Once again, MRN refuses to let the facts get in the way of a good story.With Paul Menard sitting on pit road awaiting his qualifying run in advance of Sunday's Sylvania 300 at NHIS, MRN pit reporter Paul Bartholemew walked over to the car. He went into a great detailed story about how important qualifying was for a guy like Menard, about how he's been a "go or go-homer" all season and relied on qualifying.
Great story, great drama. Only problem was, it's not true.
"Uh, actually, we've been locked in since Indianapolis," said Menard.
The Brickyard 400 was back on July 29 -- 7 races ago.
Less than half an hour later, Red Bull teammates Brian Vickers and A.J. Allmendinger qualified within a few cars of each other. As Allmendinger finished his lap, booth announcer Joe Moore declared Allmendinger had run a "much better" lap than Vickers had.
Small matter of detail here: Allmendinger ran a 29.991; Vickers a 30.035. That's a difference of just over 4-hundredths of a second. Yeah, that's "much better."
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