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Daytona week approaches!!

Now that I can watch, I'm a bit disappointed by the dearth of sporting events on TV.

(And yes, I know the Winter Olympics are going on. I can't watch them at all...)

Austin Dillon on the pole at Daytona, with Marty Truex Jr. in 2nd!

Picks due in by Sunday!

YmoBeThere wrote:Picks due in by Sunday!

Last year's Fantasy League Champ ... is NOT defending his title?

Hey Everybody, I'm in!

Miles wrote:Hey Everybody, I'm in!

Yeah!!

Daytona's first casualty for fantasy owners: Truex's engine blew up

At lap 35, we have now gone through 3 yellows: Larson hit the wall; Truex engine blew; now we have a rain delay (light shower).
Kenseth had an awkward first pit; he pitted with his car facing the wrong way.
Biffle has had some minor issues, but is back to normal.

Now it's red flagged.

They atarted racing again some 20 minutes ago.
Nuts!

Lavabe wrote:Daytona's first casualty for fantasy owners: Truex's engine blew up

At lap 35, we have now gone through 3 yellows: Larson hit the wall; Truex engine blew; now we have a rain delay (light shower).
Kenseth had an awkward first pit; he pitted with his car facing the wrong way.
Biffle has had some minor issues, but is back to normal.

Now it's red flagged.

IowaDevil and Lawgrad both had Truex.

91of 200 laps done
David Ragan brings his car into the garage.
Blech had a bad pit in which he carried away an air hose... pass through penalty.
Almirola had a bad pit, in which he carried out a jack... stop & go penalty.
Kahne spun out on his way out of the pits.

Kenseth, Hamlin, Edwards, Kes all running well.

Lap 129 of 200: 2nd round of green flag pit stops since the restart.
BIG NEWS for the fantasy league: Bowyer has engine trouble, and is done for the day.
Smoke is having electricl issues all day.
KK had a pass through penalty for speeding. He sped to avoid a potential crash in the pits. STUPID!

Lap 138 of 200: MAJOR ACCIDENT: Multi-car
AA (BAD damage), Waltrip, Gilliland, Danica (slammed into the wall really bad, and hit the wall in an unprotected region, but the restraints worked well). All 4 climbed out
Dillon, Algeier, Menard, Harvick, Brian Scott had minor damage. 3 others also had some minor damage.

And 30 miles away, is another bad storm front, and it's coming fast.

Good news for colchar: Smoke has come back onto the track, down 27 laps.

Lavabe wrote:Lap 138 of 200: MAJOR ACCIDENT: Multi-car
AA (BAD damage), Waltrip, Gilliland, Danica (slammed into the wall really bad, and hit the wall in an unprotected region, but the restraints worked well). All 4 climbed out
Dillon, Algeier, Menard, Harvick, Brian Scott had minor damage. 3 others also had some minor damage.

And 30 miles away, is another bad storm front, and it's coming fast.

Good news for colchar: Smoke has come back onto the track, down 27 laps.

Those three others were Stenhouse, Wise, and Kahne.

I had Bowyer...

38 laps to go: BIG accident
Reed Sorenson, Ambrose, Annett, KK, Larson (big damage), Dillon, Bayne involved
Labonte, Newman, and Scott had some minor damage when evading the 7-car pileup.
Dillon got Larson loose, starting the chain reaction.

YmoBeThere wrote:I had Bowyer...

Only Miles made 4 choices that are still on the track.

17 laps to go: CAUTION: Bayne spins around, and he is climbing out.
No one else damaged.
Jr is in the lead. He has enough fuel to make it to the end. Conserving fuel. Others are coming into pits.

6 laps to go...CAUTION. The rear of the pack BIG accident
Terry Labonte (big damage), Kligerman, Whitt, Newman (dillon turned him around; major damage), Allgeier, Scott.

I think this will force the leaders to pit.

Right now, it's Jr and Kes, JG, Blech, Edwards, Hamlion JJ, Stenhouse, Kenseth, Harvick

UGH... Jr picked up some Bare bond tape, and it's not coming off. It's blocking part of his air intake.

They are going to restart with two laps to go!!

Jr wins!!
Jr, Hamlin, Gordon, Kes

Wreck on turn 3!!
Multi-car with Sorenson and Edwards. Blech finished driving BACKWARDS across the line... in reverse!!
They are holding off on the order of finish, as technically, it ended under a yellow.