Ambrose Finally Gets First Win w/ Scary Wrecks

Ambrose finally made his way to Victory Lane for the 2011 Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at the Glen. It was his first NASCAR Sprint Cup win.

This race had its moments of hard wrecks. The first hard wreck had Kurt Busch. It wasn't violent, but it killed the car. The second hard wreck was Denny Hamlin. he slammed into the Turn 1 tire barrier, which somewhat looked like Jimmie Johnson's 2000 Lysol 200 crash at the same turn. He was shaken up, but walked away under his own power. The next big wreck was Paul Menard. He cut a tire and slammed into the wall pretty hard.  Moments later, under the car, it caught on fire, it later went out itself. Menard later got out of the car after NASCAR forced him.

The last big wreck, and the biggest out of all of them was for David Ragan and David Reutimann. Boris Said spun Ragan hard into the wall just after Turn 1. Ragan bounced off the wall and came down to Reutimann's car. Reutimann's car hit the ARMCO so hard it ricocheted and flipped the car. Amazingly, both Ragan and Reutimann walked out with their own power.

The Cup guys head to Michigan next week.

David Ragan Captures First Win at Daytona

The "NASCAR 2011 Season of First Time Winners" continues with another driver people predicted will get a win, David Ragan.

On February 20, 2011, David Ragan made a costly mistake by switching lanes before the line for at a restart at the Daytona 500 that probably costed him the race. Today, he pulled off the win with the help with his teammate Matt Kenseth. And this was a race where it was anyone's race. We even saw drivers like Joe Nemechek, Travis Kvapil, Andy Lally, Terry Labonte, Landon Cassill, and Casey Mears that we saw up in front at some point of the race, but green flag pit stops hurt them to get a much needed finish.

They're were some incidents in this race, but much less cautions than the Daytona 500. First caution was for the Daytona 500 winner, Trevor Bayne, who was spun out by Brad Keselowski really early in the race. Second caution was points leader, Carl Edwards, who got spun out by his teammate, Greg Biffle. Third caution, was caused by Dave Blaney, which by the looks of it was bumped by his teammate, Geoffrey Bodine. Fourth caution happened in the closing laps where Jeff Gordon started to spin out and NASCAR quickly threw the caution for safety since a bigger pack of cars was coming.

That incident then caused a green-white-checkered. The first restart caused a multi-car crash when Joey Logano got into Mark Martin. As Martin spun, a handful of drivers had no where to go. The next restart will be the final restart of the night. Kasey Kahne was pushing Logano to the lead, while Matt Kenseth was pushing David Ragan. Another pairing of this race, Ryan Newman and Denny Hamlin, lost the draft and fell back quickly. On Turn 3 of the last lap, the next multi-car happened when Marcos Ambrose spun out, and once Ragan came closer to the finish line, and bigger wreck happened leaving several cars damaged, which caused some scary moments when some drivers barely missed Ryan Newman. All the drivers from those incidents were okay.

After all that, David Ragan came out with the win, his first in his career in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series

Next week, we head to a new track for the Sprint Cup Series, Kentucky Speedway for the Quaker State 400.