Happy Daytona Sunday!

The NASCAR Nextel Cup season starts again today. Looks like a beautiful day in Florida.

The weekly Free Republic NASCAR thread, linked above, is always fun to follow the action. There are usually excellent TV "screen captures" posted, as well as commentary.

In my humble opinion, the commercials for the Daytona 500 are usually far and away better than Super Bowl commercials, featuring ads which are both funny and touching. I just got a tear in my eye watching a Goodwrench tribute to No. 3.

Let's go racing, boys!

Update: NASCAR.com has a nice feature, a constantly updated leaderboard. Great to have if you're not near a TV.