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2022 Daytona 500-"The Great American Race"
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For those that are interested whom do you like? Last year I liked Logano,Keslowski to win. Either had race won. Then the 2 team mates decided to wreck each other, allowing McDowell to nail the victory at 125-1.
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I like all 5, 24 and 48.
Jeff Gordon has moved from he broadcast booth to a managerial spot where he is in charge of all of them.
He will be missed in the broadcast booth .
Factor the Next Gen car design and not knowing much about the new guys this year all on a restrictor plate track - I'm not even going to try to predict the winner. but it still is going to be great to watch!
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
I don't know what the next generation car is going to do differently but will see shortly.
I really didn't see anything different in the LA race.
I'm going to mention a dark horse in this one. David Ragan. He does very well in restrictor plate races and the Daytona track in particular where he's won before. Watch for #15 this could be his day.
Well let's just see what kind of side drafting will be done at Daytona. Don't these NG cars have a redesigned side skirt that reduces the amount of side force? No way to see any type of aerodynamics at that LA "race".
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
Would you bet on who is going to crash?
I don't bet, but if Logano and Elliot are racing panel to panel in the final push then watch out, no love lost between those 2!
Once they find out what the cars are capable of doing it will get real interesting. They will come up with something else beside side drafting. Big money is involved in winning these races..
Just hope for a safe race and nice weather.
The Daytona Duels are tonight starting at 7pm if anyone is interested.
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
I saw them and I really don't care for restrictor plate racing,
They just go around the track one behind the other as everybody has the same horsepower and can not pass as no one takes their foot off the gas.
My favorite is road course racing where they slow up for turns and the other drivers have the chance to pass.
It takes more skill.
The part of the Daytona 500 race you never see.
I was once an Air Traffic Controller at Daytona Beach Airport. It was an exciting time during race day, but the real thrill for us came when the race was over. Picture all those celebs, drivers, some crew members and whatever entourage accompanied the race team now rushing to their private jets to go wherever they were going. Everybody is in a rush to get away. There is much to do as a Controller to provide safe and efficient departures. Most pilots file IFR flight plans, some depart VFR and want their IFR flight plans activated when airborne, this really throws some sand in the gears. IFR is Instrument Flight Rules, VFR is Visual Flight Rules, the former provides facility to facility Air Traffic Control, VFR is look out the window and be careful. Of course if weather conditions only allowed for IFR departures, things had to follow strict procedures.
So, for a while its pretty crazy, controlled crazy, but still crazy. Toss in the Goodyear blimp and a Presidential visit, not to mention the wandering local pilots doing the lookee loo thing, and you can see the mixture of fun. I only experienced this craziness twice, but it was exciting to be a part of the mass flush of incredibly beautiful jets and doing it safely. Great memories.
All 4 of the Heinrick cars made the race with the pole going to Larson in the # 5 car and Bowman in the #49 in the # 2 spot.
In the summer of 1993, Davey Allison had six top-5 finishes, including a victory at Richmond. On July 12, Allison climbed aboard his recently purchased helicopter with the plans of flying it to Talladega and watching fellow competitor and friend Neil Bonnett’s son, David, practice before his Busch Series debut.
Allison successfully flew the helicopter to the Talladega Superspeedway and was just inches from landing the chopper when something went horribly wrong. According to the National Transportation Safety Board report, Allison’s inexperience as a pilot with that particular style of helicopter cost him his life.
The report said that the helicopter hovered a foot above the ground when Allison attempted to turn it to the right. Instead, the aircraft abruptly began to climb to approximately 25 feet before making a hard left turn. The aircraft slammed violently into the ground on the pilot’s side.
The other passenger, veteran race car driver Red Farmer, managed to escape the wreckage. Davey Allison did not. He was strapped upside down unconscious. Despite surgery to relieve brain pressure, he never regained consciousness. He died the next day. The 32-year-old Allison was survived by a wife and two children.
Didn't really even look like he hit the wall all that hard.................
"Today in 2001, NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Sr., was killed in a crash during the Daytona 500 race."
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
I remember when that happened. There was another accident that made headlines too the the Hendrix plane went down and killed the only son of Hendrix at Talledega raceway.
Very dad day. Crushed my girlfriend. She was a devoted fan. She was supposed to go that day on a trip for the race. The trip was canceled. The irony. Having seen worse wrecks, I was one of those that could not believe Dale did not survive. Years ago we went on a trip to Vegas. At the old Sahara casino on the strip, there was one of Dale's car on display,after the accident. We got to sign the inside of it, going along with many other signatures.
Quite a write up on Jeff Gordon and Rick Hendrick in todays Albuquerque Journal today. I don't know how to show it on here.
Quite a write up on Jeff Gordon and Rick Hendrick today in the Albuquerque journal.
Quite a last lap at the XFINITY race today...........
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
The cars today are much safer than they were .
Thanks for all the contributions. "Let's go racing boys".
Lets hope this years broadcasters are as good as the Waltrip and Gordon team were.
Austin Cindric wins the Daytona 500, it's only his 8th start I believe, nice block on the last lap to seal the victory.
HA! Keselowski should've stayed with the #2 team -
Congrats to Cindric - 2nd youngest to win the Daytona 500
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
Another exciting and surprising ending. Glad no one was hurt in the race accidents.
Im sure a lot was learned from yesterdays race and it will be applied going forward.
I hope I learned a bit too as far as picking a winner.
It is hard to pick a winner when 36 cars are going around a track at 200 miles an hour in a tight group. I can not imagine what it is like to be driving one of them.
Daytona is a crap shoot and restrictor plate racing made it that way. It’s not always the best driver that wins it but who can survive the crashes and gets help at the right time. Michael Waltrip was a genius at plate races. I don’t think he won anywhere else. Trevor Bayne won it a few years back in his first NASCAR race. His career went nowhere. Congratulations to the winner but I’ll stick to the World of Outlaws for exciting races.
"I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
Restictor plate racing has hurt Nascar big time. All they do is run around in circles until it comes to the end of the race then everybody tries to be in position to win and creates a dangerous situation. We like to see racing where everybody is racing for the whole race and not playing follow the leader. It used to be leading laps meant something.
I recall when Bayne won some years ago. You are correct his career fizzled. Always wonder what happened to Kasey Kahne?
My take on NASCAR and racing.
The attached article will sadly point out the nuances and changes those in authority have decided to impose on NASCAR events. Having watched about 5 minutes of the LA Coliseum farce of a race, where drivers just rode round and round and round, with no expectation of being able to make strategic moves with having to reduce speed throughout the race. The article will state that NASCAR spent a million bucks on transforming the LA Coliseum to air this joke of a race.
I think most fans go for the excitement of the moment, the hooplah, flyover and the noise and excitement of watching some 40 odd drivers drive at close to 200mph for 4-5 hours, inches apart, hoping to see a spectacular crash. Not that anyone wants any injuries, but indeed are hoping for some metal on metal. I think they got their moneys worth in Daytona.
Most, if not all races are won in the last lap or two, the recent Daytona race was almost a photo finish, I think he won by a foot or two. You need a lot of luck to win on a big track like Daytona, Talladega and NH Motor Speedway, etc. I don't watch very much NASCAR, too many fingers in the pie, and now that politics has been apparently infused into the sport, I'll watch even less, if not at all. It isn't the sport it once was, yet the lemmings will continue to pay the bucks to watch the spectacle.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/04/nascar-makes-big-changes-as-it-begins-2022-season-that-include-more-politics/
I was not impressed with the 1st 2 races this year either an I have watched Nascar for many years.
Kahne is the owner of a Sprint Car team in the WOO. I believe he still races also but I don’t think it’s full time. Many NASCAR drivers came from sprint car racing. When Larson was suspended he dominated the series. He like Tony Stewart can race anything, in any series and win. Stewart owns Eldora race track in Ohio and still races part time. I saw Jeff Gordon dominate Eldora at 15 years old.
The greatest compliment for both Stewart and Larson is this saying.
“He can beat you in his car and then hop in your car and beat you in his.”
"I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
Gordon and Stuart were 2 of my favorite race car drivers.