Daytona 500 NASCAR Kicks Off The Season

Do you love NASCAR? Chances are that you're not going to lose the "Great American Race" that boots off the 2008 NASCAR season! This historical race have seen some of the top drivers battling for domination of the path (both blacktopping and beach) for a long clip now. What was once a beach race have go a basic of athletics around the nation. NASCAR racing have dramatically increased in popularity over the last few years, drawing new fans from around the state and the human race alike. There's no alibi not to lose the running play of the Daytona 500 this year.

Fox is the exclusive broadcaster for this race. You'll necessitate to check up on with your local programming, but it should be widely available through a assortment of artificial satellite and cablegram providers. If you acquire a local Fox web transmission channel through your air to land antenna, you should be able to tune up in here as well. MRN radiocommunication will also be broadcast media the race through their affiliate stations. This year, the bag for the Daytona 500 is put for a record breakage $18.5 million, with a bonded lower limit of $1.5 million for the driver and squad for this single race.

Currently (as of February 11th 2008), only 4 drivers have got qualified. The other race drivers will measure up for musca volitans during the Gatorade Duels held on Valentine's Day, February 14th. Jimmie Samuel Johnson will be in the first spot, with Michael Waltrip coming in second. Joe Nemecheck and Saint David Reutimman have got also qualified for spots. There are many freedoms for this race, as well. These race drivers are guaranteed a topographic point in the race, though not a position. Favorites including Earnhardt Inc and Hendrick Motorsports are there, as well as many others.

2008 Marks the 50th day of remembrance of the Daytona 500. As is befitting this milestone, the 24 life Dayton 500 race victors will move as Thousand Marshalls throughout the weekend. Some of the great name calling that you can see officiating are Bobby Allison, Geoff Bodine, Pete Hamilton, Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Junior Samuel Johnson (who will actually drive the gait car) and Richard Petty (who will drop the checkered flag). There are quite a few more than celebrated name calling and confronts that volition do an visual aspect at the race as well.

So what's new for 2008? There are two new points that volition do their visual aspect with the Daytona 500 race this year. The first is the fact that the Nextel name will be replaced with a Dash banner. This is owed to the amalgamation of Nextel and Dash some old age ago. The other first that this twelvemonth will see is the full usage of the Car of the Future by all racers. This vehicle will be the lone type driven from this point forward in the NASCAR circuit. The auto have been heralded with some incredulity by fans, though most drivers look (at least publicly) in favour of the new designings and other modifications.

You can catch all the races this twelvemonth on NASCAR Hotpass in HD exclusively on Direct TV.