While I don’t think that giant pot hole on the track at Daytona ruined the race, it certainly did taint it. Jamie McMurray is a great story and it was a great win for him and Earnhardt Ganassi Racing, too bad so many people at the track and home missed that unbelievable finish. Because as great as that ending was, it still wasn’t worth the six hours it would have taken to get there.

The Super Bowl had an amazing finish this year, but Roger Goodell wouldn’t be telling us to focus on the last minute if the scoreboard fell in the middle of the game and it took them more than two hours to dig it out of the turf and re-sod the entire field.

Great finish, the new rules definitely opened up the racing. But what good is it if so many people missed it and you can’t race because there’s a giant hole in the track and no one knows how to repair it?! I get that poor track conditions are a staple of NASCAR. And track officials are trying to blame it on the bad weather. But that can’t happen at Daytona!

The 405 here in L.A….sure, but Daytona, no way! And it probably wouldn’t have, if they actually repaved the track more than once every 30 years. And if you were waiting for a reason to finally get around to it, now you have one. Only now, it’s too late.