What a way to run a Shootout - Gaston Gazette

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NASCAR has never been a team sport. Kurt Busch won a race won almost all pairs.

Daytona Beach, Fla. - NASCAR has started its season with a traditional stuffing all races.

The inspiration for the Budweiser Shootout Saturday night was the late Marvin Gaye, who sang well known: "It takes two, baby, uh-huh, it takes two!"

Oh, sorry. Kurt Busch won, collapsed as a discipline between Ryan Newman and Denny Hamlin. Hamlin Toyota moving forward, take the yellow line taboo yelled and crossed the finish line first. Unfortunately, he crossed Busch Dodge legally.

It was a stupid ending to a stupid race at Daytona International Speedway.

Few were surprised, after the different training sessions before the event that the driver race together in groups of two. Everyone was surprised, however, it presented the only way to race.

The black flag banned ^at 11 Hamlin Place. Jamie McMurray officially second, third and Ryan Newman, Jimmie Johnson took fourth.

"It's unique," said Newman. "It's like nothing we have ever seen on this road."

Toyota Kasey Kahne was an early victim, and the pilot, who disappeared outside the front row, Carl Edwards in the first round began. Amazing person, winner of the Daytona 500 1990 Derrick Cope lost contact with the lead lap of the ^{track, 13.}

There was also a surprise if by turn 20, who had two major Richard Childress Racing Jeff Burton and Kevin Harvick.

At the end of the first segment (25 laps), the first five were not even a little surprising: in order, Burton, Harvick, Earnhardt Jr., Kenseth and Johnson.

That the new floor, new nose, new fuel or Voodoo, the action was very different. For much of the first segment, almost the entire field was slightly wee two cars distributed drawings, it is difficult to believe that the cars were bound by chains laid off.

Start a new wrinkle to the concept of "team sport," Grapes of two developed soon after the race resumed, but the recovery was short-lived. A crash on lap third round Smith collected the ^29th car of Juan Pablo Montoya, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Joey Logano, Denny Hamlin, Kevin Conway, Edwards, and Regan.

"I was between '88 '(Earnhardt) and '78' (Smith) and I do not know that the '78 'I'll come," said Edwards.

the ^36th round by Kyle Busch Toyota and the Chevrolet of Mark Martin Pack mired near the front between turns one and two. Miraculously, the other avoided combat.

Lap 43, the concentration was back: Burton, Harvick, Kurt Busch, Jamie McMurray, Greg Biffle and Johnson-Michael Waltrip, Tony Stewart. In fact, the first 14 positions were occupied by groups of two, seven of them.

On the ^49th lap lovers another spat occurred when it was obviously Waltrip Toyota Chevy abandoned by Stewart. Stewart escaped relatively intact.

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