Daytona 500------------Ford!

Youngster (20yrs) Baine just won Daytone 500 in a Woods Bros. Ford. Good job!

WHAT A GREAT KID! Restored a little of my lost faith in NASCAR...

Just keep in mind that none of the cars are close to what comes off of an assembly line and ends up at the dealer. The name is nothing more than sponsorship, creative marketing, and branding.
The new track was long overdue, great race.
A lot of cars have been sold based on the winner, "win the race on Sunday, sell lots of cars on Monday."

seems to be asensible fella. So many of the later drivers are all hotheads it seems.f it doesn't go their way they blowup.

With all the talk of Hendricks, Gibbs, Roush, et al, it's nice to see the Wood Brothers team get back on the Winners' Circle after a 10-year absence...even if it did take a rookie to put 'em there!

Gave up on NASCAR years ago. All cars look the same. Most of the drivers are just overpaid idiots. Not like the days of Petty,Allison brothers and the rest.

I'm still a Mark Martin and Tony Stewart fan. I was going for the kid because of the Wood Bros.

He did a super job driving that Ford. Glad to see a Ford win it. The team did a great job.

Saw that. Good for him! All the interviews of other drivers as well as the commentators had only good things to say about him. Seems like a good kid.

Even a better win for the Wood Bros , one of the most innovative and hard working teams in history. Stayed with Ford when it would have been real easy to go GM. Unbeatable back when "innovation" had something to do with winning. Those days are long gone. NASCAR got just what they wanted today , spectacularism!! Not racing. Other countries must laugh at us.

not much of a race! two cars pushing each other all the time had the paint rubbed of the nose of every car

Guess I hadn't seen a nascar race in a few years, I got a kick out of them pushing each other around like that. Also with those noses so close to the ground, they really tore up the sod when they got in the grass. Watching it with my 8 year old, he thought it was a good race also.

Bayne appears to be a clean-cut young kid. I bet a lot of girls are licking their chops.

But, like someone once said, "It ain't like it useta be!".

I remember when I was stationed in Beaufort, SC in 1963, I'd go to a dirt track in Savannah, GA every Friday night. At the time, Cale Yarborough was one of the local brats driving a sportsman, LeRoy Yarbrough ran there, Tiny Lund showed up once in a while, etc.

When we were racing, I met Bobby Allison a few times, raced against him a couple of times. He flew his own airplane, and he'd send a crew around the country with a dirt track car. Then, with pre-planning, he'd fly his own airplane in at the right time to drive. Then sent the crew on their way while he went back to NASCAR.

In my day, if someone started blowing the doors off everyone else, it was up the the rest of us to figure out how he was doing it, and figure out how to compete. Now, if someone is faster then everyone else, they make him detune his car so everyone else can keep up.

We all had our little sneaky ways to beat the rules and let the officials try to catch us. It was a challenge, both ways.

As ya'll are probably aware, the further back you can set the engine in a stock car, the better it handles because of better weight distribution. At one time, to check for engine set back all they looked at on Chevy's was the distance between the distributor and the firewall, and whether the firewall had been modified to let the distributor set further back. We were still running a '74 Chevelle then, and I cut a 4" section out of the cowl, moved the entire firewall back 4", and welded it back on. Then moved the engine back 4". They never did catch it.

Later, they made a rule that your front spark plug couldn't be over 2" behind a line across your upper ball joints.

I better shut up. I could have a ball sitting here reliving "the good old days".

I've been a Woods Brothers fan for many years. They are the oldest team still in existence. I was at their shop a couple of times when they were still in Stuart VA. One of them told a reporter one time they knew they were into racing for good when they won enough money the previous year to be able to go down to the local Ford store and buy a new car off the showroom floor and cut it up for a race car. That was back in the 60's I think.

yawn...napcar had a race today? those things all look the same not stock anything,might as well give them each a go cart and let em go.

Glad to see him win. As far as Ford, about the only thing that's Ford on those cars is the name. This also goes for Chevy and Dodge

You know? Thats how I was. I actually looked forward to the 500, but when I saw cars pairing up two by two, regardless of teams and drivers from the opening lap..."Man this thing aint going to be about racing nothing, its going to be a demolition derby". And thats what happened. Restrictor plate demolition derby with something new. This time, except for Team Penske that refused, all the drivers had all of the other drivers radio frequencies and were all asking each other, regardless of teamsand drivers, for help. "Will you help me win Jimmie if I help you win?" and "Absolutely Kyle, I would love nothing better than helping you win, if you help me crash that line of cars over there". I have to imagine that if the "Intimidator" were alive today and another driver other than his teamate asked him for his radio frequency, that guy would have gotten the wall at some point during the race.

I'm happy that a part time team, the Woods Brothers got their first win in 10 years, but napcar had better clean it up. I see that Fox brought that stupid gopher back. Reminds me of when they did hockey, and made a blue flame come out of the pucks butt if it went over 90 MPH, white over 100 MPH.

Mark

I say to make them get rid of the radios. Drivers need to drive without them like they did in the old days, and the pit crews need to figure out how to do their jobs without radios too. Stock car racing used to be a tough, grimy, gritty sport. The days of Yarbrough, Petty, Baker, Parsons, Isaac, and many others are long gone. Too bad.

Race----didn't get to see it. I turned on my television set just minutes before race time and it wouldn't give a picture but did show the power was on. Also wouldn't give a set menu. Tried it a little later and that time it automatically cycled the power off.

Rest in peace thou good and faithful servant of 17 years. I tend to remember less than $300 plus about $80 for an antenna, so $380 for 17 years of entertainment plus some electricity is pretty reasonable.