In a comment in scenedaily.com today, someone who lives in Daytona said it rained for 4 hours. I think Nascar got it right at least one time this weekend even though it was disappointing. I would have liked to have seen who would have made that last run for the win.

That was Jack Roush's first Daytona 500 win and with the luck Kenseth had last year, he needed a boost.

I was disappointed but it was a good call. It's a shame when you wait months for the race and they can't try to make it work around the weather.

Jen, I don't think that you explained why you wanted to see that poor young boy hit the wall at 189 miles per hour?

FROM JEN: It's not that I "wanted" him to crash. I just was making bets that he would. Look at how his entire weekend went...

I don't think they should have called the race that quick..
I think they should have started the race a lot earlier. like 1:00 would have been good. Why start it so late...
I was dissapointed with the race. Jr was not Jr and everyone else seemed to be off also.. But the party i went to was good. so that was the good part of the day. hanging out with good friends.
I just hope that this is not a sign of what is going to happen for the rest of the season.

Hey why did you want Joey to crash? I am happy that Kyle did not win and i would have like to see Elliot Saddler win...

just a obsevation,, dont you think its time to update ur jr sillohute, so he is wearing the national guard uni..jst a thought

Jen--

Glad to be back for a new year.

The 500 was sleep inducing. All the worst parts of NASCAR's modern era were on display.

There were too many cautions- including for debris and for “competition reasons”. If you worried about some competition issue- and it is always tires- have someone go out and run twenty laps in a back-up car at noon. Don't stop the race for 7-9 minutes (10 green flag laps) for this nonsense.

And the number of debris cautions has got to be cut back- if stuff falls off a car more than once in a season, that car has gotta be fined fifty competition points.

Worse, the endless time it takes the field to loop around a superspeedway three/four times under said caution... enough. Any two mile plus track, for any minor incident, one lap to collect them, one lap to sort them, then race again.

The current system takes forever- and there is zero drama in yellow flag stops in the first half of the race at restrictor plate tracks. Track position doesn’t matter at plate tracks until the last fifteen laps.

And of course, these late starts force a dependence on weather. Starting at 3PM reduces the window you have to get five hundred miles in- particularly when you are committed to running a regime that features a dozen caution periods a race.

The wreck between Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Brian Vickers is undoubtedly controversial. The entire world is blaming Jr. for it. However, let me offer some thoughts:

1) The #88 had a huge run and the inside line on the #83 when Brian turned down to block Dale. NASCAR stressed for a whole week to respect the yellow line. Was Vickers right in forcing Jr. down there?

2) Jr. found himself on the apron at 200 mph. What was the handling like down there? Was he trying to knock Vickers out of the race or was he trying to bring his car back under control as quickly as possible?

3) Once below the yellow line, how would Earnhardt Sr. reacted? What about Kyle Busch or Tony Stewart?

I am sick of NASCAR fans making Dale Earnhardt, Jr. out to be God and then tearing him down at the hint of controversy. It happened Sunday and it happened after the Michigan Busch race in 2006. People put him on a pedestal and then cut him no slack when push comes to shove.

Drivers do not have more than a split second to make a decision and the one Jr. made caused a wreck. I think it is fair to say that Vickers put Earnhardt in a position where there was little upside to whatever it is he decided to do.

It was a sad race. My guy got taken out by two people that were laps down and should not have been up in front anyway. I hate that system of having lap cars on the inside line.
All that said, Junior was having a bad day to say the least. He was frustrated and push came to shove. He reacted as anyone would but the bottom line is that he and Vickers took out some pretty heavy runners for the Daytona trophy.
Nascar needs to address the lap car issue and put them at the end of the lead cars and let the leaders race each other.
Hope California is a better race.