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April 9, 2007

Flipping for a Thousand
Bye Bye Busch Whackers-Nashville-Race 7
By Dennis Michelsen
Just how many points will Carl Edwards win the Busch Championship by this season? How many times will we see Carl do his flip after winning? Last season Kevin Harvick turned the Busch series into a joke winning by over 88 points! At least Kevin had other Cup teams to battle with for the championship. This season most of the Cup drivers competing full time in the Busch series are not with teams as strong as Roush-Fenway. Carl Edwards could turn the Busch series into a farce this year winning by over 1000 points! The latest stand-alone race at Nashville Super Speedway helped him lengthen his lead considerably with so many Cup regulars taking the week off. The championship is now a foregone conclusion with twenty-eight races to go! ESPN cannot be happy with this turn of events. But NASCAR turned the Busch series into the Cup-lite series to attract more viewers just so they could boost the ratings. Their timing couldn't have been better with the Car of Tomorrow likely to get fewer Cup teams to use the Busch series as a testing race from now on. Congratulations to Carl Edwards as he does his twenty-eight race victory tour to celebrate his 2007 Busch Championship!

Bye Bye Busch Whackers Standings-Nashville Super Speedway
Jason Leffler Wins the Pepsi 300

1. Jason Leffler (Finished 4th)
2. Regan Smith (5th)
3. Shane Huffman (6th)
4. Scott Wimmer (7th)
5. Stephen Leicht (8th)
6. Bobby Hamilton Jr (9th)
7. Mike Bliss (10th)
8. Todd Kluever (13th)
9. Steve Wallace (14th)
10. Brad Coleman (15th)

Bye Bye Busch Whackers Standings After Race 7