The NASCAR - 2009 Sam’s Town 300 Nationwide race was a comedy of errors and bad plays by veteran drivers. The Las Vegas race was full of yellow flags, many of which were spin outs done by Cup drivers participating in the race.
Since its repaving, the Las Vegas track has some bumps in it that have really been giving the Sprint Cup drivers a hard time in their practices and qualifying sessions, and as the NASCAR - 2009 Sam’s Town 300 continued, it was amazing to see how it was these ‘higher rated’ drivers who had the most problems.
One of the first problems was caused by Kyle Busch, who actually took
the blame for driving too hard for the win. It was definitely too early for that kind of move. In another move, Jeff Burton lost control and took out teammate Kevin Harvick, who wasn’t thrilled about that at all.
Then there were the mental mistakes, highlighted by Denny Hamlin speeding through pit lane on his final pit stop, and then speeding again through his pass through penalty. Even Carl Edwards sped on his final pit regularly scheduled pit stop. He was a lap down already, but he got lucky in that the caution came out right after his penalty was announced.
Justin Allgaier, one of the Nationwide regulars, had a ...
