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The racing in this Daytona seems like it was better than last year, although, myself, I didn’t really like the results, but you’ll have that, and I only got to see the last 60 or so laps because of the delay for the repaving they had to do. Jamie McMurray won this one, over Dale Earnhardt Jr., Greg Biffle and Clint Bowyer. Nascar.com has articles like the timing of Jamie getting back together with Chip Ganassi and how they proved they weren’t also ran’s. Give me a break, whoever is up front at the right time can win Daytona these days. Let’s see if they can do anything else this year before we anoint them anything.

Jr. came out of the pack like a rocket, where was this the whole race, was he holding back the whole time, or did he just get lucky that Reutimann pushed him to the front? Whatever happened, it certainly got the crowd excited, and the media has certainly been talking about how big a shot in the arm a competitive Earnhardt would be, just like they’ve been talking about Danica pepping up the sport. We shall see, we shall see.

Here is how they finished:
1 13 1 Jamie McMurray Chevrolet Bass Pro Shops / Tracker
2 2 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet Amp Energy / National Guard
3 23 16 Greg Biffle Ford 3M
4 9 33 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet Cheerios / Hamburger Helper
5 20 00 David Reutimann Toyota Aaron’s Dream Machine
6 14 56 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota NAPA Auto Parts
7 5 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet Shell / Pennzoil
8 24 17 Matt Kenseth Ford Crown Royal
9 27 99 Carl Edwards Ford Aflac
10 8 42 Juan Montoya Chevrolet Target
11 39 31 Jeff Burton Chevrolet Caterpillar
12 1 5 Mark Martin Chevrolet GoDaddy.com
13 32 98 Paul Menard Ford Peak / Menards
14 7 18 Kyle Busch Toyota M&M’s
15 22 83 Brian Vickers Toyota Red Bull
16 19 6 David Ragan Ford UPS
17 25 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota FedEx Express
18 43 151 Michael Waltrip Toyota NAPA Auto Parts
19 30 82 Scott Speed Toyota Red Bull
20 16 20 Joey Logano Toyota The Home Depot
21 42 71 Bobby Labonte Chevrolet TaxSlayer.com
22 6 14 Tony Stewart Chevrolet Office Depot / Old Spice
23 10 2 Kurt Busch Dodge Miller Lite
24 12 19 Elliott Sadler Ford Stanley
25 38 26 Boris Said Ford Window World Cares
26 21 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet DuPont
27 40 21 Bill Elliott Ford Motorcraft / Quick Lane Tire & Auto Center
28 34 7 Robby Gordon Toyota Monster Energy
29 35 37 Travis Kvapil Ford Extenze
30 4 9 Kasey Kahne Ford Budweiser / Team USA
31 37 38 Robert Richardson Jr. Ford Mahindra Tractors
32 15 43 A.J. Allmendinger Ford Best Buy
33 29 55 Michael McDowell Toyota Prism Motorsports
34 17 39 Ryan Newman Chevrolet U.S. Army
35 3 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet Lowe’s
36 26 12 Brad Keselowski Dodge Penske Racing
37 36 77 Sam Hornish Jr. Dodge Mobil 1
38 33 34 John Andretti Ford Window World Cares
39 11 78 Regan Smith Chevrolet Furniture Row Companies
40 31 13 Max Papis Toyota GEICO
41 18 47 Marcos Ambrose Toyota Kroger Floral
42 28 36 Mike Bliss Chevrolet Wave Energy Drink
43 41 87 Joe Nemechek Toyota NEMCO Motorsports

Here are some of the latest Daytona 500 videos we have posted to our video section.

Matt Kenseth did something I don’t remember him being all last season, lucky, and another he had never done before today, win the Daytona 500. Matt Kenseth won the rain shortened 51st running of the Daytona 500 today, after passing Elliott Sadler on the very last green flag lap. I bet Elliott is kicking himself right now. This was also Jack Roush’s first Daytona 500 win in 20 years as an owner, in an article posted at Nascar.com, Roush and Kenseth both did not believe it would happen today.

One day before the Daytona 500, Matt Kenseth confided in his wife Katie that he was tired of no longer being a serious title contender on NASCAR’s premier series, and harbored no illusions about his chances in the sport’s biggest race. On the morning of the Daytona 500, Jack Roush woke up feeling pessimistic as always, those two decades of close calls and near misses on the big race track engrained in his bones. Source: At Daytona, rain washes a team’s pessimism away

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