Daytona 500
PRE-RACE NOTES:
Happy Hour incident, Grim blew his engine pulling out of the pits, drifted onto the apron, held up Ashes, was pushed onto the track, into the path of my car.
Result: 2 wrecked cars
I also overwrote the first 35 laps of the replay by accident.
This report could be a long read, you are warned.
RACE REPORT:
Lap 35: Cope starts off the pitting along with a few other drivers
Lap 37: All cars have now pitted.
Lap 40: BigDOGGe now leads the race after pitting.
Lap 43: D2S has passed DOGGe and now has a big lead. He is held up by Dig.
Lap 46: After D2S hit traffic, DOGGe caught and passed him.
Lap 47: DOGGe & D2S hit more traffic, letting JAF7242004 take 2nd.
Lap 50: Top 3 drivers have built up a big lead on 4th place Cope.
Lap 53: Top 3 are held up by Fila for half a lap.
Lap 54: DOGGe and JAF7242004 get past D2S.
Lap 55: Only 5 cars are still on the lead lap.
Lap 58: CAUTION #1, Reason: None
Top 3 cars have a half lap lead over Cope.
Lap 60: Half the field pits under Caution.
Lap 63: GREEN
Lap 68: Top 5: D2S, Cope, Phin, JAF7242004, DOGGe
Lap 73: Kdawg now in 1st place. Top 4 breaking away from the rest.
Lap 75: Top 6 close together and in traffic.
Lap 80: Top 5 now in close proximity and drafting.
Lap 82: CAUTION #2, Reason: Again, strangely no reason.
Lap 83: Most of the cars pit.
Lap 86: GREEN
Lap 96: Top 10: JAF7242004, Phin, Cope, D2S, DOGGe, Bigfoot, Kdawg, Scat, Mal, Grim2004.
Lap 106: Phin drops off the top 5.
Lap 116: Cope now leading from JAF7242004, DOGGe & Kdawg.
Lap 117: Kdawg pits.
Lap 119: Leaders all pit.
Lap 129: Top 3 have half a lap over 4th.
Lap 139: Phin leads, top 5 bunch up behind Fila.
Lap 149: Phin & DOGGe pull away a half lap lead over JAF7242004.
Lap 154: Phin pits, D2S gets 1st.
Lap 155: D2S pits, Phin gets 1st.
Lap 165: Top 2 half a lap ahead on 3rd placed Kdawg.
Lap 175: Phin & DOGGe are now the only cars on the lead lap.
Lap 182: D2S in 4th, car started to smoke.
Lap 184: D2S retires, cause: Camshaft.
Lap 189: Phin pits from 1st.
Lap 194: Phin leads DOGGe by half a lap.
Lap 198: Top 5: Phin, DOGGe, Kdawg, JAF7242004, Cope.
Lap 200: Phin wins by a quarter of a lap from DOGGe and Kdawg.
RACE RESULTS:
P # DRIVER LAPS
1 40 Phineus 200
2 5 ZOtmBigDOGGe 200
3 55 Kdawg 200
4 21 JAF7242004 200
5 6 SLO COPE 198
6 12 Bigfoot 195
7 28 Grim2004 190
8 2 NIR CrashCart 190
9 14 Malibu350 190
10 26 SLO SCATTER 190
11 39 Gravefan 189
12 1 NIR Ashes 189
13 23 Nd4SpCharles 188
14 27 Fila 188
15 51 Dig 188
16 16 Drive2Survive Camshaft
CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS:
P # DRIVER PTS
1 40 Phineus 185
2 5 ZOtmBigDOGGe 175
3 55 Kdawg 170
4 21 JAF7242004 165
5 6 SLO COPE 160
6 12 Bigfoot 150
7 28 Grim2004 146
8 2 NIR CrashCart 142
9 14 Malibu350 138
10 26 SLO SCATTER 134
11 39 Gravefan 130
12 1 NIR Ashes 127
13 23 Nd4SpCharles 124
14 27 Fila 121
15 16 Drive2Survive 120
16 51 Dig 118
NEXT RACE: Subway 400, North Carolina
Well, there it is. Please let me know if you like the race reports. I'll run qualy for the next race later today. Now you can have all the arguments you want about the results and I'm sure no one expected Drive2Survive to retire.