Shootout, Duels and everything else

Sorry I've taken so long to update about what has gone on at Daytona so far, I've been really busy, and getting help from Mac Productions isn't as helpful as i had hoped it was.



Anyway, The Budweiser shootout was great. Its to bad that Dale Earnhardt Jr, couldn't have won from the pole. I don't think that is done to much. But a job well done to Kurt Busch and his team at Penske Racing for winning the thing.



The Duels, where in my opinion just two Budweiser Shootouts because all three events had a field of 24 cars.



Now i didn't watch the first duel race, only because i forgot they were on, so i really can't comment on that other then that Kurt Busch won that as well. Now who said that Penske Racing didn't have a good Superspeedway program. Though they have something to prove at the 500 don't they.



The Second duel race was ok, i didn't really get into like i would had it been the 500, but oh well. Jeff Burton won the second one, which i was happy about. Burton happen to be one of my many favorite drivers.

Joey Logano spun and hit the inside retaining wall heading towards turn one, and damaged the left front side of his car. Then Denny Hamlin, spun on the back stretch, with according to Mike Joy, Larry McRenyolds, and Darrel Waltrip, help from his other teammate Kyle Busch.

Apperently Casey Mears in the No. 13 GEICO Toyota blew his engine near the start of the race.

Michael Waltrip and Brian Keselowski raced their way into the 500. Mikey will start 8th, and Brain will start 12th, three spots ahead of his brother Brad. I'm not sure who raced their way from the first race.

Dale Jr won the pole during qulifiying but lost the chance to start there because he wrecked his car in practice and has to go to a back up car.

Daytona 500 Lineup

NextEra Energy Resources 250 Lineup (Camping World Trucks)

Rolex 24 Hours Of Daytona

The Rolex 24 hours of Daytona was awsome, the only draw back to me was that they didn't have any coverage of the race during the early morning, which most years seems to be when most of the action seems to happen. Not that what is shown doesn't have any action, but most of the machanical problems teams seem to have always seem to happen during the early morning period.

I also hate how, when they resume the broadcast of the race the Speed Channel personalities spend the first few minutes explaining what happen during the early morning hours, which the viewers couldn't see. What they should do is have a little pre show or something before they resume the broadcast of the race, to get everyone up to date on what had happen.

The only other problem i had was with MRN Radio, i listen to some of their broadcast in the evening of the start of the race Via Grand Am's website, and one of their broadcasters said that they would be starting again at 7am. Well i went out to my computer at 7am to listen and found out that MRN's feed wouldn't be airing until 10am. Now i don't know if they meant that MRN would be start airing at 7am, but wouldn't be broadcasted through Grand Am's website until 10 or what. But if MRN's race feed really did start at 10am instead of 7am, then i'm mad that the MRN people would lie to their viewers.

Anyway, i'm glad that Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates won, with Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas, Joey Hand, and Graham Rahal behind the wheel of the #01 TELMEX/Target BMW/Riley. And the teams sister car, the #02 Target/TELMEX BMW/Riley to finsih second with Juan Pablo Montoya, Jaime " Big Mac" McMurray, Scott Dixion and Dario Franchitti behind the wheel, i can't think of any other way for a team to start off the season.

I think Chip said it beast when in victory lane he said "We finished first three years and finshed second three years"