Daytona 500

For lo, plum_evil and maveness did squee like might squeeing things. The term 'woobie' was used, and mightily.

For the Dale of the Junior won the Daytona 500.

I find it disturbing that I can identify most of the people in this picture. There are about 30 people (or their body parts) represented in this picture. Of them, I can identify: Casey Mears, Terry Labonte, Elliott Sadler, Tony Stewart, Bobby Labonte, Kurt Busch, Ward Burton, Robby Gordon, the back of Junior's neck, Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth, Ryan Newman, Jamie McMurray, Jeff Gordon, Jeremy Mayfield, random Secret Service agent...and the President. 17 out of 30. I would be doing better if I could figure out some of the random ears or the hair that appears in one spot.

To go with the sentiment I used on Kathe early in the race - Jeff is on Jimmie's ass.

Baby and the bad paint scheme.

The love, baby. The love.

Sadly no pictures of Michael Waltrip. Poor boy, he's won the Daytona 500 twice and he loves it, and he was hoping to do really well today and he got slammed into the wall by two rookies. The wreck was so bad that the car was literally demolished, except for everything inside the roll cage. And there was dirt *everywhere*. And imagine you're trapped in a smushed car, lying upside down, and they're trying to cut you out with the weight of the car on top of you, and you're 6'5". Michael's a nice guy, normally very affable. Unfortunately for the rescue crew that took 15 minutes to get him out (they got Dale Sr. out of his car much, much, much faster than that), Michael wasn't so nice to them.

And I am *very* disappointed that NASCAR doesn't have any pictures up of Kevin on Jimmie's ass. That's how I woke plum_evil up from her nap, with comments of "Harvick is on Johnson's ass!"

And there was OTP interviewing *together* after the race. I'm telling you folks, they're so a couple. Kathe was even quite struck by the gayness of their Gillette commercial. Harvick totally wants to do Jimmie.

I knew I'd find more pictures.

More from the Daytona 500.

Afterwards, Michael Waltrip said "This can be a dangerous sport. I guess I kind of forgot that." This one you must click on to understand. It also explains the large amount of dirt in his car.

Sign of a true redneck: arm out the window, even at 180 miles an hour.

That's how you celebrate.

The mother of all flyovers. It's standard for military jets and stealth bombers to do flyovers at the start of the race. But let me tell you, this was the coolest one ever. I don't care who the president is, to see that looming over the grandstand is just frickin' awesome.

Another shot of Waltrip's wrecked car after it came to a rest.

Dishevled and pissed off Mikey.

The grand marshall of the race and the green flag waver: Ben Affleck and Whoppi Goldberg. This is made even funnier by the fact that Aflac is a sponsor of the race and mentioned often, so poor Ben's name was, um, pronounced wrong.

Mikey's car again.