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Fairytale finish at Cup level? Forget about it
Mar
20
For all you stick-and-ball haters out there, it probably means little or nothing that March Madness begins for real today as the NCAA men's basketball tournament tips off.
With no Sprint Cup race on tap this Easter weekend, though, there's not a lot to get excited about racing-wise unless you want to see Carl Edwards win again at Nashville. But if you want to see an underdog prevail for a change, chances are good that will happen on the hardwood.
The point here?
If there's one thing that NASCAR lacks these days at its highest level it's a true longshot making it into victory lane.
What we settle for is the excitement and novelty of a driver winning for the first time, as Clint Bowyer did last September at New Hampshire.
It was a good story. The small-town kid from Kansas finally breaks through and hoists a Cup race trophy for the first time. Bowyer, though, lest we forget, competes for one of the sport's multicar powers in Richard Childress Racing.
When was the last time a true underdog sniffed a victory in a Cup race?
If you said Boris Said at Daytona, in July 2006, then I'm with you (Said finished fourth after starting from the pole).
The fact is because of economic disparities and multicar domination it doesn't happen very often.
And, in my mind anyway, the sport is lesser for it.
With no Sprint Cup race on tap this Easter weekend, though, there's not a lot to get excited about racing-wise unless you want to see Carl Edwards win again at Nashville. But if you want to see an underdog prevail for a change, chances are good that will happen on the hardwood.
The point here?
If there's one thing that NASCAR lacks these days at its highest level it's a true longshot making it into victory lane.
What we settle for is the excitement and novelty of a driver winning for the first time, as Clint Bowyer did last September at New Hampshire.
It was a good story. The small-town kid from Kansas finally breaks through and hoists a Cup race trophy for the first time. Bowyer, though, lest we forget, competes for one of the sport's multicar powers in Richard Childress Racing.
When was the last time a true underdog sniffed a victory in a Cup race?
If you said Boris Said at Daytona, in July 2006, then I'm with you (Said finished fourth after starting from the pole).
The fact is because of economic disparities and multicar domination it doesn't happen very often.
And, in my mind anyway, the sport is lesser for it.
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