Did You Expect…

When the 2009 NASCAR season began, did you expect:

-Mark Martin to have three wins

-Carl Edwards to have none

-Juan Pablo Montoya to be in Chase position

-Kasey Kahne to get the King back to Victory Lane…

-…at a road course

-Joey Logano to become NASCAR’s youngest winner

-Matt Kenseth to get Jack Roush his first Daytona 500 win

-David Reutimann to win the 50th Coca-Cola 600…

-… on Memorial Day

-All three to happen in the rain

-Joey Logano and Marcos Ambrose to be ahead of Dale Earnhardt Jr and Kevin Harvick in the points

-AJ Allmendinger to have enough sponsorship to still be racing

-Jeremy Mayfield to put up an admirable fight against NASCAR in a drug war

-Tony Stewart to be leading the points with his new team

-Double-file restarts

-Dale Earnhardt Jr, Kevin Harvick, Jeff Burton, and Greg Biffle to have no more wins than Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, and me…

-and Brad Keselowski to have one more than all of them

-And all of this after half of the season was complete?

Neither did we.

How crazy and unpredictable our sport can sometimes be.