing has only begun…read more

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