Nascar Rules

[the H team]

10:01 p.m. ET -- If you thought Trevor Bayne was an underdog winner last year, how about Dave Blaney at the top of the heap right now?
10 p.m. ET -- The fire is out, but emergency vehicles are still on the scene in an attempt to clean the wreck site.

[the H team]

they have got 2 big tractors that have picked up the truck & trailer off the track while officials take a look at the track to make sure there's no damage.

[the H team]

now they have to get all the jet fuel cleaned up.

[the H team]

10:23 p.m. ET -- Drivers are out of their cars on the backstretch.
10:20 p.m. ET -- On Dave Blaney's radio, he's told, "We might have stole one here!"

[the H team]

10:24 p.m. ET -- NASCAR officials report that Dave Blaney does not want to get out of his car. He is asking, however, for someone to bring him water. Could the Daytona 500 trophy be far behind?

[the H team]

10:30 p.m. ET -- Video shows track worker running up the track to help driver of the jet-dryer truck just before the fire broke out. That guy deserves a bonus

[the H team]

there is still 40 laps left to go. clean up is going on to hopefully get back to racing tonight.

[the H team]

they've used speedy dri to help absorb the jet fuel, then a cleaning agent & now they're using a pressure washer to rinse everything down.

[heartgirl99]

i'm not going to make it.
let me know how it ends.

night!

[the H team]

11:43 p.m. ET -- Carl Edwards and Kyle Busch will both have to go to the back of the pack for pulling tear-offs from their windshields.
11:40 p.m. ET -- No matter what happens from here on out, Dave Blaney at the very least deserves some sort of honorable mention for the most time lead in this year's Daytona 500.
11:21 p.m. ET -- Drivers have been called back to their cars. Also, the rain cell that had been headed toward the track appears to have broken up. Crew members from each team will be ferried to the backstretch to help their drivers get settled.
11:16 p.m. ET -- According to NASCAR official Steve O'Donnell's Twitter feed, "We've sent officials to backstretch to be ready to load drivers back into cars

[the H team]

11:51 p.m. ET -- The top 10 when the red is withdrawn will be Dave Blaney, Landon Cassill, Tony Raines, David Gilliland, Matt Kenseth, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Casey Mears, Kevin Harvick, Greg Biffle and Joey Logano.
11:45 p.m. ET -- Let's hope that when the race gets started again that Turn 3 doesn't turn into Calamity Corner!

[the H team]

engines have fired up on the back straight away

[the H team]

pits will be open this time by.

[the H team]

11:57 p.m. ET -- The red is being withdrawn, and cars are beginning to roll off the backstretch. We might just finish this thing after all!

[the H team]

Lap 162 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. doesn't think the high side of the accident site in Turn 3 is ready for racing conditions.
Lap 161 -- Kasey Kahne and Michael McDowell pit road.