NASCAR is Back

 One thing that you will learn about me if you hang out with me very long is that I love NASCAR and racing.  Growing up I was a Jeff Gordon fan.  When he retired he was replaced in the #24 car by Chase Elliott and so I claimed him as my new favorite driver.  


The first weekend in February NASCAR had the clash at the LA Coliseum where they created a ¼ mile track.  One of the challenges of a short track like the one they made in the LA Coliseum is that there is a lot of bumping and banging.  Bumping and banging leads to hurt feelings and race car drivers have very long memories.  Specifically Kyle Busch and Bubba Wallace got their feelings hurt at the Clash in LA.  This becomes a challenge that the race this weekend is the Daytona 500 which is at a 2.5 mile track where the cars run inches apart at nearly 200 Miles together.  Hurt feelings and the Daytona 500 don’t mix.  


Qualifying for the Daytona 500 was on Wednesday evening and on Thursday they ran to “Heat” or qualifying races that set the final line up for the Daytona 500. 


What I observed is that there are some teams that are laser focused on winning the Daytona 500.  Penske with Lagano, Cindric and Blaney are fast.  How easily they can work their way through the field is yet to be seen as in the first duel they got their track position via pit strategy and were never really challenged.   As always Suarez will be aggressive and I don’t know that a whole lot of people will be upset if he wrecks Kyle Busch again as he did Thursday evening.  Suarez is among a list of drivers that I’m not sure if they know where to draw the line when it comes to aggressive pushing at plate tracks.  Chastain, Suarez, Stenhouse, Brisco, and Almendinger are drivers who are overly aggressive and Gragson and Gibbs have definitely shown that they too can be dangerously aggressive.  


The drivers that I think you will see up at the front all day are Joey, Brad, Both Kyles, Bowman, Elliott, Byron, Blaney, Wallace, Hamlin, Truex and Gibbs.  I see Elliott being the one that has the most patience among this group and the hungriest for this win.  


So predictions for the Race.  Chase Elliott will win.  Kyle Busch will get wrecked and Ty Gibbs will have half of the field mad at him.  Ross Chastain will almost wreck Denny Hamlin and Jimmie Johnson will at some point lead the field during the race and get a standing ovation as he does so.  


Here is to another great season of NASCAR!

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