#Daytona500

Despite the horrific accident at Daytona yesterday, the Daytona 500 will kick off today, February 24th, at 1:00 pm EST.

A devastating crash has halted festivities on the eve of the Daytona 500 with wreckage from a crash on the final lap of the Drive4COPD 300 sending 11 fans to hospital.

General Motors president Mark Reuss will drive the Chevrolet SS pace car this weekend to begin the Daytona 500.

The 2014 Chevrolet SS NASCAR race car will see its race debut this weekend at the Daytona 500, and the American automaker has released a pair of advertisements to celebrate its newest model.

Danica Patrick has become the first woman to win the pole position at a NASCAR top-division race and she did so today during qualifying for the biggest event of the year, the Daytona 500.

Finally, the V8 powered sport-sedan from Chevrolet has been revealed, sporting both impressive performance credentials and  luxury goods.

The Chevrolet SS is getting teased more than a dork at recess between GM’s minimal effort here and Holden unveiling versions of its new Commodore.

Despite the dramatic explosion, folks didn’t seem to care very much for this year’s Daytona 500.

This year’s running of the legendary Daytona 500 NASCAR race was interesting to say the least.

The tale starts with a storm, quite a large rain storm, that left the track soaking wet through Sunday, causing NASCAR officials to push the race back a day. This was the first time in the Daytone 500’s 54 consecutive years of running that the race has been displaced a day thanks to rain. The rain troubles continued into Monday morning, causing NASCAR to once again push back the race to 7pm Monday night.

Finally the track dried and the scene was set for the great American race. Things started off with a bang after a serious wreck in the second lap. There were a few pile-ups throughout, but the wreck-of-the night award goes to Jaun-Pablo Montoya, famed F1 driver turned NASCAR left-hand turner.

Montoya was running well back from the pack coming into turn three under a yellow flag when some mechanical bit on his car failed, causing the car to careen directly into a jet dryer truck that was out blowing debris off the track. The result was a fireball of epic proportions, which is more enjoyable to watch now because we know that both Jaun Pablo Montoya and the driver of the jet dryer were, for the most part, unharmed. The track jet blowers on these trucks are powered by kerosene, which unfortunately started spilling all over the track after the crash, further augmenting the flames.

After another two hour and five minute delay under a red flag, the drivers got back to racing, but not before driver Brad Keselowski managed to tweet a picture he took from the behind the wheel of his #22 Dodge Challenger. Keselowski’s live tweeting from pit row gained him over 100,000 twitter followers in the two-hour gap.

You can find the crash video, Keselowski’s twitter pics and other highlights from the 2012 Daytona 500 below.

GALLERY: Daytona 500 Brad Keselowski Pictures

Yesterday, the Daytona 500 was cancelled for the first time in its 53-year-old history due to weather. Heavy rains have been falling in the Daytona, Florida area and even though NASCAR hoped to start the race today at 12:00PM EST, it has been postponed once again until 7:00PM EST.

One of only 5,700 1980 Pontiac Trans Am Turbo Pace cars is up for sale, in mint condition and clearly a nice collectible. It sports only 11,285-miles on the odometer with an asking price of $29,900 – which is a killer deal for any classic car collector. The Turbo Pace Car was built to commemorate the first time one car paced both the Indy 500 and the Daytona 500 in the same year.

It’s official – Danica Patrick will be making her NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debut in the 2012 season-opening 54th annual Daytona 500.