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Daytona 500 Index | February 14, 2010 | Daytona Beach, Fla.

Comprehensive coverage of the Daytona 500, includes expert commentary, video clips and more.

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Bring Back Double Duty

Ryan McGee

500 miles is great. 600 miles is better. Driving 1,100 miles in a matter of hours? That...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 19, 2009

The NASCAR Advice Columnist

Ryan McGee

...us is proven right I am banished to the couch. I've been there since the Daytona 500 finished in February. Who is right? Sofa Bed in Sleepy Eye, MN Dear Sofa Bed, Grab...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 21, 2009

Starting Five

Ryan McGee

Two or three times a week, I drive by the construction site where the NASCAR Hall of Fame and the adjoining NASCAR office tower inch their way up from...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 18, 2009

Hairpocalypse Now

Ryan McGee

...with a kitchen knife. Since then, the three-time defending Cup champ finished 31st in the Daytona 500, 24th at Vegas and a bizarre series of pit miscues have kept him bogged down at...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 10, 2009

Have car, will race

Ryan McGee

...together so we could build a car and go try to make the field for the Daytona 500. I said the same thing to my sponsor, All Sport, and guess what? We did! Man...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 05, 2009

Racy Ryan's NASCAR Advice Column

Ryan McGee

...fan. She's been locked in her sewing room ever since the big crash in the Daytona 500. What can I say to her that will bring her back out and back into my...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 03, 2009

End of the Road

Ryan McGee

...them," Junior Johnson recalled to me last week after I'd asked him about the 1960 Daytona 500, the second edition of the Great American Race. "I was in a Chevrolet and trying to...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 24, 2009

Best and Worst of NASCAR So Far

Ryan McGee

...of the best races in Daytona history, but some of the best events in NASCAR history. In two hours we had 15 lead changes among 12 drivers (the 500 had nine and nine in...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 18, 2009

The New Intimidator?

Ryan McGee

...Earnhardt Jr. 4 Dale Junior gets a lot of attention for his win in the '04 Daytona 500 and in the '00 NASCAR All-Star Race at Charlotte. But Harvick also owns a first...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 09, 2009

Beach Bliss

Ryan McGee

To hear most members of the motorsports media talk about it, Daytona Speedweeks is nothing but a hassle. It lasts two weeks. The traffic is bad. The hotels are...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 03, 2009

On the Set of "24"

Ryan McGee

...it provides to the next event at the Daytona International Speedway, a little race called the Daytona 500. More than a decade later, I am happy to report that, despite participation from more and...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 26, 2009

Well Fed, Minus Scoops

Ryan McGee

They come by plane, train and automobile and from all four corners of the media earth. Reporters, columnists, bloggers, Twitterers (did I just make th...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 21, 2009

Ryan McGee's Blog: End of an era

Ryan McGee

Petty Enterprises is gone. Like totally gone. Like joined-the-T-Rex-Edsel-and-D.B.-Cooper-in-the-ether gone. So why aren't people making a bigger deal...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 12, 2009

A Racing Drag

Ryan McGee

...as Phoenix, Ontario, and Riverside. This year we also lost Bullet Bob Reuther, who made it to Daytona Beach in '47 and won the first Nashville Speedway track championship ten years later. A licensed pilot...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 29, 2008

The Fall of Al Unser Jr.

Ryan McGee

...his Indy Car sponsor Valvoline accepted the invitation of Rick Hendrick and went racing in the Daytona 500. The fit was a natural. The defending Indy 500 champ was a fast-driving, hard-partying...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 15, 2008