What's Your Take?

While two races is early to make some kind of judgement on the season, what ISN'T happening once again is the big story as opposed to what is happening -

- The epic finish the Daytona 500 needed didn't happen; between the preposterously late starting time and the early end, the end result was just another Roush car winning at the Winston Cup level. The final 48 laps were certain to see a ferocious fight for the win and with Kyle Busch eliminated in the Junior melee the win was a wide-open prospect.

- The first-time winner and comeback winning driver/team the sport needs hasn't happened. Call me biased because of my screen name, but can anyone not get jazzed if A.J. Allmendinger had grabbed the 500 win for Richard Petty? And realistically A.J., Sadler, and Reed Sorensen were the best chance for the genuine upset the sport has not had in years.

- All the talk about "leaner and meaner in these economic times" is just hot air. The new teams that have popped into the sport this year are all just field fillers, and it showed in Vegas qualifying.

- Though he's running well, Tony Stewart is not doing better than his engine/racecar supplier, and as the season goes on running well at the expense of his supplier's cars will come back to haunt him.

- Doug Yates' team is in big trouble now, because their primary car failed to make the field at Vegas and the Paul Menard car is making races but has zero shot of accomplishing anything.

- The biggest shock is that Michael Waltrip's team is doing well, but don't expect that to last.