Thursday, February 20, 2003

Well, it was great going to Daytona and getting away for a few days, too bad it was only the Daytona 272 instead of the 500. They knew it was going to rain and should have postponed it until the next day. We did have some entertainment during the rain delays however. One of the ushers decided that she was running the whole show and that if the people standing near the fence didn't go back and sit down she was throwing them out. Now it doesnt sound like any big deal, but if you could just see her waving her hands around and pulling people's jackets to get them to move you'd understand. She had the whole crowd laughing at her. She was running around about 7 or 8 sections trying to get people to move. By the time she got down to one end they'd start standing around the other end. I guess that some of the people she was pulling around had had enough because all of a sudden her supervisor came up and made her leave. The crowd went crazy, laughing and cheering. We didn't see her again.

The race itself wasn't bad. I forgot how fast those cars go. It was exciting seeing them again in person. It was pretty scary ther for a little while. When Ryan Newman crashed it was bad. All we could do is sit and wait for the paramedics to get to his car and get him out. Once he was out of the car and standing by himself, we knew that he was alright but it was a pretty bad crash. His car rolled over a half a dozen times and almost completely fell apart. He was ok though so that's what really matters. I'll bet he's still pretty sore though.
My fantasy teams didn't do very well, if the race had gone on to the end I might have done better but 2 of my drivers were caught either at the end or a lap down. Oh well, you can't win them all.

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