Gatorade Duels At Daytona

Just a reminder for all you NASCAR fanatics out there that the Gatorade Duels at Daytona are on tomorrow Thursday February 11, 2010 on Speed. The first duel is on at 2pm EST and the second duel is on at 4pm EST.

If you missed the practices on Speed today 4 time NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Jimmie Johnson will have to start the 150's in a back up car. The reason being Mike Bliss lost control of his car on the low side of the track in front of a pack of cars that were coming out of turn 4. Bliss ended up slamming into Joey Logano's car and than Jimmie Johnson rear-ended Denny Hamlin. I'm a huge Jimmie fan so to hear this I was none too happy but better than the 500 and let's hope that Jimmie will be able to make his way through the field tomorrow in the 150's.

Matt Kenseth led the second practice, followed by Kyle Busch, Brian Vickers, Jeff Burton and Carl Edwards rounded out the top five.

Of course the duels are to prepare us all for Daytona and than we'll see where all the drivers will start, who will make it in and who won't. I wish every driver trying to get into the 500 would get in but there are only so many starting spots. I'm already thinking ahead and hoping Mark Martin will pull off the win on Sunday, he is long overdue and deserves to win the Daytona 500, if not Mark than another first time winner would be cool...as long as it's not Kyle Busch haha, I can't stand him, I've never been a fan of his and never plan on being one.

Will you be watching the duels tomorrow? If so who do you hope will win in each of them and who do you hope will race their way into the 500? and finally who is your pick to win the Daytona 500? If you've already wrote on the Facebook's fan page and told me than you don't need to answer me again, I just love to see everyone's opinion. If your not a fan on FB and wish to be than just search Race Insider and it will show up, right now the default photo is a photo of Kevin Harvick from his win in the Bud Shootout last Saturday.

I plan on writing again tomorrow since the duels will be on and I look forward to hearing from everyone and seeing you active on the fan page.