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)

Sorry For The Delay...........Anyway Whats Up With DW?

its taking some getting use to that we are back in racing season.....

Anyway, as you can guess i have something more to say about ole, Darrell Waltrip.

During the Daytona 500 he was of course talking about the person i hate the most, Danica Patrick, well while explaining how racing in Nascar would make her a better IZOD Indy Car driver, he brought up how Dario Franchitti has become a better IZOD Indy Car driver after he raced in Nascar.

I was literally yelling at my TV screen when i heard this because i thought that Dario was a good Open Wheel driver before he came to Nascar, i mean he won the Indy Car championship in 2007 (thats the year BEFORE he came to Nascar DW), as well as 18 wins, and 68 top fives and 104 top tens. So all that sounds to me like he was a good open wheel driver before he came to Nascar.

After hearing Darrell say that i'm starting to think that he doesn't pay attention to things that go around outside of Nascar because even i knew Dario was a good driver before he came to nascar AND I DON'T EVEN LIKE OPEN WHEEL RACING!!!

I hate to say it but i believe Fox should replace Darrell with someone who is a little more, how do i say it, "INFORMED" about the other racing series other then Nascar.

The end of Budweiser Shootout could have been a scene from Days Of Thunder?

Well thats how Darrell Waltrip described it after the last lap wreck of Greg Biffle.

This time i agree with DW, Biffle's wreck was something out of a move, not because he turned sideways without sowing any signs that it was going to happen moments before, but because his wreck almost took out all the remaining cars that was behind him.

Now sure there were drivers that were behind him like, Joey Logano, Tony Stewart, and Dale Jr got through without a scratch.

But for just one moment there, when Greg went sideways and the smoke went flying, i saw a wreck that i surely thought could take out all the cars that were behind him at that time.

So maybe for a few of us the end of the Budweiser Shootout did look like it could have been a scene from a movie.

Does Darrel Waltrip and Phil Parsons have a double standard?

While watching todays ARCA Racing Series Presented by ReMax and Menards race at Daytona, i came across something interesting.

Now some of you may not agree with me, or may say that i misunderstood what was said, well to all of you that say or think that i have one thing to say. GET YOUR OWN BLOG!!!

This is my blog and i'll say what i believe and what not. If i made a mistake with a fact, then you can say something about what i wrote.

Well anyway, after a early wreck, i believe it happen around lap twenty or so, involving the Number 22 of Dakoda Armstrong and the Number 81 of Craig Goess who are both rookies in the series. Darrell Waltrip, who was one of the three men in the SPEED Booth, and Phil Parsons started to got on Goess case because, after Armstrong was bumped by John Wes Townley while he was losing his right rear tire and sent up the race track, he made a last minute move to try and avoid Armstrong's car but instead hit the Number 22.

Waltrip and Parsons said that even know Goess was a rookie, that he should have known that if a car goes up the track at Daytona it would have to come back down. They would later admit that he did try to go low to avoid the number 22, but did it to late. In other words it was a normal rookie Mistake.

A Commercial break later, and while the field was under caution, Pit Reporter Wendy Venturini gave a report about how Danica Patrick had studied tapes of past races at Daytona that involved accidents like the one that unfolded to being out the caution. Waltrip and Parsons praised her for doing so, though she did according to them later on in the broadcast sustained some damage in the accident, and said how rookies and drivers with no experience should do the same.

Now thats not what got me mad and claiming that the Speed broadcasters, well more like Waltrip and Parsons has a double standard for regular rookies and Danica. While commenting about how Danica studied tapes either Parsons or Waltrip, i think it was Waltrip, said that rookies and drivers with no experience should be giving some slack when they do something wrong.

HELLO, about five minutes before you were getting on the case of a rookie who had made a ROOKIE MISTAKE, and now you are saying that they should be giving some slack?

What gives?

Since they were talking about Danica at the time, i guess DW was trying to say that if Danica makes a mistake or does something wrong it ok because she is a rookie, but if any OTHER ROOKIE makes a mistake or does something wrong they should have known better.

Can anyone else smell that Waltrip and Parsons has a double standard for Danica and other rookies.