Saturday, February 16, 2008
Dayonta 500
If you aren't excited for this year's Daytona 500, you obviously didn't see the finish to last year's race!!
The 2007 Daytona 500 was far and away the most exciting Daytona since the legendary 1979 race when Richard Petty came from a miraculous, last lap, 3rd place as Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison literally fought it out on the infield grass after crashing on the final straightaway of a 500 mile race. Watch the unbelievable clip of Daytona 1979 here. This clip is slow to load, but sooooo bad ass. This race, this lap is where the Clarion's love for NASCAR truly blossomed.
Watch the final two laps of the 2007 below. Ignore the clueless announcers, who miss the whole thing. Keep your on the yellow and red, Penzoil, number 29 of Kevin Harvick. Harvick is 7th place when the clip starts, the first time he is barely visible is at the 17 second mark on the clip, he can be seen, yellow with red trim, well back, for 10, 15 seconds. He is still 6th at the one lap to go white flag. Harvick makes one of the all time guttiest passes you will every see!! The clip still makes the Clarion editorial office erupt. The announcers nearly miss it completely as Harvick comes from nowhere, the "doomed outside line," beating out sentimental favorite, Mark Martin by inches at the finish line as the field wrecks behind them. 500 miles of racing decided by inches on the final lap. It was bad ass.
And while Martin was many folks sentimental fav, the Clarion was pulling hard for Harvick, the driver who really inherited Dale Earnhardt's legacy. A racer, not a pretty boy making jeans commercials, Harvick took over Earnhardt senior's car when he was killed on the track at Daytona in 2001. Like his mentor, he took the hard outside line, the outside line is for the bravest of the brave, because you gotta run the car right up against the wall. Watch the clip, they, in the person of Kyle Busch, run him right up against the wall at 200 miles an hour and Harvick, he just keeps driving a straight line and mashes the pedal down even harder.
Harvick has raced the 29 ever since Earnhardt's tragic death. His number 29 implies the loss of Earnhardt, who raced the number 3 car. Despite winning numerous races before the 500, he has only achieved limited popularity in a NASCAR universe of stars. He is less well known than champions like Jimmy Johnson, Jeff Gordon, and Tony Stewarts, as well as the beloved, photogenic, losers Dale Jr. and Michael Waltrip.
The 2007 Daytona 500 was far and away the most exciting Daytona since the legendary 1979 race when Richard Petty came from a miraculous, last lap, 3rd place as Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison literally fought it out on the infield grass after crashing on the final straightaway of a 500 mile race. Watch the unbelievable clip of Daytona 1979 here. This clip is slow to load, but sooooo bad ass. This race, this lap is where the Clarion's love for NASCAR truly blossomed.
Watch the final two laps of the 2007 below. Ignore the clueless announcers, who miss the whole thing. Keep your on the yellow and red, Penzoil, number 29 of Kevin Harvick. Harvick is 7th place when the clip starts, the first time he is barely visible is at the 17 second mark on the clip, he can be seen, yellow with red trim, well back, for 10, 15 seconds. He is still 6th at the one lap to go white flag. Harvick makes one of the all time guttiest passes you will every see!! The clip still makes the Clarion editorial office erupt. The announcers nearly miss it completely as Harvick comes from nowhere, the "doomed outside line," beating out sentimental favorite, Mark Martin by inches at the finish line as the field wrecks behind them. 500 miles of racing decided by inches on the final lap. It was bad ass.
And while Martin was many folks sentimental fav, the Clarion was pulling hard for Harvick, the driver who really inherited Dale Earnhardt's legacy. A racer, not a pretty boy making jeans commercials, Harvick took over Earnhardt senior's car when he was killed on the track at Daytona in 2001. Like his mentor, he took the hard outside line, the outside line is for the bravest of the brave, because you gotta run the car right up against the wall. Watch the clip, they, in the person of Kyle Busch, run him right up against the wall at 200 miles an hour and Harvick, he just keeps driving a straight line and mashes the pedal down even harder.
Harvick has raced the 29 ever since Earnhardt's tragic death. His number 29 implies the loss of Earnhardt, who raced the number 3 car. Despite winning numerous races before the 500, he has only achieved limited popularity in a NASCAR universe of stars. He is less well known than champions like Jimmy Johnson, Jeff Gordon, and Tony Stewarts, as well as the beloved, photogenic, losers Dale Jr. and Michael Waltrip.
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