Moving Up … the Hard Way

Watching Sunday’s NASCAR race was about as pleasant as having to interview Tony Stewart afterward, but the People’s Pitstop did benefit from it.
The Internet’s favorite fantasy auto racing team scored 230 points in the Sprint Cup at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. That was good enough to move us up three spots, to 8th place, in the 9beersfantasysportstavern group on Yahoo Fantasy Auto Racing.
Here is the breakdown of our results. We’ll take care of the bad news first.
Kyle Busch: Started 5th, finished 38th (160 laps behind the leaders) and 16 fantasy points. There are plenty of things you don’t want to hear your driver say during the course of a race. One of them is “I’ve got flames in my face.”
Ryan Newman: Started 8th, finished 5th and 82 fantasy points. Once again, all that was missing was a lep led, but Newman certainly has his cars working the way he wants them.
A.J. Allmendinger: Started 7th, finished 19th and 54 fantasy points. Even though he barely kept himself on the lead lap at the end, Allmendinger did manage to stay in the top 10 in the Sprint Cup point standings.
Paul Menard: Started 18th, finished 12th, 3 laps led and 78 fantasy points, including 10 for leading a lap. Does anyone really care if Menard did his best fantasy racing work when everyone else was taking a pit stop? Didn’t think so. As Bleacher Report points out, Menard is currently the top-scoring driver on the Richard Childress Racing team.
Maybe that’s why NASCAR is giving the Sprint Cup folks this week off. Or maybe it’s for one of the reasons listed in this week’s poll. Feel free to vote now. The results of our Vegas poll appear below.