Time for Daytona!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dave Severson]

The fun starts today at Daytona, the ARCA race is on this afternoon (two Venturini cars on the front row), and the Shootout is tonight!!!

Finally, no more withdrawal pains and cancel the methadone treatments, racing is back!!~!!!!

[34_40]

Yep.. I gotta wait 'til 8 pm... almost there.

[Dave Severson]

Townley won the ARCA race in a Venturini car, the other 3 team cars were all in the garage!!! Hard to believe it, but with all the years Bill Venturini has had cars in ARCA this was his first Daytona win!!!!!

[34_40]

The Biff leads first lap!

[34_40]

And the first big one. Smoke and Ambrose get together (just touched) and when the cars on the high side reacted to it - those cars just seemed to be on ice, just slippin' and slidin'.. a lot of big names in that wreck!

[Dave Severson]

Just like practice yesterday, cars are looking good, drivers are screwing up!!!!!!!

[34_40]

they are all back in school, gotta re-learn what they know!

[Dave Severson]

Yeah, really!!! Smoke got sideways, through sparks all over then drove to the front and won the first segment!!!! How'd you like to be the crew chief tonight----brand new car, gets loose as the fuel load goes down-----brand new cars first night out, how do you adjust???? The crew chiefs will earn their money tonight, too!!!

Pole qualifying tomorrow and Danica was fastest in the last qualifying session today, wonder if she can win it????

[34_40]

I was just reading about Danica, it's good to see her doing well.

Kenseth is STOUT! ( I hope he wrecks! LOL)

[Dave Severson]

It doesn't look like Kevin Harvick is planning on just rolling over and playing dead in his final year with Richard Childress!!!! That car's a rocket!!!! The last segment should be good, Kenseth, Harvick, or Stewart????

[34_40]

Actually, I am disappointed. So far this is the usual, ride in line for 7/8ths of the race ( or should that say "drive"? 'cause we've only seen what 4 or 5 passes for the lead) BORING!

Give me the 2 car pairings and let's do some real racing!

[34_40]

Best part of that finish is Harvick pulls a lame burnout and the cheby dies!!! ROFL!!

[Dave Severson]

With only 19 cars starting the race and a dozen around at the end, kind of hard to see what the new car will really be like. The driver's have a lot of learning to do on the aero peculiarities of the new car, that's for sure!!!!! I would expect the intensity to go up a level or three on Thursday for the Duels!!!

[34_40]

I'm thinking I'll discount the Daytona and Talladega races.. (again)..

I'm hopeful for the 1 & 1/2 milers. Where the air can be a little less dependant. I've got a bad feeling about the Big Show, 43 of them racing for the same turf... instead of losing 7 at a time, who knows how many will crash at once?

Sorry for repeating this again but, the best racing at Daytona / Talladega (imo) was the 2 car pairings. Lots of passing the whole race through and just about any combo could be a winner. Sadly, many didn't agree and prefer two lane ride along for 498 laps. sigh..

[rspears]

Most all of the restrictor plate races have the cars equalized to the point that there's more luck involved with the finish than anything else. All it takes is one knucklehead to tangle things up and it can take out half the field. Plate racing is not fan friendly, and the teams don't like it either.