Eleven NASCAR Wishes For 2011
With the new season just days away, I wanted to take a quick moment in my first column of the year to make some wishes for the forthcoming campaign. Some will probably come true, some definitely won’t; so, before the madness begins anew under the lights at Daytona this Saturday night, and with the benefit of a two-month break from writing here are, in no particular order, my eleven wishes for NASCAR in 2011…
*A Brilliant Daytona 500:*
After pothole-gate, not even a heartstring-tugging victory for the then-beleaguered Jamie McMurray could fully make up for the two-hour patch job delay in the sport’s marquee race. The fiasco was enough to prompt a repave of the grand old two-and-a-half mile high-banked circuit and the result should be racing more akin to her sister superspeedway: Talladega. That will likely ensure 500 miles of turbulent, snarling chaos with the race likely decided in the final corner of the final lap. So how about fingers, toes and any other body parts you care to name, crossed for a 500 for the ages and why not a Michael Waltrip victory while I’m at it? The sport needs a strong start to 2011, no question…