McMurray Wins at Daytona

It was a long one and I didn't even see the end, because I fell asleep!

I went to nascar.com to find out who won. I know, LOSER!

What was up with Tony Stewart wrecking his teammate, Denny Hamlin? I looked at that replay as everyone else did...in disbelief and complete horror.

What was up with that?

Then, by doing that, Tony had to wreck Dale Junior, who was innocently trying to get around this mess.

It seems as though everyone was just trying to survive this wreck fest.

Truex was doing well, but his teammate was laps down because of the wreck and their engine counterparts were blowing up. (Meaning the new alliance between DEI and RCR. Kevin Harvick had major problems with his ride.)

On the broadcast side of things, it was nice to see TNT, in their next to the last race of the season, show the coverage ESPN style, with the race in the background, with the commercials in a window at the bottom of the screen.

I don't think ESPN will be doing this when they take over, because NASCAR doesn't want them to, of course. I think that will only work with the IRL races. Why? I have no clue. NASCAR is the king of inconsistencies and it will probably be a given, throughout the rest of the sanctioning body's history.


Which leads to the ruling about crew chiefs not being allowed anywhere near the track, when they're suspended. Eury Jr was AT NHIS. Why? I have no clue. You would think it would be understood that they couldn't be anywhere near the cars. BUT, of course, there are always loopholes. They found them and were infringing on them. When Jeff Gordon lashed out at NASCAR for having a hypocritical system, of course they took heed to Wonder Boy's words and made sure that Hendrick's suspended chiefs were not even in the area, when the race was in town.

Does that mean that they can't use cell phone voice calls and texting? Well, maybe. I don't know if the officials could be able to catch the interim chiefs communicating with their bosses that way. Who knows if Tony Gibson was doing that with Tony Eury, Jr. Only DEI and Dale Junior know.

Moving on to Chicagoland next week. Let's hope that Kenseth and Gordon don't get carried away again in the last laps.