Gentlemen... start your engines!

[TXBabe97]

It is time. Daytona 500!

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POS CAR DRIVER MAKE SPONSOR SPEED TIME BEHIND
1 1 Martin Truex Jr. Chevrolet Bass Pro Shops / Tracker 188.001 47.872 Leader
2 5 Mark Martin Chevrolet Kellogg's / Carquest 187.817 47.919 -0.047
3 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet DuPont - - -
4 18 Kyle Busch Toyota M&M's - - -
5 14 Tony Stewart Chevrolet Office Depot / Old Spice - - -
6 83 Brian Vickers Toyota Red Bull - - -
7 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet Lowe's - - -
8 42 Juan Montoya Chevrolet Target - - -
9 20 Joey Logano* Toyota The Home Depot - - -
10 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota FedEx Express - - -
11 8 Aric Almirola Chevrolet Guitar Hero - - -
12 96 Bobby Labonte Ford Ask.com - - -
13 2 Kurt Busch Dodge Miller Lite - - -
14 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet Amp Energy / National Guard - - -
15 9 Kasey Kahne Dodge Budweiser - - -
16 99 Carl Edwards Ford Aflac - - -
17 36 Scott Riggs Toyota Tommy Baldwin Racing - - -
18 41 Jeremy Mayfield Toyota All Sport - - -
19 98 Paul Menard Ford Quaker State / Menards - - -
20 44 A.J. Allmendinger Dodge Valvoline - - -
21 26 Jamie McMurray Ford Crown Royal - - -
22 33 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet Cheerios / Hamburger Helper - - -
23 47 Marcos Ambrose Toyota Little Debbie / Kingsford / Clorox - - -
24 12 David Stremme Dodge Penske Racing - - -
25 07 Casey Mears Chevrolet Jack Daniel's - - -
26 31 Jeff Burton Chevrolet Caterpillar - - -
27 55 Michael Waltrip Toyota NAPA - - -
28 00 David Reutimann Toyota Aaron's Dream Machine - - -
29 77 Sam Hornish Jr. Dodge Mobil 1 - - -
30 19 Elliott Sadler Dodge Stanley - - -
31 7 Robby Gordon Toyota Jim Beam - - -
32 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet Shell / Pennzoil - - -
33 6 David Ragan Ford UPS - - -
34 43 Reed Sorenson Dodge McDonald's - - -
35 16 Greg Biffle Ford 3M - - -
36 39 Ryan Newman Chevrolet U.S. Army - - -
37 34 John Andretti Chevrolet Window World - - -
38 82 Scott Speed* Toyota Red Bull - - -
39 17 Matt Kenseth Ford Dewalt - - -
40 21 Bill Elliott Ford Motorcraft - - -
41 28 Travis Kvapil Ford Golden Corral - - -
42 78 Regan Smith Chevrolet Furniture Row Racing - - -
43 66 Terry Labonte Toyota Window World

 

[THEU]

You need to update your starting order for tomorrow's race. Seems that you have them in the order they qualified but...

lol lol
Steward and Newman are going to have to start from the back of the pack in back up cars after crashing.

Don't know if any others are having to go to back up cars yet or not.. but you can move those 2 to the end of the line.

 

[Lat22]

The weather here is not very good. Keep your fingers crossed.

 

[badexcuse]

Let's get ready to rumble. Freaking 80% chance of rain, and it takes forever to dry Daytona.

 

[THEU]

so far so good they said recently on the weather front.

I will go ahead and make the first pick. Mark Martin. Coming over to 'The Team' is going to help him have great equipment and he can drive. So I am going to go ahead and name him the favourite.

 

[F1Longhorn]

Go Montoya!

 

[THEU]

Go Montoya? Go where? Back home? Go spin out your teammate so you can win? Or hit everyone and everything around you? Montoya can go back to race open wheels.


Just heard that Hendricks is supplying Stewart-Haas with engines. Wow. Talk about giving Smoke a huge advantage... That is an alliance that will really make Stewart-Haas amazingly strong.

 

[F1Longhorn]

You should be happy Montoya runs into other cars, NASCAR would lose half its viewers if there weren't any wrecks.

 

[badexcuse]

what a bunch of crap.

 

[The Bandit]

Junior is officially the most overrated driver. What does he do the biggest race of the season?

1. Pits with the rear tire on the pit box line. Instead of admintting the mistake, he tells the reporter Nascar needs to take a look at that rule.
2. Drives right past his pit box. This puts him at the tail-end of the lead lap.
3. Causes a major wreck by punting Vickers into the wall. Sure enough, he doesn't get a 5 lap penalty like Leffler did on Sat.

To summarize:
1. He gets the best engines
2. He gets the best car
3. He gets the most talented mechanics courtesy of Hendrick.
4. He gets his own rulebook

All this and he has what 14 wins? (large percentage on plate tracks) and no championships.

Jr. is a perfect example why drivers need to pay their dues in the lower ranks. Drivers like Stewart, Gordon sacrificed a lot to get where they are. Jr. got the Cup solely on his dad's money.

 

[Lat22]

It hasn't rained a drop here in 3.5 hours. They should have stuck with it. I'm embarassed to be a Junior fan tonight. He ****** up every which way he could. Hooters was still outstanding.

 

[todobravo]

They ought to start the damn thing no later than 1pm local time.

 

[accuratehorn]

What a debacle. I watched some of it, but not all. Too bad it was called due to rain-I guess that pressured Junior into trying his desperation move, along with being mad about the one lap penalty. Didn't work out too well.
It was one of those where you couldn't tell who really would have won at the end, just luck on being ahead when rain began, which is disappointing.

 

[4th]

This pretty much sums it up.

 

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[Texanne]

I absolutely hate NASCAR. But I will say that I am glad Kenseth won this race.

His car number is my favorite number.