Thursday, February 4TH
Noon - 4:50 PM ARCA PRACTICE
5:00 PM 5:45 PM NSCS BUDWEISER SHOOTOUT PRACTICE
6:00 PM ARCA GARAGE CLOSES
6:30 PM 7:30 PM NSCS FINAL BUDWEISER SHOOTOUT PRACTICE
8:00 PM DRAWING FOR BUDWEISER SHOOTOUT LOCATED OUTSIDE TURN FOUR ON THE SPEED STAGE
Friday, February 5TH
11:00 AM ARCA QUALIFYING (TWO LAPS, ALL POSITIONS)
2:10 PM 3:30 PM NSCS PRACTICE
4:00 PM 5:30 PM NSCS PRACTICE
5:40 PM 6:30 PM ARCA FINAL PRACTICE
Saturday, February 6th
10:00 AM ARCA GARAGE OPENS
1:05 PM DAYTONA 500 QUALIFYING PRESENTED BY KROGER (TWO LAPS, TWO POSITIONS)
2:30 PM ARCA DRIVERS MEETING
4:00 PM ARCA DRIVER INTRODUCTIONS
4:30 PM LUCAS OIL SLICK MIST 200 ARCA RACING SERIES PRESENTED BY RE/MAX AND MENARDS RACE (80 LAPS, 200 MILES)
7:50 PM NSCS BUDWEISER SHOOTOUT DRIVER INTRODUCTIONS
8:10 PM NSCS BUDWEISER SHOOTOUT (75 LAPS, 187.5 MILES)
Wednesday, February 10TH
12:00 PM 1:30 PM NSCS PRACTICE
2:00 PM 2:50 PM NSCS PRACTICE (FINAL PRACTICE BEFORE GATORADE DUEL AT DAYTONA)
3:00 PM 5:00 PM NNS PRACTICE
6:00 PM 7:30 PM NCWTS PRACTICE
Thursday, February 11TH
9:00 AM 11:00 AM NCWTS FINAL PRACTICE
11:30 AM 1:00 PM NNS FINAL PRACTICE
1:40 PM NSCS DRIVERS INTRODUCTIONS
2:00 PM NSCS GATORADE 150 MILE QUALIFYING RACES (60 LAPS-150 MILES, EACH
RACE)
6:10 PM NCWTS QUALIFYING (TWO LAPS, ALL POSITIONS)
Friday, February 12TH
1:10 PM NSCS “HOT PASS” IN EFFECT
1:40 PM 2:40 PM NSCS PRACTICE
3:10 PM NNS QUALIFYING (TWO LAPS, ALL POSITIONS)
7:30 PM N CWTS DRIVER INTRODUCTIONS
8:00 PM NCWTS NEXTERA ENERGY RESOURCES 250 RACE (100 LAPS, 250 MILES)
Saturday, February 13TH
10:00 AM NSCS “HOT PASS” IN EFFECT
10:30 AM 11:55 AM NSCS FINAL PRACTICE FOR THE DAYTONA 500
12:45 PM NNS DRIVER INTRODUCTIONS
1:15 PM NNS CAMPING WORLD 300 RACE (120 LAPS, 300 MILES)
Sunday, February 14th
11:00 AM NSCS DRIVER / CREW CHIEF MEETING
12:00 PM NSCS “HOT PASS” IN EFFECT UNTIL ONE HOUR AFTER RACE
12:15 PM NSCS DRIVER INTRODUCTIONS
1:00 PM NSCS DAYTONA 500 (200 LAPS, 500 MILES)
Budweiser Shootout practice started about an hour ago and you can watch it live here on SPEED.
They already managed to crash, about seven or eight cars are involved. Hamlin and Martin made contact going into the first turn. Many will have to go to a back up car.
ARCA race has been crazy. A car flipping for no reason at all, cars piling into a crash that happened 15 seconds earlier. Its awful, hopefully nobody gets hurt but ARCA really needs to teach these drivers how to race.
Good race in the end, guess that had to do with all the rookies already being crashed out. Some more pictures. First Danica Patrick gets taken out by Piquet Jr. and then Jill George does the most stupid flip ever.
Well, the ARCA finish went green all the way, the Shootout didn't.
I thought the Shootout was pretty decent. Not that wild but still some awful good racing. I did notice a couple of things that could be interesting for the rest of Speedweeks. The last couple of years they only managed to run about 10 laps before the tyres started to wear out, now they were still relatively packed after 25 laps. I think we could see a lot more racing in the 500. However it looked like with the new aerodynamics on the cars that it was very difficult to pass the leader. Carl Edwards and I think it was Jamie Mac managed to stay up front for a long time.
Indeed the finish was a real pity. I hadn't noticed they had gone into overtime. Thinking back of it they came to the start with three to go and the pacecar still had its lights on while the track looked clear to me. Then it was two to go so obviously as they came back to the green it was one to go. NASCAR doesn't do that anymore (it could create finishes like the 97 Pepsi 400) so they added a lap. I was really surprised to see it end like that as the white flag hadn't been shown yet. Then I noticed they already had the GWC. A real anticlimax after all the hype with NASCAR letting the guys loose.
Hopefully the Duels will have better finishes, they normally have.
I don't really understand what they want to do but as long as it guarantees green flag finishes I'm all for it.
Quote:
NASCAR looking at changing green-white-checkered rules
Lee Spencer
Updated Feb 10, 2010 11:49 AM ET
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.
Just days before the most important race of the year, NASCAR is looking at changing the rules.
NASCAR proposed to all three series in Wednesday morning’s safety meeting that the sanctioning body is looking at redefining the green-white-checker rule to finish races.
In the past, when a caution occurred in the closing laps of a race, the field made one attempt at a green-white-checkered flag finish. Under the new rule, NASCAR will make sure the track is clean, run multiple green laps before waving the white and finally the checkered flag.
Robin Pemberton, Vice President of Competition for NASCAR, used the analogy of Saturday night’s multi-car wreck in Turn 3 where the leaders came around to the white flag and Kevin Harvick led the field around to the track for the final lap. Pemberton said, “At least with the new rule they’re going to race (one full lap of green) and then go on the white if we do this.”
The rule could go into effect for all three series as early as Thursday's qualifying races for the Daytona 500.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. just had a scary flip, similar to Tony Stewart's flip down the Daytona backstretch in 01. Luckily nobody got injured. I wonder if they have any cars left for the finish.
Great Nationwide Series finish. Shame we didn't have a couple more cars in the race so we could get that second line working. Still a great race, looking forward to tonight.
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