Earnhardt Ganassi Racing Wins NASCAR Premiere Race at Daytona 500

The Daytona 500 NASCAR Sprint Race on the 2.5 mile, high-banked (to keep the 185 Miles Per Hour race cars on the track) super speedway is the first race of the 10 month "Stock Car" racing season.

The cars are called stockcars because they resemble Chevrolet, Dodge, Ford and Toyota family sedans that you can walk into a dealer in your neighborhood and purchase. Actually, the chassis are owned by NASCAR and the bodies are all identical, built to strict specifications, with the different automakers names applied, as are the "headlights," as decals.

The 2010 Daytona 500 was won, after an hour-and-a-half "red flag" halt to the race halfway through to repair the speedway's track surface asphalt that had become undermined by the recent several days of rain that deluged the "Sunshine State" while Washington, DC was shut-down due to 36 inches of snow from the same storm. You cannot really run 42 185 MPH racecars on a track with a New York City-type pothole in the middle of it.

Jamie McMurry won the race on the last lap long after sundown, six hours after the race started in the #1 Chevy of the Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing team. Teresa Ernhardt is the widow of the driver that made NASCAR Stock Car racing America's most popular motor sport, far surpassing "Indy Car" racing in popularity.

In the decade that followed the death of her husband there were increasing conflicts with his son, her stepson, and his sister that became a public feud, with the Media reporting on the increasing friction to the degree that Teresa Earnhardt came to dread pre-race press conferences as the soap opera took precedence over the racing problems with several races lost because of blown engines.

The son, "The Most Popular NASCAR Driver" wanted a controlling interest in the racing team, but Teresa Earnhardt refused, instead merging with Ganissi racing, contracting to buy engines from Childress Racing. This left The Legend's son, Dale Earnhardt Jr. (JR ) without a ride for the 2009 NASCAR season. He was then hired by the Hendricks organization, the "New York Yankees of NASCAR" with the four-time-in-a-row Champion, Jimmie Johnson as the driver with the most wins in recent years.

After a rough decade, one of Teresa Earnhardt's racecars has finally won NASCAR's premiere race, the Daytona 500 Mile Race. Jamie McMurray was the "odd man out" after the merger of the team he was driving for in 2008, as the recession affected the sponsors of NASCAR racing in one of the unrecognised signs that there were big problems ahead for the US economy.