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)

[Recovering_Democrat]

I know 88 has a lot of fans, but he was to blame for that wreck. Should be called on it.

[Floratina]

rainnn...tony says he will meet his crew “at the Box” now. they have their umbrella ready...

[Pete-R-Bilt]

Oh man I had Honey cured Pepper bacon then cooked some shredded hash browns cooked in the pepper grease and fried eggs on Texas toast with butter

man what a sandwich!

[steveegg]

We'll send Cousin Carl - he's better at battle.

Looks like they were setting up for a red flag as they went to commercial.

[vox_freedom]

Forgot how sensitive you guys are.

Sensitive, what do you mean sensitive!?

[TornadoAlley3]

excerpt from AP

“My goal is to keep Junior behind me,” Vickers said. “I went to block him. I beat him to the yellow line and then he just turned us. To wreck somebody intentionally like that in front of the entire field is really kind of dangerous. That’s my problem with it.”

Vickers also wondered why NASCAR did not penalize Earnhardt for aggressive driving, particularly since it issued a five-lap penalty to Jason Leffler in Saturday’s Nationwide Series race for a similar incident.

Busch, who was racing the approaching rain for his first Daytona 500 victory, said the accident was senseless.

“Some guys having some bad days and not doing their best out there, just made their bad day our bad day,” Busch said. “It’s just a shame. It’s just unfortunate that two guys got together that were a lap down that were fighting over nothing.”

[B Knotts]

Why did I leave Robot on the bench?

[glock rocks]

What’s wrong with Nikon?

Absolutely nothing. Outsold Canon last year in Japan. Should tell you something. It's just that my bro is a Canon owner, and you know how those folks can be.

[Amelia]

Hubs and I were watching that & couldn’t believe Vickers ran JR off the track like that...and THEN didn’t take ANY of the blame for what happened. What a candya$$.

[vox_freedom]

The Atlantic? :-)

[al_c]

I know 88 has a lot of fans, but he was to blame for that wreck. Should be called on it.

I've been thinking about that. Had the roles been reversed and Jr came down in front on Vickers, I'd still be fussin' about the car that came down. Blocking is one thing ... but you can't be foolish and dangerous about it.

[glock rocks]

Sensitive, what do you mean sensitive!?

Yike, you own a Canon too??

[SouthTexas]

Same reason the rest of us did, he’s not a super speedway driver. Brilliant eh?

[steveegg]

Why did I leave Robot on the bench?

History, boht recent and not-so recent?

Red flag!

[tubebender]

Grog is the guy who made me buy a Nikon and 8 lenses last year...

[hoagy62]

RED FLAG for rain.

[AGreatPer]

Drew Blickendurker (sp?), crew chief for Kennseth, was just seen doing a rain dance

[TornadoAlley3]

[WSGilcrest]

Lookin’ at the replay one more time, it looked like Vickers hit Jr. first as he was comin’ down on Jr.

[Pete-R-Bilt]

What’s wrong with Nikon?????

it's like driving a Freightliner or dating a fat girl, everyones done it at some time in their life but if they were lucky they were where nobody would recognize them when they did it...