Daytona 500 Free Live Stream

I am going to watch it.

I was born and raised in Daytona, no longer there, but going to the race was of the best times in my life.

My second favorite track after Talladega.

This is the last Restrictor plate race.

Tapered spaces are still restrictor plates

Yes, and each Track has its own set designed for that Track from what Im gathering.

Watching it now :) Not much of a race fan but my family is lol

Decent so far... Anyone see the Daytona Truck series race on Friday?!!?! That shit was wild! Last 20 laps lost half the field to crashes lol.

It's hard to believe that tomorrow will be 18 years since Dale Earnhardt was killed at Daytona.

Time marches on.

Watching now

Dale was the Man, I saw Him race in 96, spring race at Talladega...

I stopped watching NASCAR a few years ago, used to be a big fan, but like football, they had to ruin it with all their silly rules. Neither is a safe sport, don't want to get hurt, don't play the sport. Only fun part of NASCAR is the last 10 laps, otherwise it's follow the leader, and don't get out of the draft.

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I stopped watching all but the Superspeedway races. I remember when this was 'Winston Cup Racing' and Dale Earnhardt drove the Wrangler car.

Nascar ruined Racing.

I agree, "The Intiminator" was the Boss, try to block him, and he'd nudge them out of his way.

I'm a huge race fan. Mostly open-wheel IndyCar, but follow F1 and Nascar too, so am pretty up to speed (sorry for pun) with what is going on in each series. Nascar's demise is a bit perplexing as the cars have been pretty much purpose built race cars since the mid '80's which has led to much of the pack racing. I think it's a matter os sponsorship $. Same deal with IndyCar where there are really few major corporate sponsors. That goes all the way back to when all American (later F1) on the prohibition of tobacco sponsorship which was huge for these series.

Anyhow, Tony George f'd up the US open wheel racing which was known before as Champ Car or CART, and formed his own league which was an oval only series which went head to head against the existing CART series. Again, sponsorship $ then were diluted due to that many more teams. At least now there is a resurgence as the new conglomerated series (which the merge happened in the 2000's) are back to racing in three disciplines-- road (which are purpose built race tracks usually with several corners, elevations, etc., temporary street circuits which are usually boring and then ovals. Ovals are most exciting yet most dangerous. Indy 500 is still my favorite race of year to watch, but I never miss a Daytona or Talladega -- the two real super-speedways in my book, although any 2 mile oval is by definition a super-speedway.

Hoping Kyle Busch will finally get his Daytona win, the only big one he is missing. IMO, he is the best racer out there, yet he is hated by many.

Im hoping Kyle gets his win today also.

I saw him win at the Brickyard back in 1994.

He'd just Rattle your Cage.

I was at the summer race that year sweating my ass off in my earnhardt football jersey!

Sat in 2nd row coming out of turn 4. The white "3" on the jersey was almost black by the end of the race hahah

I was at the Inaugural US 500 at Michigan after the CART-IRL split and witnessed the "Charade Lap" in person.

Brian France ruined NASCAR.

Ive watched nearly every race since 1993. Its just burn out and things changing over time. We all get older and interests change. No single thing is to blame.

Ive been losing a lot of interest over the last couple years.

I blame my hate for jimmie and his winning races and 7 championships over the last decade

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Last Race I was at was Atlanta 1999, tickets just got too expensive for us.

Yeah they got too big for their britches and started charging entirely too much. Last one i went to was in 2009 or so at talladega when edwards had his big crash. Maybe actually went to one more after that

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My last was either the Brickyard or Las Vegas around 2004. The wife and I used to pull the camper to Indy for the weekend and would drop about $1,500 for the weekend.

Was there too-- was in Turn 4 with a bunch of Ford employees when that went down. ALthough they were probably about 120 mph or so, it was wild watching the wrecking going on in what all looked like surreal slow motion.

Probably my fondest memory is texas innaugural race in 1997. Got a right front tire off of earnhardt sr's car. Still have it in my storage. Was young and weak, and i carried that heavy fucker for probably 2 miles back to the car with people offering to buy it hahaha

We had 1996 Class A motorhome we used to go in. Just got way to expensive

Sweet ! I've seen people lay them flat and put a round piece of glass on top of them and use them as a coffee table.