09 NASCAR season

[TheMaster]

I'm gonna start making some predictions for next year. BTW, congratulations Jimmie Johnson on a fourth straight championship! And to Kyle Busch on his Nationwide title and Ron Hornaday on the Camping World Truck Series championship.

Will Jimmie be contending for the Sprint Cup again next year? You bet your life he will. Joey Logano may prove himself a contender next season. He certainly had a good rookie season, winning ROTY honors and winning his first race. Kyle Busch may well rebound and find himself in the Chase once again and Dale Earnhardt Jr. will find improvements enough to get back to Victory Lane for the first time since Michigan last year.

I'm surprised at how many talented drivers went all 2009 without winning, not just Junior, but Greg Biffle, Carl Edwards, Juan Pablo Montoya, Martin Truex, Ryan Newman, Harvick, Burton, etc. There's always next year though.

I'm also pleasantly surprised at the performance of some of the contenders from this year: Tony Stewart, Montoya, Mark Martin. Can't wait for the Daytona 500, but I have to!

Well for the past three seasons my father and I went down to Michigan International Speedway for race weekend in the June. 2007 we saw the Nextel Cup race only and Carl Edwards one that one. Last year and this year we saw both the Truck Series and Sprint Cup. The 08 winners were Erik Darnell and Dale Earnhardt Jr. This year's winners were Colin Braun and Mark Martin. I am looking forward to next year when we go back, and maybe also make it to Berlin Raceway in July for the ARCA Series. And last year and this year I managed to get my name on Junior's 88 car for the Amp Energy 500 at Talladega, and this year he did not crash it, saving my name!

Yes, I became such a diehard racing fan I know, and it came so all of a sudden. That's what I get though, my father was a racer back in the day, in Formula Vee cars.