Either it was a slow week for motorsports, or I’m swelled with national pride, but the biggest story in American racing this week didn’t take place at Las Vegas, Barber or Sepang.
It happened on a frozen track near Vancouver.
The U.S. won the Olympic gold medal in the four-man bobsled for the first time since 1948, as Uncle Sam encroached into a sport dominated by European sleds and drivers, especially Germany.
OK, I know what you’re thinking: “What the …. ? What does this have to do with motorsports?” No, I haven’t hit the sale on Pabst Blue Ribbon 12-packs with too much muscle.
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So, do you really think Jimmie Johnson is lucky? Forty-eight victories, including three Brickyard 400s and a Daytona 500, and a record four consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup titles, and luck is one of the major factors?
Kevin Harvick apparently thinks so.
Johnson held off a spirited charge from Harvick, who brushed the wall with a few laps remaining to blunt his run to the front, and earned a bounce-back victory Sunday at California Speedway after a rough season opener in the Daytona 500.
JJ The Speeding Robot was aided by being in the pits when a late caution flew, letting him finish his stop and keep the lead over Jeff Burton.
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Well, it was an eventful, long opening week of NASCAR, wasn’t it?
I might be the only one who was happy that Rolex 24 at Daytona, er, make that Daytona 500, lasted around seven hours because that’s about how long it probably took to remind people that yes, there was a race last week at Daytona that was bigger than the Daytonica 300 Nationwide Series race Saturday, Feb. 13.
Danica Patrick was a BIG story last week at Daytona International Speedway, from her solid sixth-place debut in the ARCA Series race Feb. 6 to her early exit from her NASCAR debut after being tangled in a crash in the Nationwide Series race Feb. 13.
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