2012 Budweiser Shootout - 1080P HD Highlights - GoPro

Added: Feb 19, 2012

From: SEFX3D

Duration: 7:43

http://www.sefx3d.comDaytona Beach Florida New Film Production companyLive Raw footage highlights of the Budweiser Shootout from the Daytona International Speedway ( 2-18-12) from the backstrect taken with a GoPro Hero 2 HD camera. Just having fun and testing the camera out after getting off from work.DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The No. 29 car of Kevin Harvick was missing all of its front-end sheet metal as it was pushed through the garage area late Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway. The No. 17 car of Matt Kenseth was up on jacks, its nose smashed in as if it had recently taken a punch to the face. The No. 51 car of Kurt Busch looked as if a giant animal had taken a bite out of its left-rear flank. And then there was the No. 24 car of Jeff Gordon, hanging from the hook of a wrecker, scraped and dented and crumpled in almost every way possible after tumbling again and again and again near the end of the Budweiser Shootout.The only thing louder than the roar of the 13 remaining Sprint Cup cars restarting to finish the race was the gnashing of a power saw, which Hendrick Motorsports crewmen used to cut away chunks from Gordon's mangled vehicle. All eyes and mobile phone cameras were pointed in the direction of the mechanical carnage -- until Tony Stewart and Kyle Busch barreled wheel-to-wheel toward the finish line, leaving spectators cheering an apparent victory by the three-time champion, and then showing shocked expressions when a red No. 18 blinked atop the infield scoring tower.The return of pack racing also brought back the Big One -- and there were a few of them in the Budweiser Shootout. Pack racing is back, and with it all the glory and calamity that is so often synonymous with it, all of that very evident in 82 laps Saturday night at NASCAR's most famous track. Now take a deep breath, multiply everything by a factor of two or three, and pull tight on those belts in anticipation of the Daytona 500.Everything that people love and hate about pack drafting was shone in vivid relief Saturday under Daytona's bright lights. There was the sound, that unmistakable roar, and the spectacle of 25 cars -- just imagine 43 -- bundled wide and deep. There were saves like Kyle Busch's double-correction, down-on-the-apron, swerve job that made jaws drop. There were drivers who were able to go from the back to the front. There was that amazing finish, Busch and Stewart hurtling toward the checkered flag, and a margin of victory of .013 seconds that was the closest in the event's history.And then there were the wrecks. Say what you want about the tandem drafting that's cropped up on restrictor-plate tracks the past few years, those two-car pods that evolved from track resurfacing and front-end tweaks, a format that many fans reviled and NASCAR officials worked diligently to eliminate. But that style also served to string out the field, and make the Big Ones just a little smaller and little less catastrophic. Back in the pack, everything is magnified. There was a nine-car wreck early, a six-car wreck later, and an eight-car pileup near the end, the latter of which took out a number of top contenders and sent Gordon on his Richard Petty-like barrel roll down the track."It's pretty wild and crazy," Gordon said, "but I mean, I like this better than what we had last year, definitely."

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