Martinsville - The Good and the Bad

Martinsville had the good and the bad on Sunday.  The good in the race was the exciting racing from third on back.  Yes I said it correctly from the third place on back.  I like the side by side racing and the passing that was going on.  Those spots were exciting during the race on Sunday.  I like the competitiveness between teammates Austin Dillon and Paul Menard.  The back and forth between them was so good.  They are teammates, but they were racing each other hard.  They were not giving each other an inch.  They are teammates, but when they are racing on the track they are individuals racing for their own teams.  The bad of the race was the hand holding between Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth.  The first and second place drivers was doing nothing but making deals with each other instead of racing.  Now, that was the most boring part of the race.  It seems like they was not trying during the race.  We want to see racing throughout the whole race.  We do not want to see drivers making deals to give them an easy chance of staying up front.  If your car was good enough, it was good enough to get back to the front when you lose the lead.  I thought NASCAR said one time that the drivers are supposed to give 100% when they are racing.  Busch and Kenseth were not giving it 100%.  I wanted to see racing between the first and second place during the whole race, not them holding it down until they get to the last few laps.  Busch win at Martinsville was not an earn it type of win compared to Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, and past winners at that track.  They got their wins the hard way.  Busch got his win the easy way by making deals to stay on the front row.  If Busch is so good like he portray himself to be, why not race for the win the hard way instead of the easy way?  And I am not talking about the last few laps of the race when all bets were off with Kenseth.  I am talking about throughout the whole race.  If anything is not done the next time they are at Martinsville, I am not going to watch it.  If I watch that race in the beginning and I see drivers making deals, I will be turning my television.  Making deals is not racing in my eyes.  I can see you do it once in the race, but not every time there is a restart.  Some drivers love to overdo things.  They cannot just do something one time and just be done with it.  Some drivers got to take advantage of a situation when NASCAR does not say anything.  I guess we will see next time they go back to Martinsville.