Winners And Losers At The Daytona 500

24 hours ago, we were watching the Daytona 500 in disbelief as Juan Pablo Montoya crashed into a jet blower and caused a fireball and big fire on the track at the Daytona 500. 
Well, here are my winners and losers of the Daytona 500:
Winner: Matt Kenseth- he had the best car as no car came close to passing him in the last 36 laps of the race.
Winner:  Tide laundry soap: You cannot get better publicity than that- cleaning up 200 gallons of jet fuel along with the other crap on the track.
Winner: Best Buy- not a bad investment for a 1 race commitment.  Hopefully, now Kenseth will get a full time sponsor for the rest of the year. 
Loser: Trevor Bayne: Sophomore Jinx happens in NASCAR as well/
Loser: Jimmie Johnson: 5 time got less than 5 points in the race and now is about 45 points behind Matt Kenseth after 1 race.  At least he had a good night sleep before the race even ended.
Winner: Brad Keslowski and Twitter: Brad gained about 150,000 followers during the red flag.
Loser: Brad Keslowski- he promptly crashed after racing began after the red flag.
Winner: Daytona Beach Hotels for the extra day of racing
Loser: Those people who had to go leave Daytona Beach Sunday night and had to miss Monday's race.
Winner: Dale Jr.  2nd place was the best he could have got on Monday.
Loser: Kurt Busch- Change of team, happy as can be and crashes on the 2nd lap
Loser: Hendrick Racing- Johnson crashes, Jeff Gordon blows engine, Kasey Kahne crashes, Hendrick sponsored car crashes (Kurt Busch).  Only high lite- Dale Jr.
Winner: Fox Sports- I'm sure they had great view numbers on Monday night.
Losers: Shows that were supposed to be shown on Fox Monday night, especially bad since it is sweeps week.
Loser: Montoya- that crash looked just like the Michael Waltrip crash during the qualifying race on Thursday.
Winners: Daytona track crew- putting out a hot fire and cleaning and fixing the track in only 2 hours.  The firefighting crew worked just as well as any paid firefighting fire department.
Winners: Fans at the track on Monday who kept themselves entertained by doing the wave during the delay.
Winner: Dave Blaney- he didn't win but got a lot of camera time for him and his sponsor.  You know if Dale Jr. was the leader when the Fireball Juan crashed, they would have called the race after 25 minutes.
Loser: Danica Patrick- 100% perfection: 3 for 3 (crashes, that is)  13 out of 27 races in which she crashed is not a very good record in NASCAR.

Winner: Johanna Long: Finished 17 places higher than Danica Patrick in the Nationwide race and she didn't have to dress in skimpy clothes to earn her ride. Wanna bet she finishes higher than Danica when the season is finished?
Wnner: Rousch Racing- placed 1, 3, 8 and 20th.
Winner: State of Wisconsin: Kenseth is a Wisconsin boy along with 6th place Paul Menard.  Johnny Sauter in the truck race was going to win until he was wrecked late in the race.
Loser: Jimmie Johnson again- he can kiss crew chief Chad Knaus good bye for a couple of weeks when the p568582325unishment comes down for trying to cheat before the cars even got on the track early last week.
Winner: Michael Waltrip- had an embarrassing crash during qualifying but still did a great job up in the booth.

Finally:
Loser: Me- I predicted Kenseth would win, but chickened out on putting $20 on him.  Kenseth paid 18-1 and I would have won $360 had I put my money where my mouth was.
So, on to Phoenix and then Las Vegas.  Can't wait for the first hauler to get here.