In The Rearview: The Auto Club 500

I'd have to say this was a typical California race: BORING! I don't understand why "The Rock" lost it's date to Auto Club Speedway (I do, from a business standpoint, but regardless...). It is just annoying every year they come here twice when neither race is a sell-out. So. Cal needs one race. That is all they've showed they deserve, at most, is one race.
Matt Kenseth won this event, becoming just the fourth driver to win the opening 2 races of the season. If he can clinch the victory at Las Vegas this weekend, he'll become the first driver to win the first three.
Other Points of Note:

• Kevin Harvick blew a tire and engine (one caused the other), thus ending his [modern-era] record stretching of 81 consecutive races without a DNF. He know hands the torch over to his teammate, Clint Bowyer who has been running at the finish for 75 consecutive races.
• Harvick's crash was the only caution for a wreck.
• Hendrick Motorsports drivers Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Mark Martin both failed out of the race due to engine problems. The other 2 HMS drivers and the Stewart-Haas teams' engines held up ok, even though those motors had the same faulty parts.
  

Boring races are always hard to comment on. So that's my take for this week, although it is brief.