2008 Daytona 500 Starting Lineup

19. juni 2011 admin 25 comments

Yes, you read it right. The Daytona 500 just isn’t a Daytona 500 without a rockin’ Starting Lineup slideshow. Inspired in no small part by Ken Squier’s excellent Daytona 500 broadcasts on CBS, I present to you my performance of what SHOULD come right after the command to start engines in this Sunday’s 50th Annual Great American Race. I have also created this video to walk the walk I’ve been talking for years. It is my current ambition to one day become a professional commentator for NASCAR racing and I’m eager to take the first step toward that goal. As such, I’ve treated this presentation as an audition. If you are currently viewing this video from FOX, ESPN, TNT or the SPEED channel, I hope this encourages you to contact me at brockbeard@gmail.com. 1988 Daytona 500 starting lineup image posted by user SimRacin46 at the Historical Stock Car Racing Forum and photoshopped by me. Images collected through Google searches and captured in various recordings. The song is “Las Vegas” from Hans Zimmer’s “Rain Man” score, the very music CBS used in 1990-1991 for those lineups. Be sure to visit my website, “Karaoke For NASCAR Fans,” at nascarpoetry.blogspot.com for weekly NASCAR Sprint Cup race reviews and commentary put to lyrics of popular songs. Thank you for viewing. Did Not Qualify #10-Patrick Carpentier #21-Bill Elliott #27-Jacques Villeneuve #37-Eric McClure #49-Ken Schrader #50-Stanton Barrett #60-Boris Said #84-AJ Allmendinger #08-Carl Long #09-Sterling Marlin

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Written by Twister82697 about 1 year ago.

I thought Dale Jarrett retired in 2007? That or he announced is retirement in 2007.
Written by driven5fly about 1 year ago.

@RazorRC3 R.I.P. CBS-NASCAR
Written by driven5fly about 1 year ago.

BETTER than Marubaku
Written by HarvestmanMan about 11 months ago.

Excellently done, but at 0:47 it’s “im-PAL-uh”, with the “pal” being pronounced like “palace”.
Written by TheeeeeJ about 11 months ago.

very good i liked it. i also liked fox’s starting lineup for this race, it had a MRN feel with all the drivers introducing themselves
Written by AngryGundamGamer about 11 months ago.

I liked this, I miss the old broadcasters… Some are still good, like the FOX guys, and DJ has stepped up, but others… Not so much, you could turn TNT around if they hired you.
Written by RazorRC3 about 11 months ago.

That was phenomenal! You totally sounded like either a carbon copy of Ken Squire minus the voice or one of the guys from MRN radio! You brought the passion of announcing a line-up and then putting all the little details like where the driver was from, who won what, how long has it been since a car race there…etc. That’s the way your suppose to capture an audience! It’s unfortunate that nowadays fans have to listen to “bland” announcers on TV, but at least the radio crew is still the same
Written by vidEvWill about 11 months ago.

I think Ken Squier would be proud of that. That was great.
Written by mols89 about 11 months ago.

Very, very impressive!! It’s just as cool as the MRN starting line ups with the actual drivers speaking. Finally…a starting line up intro with some character! That’s one of many things that are missing from today’s Cup coverage. Very good job!
Written by oaklandfan2k8 about 11 months ago.

Could you the same starting lineup music from Daytona 500 for the Lenox Industrial Tools 301?
Written by JRRacing64 about 11 months ago.

I miss these old Starting line-ups, Awesome work!
Written by nadeau1064 about 11 months ago.

As a matter of fact, he did, TailsGuy. Zimmer has quite a diverse resume, including the scores to the Wallace and Gromit film “Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” the Anime series “Blood+” and even “Driving Miss Daisy!”
Written by TailsGuy about 11 months ago.

Didn’t Zimmer do the music for the Simpsons Movie?
Written by pawel1818 about 11 months ago.

Tnx i rymenber Zimmer makes great Soundtrack for Days of Thunder movie
Written by nadeau1064 about 11 months ago.

“Las Vegas” by Hans Zimmer, from the sountrack to the movie “Rain Man.”
Written by pawel1818 about 11 months ago.

What name of song in backgrund?
Written by nascarnut18 about 11 months ago.

Man you would be a great commentator.I could’ve sworn I was watching nascar on fox.
Written by lickinmonkeynuts about 11 months ago.

dude that was the best lineup i have ever seen, but maybe you shoul;d have used the old NASCAR on FOX theme song or the 1988 CBS Daytona 500 lineup song
Written by ltnascar about 11 months ago.

CBS That’s The Grid (Great Creation)
Written by Kahnefan98 about 11 months ago.

that’d be great!
Written by nadeau1064 about 11 months ago.

Yeah, I fixed the car photos after this grid and they seem to look a lot better.

As for race clips, that’s one thing I’ve been thinking of to add to future grids. I need to experiment a bit first.
Written by Randildo about 11 months ago.

man i dont understand why they dont do lineups like this anymore, they just scroll it on the bottom and BS.
Written by Kahnefan98 about 11 months ago.

and comentate some real race clips, i’d like to see those
Written by Kahnefan98 about 11 months ago.

the only thing is that the car pics are squished
Written by madisondanton about 11 months ago.

dude you sound like Ken squire and that i think allan bestwick guy put together

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