Daytona thoughts...

1. No one should ever listen to Tony Stewart about anything... ever again. Really. His diatriabe about "someone else getting killed" due to aggressive and reckless driving was apparently aimed at everyone but himself. After the race, he justified running Matt Kenseth off the track at 190 mph because Kenseth had dared to drive two feet to Stewart's right in the first 20 laps of the race. Since when is driving alongside of someone an offence punishable by death? Tony Stewart should receive a very harsh penalty from NASCAR for admitting that what he did to Kenseth was intentional. There is no room for such behaviour at 190+ mph speedways. Period.
2. After having his debut race ruined by Busch Series 'rookie' John Andretti, Paul Tracy joked that he's now been hit by every Andretti but Marco. Fair comment. 'PT' did himself proud on Saturday and showed me could easily make the jump to NASCAR if the dollars are there to do it.
3. Did anyone else have a mental picture of the people from Lowe's having a heart attack when their car was 100% covered by confetti in victory lane following Jimmie Johnson's win in the Daytona 500? I don't think we'll be seeing the confetti machine anymore.
4. Cup drivers in Busch races treat it as a lark, in the same way they view the IROC events. The Busch regulars deserve better than to have their races turned into a joke wreck-'em by Cup regulars looking for something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
5. When did they announce that the Daytona 500 had become yet another night race?
6. When did Jimmie Johnson become so bitter? After the race, he went off on all the "48 haters". Maybe he was talking about people who looked down at the team for cheating earlier in the week? And speaking of the cheating, why did Johnson not get run off the property in the same manner as his crew chief Chaud Knaus? Whatever was going on with the illegal system they installed to improve the aero package of the #48 in qualifying, wouldn't Johnson have had to press a button to activate the thing? And if he did, then wouldn't he be as guilty as Knaus? And it's too bad that the 'victimization of the bad guy' has reached NASCAR. After the race, team owner Rick Hendrick and Johnson were droning on and on about the tough times the team endured over the Knaus ejection, as if they were caused by an outside force, rather than by themselves.