This year's Daytona 500 was unlike any other Daytona 500. First, the race was pushed backed this year to avoid any conflict with the Superbowl. Second, for the last 53 races that have happen, all of them have started on a Sunday and ended on a Sunday. This year's race was rained out, finally started at 7p.m. on Monday and was finished at 1a.m. Tuesday morning. The race officially was the longest Daytona there has been lasting 36 hours, clock started at the original starting time for Sunday. The reason why it lasted so long, beside the rain, was that during a caution lap Juan Pablo Montoya was traveling pretty fast around the track, to catch up, and when we was close to one of the jet drying trucks something happened to his car which made him slide in to truck and causing and explosion and a massive fire that involved diesel and jet fuel. Talk about a hot race. Everyone was medically okay both vehicle were destroyed. The fire did however ruin the racing surface so the track crew had to pretty much reconstruct that part of the track which was another reason for taking so long. In the end, Matt Kenseth won his second race.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1iHU6TfMfs
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