Daytona 500 picks

Another race of attrition with only the last 15 laps of attempting to race. Creates these chaotic endings where a lucky winner prevails. Not the best driver, team, or car. They need to limit the race to two hours and see what happens. It would definitely make a more interesting race. Who has 5 hours to waste watching two rows of cars ride around?
 
This race used to typically have the best drivers and cars win this race…. Fireball Roberts, Mario Andretti, Cale Yarborough, Bobby Allison, Bill Elliot, Richard Petty 7 time winner, Buddy Baker, Dale Earnhardt Sr….

Now…. It’s just some smuck survives the big one or second big one and happens to be out front after a bunch of stupid extra late lap restarts….

Heck… this nonsense makes Derrick Cope winning the Daytona 500 in 1990 look great in comparison. At least Derrick Cope ran up front in the top 10 and actually top 5 a fair amount in the race he won when Dale Sr got a flat tire going into turn 3 with Cope running second when that happened.
Yes I thought it was pretty boring watching them go around in 2 lines. Gets interesting the last 10-15 laps because they start taking chances. The winner is determined by luck.
 
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