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Oh boy! Good old fashioned racing will be the order of the day when the NASCAR roadshow comes to Martinsville, Virginia this weekend. They’ll be on the short track spinning like a top on one of NASCAR’s great old race sites.

Early word is that Champion-In-Waiting Jeff Gordon is the odds-on-favorite to win here as he has seven times before. As a fan of the #24 Chevy, I think another win or two would be a fitting exclamation point on his quest for a 2007 Cup championship. No sense in making a nail biter out of this. I mean, Jimmie Johnson’s a good guy in my opinion, but he won it last year, and he’ll have several more seasons left to claim more titles. I really think Gordon’s pushing the finish line and may be out by the time he’s 40. things he’s said just gives you the feeling that he has no magic number of championships to win or races, and he’ll hang it up when he’s good and ready. As a fan, it would be cool to see him win seven, so he could have his name up there with Petty and Earnhardt, but there’s too many variables that play a part in getting there. Like he may never get there. It’d also be nice to see him break 100 wins, and he only had 19 more to go. But as good as he is now, he’s won six, so at this rate, it would take a while. Some time soon Gordon’s racing “passion tank” will run out of gas. If you ask me, it won’t be long before Ingrid and Ella win out over his Chevy.

Gordon aside, there’s a number of guys running well right now. It’s been nice to see Bobby Labonte running well with better cars. Kasey Kahne is showing signs of life. I wouldn’t go shoveling dirt on Jimmie Johnson, Clint Bowyer, or Tony Stewart for their title hopes just yet. This kind of track is also one on which you’d expect Junior to run well. Hey- Mark Martin could do well here…if he’s running.

I just hope they don’t get all conservative on us like they did at Talladega. However- it’s a different car on a different track, so I wouldn’t worry too much about that.