The Kentucky Sprint Cup Race Was Not So Good

            The Sprint Cup race on Saturday night in Kentucky was boring to me.  It was not exciting at all.  I knew with the combination of a new paved track, new package (the lower downforce for the 2017 season), and tires were not going to be good.  It was more spinning and wrecking than anything else.  For a second, I thought I was watching the Daytona race again.

            It started off with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. hitting the wall early in the race way before they even made it to the mandatory caution lap, I think on lap 25.  And then it got worse from there.  Jimmie Johnson wrecked a little later in the race.  JJ got loose when Kyle Busch came under him to cause JJ to get loose and he got into the wall.  The car had endured a hard hit that kept him from contending for a win or even a good finish.  Those cars looked so evil during that race.  Some people were lucky not to wreck or spin out.

            Chase Elliott and Ryan Blaney made contact with each other when they got put in a 3 wide situation.  And then after that happen with them, it was a big wreck taking out a few more drivers out of the race.  I almost forgot to mention that Joey Logano had problems as well.  He had wrecked a few laps after JJ had wrecked.  The racing was not exciting at all in my opinion. 

            The race did end up being a fuel mileage race.  I do love fuel mileage races.  It is still a strategy to try to win.  It isn’t always about the fastest cars.  It is a combination of different things to win a race.  Most of the field pitted so they did not want to take the chance to run out of fuel.  The king of fuel mileage races in recent years won the race.  I am talking about Brad Keselowski.  Carl Edwards finished in 2^nd place.  Carl thought he had him.  It was funny though.  It was good to see Tony Stewart get a top-5 finish at the end of the race.

            I just hope that the race will be improved before they go back to the Kentucky Speedway next year.  I had a feeling that the combination of the new pavement, the new lower downforce package, and tires were not a good combination.  I do not want to see this type of racing anymore at Kentucky Speedway.