Daytona 500 LIVE THREAD ~ Sunday 2-15-09 Coverage begins on FOX at 2:00pm/et

Various | 2-14-09 | Me, Jack, Junior & Rocky

[WestCoastGal]

DAYTONA 500 LIVE THREAD

Actor Tom Cruise will drive the Chevrolet Camaro pace car at the start of Sunday’s Daytona 500.

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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has been named grand marshal for the 51st running of the Daytona 500. Keith Urban is set to perform a pre-race concert.

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Julianne Hough will perform the National Anthem

Daytona International Speedway - Daytona Beach, FL. START YOUR ENGINES AT @3:40 pm

On FOX Pre-race - 2 PM (ET)

[NormsRevenge]

I’d be choked up too. :-)

[umgud]

Damn, the race is over.

[SouthTexas]

LOL

[TornadoAlley3]

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/files/kyle-busch-2-15.wma

audio of Busch's rant

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Well, whaddaya know? It’s raining here in San Jose too.

[B Knotts]

Agreed. I was hoping they’d at least wait a while longer before calling it.

[Partisan Gunslinger]

Junior IS a dirty driver, just like Smoke. But, the sycophants love their babies.

Last year you said that dirty drivers were the better drivers. LOL

I think this situation is different, by far! Junior was just pissed and retaliated.

Therefore better?...Like you said last year?

I repeat that I believe he is on speed, not the channel. Caffeine intoxication should be illegal in racing.

We have BDS and PDS and here we see JrDS. lol

[Amelia]

that’s anticlimactic.

[al_c]

seems to me two good drivers were fighting for the same spot and the laws of physics say that doesn't always work out so good.

Good way of putting.

[BurbankKarl]

Matt Kenseth backs his way into the winners circle.

ha!

[al_c]

it.

[don-o]

What I do find annoying is the knee jerk reaction of a lot of fans to automatically blame anyone but JR.

Yeppers. But, I got no TeeVee so what do I know?

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks

[tubebender]

Are you sure I don’t have that one?

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

I stuck with this one all the way through because the threat of rain kept things interesting. But most races I usually watch the start, then tune out until about the last 30 laps.

NASCAR races are too bloody long.

[Wneighbor]

Well, congratulations to Kenseth. A win at Daytona is nothing to sneeze at no matter the length of the race.

[LdSentinal]

F*CK NASCAR.

If they started the race at 1pm or 2pm, there would have been the full 200 laps.

NASCAR, you suck.

[yield 2 the right]

FOX wanted to show their all new “ANIMATION DOMINATION” on time...

[TornadoAlley3]

[Dust in the Wind]

Nope had Canons until this Kodak. Digital is fun 8^)