“Are you kidding me!?”
Trevor Bayne couldn’t have said it any better after he crossed the start finish line to win the 53rd running of the Daytona 500. In only his second start in the Sprint Cup, and one day after turning only 20 years old, Trevor Bayne made history as the feel good Cinderella story on Sunday. Staying near the front of the pack for most of the day, Bayne avoided a record number of cautions that left very few cars without damage by the end of the day. The new pavement at Daytona, while smooth, has created a new form of restrictor plate races where cars needed to literally push each other around in two car teams in order to keep up. The need to keep contact with another car led even the best drivers to be simply spun around in mid pack and in front of the field generating more than one infamous “Big One”. Bayne, who is only set to participate in a few Sprint Cup races this season, stated Monday that the plan is still for him to race a full Nationwide series schedule, one step below the Sprint Cup, in hopes of competing for the championship.
Late Monday morning it was made official by the Crown Prince of Bahrain that pre-season testing next week, in addition to the opening round of the Formula 1 season the following week, have been postponed to increasing unrest in the country. "At the present time the country's entire attention is focused on building a new national dialogue for Bahrain," the Crown Prince said. It is not clear if the race itself is going to be rescheduled, but as the series currently has one of its busiest calendars in years, it seems highly unlikely the race will happen this season. Teams now are scrambling to get their equipment, which was shipped to Bahrain weeks in advance, to Barcelona, where the teams currently are, and where testing has been rescheduled to take place next week. While many details are currently being worked out, the only thing that seems certain is the first race of the season will now be down under at the Australian Grand Prix on March 27.
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