Daytona 500: Fire Breaks Out, Twitter Has A Blast

It’s been one wacky event after another for this Daytona 500. It was initially supposed to begin at 1:00 on Sunday. The rain delayed it for hours, before it was finally cancelled for the day, to...
Daytona 500: Fire Breaks Out, Twitter Has A Blast
Written by Chris Crum
  • It’s been one wacky event after another for this Daytona 500. It was initially supposed to begin at 1:00 on Sunday. The rain delayed it for hours, before it was finally cancelled for the day, to be postponed until Monday at Noon. After all the complaints that it would be happening while everyone was at work (oh yeah, and some more rain), they decided to reschedule it for 7:00PM.

    It did begin, and then during the second lap, there was a crash involving Jimmie Johnson and GoDaddy girl Danica Patrick. Then, later in the race, an explosion occurred when Juan Pablo Montoya crashed into a jet dryer truck.

    Here’s what the Twitterverse is saying about that:

    OMG! JET FUEL FIRE AT THE DAYTONA
    500!!! 36 seconds ago via txt ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    Wrecks, heavy rain then huge fire. Locusts next at the Daytona 500? 1 minute ago via Twitter for iPhone ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    Jet dryers catching on fire,to Brad Keselowski tweeting, to Carl Edwards wanting cheese itz #craziest daytona 500 ever! 2 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    The firefighters putting out the fire on the Daytona wreck>>>>>> so hawt! 2 minutes ago via Twitter for Android ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    NASCAR just can’t win w/Daytona 500, 5x out, Danica out, now jet fuel fire. 3 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    I thought God was a NASCAR fan. Apparently he really doesn’t like Daytona. Rain yesterday. Fire today. Manna tomorrow? 4 minutes ago via Echofon ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    Surprised there hasn’t been a “Fire, Water, Burn” reference to Daytona yet. No Bloodhound Gang fans on twitter? 4 minutes ago via txt ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    The fire at the Daytona fire is so sureal! I will be shocked if this doesn’t cause the end of the race. 5 minutes ago via TweetDeck ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    In this day and age, the quickest way to clean a massive Daytona fire is laundry detergent?! 6 minutes ago via Twitter for Android ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    If you had Dave Blaney winning Daytona after a jet fuel fire in your prop bets you’re making straight bank tonight. #CashMoneyHomey 6 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    Jet fuel fire at Daytona product placement!!! #tide 7 minutes ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    I love me some NASCAR and wish I could have watched the Daytona 500 tonight and my favorite driver create a huge ball of fire! Nice job JPM! 7 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

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