I love California. Driven through much of it. Would like to someday live in San Diego with its 72° year-round weather. But the ‘clean-air-enviroment’ influence of the tree huggers seemed a little too pervasive at Sunday’s race at California Speedway.

Were so many teams subconsciously caving in to being PC? I counted 8 cars that were running mostly white paint schemes.

Tony Stewart, Ryan Newman, Kasey Kahne, Jamie McMurray, Scott Wimmer, Dale Jarrett, Kurt Busch & Mark Martin all sported the fresh, clean white look.”