Shakedown Session: Does David Ragan’s Folly Really Have Him on the Hot Seat?
If there’s anyone who really needed Trevor Bayne to win the Daytona 500 as much as a drowning man needs another bucket of water, it’s David Ragan.
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If there’s anyone who really needed Trevor Bayne to win the Daytona 500 as much as a drowning man needs another bucket of water, it’s David Ragan.
When young Trevor Bayne shocked the world by winning the Daytona 500, he did it with a Ford FR9 engine under the hood.
The ONLY reason we saw this new type of racing was due to the new surface. Had it not been done we would have seen the same old pack racing at Daytona.
Like I said last week, Jimmie Johnson is good just about everywhere else, and Phoenix may be his best track.
On one of the sites I frequent each day, somebody posted a photo of Smokey Yunick’s “sidecar” that he showed up with at Indianapolis in the ’60s.
The 2011 season started with a number of feel-good storylines in Daytona. Name one that will carry forward from here on out.
10. With the change of NASCAR’s dress code for the garage area, the scenery around his stall and pits should be a heck of a lot nicer.
Unpredictable. That sums up Daytona weekend, from the photo finishes in the Truck and Nationwide series races to Trevor Bayne scoring his first NASCAR victory.
Since Trevor Bayne’s dream is our reality, let’s hold off on calling him the next NASCAR superstar.
It’s Daytona. The first race of the year at a track that generates racing unlike any other venue on the circuit. It’s wild. Adventuresome.