Looking at Nascar's 2009 Season

Hendrick Motorsports is celebrating it 25th season in Nascar. What a lineup they have with Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Mark Martin, and even the very overrated Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

Nascar's 2009 season will start with the Daytona 500 on Febuary 15 at the world famous Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.

The Nascar season is very long, it runs from now to the weekend before Thanksgiving on November, so I'll only cover when my favorite drivers Jeff Gordon, and Jimmie Johnson win, the Las Vegas race the first weekend in March, special events like the all-star race, and any breaking news or scandals.

Today, Jeff Gordon who was winless all last season, made it to victory lane in his running of the Gatoraid dual 125's. This a great way to start the drive for his 5th championship.

""That's what happens when you have four championships, 81 career race wins and are coming off your first winless season in a Hall of Fame-worthy, 17-year career.

"I'm headed straight in to victory lane, VIC-TOR-Y lane," Gordon shouted to his crew seconds after taking the checkered flag in the first of Thursday's two Daytona 500 qualifying races, the Gatorade Duel.

This was his first trophy drive-in since October of 2007, 41 races ago -- and site of the first win of his career 16 years ago.

While the 150-mile qualifying race doesn't pay points toward the Sprint Cup championship, it's still typically one of the most competitive races of the season -- a sprint race with the Daytona 500 starting grid on the line.

Drivers have especially been proud of the tight-quarter racing this week -- cars easily going three and four-wide and passing at will, not like the monotonous freight-train style that sometimes prevails here.

And the outcome was the perfect antidote for Gordon's No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet team. Some questioned whether it had lost its incredible edge."It doesn't matter if it's a qualifying race or the Daytona 500, you know, any confidence builder and momentum that we can get is a positive," Gordon said, adding this win meant more to him because of the struggles last year.

"Heck yeah," Gordon said. "Any win's exciting and meaningful to us right now. I think what makes this special is, these races aren't easy to win. ... But right now I think that because of the pressure that we felt from being winless last year, it's important for us to gain some momentum and confidence.""" The following was quoted from a AOL fanhouse blog.

I'm looking forword to this season, and the sucess of Hendrick Motorsports. I hope that jr doesn't drag Hendricks down like he did last season, he is a cancer, and his own family doesn't want to work with him.