Picks for the Coca-Cola 600

Here are the picks for the race this week:


Mike Inskeep - #16 - Biffle
Dave Shaw - #16 - Biffle
PT - #16 - Biffle
Curtis - #18 - Busch, Kyle
Wayne Smith - #8 - Martin
Carol - #48 - Johnson
Es Scott - #9 - Kahne
TBA - #99 - Edwards
Todd Mann - #17 - Kenseth
Joe Yu - #17 - Kenseth
Hau-Ling - #8 - Martin


I must say this before I forget. After last night's Nationwide race, Kyle Busch was surpassed as biggest douchebag in racing by Denny Hamlin.


Also, ABC's coverage of Indy is horrible. The personalities don't appear to know anything about the sport (Musburger needs to stick with the ball and stick sports), the camera views were crappy novelties that showed absolutely nothing, and if I see one more shot of Danica Patrick bitching about something I will puke. I admit they tried to get better non-stop coverage with "side-by-side" but they cluttered the screen with graphics and 2 tiny pictures that were tough to see even on my 50" plasma.

It doesn't help that IndyCar is less than exciting to start with. They can't pass, they can't run side-by-side, they can't withstand the slightest contact - so basically you have 33 cars running single file with 4 or 5 passes on the track over the whole race, positions changing mostly just on pit road, and when a hot dog wrapper winds up on the track and a car hits it you get a catastrophic car explosion. If not for the tradition at Indy, I would have watched Seinfeld repeats.


Finally, I saw him again! Does Ryan Newman have a "lucky charm" on his race team? I SAW THE MIDGET AGAIN IN THE #12 PIT! I know its just a legend. I swore I saw him after Newman won at Daytona, but I wrote it off as a hallucination, but today I saw him again! This time he wore a full leprechaun beard. Is there a pot 'o gold in Ryan's future? I should take Newman. Its like seeing a dog crap right before a race at the dog track - its a sign.