Michigan International Speedway hosts 3 races this weekend. ARCA on Friday, Trucks on Saturday and Cup on Sunday. The wide open track lends itself to great speed. The winner of the first Michigan race last year was none other than the immortal Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Junior is finding it quite hard to get into Victory Lane. He won this race last year with a gas mileage maneuver and was pushed across the line by Kasey Kahne under yellow. I really thought that with his move to Hendrick Motor Sports last season, he would win his share of races. That has not proved to be true. Two weeks ago he changed crew chiefs with little results to show for it. Will he be proven to be just a regular driver with a legendary racing father, ala Kyle Petty? Junior's teammate, Jeff Gordon, has been suffering with great back pain the last few months. Some say it is from carrying Junior!! I was so happy last week to see my personal favorite driver, Tony Stewart, get his first win as a driver/owner. In reality, he gets his engines and bodies from Hendrick, so he is kinda a 5th HMS team. But it still takes skill to pull off a win.
It looks like rain in the forecast today, so we may get the truck race in, but I'm not counting on it.
Tomorrow looks like a great day, so it should be a beautiful day to run the LifeLock 400 at Michigan.
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