Brenda’s Horoscope Recap for This Week’s Top Ten (+1) Drivers
Friday November10, 2006

A FOUR STAR WEEK! BRENDA RISING!

1) JIMMY JOHNSON *****
Virgo
Jimmy, my Jim-bo, Jimmerooni, last week I predicted melt down and disaster and, for you, I am pleased to say I was dead wrong. You could be thinking, “If Mrs. Bee predicts the sky if falling, I’m good to go.” Ooops, sorry to disappoint young man, because Mr. Steady Virgo will take the wheel and you are actually going to prove that you belong up in the stratosphere. Cars can’t trip but drivers can, so watch your step! And don’t give too much help to number 24.

I’m so proud of you. Even with victory in the short term right there in front of you, you decided that a repeat of Talladega wasn’t worth it. Smart boy, and you make me look so good!

2) MATT KENSETH ***
Pisces
How does it feel to be the winner of last week’s version of NASCAR Survivor, the game where 43 contestants try to survive on a diet of twisted metal and yellow flags? Feel like you owe some payback this week, my friend? Collect, but be slippery like the fish you are. Either you get the pole or a top five but not both!

Okay, Matt, you kept a championship in sight. If you keep the bugs off the windshield and Jimmy hits a Miami palm tree you just might make it.

3) DALE, JR. ** ( - 2 )
Libra
Home, sweet, home is the track, my balanced friend, and this week it is as warm as a winter fire and as fresh as baked bread. That gasoline smell is the smell of love and this week it all comes together in a five-course feast of driver delights. No tight, no loose, just a nice run out front. You do good this week, as the south rises and the fans stand for Dixie.

Dale, Dale Dale, I do not know what to say. But I was waaaay off. That Libra balance I saw must have been how balanced your whole team was about how unbalanced the car was.

4) DENNY HAMLIN **
Scorpio
Oh, dear. The good news is that the final day of the chase is your B-day, the bad news is that you won’t be looking at a chance to win it all. Because, and I truly hate to say this, the only thing tighter than your car this week is your… neck muscles. You try and try, and you burn up bandwidth second guessing with your chief, but this is going to be a rough one and you are going end up taking a long, long look at what might have been.

I guess you can never count a Scorpio out when winning is on the line. How do the youth of today say it? “You, go boy!”

5) KEVIN HARVICK ***** ( + 2 )
Sagittarius
Okay, you know I love you, Kevin, and now you are going to love me too. In the movies you have those moments where all the sound goes away and the hero is moving in slow motion, a look of tranquility on his face like he just lapped the field on fresh rubber. Well, you will be that hero, moving like a dream in the slow motion of 190 MPH. Mr. Kahne is going to be a help and I don’t know how or why.

The only question remaining, Mr. Mega Sweep, is whether there is enough good luck in your tires and enough bad luck in Mr. Johnson’s, and Mr. Kenseth’s, and Mr. Hamlin’s and… Oh, I’m preaching to the choir.

6) JEFF GORDON *****
Leo
It’s all about next year, Jeff. You look for help but you are all alone out there. Maybe you can hire an image consultant in the off season. You don’t need your ears pinned back but you could take a look at forming up a party posse and getting your name in the tabloids. We all love a reformed citizen.

I say you hook up with Tony and become a spoiler.

7) JEFF BURTON ***
June 29, 1967
Cancer
Well, well, well I was a week off. You are indeed going to prove that you deserved to be up on top, even if it’s too late to get there.

Your team will finally be in-the-know
The engine won’t go
The tire won’t blow
You will vanquish your foe
And get not a win or place, but a show.

Considering the crappy car you had, I should give myself more stars. A top ten would have been proof enough, it’s just that just about everyone else in the chase did better.

8) KYLE BUSCH ***** ( - 2 )
Taurus
I hope you enjoyed your run last week because you are going to snap off a couple of horns on this one. Scrape, grind, twist and spin, sounds like fun for a boy on a Saturday night but lousy for Sunday afternoon. After the race, take twenty deep breaths before you say what’s on your mind.

I hate it when the stars are so right. You didn’t take those twenty breaths, did you?

9) MARK MARTIN **** ( + 1 )
Carpicorn
I am so afraid to speak to the stars for you, Mark. But mark my words, Cap, when it comes down to that final splash and go, your car has a hollow leg no one else’s has and two laps are two laps. It’s the only way, I’m sorry to say, to get up front in the end. And if it doesn’t work out and you limp toward the finish line, just remember that you are as young as you fuel.

You gave a five star performance in a two star car. Very, very excited to see the number 6 up front so near the end.

10) KASEY KAHNE **** ( +1 )
Aries
You got nothing to lose and you are going to have so much fun this weekend. It seems like everywhere you look you see a smiling face and it brings out the daredevil in you. Whoo hoo! Ride ‘em, Kasey and raise some Kahne. The cameras are going to spend more time on you than on the contenders. And find a way to help Kevin. He’s going to need you.

And, as we say in show business… “So, dat’s dat.” Look out New York. You may be on the low podium but the night life may never be the same.

11) TONY STEWART *****
Taurus
You made me look so good last week I just want to re-tile my bathroom. I wish the run would last for you but, like Kyle, you will not taste the thrill of victory this week. And don’t you just hate that tone you hear in the voices of your peers as they “congratulate” you, like you caught the bouquet but they all know your girlfriend dumped you? Sure, you’re pretty, but… you can’t win.

Can you say? “I’ll be back.”