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Homestead-Miami Speedway: Anyone But Jimmy Johnson

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by Charlie Turner

I'm Charlie Turner co-host of the syndicated, mostly NASCAR radio show On Pit Row. Thanks for stopping by OnPitRow.com and the Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie blog. Oh yeah, Steve is an idiot.

November 11, 2008 10:24 am CST 5 Comments

I think the NASCAR scoring loops must be broken at Homestead-Miami Speedway. How else can you explain the fact that Jimmy Johnson has only the 12th best Loop Driver Rating for the progressively banked mile-and-a-half track? Maybe it’s a typo.

Or maybe Johnson can’t win them all. He hasn’t won at Homestead. Maybe it’s because he usually has a championship to clinch and has better, bigger things to worry about. I think that could play into the results this week.

Running for points didn’t seem a consideration for Johnson at Phoenix last Sunday. He just drove away from everyone else pretty much all day. It was a performance that defined the term “having the field covered”.

But not this week. On paper the final race of the Chase to the 2008 Sprint Cup looks to be a Roush benefit. I agree with Matt on that.

I would look to Tony Stewart to play spoiler for the Cat-in-the-hat’s party, but I think that Smoke is counting down to the end of this season. Time to go Chevy racing again - with his own team. In fact, none of the Joe Gibbs racers look like winners this week. Neither does Dale Earnhardt Jr, Clint Bowyer or Jeff Burton.

No Jimmy Johnson win this week. I hope.

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5 Responses to “Homestead-Miami Speedway: Anyone But Jimmy Johnson”

  1. marc on November 11th, 2008 5:10 pm

    Three words:

    David Ragan. Miami

  2. Evelyn Montonen on November 12th, 2008 9:17 pm

    I totally agree ANYONE BUT JOHNSON !!! I’m pulling for Carl Edwards to pull it off !!! GO “COUSIN CARL” GO ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

  3. Pam R. on November 15th, 2008 2:02 pm

    If you’re going to dis the 2 time champ, learn to spell his name.

  4. User Avatar Charlie Turner on November 15th, 2008 3:15 pm

    Pam, where have you been for the last three years? This is pretty funny actually. Steve and I have this running discussion/commentary going for a couple years that, see,ingly, no matter what Johnson does, he never seems to get the proper respect. And all that time, we’ve been spelling his name wrong. I even have it entered into my spell checker with the wrong spelling! Do you have any idea how long it’s going to take for me to go back and fix this?

    The intent of the post was to, in a ironic kind of way, complement Johnson and actually indicate that I think he just MIGHT WIN this week too. Apparently I missed with that one. Oh well. From now on, at least I’ll spell his name correctly.

    Thanks for the comment.

  5. User Avatar Charlie Turner on November 15th, 2008 3:18 pm

    Evelyn and Marc, I think either of you may be right. Did I spell your driver’s name correctly, though? that’s the real important part right now. I am distraut.

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