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Kasey Kahne, driver of the #9 Budweiser Dodge, celebrates after winning the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race on May 17, 2008 at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) ยป More Photos
As races go, they don’t get more paradoxical than Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race XXIV at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
On one hand, the race’s unofficial motto is “checkers or wreckers,” and fans came to watch drivers win or tear their cars up trying. On the other hand, Saturday night’s tilt had all the politeness of a points race, with not a single caution flag. None. Zip. Zilch. Nada. C’mon, boys, where was the hate? All week long, we heard drivers talk about how they were going to pull all the stops out in order to win the $1 million purse, but the racers were positively calm, which was unusual for this race.
Or how about passing? Drivers have complained bitterly about the impossibility of passing in NASCAR’S new-generation race car, and that seemed to be reinforced Saturday night, when Greg Biffle ran down leader Kasey Kahne in no time during the closing laps, but once Biffle got close
Then again, race-winner Kahne started last in a 24-car field and passed 17 cars by the end of the third segment before gambling on no tires and track position for the fourth and final segment. The “we can’t pass” argument doesn’t hold much water when the race-winner moves up 23 positions in the first 83 laps.
Another paradox: The prohibitive favorites, Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards, were non-factors by the middle of the race. Busch’s highly tweaked engine let go after he led the first 38 laps, while Edwards flat vanished over the second half of the race, finishing 10th.
Or consider this: All three Richard Childress Racing drivers are in the top 10 in points, yet none of them finished in the top 10 in the 24-car All-Star field, which is a surprising development, given how strong the team has been all year.
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