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he causes. I know that moving from an open-wheel series with no real racing and huge manufacturer advantages to the most competitive form of motorsports in the world where parity is pretty much unrivaled is going to be a shock to the system, but the guy has now had almost 40 races to "learn the ropes," and he's still making the same stupid mistakes every week.

I'd be giving him more slack if he was an actual rookie like David Ragan, but honestly, he is supposed to be an amazing racer,' but what's happening is it's the guy's arrogance that is doing him in. When he announces that he thinks he is the best stock car road racer in NASCAR and then says that he has "more passion for racing" then anyone else in the garage, there's a problem.

He spun himself in the closing laps of the Busch race (which brought out, inexplicably, a caution flag, but more on that later), and then, during the Cup race, he drove so dangerously that by lap 50, several drivers were calling him a "weapon" and spotters were warning their drivers as to where the 42 car was. That's wrong and should never be happening; Montoya just consistently drives over his head. He clearly is having a hard time adjusting to the stock cars, which are a lot more difficult to handle than his Formula 1 car, but he won't admit it. He still acts like he's the crown prince of racing and God's gift to NASCAR, and the other drivers are suffering for it. He runs every lap like it's the last one, and it's all take and no give from him, every corner of every lap.

During the Cup race, drivers paid the price for racing next to Montoya when the latter lost control of his car and, instead of letting of the throttle and giving up the spot, kept his foot in the gas and slammed another car into the wall. Montoya later ran over Bobby Labonte when the 43 checked up for an accident and he (Montoya) thankfully was unable to race with the pack the rest of the evening, leaving the rest of the field immune to being "Montoya'd."

By the way, I coined that verb about 10 seconds after Kevin Harvick got taken out; Sporting News just printed their article before mine.

-Wide Open CoveragePlease, Sir, I Want Some More!
Even though we did have to endure another one of TNT's 17 hour prerace shows, the Wide Open Coverage during the race was wildly successful in my opinion. The huge lack of commercials (only 4 and a half minutes per hour) was a tremendous improvement over TNT's usual 4 and a half minutes of racing per hour.

I would much rather have

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