Once a year, Speed TV brings us the Bud Shootout Selection Show. This year the show was a whopping 90-minutes long, the extended coverage necessitated by the increased number of drivers in this year’s Bud Shootout.
The show was hosted by Steve Byrnes and Kenny Wallace. Byrnes is an okay reported, and Wallace is a driver in the Nationwide Series as well as a part time announcer. I like Wallace. He’s a funny guy, and he speaks his mind. I don’t always agree with him, but one thing is for sure, Kenny Wallace is entertaining.
One by one, twenty-eight drivers walked up to the
Budweiser bar and spoke for a minute with Kenny Wallace, who was the bartender. Then they selected one of the twenty-eight beer bottles that had been previously lined up on the bar. Inside the bottles were the flags which had their position printed on them.
With their bottle in hand, the drivers walked from the bar to center stage where Byrnes talked to them for a minute and then had them open the bottle and reveal the flag, and therefore their starting position.
Sometimes, this is an entertaining moment, and sometimes it’s just plain boring, depending on who is talking. The drivers this year were all ...
