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Richard where do you watch nascar? on foxtel?

sorry for the months late reply! but yeah. I watch it on fox sports.

last night saw the mexico city round. jp won and ambrose was 7th or 8th. good to see him doing well in the busch series too.

forget jp spining pruett, the best bit was pruett smashing into montoya for some revenege whilst they were on the victory lap!! never seen anyone get nailed after the checkered flag before... fun times.

Just to set the record straight....... Ambrose races in the Craftsman Truck Series and the Busch Series. Number 59 in the Busch series. He was racing in the Mexico City Race that Montoya won over the weekend. Ambrose was running 5th at one stage when i saw him. He ended up 8th.

Ambrose is a full time driver in the Busch series this year, truck series last year. He is hoping to qualify for 2 Nextel Cup race this year as well. Ambrose's entry into NASCAR combined with the fact I just got Foxtel has got me right into it. 8th is an awesome effort considering he was 5th when he got spun round on lap 64 and pushed back to 24th... he passed 7 cars on the final 2 laps. After 3 races this season Ambrose is currently equal 5th outright in the series and top rookie (above Montoya) although its a long season, 35 races!

As someone who thinks WRC is the supreme of all motorsports I used to think the circle racing was just stupid, and it kinda is. You gotta think of it as a drag race... but instead of being a quarter mile, its 400 miles.

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