NASCAR

Following one of the biggest weekends of the racing season, the Labor Day weekend was one of the slowest with only the NASCAR boys doing their thing. It wasn’t much of a thing either, but with just two races left before the Finals, it seemed like it would have been a good day to put up or shut up. Insofar as that goes, it was,

Elliot Sadler got the win, although a late caution probably prevented Mark Martin from taking the victory. Mark ended up third with Kasey Kahne second. Martin seemed to have the fastest car, but struggled on restarts.

The real race was for the final spots in the Top 10 which will go into the big shootout over the final 10 races. All but 18 had been eliminated from mathematical consideration which after the race was just 15. Sadler, Tony Stewart and Matt Kenseth all clinched Top 10 slots to join Junior, Gordon and Johnson.

The big winner was Martin who jumped from 12^th to 10^th in the standings heading to Richmond next week. Kahne jumped 2 slots from 11^th to 9^th while Jamie MacMurray sits in 11^th up four from the previous week. The losers were Bobby Labonte who dropped out of the top 10 to 12^th and Kevin Harvick who dropped from 8^th to 15^th with his 28^th place finish.

Next week they go on Saturday night and it should be a good one. There should be some no holds barred racing out there. I might actually have to tune in for that one!