Nascar This Week 8 - the Derrick
NASCAR THIS WEEK 8 - THE DERRICK. / The News-Herald Wednesday, March 11, 2020 SPEED FREAKS QUESTIONS & ATTITUDE A few questions we Compelling questions ... and had to ask ourselves ATLANTA maybe a few actual answers That’s 25 career Cup wins What’s with Jimmie Johnson’s for Joey Logano. Where will THREE THINGS TO WATCH IndyCar flirtation? he land at career’s end? GODSPEAK: Joey is about He’ll join the McLaren IndyCar team halfway there. I think he for an April 6 test at the beautiful will be in the low 50s when Barber road course in Birmingham, he gets to his early 40s. Alabama. After that … well, it might KEN’S CALL: I’ll say another depend on the lap times. You’d like 25-30, landing him along- to think Jimmie wouldn’t tempt fate side Ned Jarrett, Junior by spending any of his “retirement” Johnson, Rusty Wallace years on the ultra-fast Indy ovals, and a few others. but some road-course events obvi- ously have his interest. Kyle Busch has 56 Cup wins, Jimmie Johnson What’s the point? has 83. Does Kyle catch Jimmie? Former F1 champ Fernando Alonso GODSPEAK: Kyle averages was first to talk about spreading his 3.5 wins a year. If he retires wings in wide fashion, and has done at 42, that’s 28 more wins, so over the past few years — he even which would put him one ran the recent Dakar Rally. Fernando ahead of Jimmie when he’s and Jimmie have become friends. all done. Jimmie’s persona never matched KEN’S CALL: Kyle is 34 the other two men with seven Cup with a lot of time left.
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