What was Humpy thinking??
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 by Kyle Ocker
I am going to assume that Humpy had a better vision than a reality after the mess that was, the Burnout Competition.
In the first annual event, drivers had to get a tire smoking, tear jerking, shredding start, make two complete 360 “donuts”, then, smoke through “Victory Lane” a little ways past the start/finish line.
Greg Biffle and Kyle Busch were the only ones who actually followed the rules. Clint Bowyer gave an encore after completing, but he did not come to a complete stop in Victory Lane, so he got docked 5 seconds.
I am still trying to comprehend what in the world Jimmie Johnson was thinking. He said in an “after-burnout” interview he was trying to knock down all the cones. He did get an event-record 20 seconds in penalties.
Greg Biffle was the overall winner. He got 10-grand donated to his foundation.
A good idea gone bad for Humpy. The fans didn’t really enjoy it as much as thought at first. The rules confused the fans and drivers. If they indeed decide to have a Second Annual, I would suggest they just make it a free-style format, and let the fans decide the winner based on croud volume.
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3 Responses to “What was Humpy thinking??”
I don’t really think you can blame them for giving the Burnout Competition a shot … but, I agree, I think that the rules just sort of restricted it a bit. Ya never know what does and doesn’t work, though, until you try it.
How much variety can you really have for burnouts? Unless someone can write their sponsor’s name (especially impressive if Kahne could write Budwesier in script), there’s not a lot of different things to do.
jimmccoy22
It was a nice try, but i agree the rules made the whole thing kind of a cluster.
I like your idea for judging it, though gauging crowd response would bwe a little subjective. What would make it hard is that Junior Nation is so hard core that Junebug could just win the thing by sitting in his car breaking wind.
It never ceases to amaze how Junior Nation predicts him to win EVERY race and that anything that happens is NEVER his fault.
Just sayin’ I dont’ know that the fan vote part might not work so well.
do like the freestyle part though.