Daily Fail: Potholes at Daytona

Charlie Klein

We have never, ever written anything about NASCAR on the 4-1-1 On Sports. But I think what happened yesterday deserves a bit of our attention, if for no other reason than its sheer lunacy.

One would think that in a "sport" that relies as heavily on its playing surface as NASCAR does, that they would rigourously check the track before having 30 or so racers drive at speeds topping out around 200 mph on it. And yet the organizers of the Daytona 500 appear to be as dumb as most of the people who hitch their trailers out to watch people drive around in circles.

Yesterday Jimmie Johnson had to pit early because he feared that he had run over a pothole in the Daytona track. This led to two lengthy delays in the race as Daytona track keepers (I'll call them that for want of a better term) attempted to fill the pothole. As one can imagine, this didn't really work that well.

Having a pothole in the Daytona 500 is like if an NHL arena had one spot on the ice that was just cement. Just so fail-tastic.