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NASCAR will not penalize Brad Keselowski for his use of Twitter during last night’s Daytona 500.
Nothing we’ve seen from Keselowski violates any current rules pertaining to the use of social media during races. As such, he won’t be penalized.
We encourage our drivers to use social media to express themselves as long as they do so without risking their safety or that of others.
Feb. 27, 2012
By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire Service
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Finally, nothing out of the ordinary happened.
In a Daytona 500 that featured the first postponement in its history, a ball of fire from a racecar vs. jet dryer collision under caution and a surfeit of wild action in the closing laps, Matt Kenseth won his second Daytona 500 when the tandem of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Greg Biffle couldn’t catch the race winner in a green-white-checkered-flag finish.
Earnhardt made a slingshot move around Greg Biffle to run second in the 54th running of the Great American Race at Daytona International Speedway. Biffle came home third, followed by Denny Hamlin and Jeff Burton, as a late caution necessitated two extra laps beyond the scheduled 200.
Continue reading “2012 Daytona 500 Race Recap – Rain, Fire, Twitter, Matt Kenseth”
ESPN Breaks Cable Viewership Record with NASCAR Telecast from Daytona
With an average of 4.4 million people watching, ESPN’s live telecast of the NASCAR Nationwide Series season opener at Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 25 has broken the previous record as the most-viewed race ever on cable television for the series.
The race telecast earned a household coverage rating of 3.3, averaging 4,433,249 viewers in 3,304,012 households, breaking the record of 4,271,365 viewers in 3,170,109 households set for ESPN’s telecast of the Daytona race in 2010.
Ratings and viewership for the Daytona telecast were up 37 percent from ESPN’s telecast of last year’s race, which earned a 2.4 household coverage rating and averaged 3,246,875 viewers.
Continue reading “ESPN Breaks Cable Viewership Record with NASCAR Telecast from Daytona”
PHOTO CREDIT: NASCARMEDIA
1 4 17 Matt Kenseth Best Buy Ford
2 5 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Diet Mountain Dew/National Guard Chevrolet
3 2 16 Greg Biffle 3M Ford
4 31 11 Denny Hamlin FedEx Express Toyota
5 9 31 Jeff Burton Caterpillar Chevrolet
6 37 27 Paul Menard Menards/Peak Chevrolet
7 13 29 Kevin Harvick Budweiser Chevrolet
8 1 99 Carl Edwards Fastenal Ford
9 12 20 Joey Logano The Home Depot Toyota
10 22 55 Mark Martin Aaron’s Toyota
11 30 15 Clint Bowyer 5-hour Energy Toyota
12 26 56 Martin Truex Jr. NAPA Auto Parts Toyota
13 7 9 Marcos Ambrose Stanley Ford
14 32 47 Bobby Labonte Kroger Toyota
15 24 36 Dave Blaney Ollie’s Bargain Outlet Chevrolet
Continue reading “2012 NASCAR Race #1 Results, Daytona 500 – Kenseth Wins”
