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**OFFICIAL Daytona 500 Hillbilly Super Bowl Game Thread or Race or Beer** (1 Viewer)
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Cowboysfan8
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I’m old enough to remember when cars actually passed other cars at Daytona
BigJohn
Footballguy
They tried that earlier...17 of them are watching from the garage now....lolI’m old enough to remember when cars actually passed other cars at Daytona
BigJohn
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QuizGuy66
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JaxBill
Footballguy
yeah, not an illustrious list
@Brackintology: First career #nascar Cup win is a #DAYTONA500 list:
2021- Michael McDowell (@Mc_Driver)
2011- Trevor Bayne (@Tbayne6)
2001- Michael Waltrip (@MW55)
1994- Sterling Marlin (@SMR_114)
1990- Derrike Cope (@DCopeRacing)
1970- Pete Hamilton
1967- @MarioAndretti
1963- Tiny Lund
QuizGuy66
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Though the thing about that list is thst they were in a position to win. (Cope got his other career win later that season if I recall correctly). But part of the fun of Daytona is that the range of possible winners is much greater than the typical NASCAR race. And heck Marlin and Waltrip won it twice.
Mario is the most amazing of course - he ran it like 3 times altogether. Such a winner
-QG
Mario is the most amazing of course - he ran it like 3 times altogether. Such a winner
-QG
Eephus
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Dinsy Ejotuz
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Why do NASCAR drivers accept races like Daytona? Where the results are basically random and the racing conditions all but guarantee big wrecks every year? To an outsider it seems like moving the Superbowl onto an ice-skating rink. What's the point?
Dinsy Ejotuz
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It's not just that they go all out, it's that they're constantly packed up with zero room for error. Why would you introduce that much randomness into your biggest race? One guy makes a tiny mistake and half the field is eliminated. I can't think of anything else like it -- where who has an opportunity to win is in large part based on who gets lucky enough to avoid the results of a mistake they had nothing to do with.The Daytona 500 is the biggest race of the year, the wreck happens because they race a little out of control attempting to win the most prestigious race there is.
Eephus
Footballguy
The cars are extremely aerodynamic-dependent. Hamlin led after his final pitstop but got passed by the freight train like he was standing still. Any time a single car opened up a 4-5 car length gap on the pack, they were sitting ducks and usually ended up near the tail of the lead draft.
NASCAR has tried a bunch of different things to break up pack racing on superspeedways. The two-car drafting hookups from the early 2010s were pretty ridiculous.
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