DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. — We knew that the two-by-two electric would play a fortunate role in Sunday's Daytona 500. again we knew that Michael Waltrip would credit a fortunate role on the 10th anniversary of his landmark 2001 enact. As it turns out, both storylines blended early agency the race, harbour catastrophic effect.
In lap 29, Michael Waltrip, pushing David Reutimann, got misaligned further spun Reutimann, triggering a wreck that took out literally one-third of the field. Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Brian Vickers, Greg Biffle, Marcos Ambrose and feel-good story Brian Keselowski were among those collected ropes the wreck.
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Coincidentally, Waltrip had spun out Kyle Busch earlier in the race in almost good the in line way. But in that incident, Busch didn't hit anyone, and was direct to get truck clout the mix with obvious lost but some sheet metal. Reutimann and the extensive pack around him weren't quite so lucky.
"I'm involved in both [spins] and I don't know what I could have done different," Waltrip verbal afterward. "... I fitting detest unaffected. I hate it that my cars got tore up besides I execrate it that you have to be whence aggressive then early. Maybe you don't. Probably owing to you trust see that probably waiting around would have been a good idea."
"It wasn't Mike's fault," Reutimann said.
But others could, also did, take develop with Waltrip.
"The cool four, five, six rows, guys are pushing hard to maintain position," Gordon said. "You expect a little more background further back, and that's not what I'm seeing now. Guys are and so adamant about getting smuggle their drafting partner and taking that push and getting hike there into that top 6, 8 cars, some guys are getting money coextensive trouble because of it."
The new points arrangement heavily penalizes drivers whereas penurious finishes, and now a result the garage was a whirling nest of duct disc and welding torches being crews worked to see through their cars traject on the passageway. Johnson also Biffle were the first foreign of the garage, go Gordon, Reutimann and Vickers, among populous others, could different wait as their crews hammered their cars back into some amiable of race-ready habitus.
Waltrip, his tour done ("that's a hundred thousand right there," he oral ruefully as he looked at his ruined front end), tried to stress the blame of this kind of racing. "When kin steer and say (impact a disappointed voice), 'What's this?' Damn! It's hard," he oral. "You're just so focused. You're watching your temperature gauge. You're watching the car in unfolding of you. You're wondering what's first. You're wondering what's coming up from behind. There are for numberless things alacrity mentally that it's almost laughable to keep up with."
But many fans weren't feeling particularly beneficent. Rage at Waltrip boiled over on Twitter again in the Daytona infield. "Hey, Waltrip!" single fan yelled considering Waltrip was doing postcrash interviews. "Tell me what time you're leaving so I can settle foreign ahead of you!"
Waltrip made no indication that he heard the fan. But if the fan did decide to decamp the race early, he had plenty of disappointed drivers joining him in handle for the exit.
As he watched crews pounding his car back attentiveness shape, Gordon was philosophical. "It's exciting," he shrugged. "I think it's movement to be a great finish."
In lap 29, Michael Waltrip, pushing David Reutimann, got misaligned further spun Reutimann, triggering a wreck that took out literally one-third of the field. Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Brian Vickers, Greg Biffle, Marcos Ambrose and feel-good story Brian Keselowski were among those collected ropes the wreck.
[Follow Yahoo! Sports' NASCAR blog From the Marbles on Facebook again Twitter.]
Coincidentally, Waltrip had spun out Kyle Busch earlier in the race in almost good the in line way. But in that incident, Busch didn't hit anyone, and was direct to get truck clout the mix with obvious lost but some sheet metal. Reutimann and the extensive pack around him weren't quite so lucky.
"I'm involved in both [spins] and I don't know what I could have done different," Waltrip verbal afterward. "... I fitting detest unaffected. I hate it that my cars got tore up besides I execrate it that you have to be whence aggressive then early. Maybe you don't. Probably owing to you trust see that probably waiting around would have been a good idea."
"It wasn't Mike's fault," Reutimann said.
But others could, also did, take develop with Waltrip.
"The cool four, five, six rows, guys are pushing hard to maintain position," Gordon said. "You expect a little more background further back, and that's not what I'm seeing now. Guys are and so adamant about getting smuggle their drafting partner and taking that push and getting hike there into that top 6, 8 cars, some guys are getting money coextensive trouble because of it."
The new points arrangement heavily penalizes drivers whereas penurious finishes, and now a result the garage was a whirling nest of duct disc and welding torches being crews worked to see through their cars traject on the passageway. Johnson also Biffle were the first foreign of the garage, go Gordon, Reutimann and Vickers, among populous others, could different wait as their crews hammered their cars back into some amiable of race-ready habitus.
Waltrip, his tour done ("that's a hundred thousand right there," he oral ruefully as he looked at his ruined front end), tried to stress the blame of this kind of racing. "When kin steer and say (impact a disappointed voice), 'What's this?' Damn! It's hard," he oral. "You're just so focused. You're watching your temperature gauge. You're watching the car in unfolding of you. You're wondering what's first. You're wondering what's coming up from behind. There are for numberless things alacrity mentally that it's almost laughable to keep up with."
But many fans weren't feeling particularly beneficent. Rage at Waltrip boiled over on Twitter again in the Daytona infield. "Hey, Waltrip!" single fan yelled considering Waltrip was doing postcrash interviews. "Tell me what time you're leaving so I can settle foreign ahead of you!"
Waltrip made no indication that he heard the fan. But if the fan did decide to decamp the race early, he had plenty of disappointed drivers joining him in handle for the exit.
As he watched crews pounding his car back attentiveness shape, Gordon was philosophical. "It's exciting," he shrugged. "I think it's movement to be a great finish."
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