Chase Elliott wins the pole for the Daytona 500!
Dale Earnhardt Jr wins the outside pole!
Congrats!!!
2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race A The Clash (Day 2)
The sun is shining brightly as race time arrives in Daytona for the rescheduled Clash.
Caution on lap 18 of 75 as Jimmie Johnson clips Kurt Busch sending him into the wall. Continue reading “2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race A The Clash (Day 2)”
2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race ‘A’ The Clash at Daytona
The season kicks off with the Clash featuring the 2016 Chase drivers, the 2016 pole winners, one replacement driver – Daniel Suarez replaces the retired Carl Edwards. Dale Earnhardt Jr, as a previous Clash winner is qualified to run the race, but will instead call the race from the booth. Alex Bowman is in the Clash having won a pole last season. Since the Chase will now be called the playoffs that language is being used to describe the folks qualified for the Clash. Droll. Smoke qualified for the race, but since he’s retired he won’t compete. Personally I’m not digging the idea of everyone that made the Chase being qualified. We’re all aware of how much luck can play a role in getting in the Chase – but, whatever. Continue reading “2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race ‘A’ The Clash at Daytona”
2017 ARCA Racing Series Race One Daytona
Clouds hover above the track as Kevin Lee and Phil Parsons begin the ARCA broadcast. Tom Hessert won the pole for the race. Austin Theriault will drive a full season for Ken Schrader Motorsports in the ARCA season. Nice. They’re putting covers on the cars as Austin is doing his pre-race interview. Some of the drivers are climbing into the cars. The on-air guys mentioned a few raindrops at the end of Daytona 500 practice, which ended about 30 minutes before the start of the ARCA race. Continue reading “2017 ARCA Racing Series Race One Daytona”
2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Pre-Season Update
Before I get to NASCAR I have to say congratulations to the New England Patriots on their history making overtime win in Super Bowl LI over the Atlanta Falcons. It was the first Super Bowl game to go into overtime. Lots of records were broken including Tom Brady broke the tie with Terry Bradshaw and Joe Montana in Super Bowl wins by a quarterback with his fifth win. Bill Belichick set a record with his fifth Super Bowl win as a head coach. According to the NFL more than 30 records were broken or tied in the game.
On to NASCAR as my wait is nearing completion – NASCAR will take to the track – finally – at the end of the coming week! I’m excited to see the good, the bad and the ugly. Continue reading “2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Pre-Season Update”