The Return of the Dr. Ken, his contest and the spreadsheet!!!!

Unfortunately it looks like rain again this year.

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Where might said contest be hosted?

green flag at 2:05 central and skies are half blue.

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Rain is tracking north northeast. As long as the rain stays west of I-4, the track will be fine. We got all night to get the race in.

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Just taking a trip down memory lane, it isn't.

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Stands look half full

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It is a "sellout" of 30,000 people. They sold all the tickets they could.

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Oof. That is a lot of torn up race cars.

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seriously? it does kinda look normal.. but only 30k? has to be the weather...

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is that the most that has been at a sporting event since this crap started?

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I believe so if we believe the Super Bowl numbers.

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My Draftking pool is shot. Blaney, Ragan, Busch, and Buescher are all out/damaged. Fucking stupid that NASCAR doesn’t move up the start time when they know rain is coming. This race could be nearly over if they started at noon.

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My wife just flew to Daytona this morning. 30K in the stands is correct, but she said there are tons of people outside walking around, hanging out.

Yes, it is the largest audience since the apocalypse started.

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Good for Nascar and Florida.

Fuck Covid

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Rain finally came. Gonna be a long delay.

We got all night.

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I've never watched a NASCAR race on TV or attended in person. This is a first for me.....it's more interesting / entertaining than I expected. Not sure I'll watch it all after the rain delay theater...we will see.

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Jordan becoming an owner is HUGE for NASCAR.

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Given that you're not exactly a spring chicken and remember some of the good old days, how can this be? I remember being so desperate in the dead of winter to see anything different, I'd watch nearly anything.

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Pitbull as well.

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I recorded the E60 ESPN Earnhardt tribute this morning, looking forward to going back and watching it.

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I remember when they got out the blue tarps and saying to my dad "I don't think he made it." We were already fearing the worst after seeing Schroeder's reaction when he went to the car. One of the few times I ever called the Score was after that race and they announced he had died while I was on hold. I was the first caller and stated how Nascar had to do something since drivers couldn't withstand these collisions and were dying of traumatic brain injuries. The host quickly got me off the call as if I didn't know what I was talking about. But that's exactly what these drivers were dying from before they started wearing the HANS device.

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many drivers were wearing HANS at the time. dale was one of the last holdouts. said it was uncomfortable.

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its going to rain all night. race will resume tomorrow.

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Not many NASCAR drivers at the time of Earnhardt’s death were wearing it.

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DAC is correct. It was around but many were not wearing it and some even thought it increased the risk of injury in a crash.

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Iirc, close to a majority of the drivers were in fact wearing it. Especially the younger kids.

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There were definitely drivers who were wearing it and they were probably the younger guys, but the majority of drivers in 2001 were more old school guys. Even the race winner Michael Waltrip was not wearing it.

Here is an article from right after Sr's death about the device

https://www.crash.net/nascar/news/84701 ... -earnhardt

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Many were wearing it. I existed back then. You guys are assholes

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Old number 3 wore a chinless helmet for crissake. And I don’t remember Hans before he died.

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I am pretty sure we all existed back then

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