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The GOOD, the BAD, and the UGLY of the 2023 Daytona 500

The 2023 Daytona 500 is in the record books for many reasons and we are going to look back at all aspects of this race. Much like just about every superspeedway race nowadays there was a controversial finish to the 65th annual Great American Race and it leaves a lot to be discussed throughout the week. So sit back, have a Wendy’s sponsored burger and enjoy the good, the bad, and the ugly of the 2023 Daytona 500.

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40 comments

The Iceberg February 20, 2023 at 11:08 pm

Did you enjoy the 2023 Daytona 500?

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Rowan. W February 21, 2023 at 12:41 pm

Hmm, mostly onjoyed it but the finish left a bad taste. They threw the yellow way too early and ruined the end imo

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Mike George February 21, 2023 at 3:20 pm

I’ve seen better

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Daniel Vohs February 21, 2023 at 3:45 pm

It was ok, didnt notice the commercials as much since once they went to break I switched to the live feed of Alex Bowman’s in-car camera

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Chrome Diesel February 21, 2023 at 5:33 pm

I wish I say I enjoyed if it wasn’t for commercials and the ending.

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Keegan Brown February 21, 2023 at 6:01 pm

Loved the race hate FOX. Besides the commercials I’m over the gimmicks. I hate the cartoon character drivers, cringe with Michael Waltrips stupid antics, the audio and video issues, the random zoomed in and zoomed out shots. Everything about FOX ruins the racing experience.

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AS19 February 20, 2023 at 11:20 pm

It was a good race. As a European, the racing in NASCAR is still quite new to me but I’m starting to warm up to it.
Stenhouse winning was cool, though I wish they didn’t implement the caution rule they have at the moment.
8/10; I was entertained well

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connor bingel February 21, 2023 at 1:20 am

It was a great race for a plate track. I really really wanted one of my RFK boys to win but oh well. I don’t think as many Europeans watch American racing as they should. I sure love some rally and enduro racing.

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Jakob February 21, 2023 at 10:18 am

@connor bingel completely agree with you but sadly it’s hard to watch American racing over here. Firstly and most obviously because of the time zone difference but also there is so little coverage and it’s honestly quite a bit of work to find broadcasts.
It’s a shame really because I think the audience would be there if Nascar f.e. put in the work and made viewing more readily available. Overall American sports leagues seem to be too centred around domestic viewership for their own good (not saying that putting the focus on national TV is a bad thing, quite the opposite, but expanding into other markets would greatly benefit the sport)

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Sri-Kaushal Ramana February 21, 2023 at 4:42 pm

welcome to the sport

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Evan Nuh-Koo-La February 20, 2023 at 11:20 pm

The Good: I was there
The Bad: It took too long to finish
The Ugly: Took forever to get out

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Larry Snellings February 21, 2023 at 4:19 am

The Ugly should be expected at a major sporting event.

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Riley Merritt February 21, 2023 at 4:20 am

@Evan Kraemer pocono was a freaking breeze last year

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Daniel Moorefield February 21, 2023 at 5:06 am

How bad was traffic on International Speedway Boulevard?

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]-[ud$on February 20, 2023 at 11:22 pm

One thing I won’t understand is people are bashing NASCAR for throwing the caution for Suarez spinning, which I may remind he GOT STUCK IN THE GRASS. They can’t just leave him there, and both of his right sides were blown.

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Andrew Meyer February 21, 2023 at 12:06 am

@NR88  That’s more the issue. It was already a caution *before* he even made it to the grass. NASCAR was just waiting for any excuse to have an Overtime finish because they think that’s the only way to have an exciting finish

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Scott Riley February 21, 2023 at 12:15 am

@Andrew Meyer As soon as he broke sideways, his right rear separated. Probably the reason for the quick flag.

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Redslayer86 February 21, 2023 at 12:53 am

@Andrew Meyer Which is a shame because that finish was building up to be something truly special had that caution never come out.

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mterwill9 February 21, 2023 at 5:59 pm

I mean even before he got stuck in The grass his right side rear tire was shredding apart and pieces were flying all over the place.

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Cito Browne February 20, 2023 at 11:22 pm

Good: The Amazing, and aggressiveness of these drivers racing
Bad: The overtime chaos
Ugly: Too Many Damn Commercials!!!

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SilverThunder710 February 20, 2023 at 11:32 pm

I listened to the MRN call, and I agree that the commercials were a bit annoying. As my first experience with MRN, though, it was fine. The racing was exactly how I like to see NASCAR: A bit on the edge, but with no long-term three and four-wide racing. The wreck at the end was a bit anticlimactic but at least the underdog Daytona 500 streak now is three years long.

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Eric Hopkins February 21, 2023 at 4:17 am

Yeah the radio for Nascar is really good. Sure you don’t get the visuals of course but I love that near the finish of the race they go commercial free. Able to listen to the radio is a godsend.

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flyer2359x February 20, 2023 at 11:48 pm

I do hope the package is updated a bit because it’s nearly impossible for them to make a third lane and results in a lot of them just being stuck there and predictable up front. But the 500 overall was a decent 500. Amazing? Nope. Bad? No.

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Joshua February 20, 2023 at 11:57 pm

There was a Bristol race on TNT in the early 2000s where the announcer said before going to commercials that they would take commercials to be able to show a green flag run.

That was the green flag run. I think Talledega Nights had it right with the Applebees commercial during the long wreck.

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Corwin Tipper February 21, 2023 at 12:14 am

I feel like this race show the bad of stage racing. I really liked having 135 laps caution free except for stage breaks however, I hate that the stages are done as cautions.

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Dual Threat Outdoors February 21, 2023 at 12:18 am

Mike Joy is also in the discussion for the best commentator in sport’s history

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S.KullRandom February 21, 2023 at 5:28 am

Not with that half-arsed broadcast

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Stephen Holloway February 21, 2023 at 7:41 am

Normally yes but after last time, not so much but even the best can have an off day every once in a while.

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Dual Threat Outdoors February 21, 2023 at 11:02 am

@S.KullRandom he’s past his prime. That doesn’t erase what he’s already done

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Kurzov February 21, 2023 at 3:19 pm

He is becoming new-age DW

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Redslayer86 February 21, 2023 at 12:44 am

That stretch right before Suarez spun was some of the best SS racing I’ve seen in years.

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Jason Lewis February 21, 2023 at 12:47 am

My biggest issue was when the first big crash happened they would not cut back in from commercial. The norm used to be they’d break back in immediately whenever anything happened. Here we literally saw Reddick wrecking as they went to break. And I don’t care if it’s side by side, break back in.

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Blobert 62 February 21, 2023 at 3:16 am

Don’t even get me started. That was atrocious. Literally went side by side and then a crash happens immediately and they gotta play through ever damn commercial before they go back

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Mitch Brown February 21, 2023 at 5:17 pm

They showed all the replays though so I dont see what the big deal is lol

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Mitch Brown February 21, 2023 at 5:20 pm

@Blobert 62 Idk what you guys expected from fox. To be honorable and do a good job? Thats not their mo at all lol

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The Iron Warlord February 21, 2023 at 1:33 am

My family and I were losing our minds with how the commercials kept bombarding us, especially during the first big wreck. Also hated the copious amounts of title cards blocking the entire view when they would switch to certain drivers’ cams and the fact that the leaderboard almost never cycled, and when it did, it only did so six positions at a time because someone had the audacity to make the TOP SEVEN positions REALLY BIG.

DEFINITELY hated the lie that was “Toyota All-Out coverage”; “Wait, do we dare go to commercial one more time? We do!” “Oh, hOW aBoUT a SeCoNd tImE??”

Always kinda disliked the GWC rule, absolutely HATE it now because of the wreckfests it’s been generating. They try to artificially create drama at the end, but it keeps coming out so damn shallow and cheap, only to end on a yellow anyway and be controversial with who was out front when the button was pressed, not who came back to the line first. The end last night was woefully anti-climactic because of all the chaos.

Also disliked the fact that you couldn’t see any of the action happening mid-field. Kyle Busch and Jimmie Johnson advanced TWENTY TO THIRTY POSITIONS early in the race, and we didn’t see ANY of it. They kept using garbage camera views where you couldn’t see what was going on, or just looking closely at the top ten cars.

We also noticed a severe lack of follow-up with drivers that were involved in any wrecks or key moves for the lead at the end. There’s also been a SEVERE lack of discussion and visualization of how the points race is stacking up after each race in general.

All that said, the racing itself was pretty darn good, I thought the booth was okay, and even though I hated the ending, I’m happy for Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

The new guy at FOX has a LOT to learn.

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theunwelcome February 21, 2023 at 1:55 am

mostly agree with everything you’ve said here; especially TOO MANY COMMERCIALS! I don’t know why we have to be bombarded by SO DAMN MUCH advertising in our lives in general, and sports broadcasts are some of the worst offenders

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Robert Harridge February 21, 2023 at 2:59 am

I was really frustrated when the first caution for an accident was thrown in stage 2, and Fox was doing the “side by side” commercials. Now, in the past when an accident happens, they cut back from commercial, commentate on what happened, and then finish the short commercial break under caution… but no. Fox kept the commercials running as teams were already making their pit stops, and damn near getting lane choice for the restart. I may be exaggerating there, but I kept yelling “cut back. Cut back! CUT BACK!” And we still had 4 commercials to go, 2 of which were fox based programs that honestly could have waited. That was frustrating. And the post race stuff, well… lack there of. I got more post race content from YouTubers than Fox.

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TSholts February 21, 2023 at 5:22 am

I’m also finding myself being over the whole overtime thing, especially at superspeedways. Went yellow with 2 to go just end it under yellow anyways with the extra 12 laps, and it feels like that’s been happening a lot lately. None of the 3 in the booth started shouting when that final wreck happened. It’s just to be expected anymore. And just like stages and post-season formats, no other racing series has adopted it

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Alan_M00ch February 21, 2023 at 8:10 am

You *nailed* it with the ads. There were SO MANY ads. At one point, they went into a side by side and a wreck promptly happened and I hated every ad that played (aside from the NASCAR 75 one). We either need to A) cut commercials to only the caution periods, B) take what you said and go with the TNT wide open coverage, C) do what I’ve been screaming bloody muredr to do since 2017 and eliminate stage racing entirely or D) a mix of A and C. Trust me, I like option D.

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