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)

[SouthTexas]

I used a jar from a company called Desert Pepper

Cousin to Dr Pepper?

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks for the link.

Wendy picks the old man
Roberts picks McMary
Kenny picks Flash
Jimmy picks Awesome Bill
Hermie picks JPMoveover

[WestCoastGal]

No lol, but darn good salsa and no rope required.

[SouthTexas]

I've been working this morning trying to get ready.

Is it nap time yet?

[Wneighbor]

No, I used a jar from a company called Desert Pepper I think?? Their stuff is good.

I'll have to look for that company. Can I find it at an HEB?

[Wneighbor]

Yep that’s one and his son won on this date also. :)

My granddaughter loves me to tell how I drove PAST Daytona Speedway in order to get there to see her for the first time. She knows how much I love racing - and thinks it's way cool that I missed going to Daytona for her.

Personally, I think she coulda given me a break since I had to come to Florida. LOL

[WestCoastGal]

You could squeeze one in now probably.

I’m making brownies now and deciding when to vacuum. Now or tomorrow. Race today or tomorrow, decisions decisions. :)

[steveegg]

Buzz me when they start racing STOCK cars again....right now it’s the WWF of auto racing....

When Detroit builds cars able to be raced, they'll start racing STOCK cars again. How many RWD vehicles do they have again?

[WestCoastGal]

I find it at Target here in Texas of all places :) Not sure about HEB ours doesn’t

[NormsRevenge]

We’re in Extended. fingers crossed, umbrella in hand..

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks, I will ping those that don’t know there’s a race on today in a few. LOL

[WestCoastGal]

PETTY DEAL: Kyle Petty is displeased with the way Petty Enterprises was consumed by Gillett Evernham Motorsports — then renamed Richard Petty Motorsports — and was “crushed” the new team co-opted a bit of his personal history.

“Petty Enterprises ceased to exist when it left (ancestral home) Level Cross, N.C.,” said Petty, who does not have a Sprint Cup ride for the first time since 1979. “It further ceased to exist whenever the other group bought it, and that’s just a fact of life.”

But Petty was perhaps most irked by RPM’s move to use, without consultation, a No. 44 Dodge for A.J. Allmendinger with the paint scheme Petty bore in winning in his first start, a 1979 ARCA race at Daytona. Petty drove the No. 44 at Petty Enterprises until his son Adam was killed in 2000, then he switched to his son’s No. 45.

“I was crushed. I was hurt and I’m not going to get over it for a while,” Petty, 48, said. “And that’s a personal thing. That’s me. That’s not … anything to do with anything else. That was my paint job and my car and my number and my stuff from my first win. Not for Petty Enterprises or GEM or whoever that is.”

http://www.tampabay.com/sports/autoracing/article976100.ece

[steveegg]

And the line of green is getting closer.

[Man50D]

ESPN is reporting the start of the race maybe delayed due to rain.

[Netizen]

FWIW - That’s called highlighting, not scrolling.

[cleveland gop]

Where are you at?

Just checked radar again.

Lots of water falling in Pebble Beach. If they play is going to be nasty wet!!

Lots of green heading straight for Daytona.

[Pete-R-Bilt]

ya but I got it and if I can figure that out anybody can...

truck driver thang.

[steveegg]

I am here in the land of ice cream and frozen beer.

[rightwingextremist1776]

All of Chrysler’s “cars” are RWD....How many current NASCARs run productin engines? NONE.... all based off the same block....STOCK car racing died years ago....it’s all about personality now, just like the WWF.

[NormsRevenge]

I’m in San Jose and it is about to pour like the dickens here.. Monterey and Pebble Beach are getting a major dose of wet right now.