Trevor Bayne, right, and Tony Stewart, left, lead the field on a restart in the closing laps of the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Bayne won the race. (AP Photo/Glenn Smith)It was a crazy weekend. Seriously, save the drama that revolves around college football on a week-in, week-out basis, this was so, so… in truth you can fill in a river of words that start with un- and then fill in the blank. Hey, let’s give that a shot.
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Unbelievable
If Dale Junior had won the Daytona 500 – on the 10th anniversary of his legendary father’s death on the final lap of NASCAR’s Super Bowl – then a lot of conspiracy theorists would have be putting their aluminum foil hats on and blowing up the Interwebs in their parents’ basements.
But did anyone see Trevor Bayne making history Sunday evening?