It may take the intervention of a rmadman to stop Jimmie Johnson from another championship run.
I'm beginning to think no rational man is going to deprive Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus of a fifth straight Sprint Cup championship.
Johnson was 35th in the Daytona 500, which was sort of like one of those horse races called "handicaps" because the favored horse has to carry extra weight. Johnson's won the two races since, the most recent being the Shelby American at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
I think it's going to take the intervention of someone who has flipped his lid.
Maybe a super-rich Arab sheik will offer Rick Hendrick, say, $1,000,000 for his team, and he'll immediately decree that Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and everyone else have to spend at least two days a week riding camels and moaning otherworldly chants. (Martin, of course, would give it his best.)
Or maybe it'll be another driver who'll just ... snap. He hears voices in the car - Wreck Jimmie Johnson! Wreck Jimmie Johnson! - and yet tells no one. Given the events of Sunday, that driver could be Jeff Gordon, who created one monster already when he recommended Hendrick hire Johnson.
Lunacy is a distinct possibility, though there's little evidence so far to suggest Johnson has led his pursuers to anything but distraction.
Waiting for the Gold Horseshoe to turn to tin has gotten awfully old. Meanwhile, Kyle Busch is probably wondering if Kurt will trade him Steve Addington back for Dave Rogers and a fabricator to be named later. Kevin Harvick, second again, may hitch a ride to Tibet on Richard Childress's next hunting trip, just to look for a stray Maharishi.
Jeff Burton is keeping his cool, so that eliminates him.
The strain of being such a good NASCAR citizen has got to be getting to Tony Stewart, so he's got a shot. Brian Vickers is starting to stress out over being outrun by Scott Speed. Deep down, Carl Edwards is wishing that baby would pipe down and let him sleep.
Earnhardt Jr. is getting the uneasy feeling that everyone else is just as miserable as he.
The season's only three races old, and already Johnson's driving his opponents crazy. So there's hope.