Ultimate Race Day

By: CJFinch

I thought waiting for the NASCAR 2010 Sprint Cup Season to start took a long time, but waiting for the pothole at the Daytona International Speedway to get successfully resurfaced so that the red flagged racing could resume took what seemed to be an eternity!

It was completely embarrassing for NASCAR and the Daytona International Speedway to endure such a calamity on arguably the biggest race day of the season.

The crews of the Daytona International Speedway unsuccessfully attempted to try and fix a pothole in the track by applying 4 different types of gravel. And it was not until stopping the race a second time later that day that they finally got it to the point where the race could be finished.  What was the solution? It was applying a special epoxy that glistened like shiny silver plastic smeared across the black track as the race finished under the darkness of nights. Fortunately for the fans and the drivers alike the race concluded in grand fashion, but ore on that in just a second because something else happened that is noteworthy.

I don’t know how I could have kept the race on during that melee if it was not for Twitter.

The microblogging service came to the rescue with the fans, the race teams, the drivers, the media folks, NASCAR and even the tracks setting up and maintaining Twitter accounts all weekend long. It actually made the race and the weekend a much more interesting and engaging experience to follow.

If you are new to Twitter let us know here at Ultimate Race Day and we can help direct you in getting started, and you will agree once you get set up that it really makes the Nascar experience, especially our Fantasy League experience, infinitely more enjoyable.

Now for those of you that are already on Twitter just remember to add #URD to any of your tweets as well as to post your Twitter name in the message board of our Fantasy League so we can find you and help you engage in a fun conversation with the rest of us online there.

And then the race continued..

The special epoxy had dried and the race was back on for good. It was well worth the wait to see Kevin Harvick make a bold and daring move on Martin Truex Jr. and Greg Biffle to secure the inside lane and perhaps the checkered flag at the 2010 Dayonta 500 Sprint Cup Race. I was rooting for him to do so as he was one of my B drivers in our Fantasy League along with Dale Earnhardt Jr who looking like he would start the season with a mediocre finish from what I could tell thus far.

But things would not turn out that way..

It was Jamie McMurray who took the checkered flag and somehow to the roaring cheer of all of Jr Nation at the finish line it was the Amp Energy #88 car of Dale Earnhardt Jr. who blew up the middle of the pack and took 2nd Place.

It was a phenomenal finish for Jamie McMurray and great finish for Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his race team who believe this start can provide validation for the driver who had been slumping year’s prior.

It was quite a race and finish and some of the drivers eaten up by the Daytona International Speedway were Jimmie Johnson, Kasey Kahne and Ryan Newman all of whom would not cross the finish line that day. This was a detriment to many of you in our Ultimate Race Day Fantasy League, but worry not, there is a lot more racing and opportunity to move to the front of the pack in our league this year..

I’ll be back with more on that later..

CJFinch