Spinners And Winners ~ Bristol, March 2014
3/19/2014
Jim Fitzgerald
Welcome back to Spinners and Winners! On Sunday, after a long day of rain, it was Carl Edwards flipping over a win and possible Chase bid. So, who else won, and who else spun?
Spinner: Freakin’ rain…again.
Winner: We might get to racing by 3pm.
Spinner: It’s raining so bad that driver introductions and such have been cancelled?
Spinner: What’s with that National Anthem. We started off the year so well, too.
Spinner: And…they flyover has been scrapped. Worst Bristol race ever? No…try April 1993. That one was bad.
Winner: The fans sitting in the stands. Yeah, if I paid for my ticket, I’m not leaving until it is over, or until they kick me out, whichever comes first. That means…
Spinner: All you nice fine folks who quit weathering the weather. Did we not check the weather forecast?
Spinner: Competition cautions. Stop it.
Spinner: Ooopsie on pit road with Jeff Gordon and David Ragan.
Spinner: Debris caution. Stop it, part two.
Spinner: Debris caution. Stop it, version three.
Winner: The “Toilet Paper” on the No. 40 reminding me of Skateland in 1981, when it would get stuck to the wheels of my roller skates. Uh-flappity-flappity-flappity-flappity…fall.
Winner: Did those batteries come from Darrell Waltrip’s voice box?
Winner: SOME of the rain time burning things. Not all, but some.
Spinner: See comment above about “Uh-flappity-flappity-flappity-flappity…fall” and apply it not to Jimmie Johnson’s roller skate.
Spinner: No powers steering for Logano? Time to build some Popeye forearms.
Winner: I wonder if Stenhouse can pull off the famous Triple Deke like Charlie Conway. Ducks Fly Together.
Spinner: I guess no one told Timmy Hill the caution was out.
Winner: Kyle Larson for being the top Rookie of the race.
Winner: The Food City Night Race at Bristol and then later this year, The Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol.
Spinner: Pardon me, Sir Earnhardt, but if we made another Bristol, doesn’t it make this one less special?
Winner: Ahhh, a return to old. When I first started watching races, I remember a car would crash and knock in, or off, the fenders. Then, the car would come back out, and it looked like a modified. Thanks, but sorry, Brad, for making that happen!
Spinner: Kyle Busch…no really. He spun.
Spinner: And, there is the Martin Truex, Jr. story…Up In Smoke. Please send that feller some good luck.
Spinner: Holy Budweiser Barbeque! Harv needs to pull a Jimmy Johns and get out of there “Freaky Fast!”
Winner: Possible back flip in Victory Lane
Winner: Thank you again, Air Titan, for making this race ending a possibility!
Spinner: A caution light malfunction (I heard someone leaned on the button, womp womp). Mistakes can happen, but it just so happens that this one cost us a green flag finish.
Winner: Ford, two weeks in a row.
Checkered Flag Winner: Carl Edwards for winning the Food City 500, his first win of the 2014 season.
That's all for this week! Feel free to add in your own Spinners and Winners from last weekend as well! Until next time....