Daytona

     Well with no football, baseball spring training in the early stages, and it not being March so I don't care about college basketball outside of Iowa.  I'm stuck with NASCAR to talk about, I know a lot of people don't like it but I gotta talk about it.  Just gonna shoot out my points no long narrative.  I watched Saturday's Nationwide race and of course the Daytona 500 on Sunday.

Saturday's race was a different style than Sunday's, the Nationwide cars allow for 2-car tandem driving.  Basically two cars hooked up bumper to bumper go faster than one car.  I know a lot of the drivers didn't like it, but I do.  This might be the best racing of the year, lots of passing, lots of moving back and forth.  The 500 had about 2 passes for the lead on track yesterday, Saturday had 18 different leaders in 200 less miles, what sounds more exciting to you?

Now, with that style bad things can happen and the wreck at the end was crazy.  It was a perfect storm where all the cars were together and a driver blocked when he shouldn't have and all hell broke loose.  If you didn't see it, one cars front-end basically broke completely apart while flying up in the fence.  The motor ended up busting through the fence and a tire as well as some suspension ended up going over the fence and up about 30 rows hitting fans at a high rate of speed.  I saw some people bashing people who said the catch fence did it's job, those people are idiots b/c the fence did do it's job.  It kept the car on the track, what's better a motor just getting through the fence or an entire car in your lap?  These cars are doing 190 MPH it's gonna be hard to contain all those parts and have it safe for the drivers, they'll figure it out a little more but your not gonna make the fence much safer than it already is.

The 500 was normal, all flair and no drama.  I was nervous only after 3 Toyota motors blew up, causing concern for Denny in the 11.  The end of the race though all boiled down too where you were on the final restart.

Greg Biffle for the 2nd straight year was in 2nd place on the white flag, didn't make a move and let the leader at the white win the race.  Biffle does a great job getting in position to win these races but then decides for whatever reason he doesn't wanna go and win, this is the Daytona 500 and if your points racing you need to grow a sack and go get the win.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. had a shot at victory but I think made his move too early b/c by time he and Mark Martin got to turn 4 they lost their momentum, but hey at least they tried something unlike Danica and Biffle who just sat behind Jimmie and couldn't wait to watch him win.

Oh Danica, happy with 8th good for you sister.  Does this mean she's a good driver, no, it means in a race where passing is hard she kept getting in the right line on restarts (the outside) and her pit crew didn't mess up on pit road.  She does have a few things to learn, #1 when you have the last pit stall you can drive straight out, you don't have to run into cars to get in line, just drive straight out and blend in when your up to speed.  Good day for her but this isn't a sign of things to come, she'll be in the back next week.

The racing yesterday was boring and I hope they fix this before Talladega, I heard Jr. say something about when it's hotter in Daytona in July the track will be slipprier and the bottom line will come in.  I hope so b/c yesterday if you were on the bottom you were screwed.

Kind of a short one today, but honestly there wasn't much to write about.  I'll see ya next week, in the meantime twitter me @derekbredeson or read some older posts.