I am feeling sorry for the Rusty Wallace fans who have to watch Kurt Busch drive a virtually identical car. I wish they would have tweaked the design a little bit to make it uniquely Busch's car and show a little respect to Wallace. Oh well.

Wow, Carl Edwards is back in 38th. What happened to him? At one point he was running in the top five. Both Gordon and Stewart are ahead of Edwards, and as far as I know Edwards didn't tag the wall. Stewart is back up to 10th already. Sheesh, his car scraps the wall at 190 mph and you still can't slow him down.

Commercials: I love the Mark Martin/Carl Edwards spot. "Crazy old man." Yes. And Jeff Burton sitting down to get some auto insurance. And finally seeing Dale Jarrett race the truck--that feels good. OK, I have to admit I like the Home Depot commercial where Stewart credits his victories to home improvement projects.

And we've got a big wreck. Jeff Green spins and Carl Edwards and Kyle Petty got together with nowhere else to go. That's a big hit. I hate to see the day end so early for Petty, and that's the same way Edwards' day ended yesterday in the Busch race. Ouch.

We're getting toward the end and Jamie McMurray just got into Kurt Busch and Busch's tire and back end got shredded. Amazingly there wasn't a huge pile-up.

Wow--Mark Martin took the lead in one wild pass. And guess who's second? Tony Stewart. So much for any damage. I'm certainly not used to seeing Mark Martin lead at Daytona. How cool would it be if he won his last shot at a Daytona 500?

And Matt Kenseth just went into the wall and blamed it on Tony Stewart over the radio. Wow. The replay looks pretty wild with Stewart cutting off Kenseth pretty bad. Amazing nobody else was collected in that. And that's two Roush cars banged up, par for the course at a restrictor plate race. And Tony Stewart isn't exactly making friends today. Wasn't he talking about the need to keep aggressive driving in check? Hmm.

And apparently NASCAR agrees. They just sent Tony Stewart to the end of the longest line.

And leaving the pits Kenseth runs up on Tony Stewart and NASCAR black flags him. That was stupid. I'm know Kenseth has to be mad, but how stupid can you be? I guess NASCAR drivers haven't learned how to keep their cool since last year.

Kyle Busch has the lead now, the 15th different leader, which is apparently a record for Daytona. I thought it seemed like we've had a lot of different cars running up front.

Jamie McMurray gets into Kurt Busch and Busch loses a tire and most of his sheet metal. Amazingly no one else got collected. A few laps later McMurray gets into the wall and his day is over. Busch probably sees that as a fitting end.

Not much of a charge at the end with the green white yawn--I mean checkered finish. I wish Ryan Newman and Casey Mears would have teamed up to pass Jimmie Johnson, but instead they duke it out themselves and Johnson sails on to an easy victory, if you can call a Daytona 500 victory easy.

All in all a pretty eventful Daytona 500, even though the end wasn't that exciting. Surprisingly we never had 'the big one,' though there were still plenty of close calls, near misses and aggressive driving.