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I never saw one lap of the Daytona 500 but did listen to it on the airwaves. The Thursday before, we were at the Speedway. We got there about 15 minutes before the Twin 125's started.
The plan was my friend I went with had a wish list for '09 Mark Martin diecast for a friend back here. We wanted to cruise the vendor trailers while the Twins were running, thinking easy times because everyone would be in the Grandstand.
Turns out the parking was 40.00 whether you were going to watch or not. So he dropped himself off and I took the Esclade down to a Kmart parking lot which gave you a parking pass good for 2 hours or otherwise you had to pay 20.00 (which was about half-mile from the track).
The jet fighter fly-over about made me piss my shorts! They hit the Kmart lot dead-center about 100 feet above, all 4 jets at full throttle. Obviously I wasn't prepared for that! I went back and picked up my bud while the cars were on the pace lap. They sounded awesome. We drove another mile to hand wash car wash (still had all that Penna. road salt and grime on the Caddy - YUCK) and sat outside while the first 125 ran. Even that far away, the cars were roaring nicely. That's all the more we came in contact with Daytona Speedway the whole trip other than a couple drives past to go to the clubs. oh, and much to my surprise, the '09 diecast were almost nonexistent. I guess by the time last season ends, new drivers get new rides, new paint schemes designed, all this scheme data shipped to China, designs made to cars, cars shipped to USA is longer than 2-3 months.
I don't care for NASCAR starting at 6:30pm much and Fontana didn't make up for any excitement Daytona might of lacked. What a shitty night of channel surfing between the race and the Oscars. Both pretty much sucked.
I'll give Jr. credit for his straight-up pre-race interview. I think Darrell Waltrip wanted to suck Jr's dick the way he kept putting his hand on Dale's leg. Creeped me out a little, really.
Send me some Texas heat, soon, Stacy! pweaseeee!??!
hagd, doll
