Image via WikipediaDAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A.J. Allmendinger wanted to make it perfectly clear that rain delays aren't real hard on Sprint Cup drivers.
"Obviously, you want to go race," Allmendinger said after the Daytona 500 scheduled for Sunday was postponed until Monday at Daytona International Speedway. "But we get to race when we get to race.
"I know this sucks for people sitting out there in the stands because they've got to sit in the rain. But for us, we go in [our motorhomes] and we have push-up contests, we eat a lot of good food, and we have a good time."
The affable Allmendinger was only partly joking. Plus, he appears to have a good time just about all the time, no matter what he's doing.
But he's right. Sunday's rainout was merely a minor inconvenience for the drivers. It's the support staff around each of them that suffered the most -- and will suffer more if Monday's rescheduled 12:01 p.m. start can't go off as planned because of more rain that's in the forecast.
That's especially true with the next race on the Sprint Cup schedule being a long way away, geographically speaking, in Phoenix. Next Sunday's start is not so far away on the calendar. CONTINUE....
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