The View from Here: The Business of NASCAR

I'm gonna give it everything I've got
Lady luck please let the dice stay hot
Let me shout a seven with every shot
Viva las vegas, viva las vegas,
Viva, viva las vegas
(Words and Music by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman)

I like statistics. But I am certainly no statistician, so someone smarter will have to calculate the odds of winning three straight at Vegas (or any track for that matter). JJ and the Hendrick crew seem to have figured it all out so I deem Mr. Johnson the new "Lucky Jackson."

You say you do not know Lucky Jackson? Well, fellow sports fans, he was the man who came to LV in 1964 looking to win the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Only problem was he came a bit underfunded (like he had no engine underfunded). Somehow he gets the $$ and all is (relatively speaking) happy afterwards.

So I dub Jimmie Johnson the new "Lucky" although he came with plenty of funding and, hey, probably left town with more (how may folks can say that after a few days in Vegas? Remember, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas")

So now it is time to leave the glitz and head for the grits as Atlanta looms and we edge closer to the COT.

I'm Michael and that's the view from here.....

PS - By the way, the real "Lucky Jackson? Why none other than Elvis in "Viva Las Vegas."

PPS - Mark. Don't go. It's too much fun.