We have another air quality alert. The northern wild fires are causing all kinds of health issues. Panda my dog and I had to cut our morning walk short because we both was having trouble breathing. Our morning walks are our lets get started for the day. We try to walk at least 2 miles a day not all at once but it gets done. With this smoke filled air we are lucky to get in 3/4 a mile a day. The rain we have had has helped a little. Hopefully they will get it under control soon?

Like everything else we will get thru this.

Have a wonderfull day.

The Chicago street race was different but somewhat enjoyable. Chase had a bad start to the weekend and having to start in the rear. Finishing in the top 3 helped. Chase needs to win to get in the championship he needs a lot of help to get in on points. He seems to be getting back in the groove since coming back. This weekend at Atlanta is a good place for him. He has 6 more chances to win he can win at all the tracks left.

Stage racing is a good idea but I don’t like that at the end of each stage they continue to count laps. For example in the truck race last weekend the first stage was 45 laps the second stage was to be 50 laps. They ran 8 caution laps before the second stage was started. The fans lost 8 laps of racing. The 3rd stage was to be 55 laps. There was 6 laps of caution so in total the fans lost 14 laps of racing. This was suppose to be a 150 laps of racing. The cautions laps during the stage is ok but not between stages. The fans in this race lost 14 laps of racing. I believe NASCAR should rethink how they do this. I think they should stop counting laps between stages?