As the song says, "I've seen fire and I've seen rain..."
And that pretty much sums up this year at Daytona. I saw the rain in the red rain poncho (Red Raining Hood). I only saw the fire on TV. Thankfully, no one was hurt.
Joke of the day: How many NASCAR drivers does it take to start a fire? Juan. It's only funny because everyone walked away.
Just in case you missed it.
And they helped clean it up with Tide. Somehow appropriate. When DW won the Daytona 500 and did that infamous dance, he was in the Tide ride.
So, on to other thoughts.
It was amazing how the rains held off on Sunday until race time itself. Fans got through a 3-song concert by Lenny Kravitz; driver introductions and the parade lap.
It's good we honor our men and women in uniform at NASCAR events. After all, it's said racefans are the most patriotic fans in the country. This young man has already been to Afghanistan 2 times. He was set to escort the 33rd driver in the Nationwide race lineup, Benny Gordon. Gordon went on to finish 12th.
There had been no rain in seemingly forever, friends who live in the Sunshine State said. Hence the name, Sunshine State.
I really didn't see sunshine that day. The day before, yes. Beautiful weather for the Nationwide race, won by James Beuscher. Seriously? James who? His team members were shocked by the win, and were overheard saying so, with certain expletives.
My race friends and I went on the tour, so to speak. We posed with the Dale Earnhardt Daytona 500 win statue. We also visited the Sprint Cup garages and found the "big boys" out to meet and greet. Like Ryan Newman. In the photo here, he was talking with 3 military men just back from Afghanistan. God bless them all. I certainly wasn't going to barge in and ask him to sign something while he was talking with them.
Well, there are more tales to tell from Rain, er, Daytona. Those will be left for another blog post another day.
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