NASCAR will battle the elements again Monday - a day after rain postponed the Daytona 500 for the first time in its 53-year history.
After hours of intermittent showers Sunday, race officials decided to pull the plug and give it another try on Monday, rescheduling for a 12:01 p.m. ET start.
NASCAR officials will be battling the odds again Monday. The National Weather Service forecast calls for an 80% chance of precipitation along the central Florida coast.
Prior to this year, the Daytona 500 had a sparkling record with only four races out of 53 shortened by rain - in 1965, 1966, 2003 and 2009. None, however, had ever been canceled for the day.
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The first flag to flag race broadcast by CBS happened in a year when the eastern seaboard was snowed in. This was the launch that propelled the Daytona 500 into the marketing maelstrom.
Now on the rain delayed Sunday you saw drivers being interviewed outside their million dollar trailers and wonder just how red-neck can any of them be.
So that race got rained out! It makes the neighborhood quiet and peaceful and dont have to smell all the foul stench of the exhaust fumes! Go away!
And dont have all that deafening noise pollution as well!
Quit your whining and just watch garbage like American Idol or the Bachelor instead!