All right, time to catch up on our NASCAR news. As you all know, the season ended on Sunday with Jimmie Johnson winning his first Nextel Cup championship. He had come in 2nd twice, both times losing by heart-breakingly small margins, so it’s a victory well deserved to be certain. Matt Kenseth came in second (both of these guys are my wife’s favorite guys…hmmph). Denny Hamlin capped off an amazing rookie season with a third overall finish. I like Denny and will be rooting him on next year for sure. Great Fed Ex commercials!
Our hero Kevin Harvick finished a valiant 4th, probably exhausted from all the wins he had throughout the Nextel and Busch series (14 big ones). He even finished 3rd in the Nascar.com Power Rankings. It is easy to see why he is so well loved here at the Chess and Poker Blog. The only bad thing about Sundays race is that we must endure many raceless weekends until next February :( I’m writing the president of Nascar to complain about the ever-apparent lack of domed race tracks. Health hazard? Rubbin’s racin, sir.
In Chess news we have the Man vs Machine battle, Kramnik takes on the Fritz program, game one on Saturday. Then in the 2007 we have the first of two Super Grandmaster tournaments at Wijk aan Zee, Holland, from January 12 to 28, 2007 which should feature some heavy hitters and great games. The next comes in Feb/March in Linares. I’m ready!
