Good evening my fellow followers and I hope you are ready for the summer. I am soooo glad to be off school for while. Its also time for NASCAR to start the summer months, with a variety of tracks including the road course at Sonoma, California in June and the 2.5 mile Daytona International Speedway in July. Also TNT will start broadcasting for 6 weeks. With the summer months to go, lets recap the 2013 NASCAR season that has occurred so far.
The season began with the 55th running of the Daytona 500, a race where a female by the name of Danica Patrick would start her first 500 from the pole and a race that would debut NASCAR's new Generation 6 cup car. Jeff Gordon would start alongside Patrick on the front row. The race was good, which included a big wreck that took out stars such as Tony Stewart, Kevin Harvick, Kasey Kahne, Kyle Busch, and many others. A picture of the wreck is posted below. Two of the three Joe Gibbs Racing drivers would suffer from engine failures late in the race. Those drivers were new driver for Gibbs Matt Kenseth, and Kyle Busch. Jimmie Johnson and his Lowe's Cheverolet SS would win his 2nd Daytona 500. Patrick would finish 8th, the highest finishing position for a female in the 500.
The next week, NASCAR headed out west to Phoenix to run the Subway Fresh FIt 500. This race was the first non-restrictor plate race for NASCAR's new Generation 6 car. This race would include a hard hit for Danica Patrick after finishing 8th in the Daytona 500, the highest finishing position of a female in the Great American Race. She would hit the outside and inside wall on the frontstretch. The race would have its normal green flag runs, but the end would have you at the edge of your seat as Carl Edwards looked to snap almost a year long winless streak. Fuel mileage was in question for Edwards and his team as he was leading when a caution with 3 laps to go!! Johnson was in 2nd. The caution set the race up for a Green-White-Checkered, a rule put into place to go into overtime to finish the race. There are 3 attempts at a Green-White-Checkered, but there was only one. Carl Edwards would hold off the competition to win the race and snap his year long winless streak.
The next few races would feature a Joe Gibbs dominance as Matt Kenseth has won at Las Vegas, Kansas, and Darlington leading the series with his 3 wins. Kyle Busch has won at Auto Club and Texas. Jimmie Johnson won at Martinsville, earning his 2nd victory of the year. Kevin Harvick won at Richmond after a late race caution would end Juan Montoya's chances of pulling off an upset. And at Talladega, David Ragan would pull off a huge victory with help from his Front Row Motorsports teammate David Gilliland. Notice both there names are David and they both are on the same team. I just thought that was funny. Never mind. And Jimmie Johnson would win the All-Star Race. Johnson leads the points with Carl Edwards in 2nd heading into the Coca-Cola 600, NASCAR's longest race. I hope you enjoyed this recap, this is Captain Josh saying good night and stay tuned for Trivia Friday this friday May 24th. Good night everybody.
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