The race was mostly clean, with just four cautions. He climbed into a waiting SUV that sped off, squealing its tires.
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“The Daytona 500 is the pinnacle of our sport”. There may be times where youre at a race track, youre disgusting at it…. You take what you can and you apply it to become better.
Greg Biffle attempted to pass Danica Patrick on the backstretch, but when she blocked him the No. 16 Ford made contact with her Chevy sending the No. 10 on a wild ride and setting the race up for 12-lap shoot out.
The Super Bowl of NASCAR took place this past Sunday at the newly designed and renovated Daytona International Speedway.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. image and video courtesy of The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and NASCAR, “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign.
The brothers are back, each a Cup champ and among the small group of favorites Sunday in the season opener. The intensity and talent Busch exhibited before last year’s crash remains as demonstrated with his performance in Sunday’s Daytona 500.
“I felt like in order, (the 500) was before a championship”, he said.
Any of the drivers can win it, and it’s not too far-fetched to think Richardson could find himself in the mix.
“I’m not sure (what happened)”, Elliott said. Kasey Kahne and two-time Daytona 500 champ Jimmie Johnson were never serious threats to the Joe Gibbs Racing fleet. A championship starts here and it doesn’t end until the last lap at Homestead (Fla.).
Kurt Busch won the title in 2004, the inaugural season of NASCAR’s Chase format. Busch overdrove the vehicle, resulting in a couple of wrecks in his first four races, and it appeared he would need all of racing’s good fortune to get a win and reach 30th in the standings to make the Chase.
– With Jeff Gordon retired and Tony Stewart out with a broken back, Kevin Harvick is one of the senior members of a 40-car field that features several up-and-coming racers. I don’t give him enough credit, but, hell yeah, it’s a good day.
“I think our struggles [for many years] humanised us and showed everybody that we’re going to have to work as hard as anybody”.
Fate wasn’t kind to Busch a year ago. They are probably the scariest, most risky races that we have on the calendar.
And Boise driver Brian Scott has qualified 35th for the big race.
She was by his side every step of his recovery and never complained when their bedroom underwent an extreme makeover into a hospital wing.
Having potential responses for violations in black and white “is not bad, but actually describing it and having some examples (is) probably a good thing for everybody”, the Richard Childress Racing driver said.
We follow the same standards for taste as the daily newspaper.
Win one trophy? Want ’em all. “No. 1, I feel at peace with myself and my situation”.
A Daytona 500? Yes, please.
Earnhardt will be vying for his third Daytona 500 win. (17) at Daytona International Speedway. He has raced part-time since 2010 after 24 seasons of mostly full seasons.
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Matt Kenseth drove a backup vehicle after crashing in one of the twin qualifying races and turned the most laps.
