After a wreck between Jamie and Dario Franchitti a little over halfway in Sunday’s Food City 500 at Bristol sent McMurray’s #26 Crown Royal Ford to a 43^rd place finish McMurray now stands at 36^th in the owners points 4 points behind Sam Hornish Jr for the coveted 35^th place in the owners standings.

And to that, I say…You deserve it!  In this writers opinion, while Franchitti did start the action by clearly getting lose and walking up the track and getting into the side of McMurray’s car, to me, it was McMurray’s retaliation to this action that caused the wreck that sent innocent cars (Menard – 32^nd, Newman – 33^rd, Labonte – 38^th and Schrader – 41^st) to awful finishes.

To me, clearly, McMurray was upset with Franchitti and turned his car left to hit the side of Franchitti’s car.  When that happened the entire wreck unfolded that would up with Franchitti car unable to improve on a 36^th place finish and left McMurray’s car in dead last and outside of the top 35.  You have got to know better.  He knew when the race started he would need a good finish to keep his car in the Top 35.  When you have a great sponsor like Crown Royal that should be your first priority…keeping the car in the top 35 to guarantee your spot in the field on race day.

Unfortunately for McMurray he lost sight of that and instead will now have to fight on qualifying day to get is car in the field and to save his job with Roush Racing.  All I can say is that he deserves what he gets…weather that means he is replaced at Roush Racing or not we will just have to wait and see.

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