Daytona 500

[coolmanvette75]

Anyone watching? If not you should turn it on. **** just hit the fan, quite literally...

[BonzoHansen]

that track is going to be a mess.

[Tru2Chevy]

It's very obvious that something broke in Montoya's car, but he will forever be known as the guy who hit the jet dryer under caution in the Daytona 500. Only JPM....

9b4c81Rsam4

- Justin

[greenformula92]

It's very obvious that something broke in Montoya's car, but he will forever be known as the guy who hit the jet dryer under caution in the Daytona 500. Only JPM....

9b4c81Rsam4

- Justin

That was crazy

[NJ346]

Not gonna lie, I'm not a big nascar fan but I've been following Daytona all week and have been watching the whole race. I knew it was going to be interesting after the wreck on lap 2. Glad to see Johnson and Gordon start the season in the back. Time to see what kyle busch can do.

[WildBillyT]

It's funny trying to watch DW struggle to keep viewers.

[Tru2Chevy]

Time to see what kyle busch can do.

.....from the back of the pack. The idiot pulled a tear off from the windshield during the red flag so he's got to restart from the back of the field. Damn kids. :kneeslap:

- Justin

[WildBillyT]

.....from the back of the pack. The idiot pulled a tear off from the windshield during the red flag so he's got to restart from the back of the field. Damn kids. :kneeslap:

- Justin

There was a race a few years back where somebody got out of the car and started working on it during a red. I forget who though.

[maroman88]

i wanted to watch it but was busy, i turned it on as the jet drier was hit and on fire, then just caught the last 10 laps.... sucks jeff n jimmy didnt make it

[Mike]

There was a race a few years back where somebody got out of the car and started working on it during a red. I forget who though.

Sterling marlin. 2000 I think

[91chevyz28]

Sterling marlin. 2000 I think

You are correct.

[LTb1ow]

People watch this still?

[Blacdout96]

I hope no one else stayed up to watch the rest of the race. Of course green,white checkered, I wasn't suprised. What did grind my gears was the fact team orders came in to play. The announcers played it down, as well did Greg Biffle, and the disappointment on Jr's face said it all. (Mind you I'm a Mark Martin fan, so everybody else is meh to me except underdogs.) Biffle said he tried to get a run, but if you watch no the backstretch, Jr literally was under Biffle, and they were losing ground on Kennseth, Biff got off the pedal to distance himself from Matt to ensure at least one of them was to win instead of a true battle. If they wanted to gain ground, you do a simple thing, move up the track and let Kennseth roll back. BOTH Biff and Jr. said they tried, so they were on the same page, but Roush had other plans.

This is the god damn Daytona 500, one of the whole reasons why many are in this race, and to sit back and watch your team mate win not because you didn't have enough in your car, but because you HAD to sit back, It makes me feel this is actually one of the worst Daytona's in recent memory. I'd of dropped kenseth like a bag of flaming dog **** to get that win.

I think for Talladega and Daytona, the green,white,checkered should be modified to give it a little more playability. Since it takes one lap to get up to speed, and then one lap to actually race, it really kills alot of chances for others to catch up. It should have one more lap to play in at least. But what do I know, I just know the green white checkered has played a role in most fo the finishes, and is getting boring. Why should I watch 495 miles when the final 2 laps are coming up....
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[greenformula92]

Sterling marlin. 2000 I think

I think Bill Elliot did it too. thats why they usually don't let the drivers out of the cars during a red flag. But last night was a little different

[NJ346]

.....from the back of the pack. The idiot pulled a tear off from the windshield during the red flag so he's got to restart from the back of the field. Damn kids. :kneeslap:

- Justin

Hey, I believe Carl Edwards did the same thing, so he wasn't alone. I fell asleep after the wreck with like 14 to go. I saw Busch cracked the top 20 after being involved in that wreck, so not a bad finish imo.

[WildBillyT]

Why should I watch 495 miles when the final 2 laps are coming up....
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This is why I turned down VIP box tickets to Pocono last year. $500 a seat, but no thanks. Did it once for the experience but it was not as cool as I thought it would be.

[Featherburner]

This is why I turned down VIP box tickets to Pocono last year. $500 a seat, but no thanks. Did it once for the experience but it was not as cool as I thought it would be.Pocono is a lousy place to watch a race. The smaller tracks up to the 1.5 mile are the races to see!

[coolmanvette75]

Pocono is a lousy place to watch a race. The smaller tracks up to the 1.5 mile are the races to see!

Been to Dover a few times and love watching races there...

[BonzoHansen]

dover was much more fun back when it held 1/2 the people and was blacktop. pocono is a hole.

[WildBillyT]

Pocono is a lousy place to watch a race. The smaller tracks up to the 1.5 mile are the races to see!

New Hampshire was a good one

[BonzoHansen]

I went to NH once. Sat in the TNN box. No good, boring, too far away. Go to Richmond or Bristol.

[Blacdout96]

dover was much more fun back when it held 1/2 the people and was blacktop. pocono is a hole.

QFT. Went to my first race in 1994. the tickets were 35 ea. and it was on a WOODEN grand stand in the third turn. Mark Martin was 5 laps from winning it till a tire got cut down.
The coolest thing back then was the drivers ( or most of them) didn't take a helicopter to leave ,they literally drove out of the track and walked over the walkway. I met Sterlin Marlin, Morgan Shepard, Matt Kenseth ( the first year with Roush) and even Ray Everham, which a few days later he announced he was done with Hendricks ( Gordon was doing terrible)and many others, but that doesn't happen anymore, and between the price of gas, parking fee, tolls, and food/beverages, and especially the ****tiest traffic pattern when leaving doen't equate to watching it on TV anymore. For the price of one ticket I can pay my monthly cable bill.....

I seen Mark Martin win it three years in a row ( I went to the September races) and my life was complete up to that point lol, but I ccame to see what I wanted, and now that he's older ,and doesn't have AS much of a chance to win anymore, it's not worth it to go. and with 100,000 swarming the damn place, it's just too much anymore.

Here's how long ago NASCAR was fun. In 1995, Rusty Wallace was in South Jersey signing autographs in a firehouse, in 1996 I met Mark Martin at a car show in Ft. Washington Expo center.....on a school day. The line probably had about 40 people in it, and they gave you a ticket to stand in line, but since there wasen't as many people, my father and me just kept getting back in line, a total of 10 times, and just about everything I was carrying and wearing had ink that he plastered on me lol. And in 96-97 I met Hut Stricklin at the Circuit City when it was at the Shore Mall. It wasn't even a grand opening!!!
Try finding drivers that do that today.....

[WildBillyT]

For the price of one ticket I can pay my monthly cable bill.....


One of the previous times I was at Pocono they made us buy a ticket for the car to go into the pits on Saturday. 4 guys needed 5 tickets.

Eat a dick. Never again. They wonder why they are losing fans.

[BonzoHansen]

or when they started requiring you to buy a busch race ticket to get a daytona 500 ticket. yikes.

[Blacdout96]

Or the fact they make you renew your seat tickets, if not you lose them. May not sound bad but consider in the late 90's we renewed them 8 months before the next September race, but by 2006, you had to renew them BEFORE the next race.... that pissed me off, I didn't even go to the race coming up and you want me to buy?

We had awesom seats in the 90's and one year we missed the upped deadline that we weren't informed, and got shuffled down towards the turn..

[Anti_Rice_Guy]

That's what happens when NASCAR turns right :lol:

[Blacdout96]

That's what happens when NASCAR turns right :lol:

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[mtg6486]

I've been down here in daytona since friday experiencing this pretty memorable 500. I was at the track all day Sunday waiting in the rain. The place looked like a refugee camp with everyone huddled under anything they could to stay dry. The food and merchandise vendors sold out of just about everything they had from people buying out of boredom. Then they ended up calling the race and had us come back Monday for the late restart. I was pretty cool seeing the first ever postponed 500 under the lights. Had seats eight rows back across from the Pitts in the Roberts section. Was so close that you could feel the wind of the cars as they went by. It had enough power that it was making hats fly off the fans heads. The killer of the night was that 2 hour delay from the blower fire. I could see the track but to did see the flames rising pretty high along with all that smoke. All in all it was an awesome experience being down here for all these firsts.

[coolmanvette75]

Blacdout, Glad to see I'm not the only Mark Martin fan still left out there. Saw him win at dover that last time he won there. Sucks he is driving a toyota now though...

[Blacdout96]

Blacdout, Glad to see I'm not the only Mark Martin fan still left out there. Saw him win at dover that last time he won there. Sucks he is driving a toyota now though...

I became a NASCAR fan by accident. I was at Sam's club with my parents, and on the floor they had haulers with two cars. I chose Marks cause red,white and blue was flashy to me ( The other was Rusty Wallace,and I think Richard Petty) I come to find out its part of a racing series, watched it a couple times, saw Mark win, and the rest was history. Knowing that Mark set the standard of working out, I began to work out as a kid, never wanting to sit down, hoping to be a driver like him someday. I never did a drug in my life, and kept drinking to a minimum, even to this day, because I never wanted to hurt my chances at making it some day, and hurting my body as well. In a sense he was my hero growing up, so I think it saddens me that he's got a few more competative years in him before he fads away, my idle I've watched since being 7 years old.

I feel my father tried his best to make sure I had a role model, or hell even a sport to be a fan of. I was a reclusive kid, not paying much attention to sports until NASCAR, so any chance he had to get some sort of merchandise from his company, or if a driver was around, he would take me there to meet them. I then became a fan of the Flyers, and began playing hockey, and my father didn't push the envelope as much, but when there was an opportunity, he would make sure I stayed in the right direction, instead of being a victim of peer pressure, since my attempts to be more social growing up were frail.

[baddest434]

Been to Dover a few times and love watching races there...

:nod: i've been to dover 4 times and must say there really isn't a bad seat. and had a great time every time. that was 20 years ago though. my friend worked for budget gourmet and and budget gourmet sponsored a car in the busch series. he hooked us up with tickets to the race, hospitality suites, we got to go on the infield and mingle with all the drivers after the race. we got to stand in the walkway that goes above the track after turn 2 and watch the cars underneath us. that was really cool!!
We got to go out to dinner with the driver and the whole pit crew after the race to some airport restaurant on rt.13. got autographed pictures of me with the driver, got his matchbox car (still unopened), golf balls with his logo, nice jackets and shirts etc.. we were treated like kings! to bad the driver never really made that big of a name for himself. his name is jason keller car #57

[Anti_Rice_Guy]

:nod: i've been to dover 4 times and must say there really isn't a bad seat. and had a great time every time.

Did his car have a horse pulling it way back then? :lol:

[Blacdout96]

Did his car have a horse pulling it way back then? :lol:

That and the helmets were olive branches around the top of their heads :rofl:

[Tru2Chevy]

Went to my first race in 1994. .....and even Ray Everham, which a few days later he announced he was done with Hendricks ( Gordon was doing terrible)

'94 was only the second year Evernham was Gordon's crew chief. They won the championship together in '95, '97, and '98, and Evernham left near the end of the '99 season.

Ray is still a pretty down to earth guy. I have talked to him in recent years in the pits at New Egypt Speedway when he has been there to race or hang out with old friends.

- Justin

[greenformula92]

Pocono is a lousy place to watch a race. The smaller tracks up to the 1.5 mile are the races to see!

I agree. I used to be a much bigger NASCAR fan but in recent years it has gotten very boring to me. Maybe i'll get to a race in Dover sometime but the tickets are just too damn expensive for a decent seat

[Blacdout96]

'94 was only the second year Evernham was Gordon's crew chief. They won the championship together in '95, '97, and '98, and Evernham left near the end of the '99 season.

Ray is still a pretty down to earth guy. I have talked to him in recent years in the pits at New Egypt Speedway when he has been there to race or hang out with old friends.

- Justin

Throughout the years i met them, not just one year. Terry Labonte while it was raining, Sterling in the parking lot was the 95 race, I think Morgan in 96 or 97, Ray was 99 and Kenseth was like 2000 or something, plus Joe Gibbs, who's famous for handing out already autographed religious pamphlets ( I have two of them for each time i seen him lol) Geoff Bodine, and others.