For the first time in its 54-year history, the Daytona 500 has been postponed due to rain.
The Great American Race was originally scheduled to kick off at noon on Monday, but instead, the rain will continue through the afternoon. So now the biggest race of the year will kick off at 7pm. This looks like a real possibility since the chance of rain will drop from 70% to 30% by then.
The Great American Race was originally scheduled to kick off at noon on Monday, but instead, the rain will continue through the afternoon. So now the biggest race of the year will kick off at 7pm. This looks like a real possibility since the chance of rain will drop from 70% to 30% by then.
So make sure all your rowdy friends come over for some Monday Night Nascar.
This is going to be a nightmare for fans of the TV drama House and both fans Alcatraz will be mad as well because they will not be able to watch their favorite shows, but this will be a very interesting experiment for Nascar. This could very well be the modern day equivalent of the 1979 Daytona 500. The NFL is in the offseason and baseball has yet to start. So aside from The Voice and The Bachelor, what else are people going to watch?
It will also be interesting to see who will give the command to start engines and wave the green flag. Jane Lynch and Kate Upton were scheduled to start the engines yesterday, but they were gone by days end. John Cena was then supposed to wave the green and give the command, but he needs to be at WWE Raw. So, as of now, the honorary starter and grand marshal are unclear.
Overall, this is a great thing for the sport. Nascar takes a lot of crap for a lot of different reasons, but they have made a herculean effort to get the Daytona International Speedway dry so their loyal fans can see a 500 mile race. This will also allow fans who have work or school during the day to enjoy the biggest race of the year, in it's entirety, under the lights. Ratings will be high, so it will be interesting to see if this prompts Nascar to run races on weeknights.
If tonight doesn't work, and it should, the sanctioning body has said that it will run the race Tuesday morning before having to pick up the tents and move the show out west to Phoenix.
The race was obviously supposed to be run Sunday afternoon, but if a primetime Daytona 500 on a Monday night, under the lights doesn't get you excited, nothing will.
This is going to be a nightmare for fans of the TV drama House and both fans Alcatraz will be mad as well because they will not be able to watch their favorite shows, but this will be a very interesting experiment for Nascar. This could very well be the modern day equivalent of the 1979 Daytona 500. The NFL is in the offseason and baseball has yet to start. So aside from The Voice and The Bachelor, what else are people going to watch?
It will also be interesting to see who will give the command to start engines and wave the green flag. Jane Lynch and Kate Upton were scheduled to start the engines yesterday, but they were gone by days end. John Cena was then supposed to wave the green and give the command, but he needs to be at WWE Raw. So, as of now, the honorary starter and grand marshal are unclear.
Overall, this is a great thing for the sport. Nascar takes a lot of crap for a lot of different reasons, but they have made a herculean effort to get the Daytona International Speedway dry so their loyal fans can see a 500 mile race. This will also allow fans who have work or school during the day to enjoy the biggest race of the year, in it's entirety, under the lights. Ratings will be high, so it will be interesting to see if this prompts Nascar to run races on weeknights.
If tonight doesn't work, and it should, the sanctioning body has said that it will run the race Tuesday morning before having to pick up the tents and move the show out west to Phoenix.
The race was obviously supposed to be run Sunday afternoon, but if a primetime Daytona 500 on a Monday night, under the lights doesn't get you excited, nothing will.
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