I watched the race at my brother and sister-in-law's house. The first part of the race was a true sleeper. In fact, I took up an offer for a game of Scrabble with the girls.

At one point during my Scrabble game, everyone started yelling "Hey! Blogger, you've got to see this..." I dodged from the kitchen table into the living room to see Jeff Gordon heading to the pits because of a suspension problem. Honestly, it put a smile on my face and I went back to my game.

I finished up my Scrabble game and headed back to the living room to watch the last 30 laps or so. I'm glad I did. There was some fantastic racing going on.

As I always do during a race, I was trash talking Kyle Busch saying he was going to do something stupid and he wasn't going to win the race, even though he had the car to beat. My brother-in-law said "Jenny, Kyle Busch is the "GOAT" of the Sprint Cup Series." Yeah, right.

Anyone that has been reading this blog knows that I really like Juan Pablo Montoya. So when he [Montoya] was the one to pull a brain-dead move by taking out another driver that I like to watch, Clint Bowyer, who happened to be going for the lead, you can imagine the verbal abuse I was taking. So here it is.... Kyle Busch might not be as much of an idiot as Juan Pablo Montoya, at least in this race.

I thought when I started watching the race that it was going to be a season of Joe Gibbs Racing vs. Hendrick Motor Sports. What a pleasant surprise to have Roger Penske and Ryan Newman receive their first victory at the Daytona 500. Newman is a class act.

I was tooling around on MSN reading some of the stories after the race and found this one comment regarding Dale Earnhardt Jr.:
"can't blame this one on Theresa, so what is the excuse this time??"

This person is an idiot. A complete idiot. This person obviously doesn't know that at Daytona you can literally go from first to last place within a lap, it doesn't matter who you are as a driver. Also, what he or she needs to realize is he didn't blow a motor and he was the first placing Hendrick car, finishing 9th. That is not too shabby.

This was by far the funniest commercial:

Clearly, it was a stunt double for Tony Stewart climbing out of the car. I don't think he could've moved that fast getting out.

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