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Your favorite driver never wins a boring race.

I thought the Coca-Cola 600 was a boring race. I noticed many facts to back it up. For instance, the race was 600 miles. One driver led 588. I really could go on and on, but people have been going on and on ever since it ended, so there's plenty of material that others besides silly old me have written, and I've grown tired of it.

Martin Truex Jr. fans figuratively think he won it side-by-side, upside-down, over Joey Logano on one and Kyle Busch the other, with flames from the tire wells of his Toyota matching the hue of the orange on its sides.

It is no disservice to Truex, whom I have always liked, that he did his job, which was to leave every other car in the Charlotte Motor Speedway shards of rubber, a.k.a., dust. He had a car better than NASCAR ever wanted it to be, and piloted his jet like Chuck Yeager.

Remember Chuck Yeager? He was a regular Chargin' Charlie Glotzbach when the sound barrier crossed his path.

But a great race? What? Do you still actually listen to Michael Waltrip?

It's human nature to compare one thing to another. People argue all the time about iPhones and Samsungs. I overheard someone arguing this morning over whether Game 7 was better than Game 6. Basketball, I reckon.

The best thing about the Coke 600 was that Truex won. He was overdue. He deserved it. Based on Sunday night, he's Morton's Salt. When it rains, it pours.

Which brings us to the second best thing about the 600. The popup showers got called out via the infield fly rule. It never rained. It was the fastest 600-mile race in history because all of history's 600-mile races -- one other was scheduled but rain-shortened at Michigan one time -- have been at Charlotte. It was over before 11, which meant there was actually "film at 11" on the local news.

If I'd know in advance, that's probably where I would have watched it.

Many people vote their pocketbooks. Many liked it because Truex won. More would have had it been Dale Earnhardt Jr. Had it been either Kyle Busch, Jimmie Johnson or Joey Logano, they'd be calling for hearings in Congress.

Once I was covering a race in Atlanta, and a friend even more cynical than I talked on and on about how it was the most boring race he'd ever seen. I opined that the good news was that I had just finished my income taxes.

"I just taught myself Portuguese," he replied.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. won. Little more was said.

The 600 was a feel-good story because, when it ended, it's all there was to write.