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)

[LasVegasMac]

Root in 16th......

[BurbankKarl]

You have what, a tenth of a second to make a move like that...I am not gonna lay that on anyway...

[TornadoAlley3]

Will somebody please run over that stupid cartoon gopher

[NormsRevenge]

Vickers.. they were racing for the lucky dawg.

[af_vet_rr]

I hate those lines.. surface is surface.

If everybody would be smart, you wouldn't need them. My brother calls them the "retard lines" which is not exactly a nice way to put it.

[hoagy62]

Vickers just pretty much blamed Junior for the big mess.

[Wneighbor]

Daughter first gave birth during the Daytona week. Her dad raced on the same old local track up in WA state with Greg Biffle for a while. She’s got racin’ oil runnin’ in her veins. LOL

[NormsRevenge]

if you draw a line, someone will cross it.

:-]

[af_vet_rr]

No, I don't expect anyone to give up any spots especially in this situation, but a block is one thing ... Vickers basically ran Jr all the way down the track. And speaking of Jr's dad ... blocking can get you killed as we all found out. It's dangerous. Do it to an extent, but this was too aggressive.

If you've been watching it that long, you'd know how tame it is compared to Dale Senior's days ;-) Senior put more than a few gray hairs on people's heads.

[WestCoastGal]

Brian Vickers

[steveegg]

Just don’t wreck us like McVickers.

[SouthTexas]

yeller

[steveegg]

Maynard into the wall. Caution.

[NormsRevenge]

Menard hits the wall.. turn 2 Caution

[al_c]

Exactly. I was just chatting with the wife about that. She asked if I though Jr did it on purpose, I said Sr would’ve in a heartbeat ... but Jr is usually not that type. Sr would be penalized every week in today’s NASCAR.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Menard into the wall! Another caution.

[Floratina]

Joey = baby kangaroo :-)

He's Roo! Like in Winnie the Poo, Kanga's little baby in her pouch was called "Roo".

[TYVets]

Vickers didn't help his merchandise sales with that interview!

[steveegg]

Burton washed up, he and Agent Smith went into the wall, and Maynard got collected hard.

[NYTexan]