The Daytona 500...

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... was fricking crazy this year.

First, the @#$%ing pothole on the track. They red-flagged the race - twice - to fix this thing, because the first time the repair didn't work because it was so cold out. It took an hour and a half to fix it, and one of the drivers was heard over the radio saying "Just put a cone over it and we'll dodge it, for crying out loud!"

Then there was the race finish, which was f---ing hilarious to watch. First you had one of the newer racers (whose name, ironically, was Speed) leading the pack, but he was running low on fuel, and just before he would've been forced to pit... BOOM!! ! Wreck, caution, and free pit stop.

Then they restarted in shootout mode (green-white-checkered), and Kevin Harvick is just going back and forth between the two draft lines, squeezing into unbelievable spaces in between cars to move up. Eventually, however, he gets stuck without a draft partner and ends up falling behind. Then you have McMurray, who was shooting for his first Daytona win, he's leading the pack when all of a sudden Earnhardt Jr. comes flying out of absolutely friggin nowhere and starts roaring up on McMurray's rear bumper. Still, he doesn't have the time to pull ahead and McMurray wins while Junior comes in second... and at the last minute there's a wreck in which Kasey Kahne spins out onto the grass.

This was arguably the funniest race I've seen in a while. It's craziness like this that makes NASCAR worth watching.

It is very refreshing compared to the Talladega "race." Aside from that pothole, the entire race was fun to watch.