• First about the Pit Crew Challenge- I love the pit crew challenge. It’s something I look forward to watching each year and I rushed home on Thursday to see it. My favorite part? When Jeff Gordon’s tire carrier “Tiny” threw his tire changer over the pit wall. Freaking awesome!

• I can’t even begin to tell you how glad I am that Kasey Kahne won the all-star race. I think there is some incredible poetic justice about the car that is voted in as the fan favorite wins. Yes I was rooting for Tony, but he seemed to be having issues after changing an engine during practice, amazingly he had worked his way up to fifth. Who knows where he would have ended up had their been one more segment. But Kasey Kahne winning just made the night better since Tony couldn’t win. That is awesome that the fan-favorite win. And I am sure both Ray Evernham and Budweiser are happy campers.
• I love Elliott Sadler…he was one of the two people I voted for in the All-Star fan vote (the second was Travis Kvapil). I was sad to see him out of the Showdown so early. I understand his frustration. I am sure now he understands Tony Stewart’s frustration from Darlington.
• Am I the only one who missed the inverting of the field? I always thought that made the race more interesting and more like dirt track racing. Maybe that is just me though.
• I loved that during driver introductions, Kyle Busch waited for his crew to come onstage and then they all did his trademark bow. I LOVED that! I really think that Kyle is taking the booing thing in stride. I think he almost likes being “hated”.
• This is the year of the paint schemes. First there was the Jeff Gordon Flat Black paint scheme that I loved…this time it was the Citizen/Soldier one. I loved that car too.  Hee.
• Are they insane trying to set “rules” for a burnout competition?? Seriously what they should do is give them a time frame (2 minutes? 5 minutes?) and let them do their thing! I thought Jimmie should have won for best burn out. His pre-burnout interview made me laugh…he didn’t want to know about the rules. Burnouts aren’t about rules…they are about the fans. It would have also been more fun had there been more competitors.
• Speaking of the burnout competition I would have LOVED to be one of the passengers. Just in case some one important is reading and can make that happen for next time-that too would be freaking awesome. (Hey I can dream can’t I).

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