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Live from Daytona: Saturday AM Update
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| Posted by: Joe VanHoose |
2/18/2007 5:45 PM |
Did you see the finish last night in the truck race?
If you didn’t, you missed one for the ages. Jack Sprague pulled a Days-of-Thunder-like move to get by Travis Kvapil on the final lap, really the final 100 yards. To top it off, Johnny Benson shot low to make it a three-wide photo finish.
How close was it? Well, Kvapil was leading in turn 4 and he finished third.
That’s the beauty of Speedweeks. You never know what race will be the best. The few folks covering the race in the press box, myself included, were beside themselves. Remember, we media folk aren’t the easiest group to excite. But there we were, throwing high fives and cheering.
That’s what racing will do to you. We knew we had seen something special, and so did the 60,000 freezing fans that stayed until the end, even though it was 30 degrees outside.
I can only hope that the Daytona 500 is as exciting.
As for today, there may not be a cloud in the sky, but it is still very cold outside.
And the wind is howling from the west, howling so hard that it blew the pre-race professional paratroopers way off course. Instead of landing on an X at the start-finish line, they faded into the middle of the infield and landed in between the Busch Series garages and the haulers.
The wind may affect the Busch Series cars as they take to the high banks within the hour. Tony Stewart will look to win his third Daytona 300 in a row, but there are 22 other Nextel Cup regulars looking to rain on his parade.
Local racer David Reutimann is one of those Cup drivers, piloting his Aaron’s Toyota from a 21st starting position. Reutimann struggled a little bit in Nextel Cup final practice, running the 31st fastest lap, 3 m.p.h. slower than David Stremme.
Busch Series rookie Aric Almirola will lead the field to green at 1:15 p.m. today. Look for live lap-to-lap updates right here on my blog page.
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