Matt Kenseth Avoided Explosions To Win The Longest Daytona 500 Of All-Time
The Daytona 500 started was supposed to start Sunday around 1:30. Nearly 36 hours later, Matt Kenseth crossed the finish line for his second Daytona 500 victory. Kenseth survived a race that was full of wrecks and held off a way-too-late push by Dale Earnhardt Jr for the victory.
The highlight of the night was Juan Pablo Montoya crashing into a jet engine. You know what that’s like. Danica Patrick continued her tough-luck weekend in Florida by wrecking on the first lap. Patrick came back to finish 38th. Kenseth’s victory was almost anti-climatic after a weekend of delays, questionable weather, car crashes and jet fuel explosions.
The most surprising star of the night was Brad Keselowski who took the opportunity to tweet during the race. When it was all said and done, Keselowski more than tripled his follower count to more than 200,000. Now we will just wait to see how Daytona did in the ratings.If Twitter and jet fuel explosions are any indication, they should be huge.
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February 28th, 2012 at 10:05 AM
I wanted Junior to win in general, but moreso for the fact that it would have made Breesus fucking kill himself.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
it doesn’t even matter anymore when a crash isn’t her fault. she needs to be nicknamed Danica Crashtrick post haste.
before the race weekend I said she, Robby Gordon, and Juan Pablo were all good for a wreck during just about any race where they enter the field. I’m not sure what happened with Robby Gordon or if he was even in the starting 43, but Crashtrick wrecked lap 1 and Juan Pablo blew up a fucking jet engine and set the track on fire!
February 28th, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Daytona 500: Fucking go away.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:12 AM
I feel like Fox Sports has gotta be a seed investor in the Twatter or something. between Sunday’s coverage and Monday’s race, the viewer couldn’t sit through a segment without hearing something about somebody’s Tweeter account.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:12 AM
This. We have this everyday here in DC, it’s called The Beltway.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Just seems like it’s all luck. I was half watching last night, and I really didn’t seem much passing at all. Just don’t crash, and you might end up winning.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:16 AM
Last night I was flipping around, and on the Speed network they had the best monster truck crashes of all time. Wildly entertaining.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:17 AM
Short bursts of 170mph driving and fiery crashes?
February 28th, 2012 at 10:18 AM
One of the last times I was on The Beltway it was one lane because a semi side-swiped a motorcycle and killed the guy instantly.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Its more short bursts of 55MPH followed by angry braking and general self loathing.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Any race that features scenes from The Road Warrior can’t be that bad.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:21 AM
There was a piece on the news the other day about how dumb people get confused on 285 (perimeter highway around Atlanta) and just keep going around in a 65 mile, 8 lane circle.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
I know you’re goal is to trash NASCAR cause it’s the popular thing to do, but you’re correct, there’s a lot of luck involved. incredibly, there’s a lot of skill and preparation involved too. that skill and preparation allows the best drivers to take advantage of lucky situations and turn them into opportunity. what’s most shocking is that the previous two sentences also describe every type of sporting event and competition.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Correct me if I’m wrong miz… but Trevor Baine? Bayne? winning last year would have been akin to the Browns winning the super bowl, yes? That’s not happening in the NFL.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Horrible analogy. If he had won the Sprint Cup, then yes. It would be more like had the Dolphins beat the Patriots in week one last season.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Trevor Bayne isn’t going to win the cup anytime soon either.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Horrible analogy. If he had won the Sprint Cup, then yes. It would be more like had the Dolphins beat the Patriots in week one last season.
I don’t know.. I heard “super bowl of racing” about 15 times last night. I get what you’re saying though.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:30 AM
I think NASCAR’s biggest problem is that once football starts everyone forgets it exists… having a season that spans Feb-Nov. is pretty crazy.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:33 AM
Nah. Its problem is that the France family decided to jump at the chance to expand to the casual fan and in doing so took the sport away from the fans who would be watching on the Sundays when there is football on (like my family). They took races away from traditional tracks and moved to markets like Kentucky, Arizona, Missouri, and other places that they had no business going. They overextended and when the casual fans went away due to the economy tanking, they didn’t have as many diehards to fall back on.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:34 AM
Bayne = a talented rookie driver that had been preparing for the big leagues full time for half of his life.
he didn’t get lucky last year. he had an awesome car and was driving up front the entire week. he qualified himself, he raced up front during the qualifiyng races, and he had guys like Jeff Gordon, Jimmy Johnson, Carl Edwards, and Tony Stewart talking BEFORE the 500 about how fast and calm he was and he was a target for a tandem drafting partner.
I guess your analogy to the Browns works if, say, the Browns brought in a new owner, GM, and coach with decades of winning experience and then they had a dynamite draft and free agency period to build a solid team that competed all year long and earned a playoff spot.
in short, your analogy is awful because the sports are completely different animals and the Browns are an awful franchise from top to bottom.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:37 AM
I think NASCAR’s biggest problem is that once football starts everyone forgets it exists
2011 attendance figures for NASCAR disagree with you.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:38 AM
anyone calling the 500 the “Super Bowl of NASCAR” is a fucking moron. even if it’s the announcers. it’s the Great American Race and doesn’t need to be compared to any other sports’ milestone events. it’s tradition stands alone. calling it the Super Bowl of NASCAR serves no purpose other than to distort the race.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Sounds what the sports media is trying to do with college football: expand a postseason for the sake of Joe Q. Lovesbrackets while trying to delegitimize the earlier part of the season.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:41 AM
anyone calling the 500 the “Super Bowl of NASCAR” is a fucking moron. even if it’s the announcers.
well, then FOX and their announcers are morons.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:42 AM
this. stop trying to fix shit that isn’t broken!
February 28th, 2012 at 10:43 AM
agreed.
/mentions Tweeter for the eleventy threveth time
February 28th, 2012 at 10:45 AM
I have been to PIR the last couple of years and it is packed.
February 28th, 2012 at 11:06 AM
With only one driver tweeting, I doubt the twitter fix was in.
February 28th, 2012 at 11:22 AM
They took races away from traditional tracks and moved to markets like Kentucky, Arizona, Missouri, and other places that they had no business going.
It’s a circus, literally. A traveling band of gypsies. I know – my dad traveled/worked with a team for parts of two seasons after he retired, just for fun.
February 28th, 2012 at 11:34 AM
this is 100% true. I had some neighbors growing up that seemed level-headed…until they removed their two kids from school, sold everything (house, cars, possesions), and bought a big truck and 5th wheel camper to travel the NASCAR curcuit and sell concessions for income.
UPDATE: their plan failed and they ended up living with the paternal grandparents.