This is all your fault, Juan Pablo Montoya!
During this year's Daytona 500, there were two major stories: fire and rain. The rain makes sense; after all, this is the first Daytona 500 ever delayed an entire day due to rainy conditions. The fire is something new added to the story during the race itself. While officials were trying to dry out the racetrack to complete the NASCAR event, Juan Pablo Montoya lost control of his car heading into Turn 3 and crashed into a jet dryer carrying 200 gallons of jet fuel, causing a massive fireball that destroyed a portion of the track at Daytona International Speedway and sent Duane Barnes (driver of the jet dryer) to the hospital.
"I left the pits and felt a really weird vibration, and I came back in and checked the rear end and said it was OK," Montoya said of his close encounter with a massive fiveball. "I got into the backstraight, and we were are going fourth gear but wasn't going that fast. Every time I got on the gas I could feel the rear squeezing. When I was telling the spotter to have a look how the rear was moving the car just turned right."
Veteran driver Matt Kenseth ended up winning the Daytona 500, but he's almost an afterthought considering, you know, all the other things happening around him. It's hard to compete with disasters both natural and man-made. But hey, at least nobody's talking about Danica Patrick this morning. That's good, right?
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