Charlotte Scramble - Truex Finally Breaks Through - Rusty Rejoices!!!!!

It seems like I say this after every week, but we had another eventful race in Charlotte.  We had Rusty with the TOP PICK who picks up win #2 with his Truex pick.  It must be pretty nice to see your pick, who started on the pole, absolutely dominate the race... were you ever even a little worried Rusty?  Rusty moves up a spot to 2nd... just 6 points behind 1st.  Nice Pick amigo!  

We had 11 of our 15 teams finish in the top 10.  Also in this this group we had 1 team joining the Elite 8 for the 1st time this year and our most popular pick not shit the bed.  I didn't check Vegas, but I don't think the Vegas favorite shit the bed either.    

• Kiss took Johnson (3rd) and stays in 14th and now is 31 points away from 8th.  
• Our leader Piston took Keselowski who brought it home in 5th.  Team Piston hold on to the top spot for the 2nd race in a row and have been at the head of the pack for 3 of the last 4 races.   
• Ideal, Chonk, and #Wifey took 6th place finisher Kurt Busch.  Ideal jumps a spot to 5th, Chonk (8th) jumps up 2 spots and into the Elite 8 for the 1st time all year, and #Wifey jumps up 2 spots to 9th just 5 points away from the Elite 8.
• Graziano took 8th place finisher Chase Elliott.  Graz has a solid week but loses a spot to Rusty's top pick this week.
• Shepard, Dust, Skidmarks and Pursuit had the most popular pick Logano who finished 9th.  Shepard stays in 4th, Dust stays in 7th, Skid moves up 2 spots to 11th and Pursuit stays in 15th.

Awesome job guys!

We also had 2 teams fall out of the Elite 8.

Beef (Kyle Larson - 13th) and Wheels (Earnhardt - 14th) get our EH... pick this week.  Beef gains a spot to 11th but Wheels (10th) is one of the teams who fell out of the Elite 8 this week.

Penguin chose Edwards who passed gas in bed and held him under the sheets.  the 18th place finish gets him the DOOTW.  Edwards ran great all race, but much like my wedding night... he was too fast entering... twice!  But it could be worse...

Empty gets the BSOTW this week with his 33rd place Kyle Busch pick.  Kyle was another strong car but he collided with Larson late in the race and ended his day.  This accident really made no sense but unfortunately for Empty it happened anyway.  Empty plummets out of the Elite 8 to 13th, but is only 26 points away from getting back in.  0 wins is concerning, but nothing to be too worried about at the moment.

OTHER RAMBLINGS:

All in all we had 10 of 15 places change hands...

Pocono this week on Sunday.

I'm looking forward to another eventful race.

Good luck to you all!

Cheers!