katiek's Blog

Well hello race fans from sunny DAYTONA BEACH...... What can I say ...it's the 50th anniversary of The Great American Race. It's finally here and I am pumped.

What a great feeling to leave behind the miserable rainy/sleet conditions of the D.C. area and escape to sunny Florida. Not to rub it in but the weather here today was in the high 70's...with the forecast for Sunday.... mid 80's.....ahhhhhhh nice!

On to the race. As I blogged earlier this year when testing began, JGR (Gibbs racing) was very strong here and boy have they showed it the last couple of days. Even though the god (Jr.) won the first qualiying race on Thursday of this week..... TOYOTA posted their first win in the Cup Series with Denny Hamlin winning the second qualifying race. Team TOYOTA backed that up today with another win by Tony Stewart in the Nationwide Series (formely the Busch Series).  I have a feeling that Team TOYOTA will be in victory lane again tomorrow.

Any of you that followed my blogs through the entire season last year know that I usually post a few predictions for each race. Recently when our beloved FOX 5 of D.C. felt they had to break into the coverage of the Daytona 500 qualifying session to bring you the BREAKING NEWS that Jim Zorn was named head coach of the floundering Skins.... I was glad to see all the NASCAR fans vent their anger on these blogs. Here are my predictions for the Daytona 500.... I know you guys are out there so how about some feedback from you?

Here we go:

TOYOTA will win the race tomorrow.

Matt Kenseth will finish in the top 10.

Juan Pablo Montoya will not finish on the leap lap.

2007 race winner.. Kevin Harvick will finish outside the top 10.

And yes this one is for you cowboysfan.... Jr. will not win and finish outside the top 10. ( I am thinking a cut tire or over aggressive driving.)

There you have it.... LETS GO RACING BOYS!

Sorry but no pics or animation for this blog... I am forced to send it from my phone.