F1

We are now 3 races in to the 2004 season and if past trends are any indication, you can hand the World Championship to Michael Schumacher. He has won the first three races of the season and no one has ever lost the championship after doing that. Right now Ferrari looks like the proverbial man amongst boys. They have dominated qualifying and racing so far this season. To make matters worse, Schummi’s biggest competition trudged home yesterday in 13th place after losing several gears towards the end of the race.

Rubens brought the other Ferrari home second yesterday and Jensen Button found his way to the podium for the second race in a row. There were some spins and some tense racing moments. Ralfie was reprimanded for cutting off Takuma Sato’s BAR in the middle of the race and for the third week in a row Kimi Raikkonen failed to score any points as his Mercedes Ilmor engine crapped out on him again.

At the rate we are going, Schumacher will have this thing wrapped up by the time they roll into Indianapolis. Now the teams have 3 weeks until the race at Imola. That track usually rewards horsepower and BMW still has plenty of that. But as the “spiritual” home of Ferrari it will be murder to stop their roll. 3 weeks teams. You better be hitting the practice circuits early and often before the first race in Europe.

NASCAR

Congrats to Elliot Sadler who won the Samsung 400 yesterday at Texas. Sadler was solid all day, but Kasey Kahne was really the strongest car. He came up just inches short in his bid for the win. Junior came home a solid 4th and moved closer to the point lead which was surrendered by Kennseth to a consistent Kurtis.