How I Ended Up On The Daytona 500 Victory Lane Podium With Gronk & Kurt Busch's Team

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It’s just how Monster Energy had it drawn up when they decided to drop the cash on naming writes for the NASCAR Cup series. Come in, rip up the blueprint on how things are supposed to be done in NASCAR and then have the Monster driver win the Super Bowl of Racing, be congratulated in Victory Lane by Party Boy Gronk while Monster Energy Girls were like four rows deep and showing plenty of attention to team owner Tony Stewart.
Welcome to the new NASCAR, if you didn’t feel things have changed with the series, you clearly weren’t watching Sunday. You clearly didn’t see the Monster Energy influence on the grid where the Monster Energy Girls were holding umbrellas for the drivers, a touch you see from the F1 world.

How I ended up a couple of people over from Kurt Busch and the rest of Team Rage:

• Had a Victory Lane media pass just like the rest of the working media; no shenanigans there
• Podcast Paul and I made our way into the fenced off Victory Lane and scoped out the area, correctly figuring out where Kurt Busch would drive the #41 in from pit road
• Some local cop lady started getting chippy and tried to run us back into the Victory Lane stands, but this is where you have to play dumb and pretty much force her to choke you out because there are like 200 other people creating a lane for Kurt to drive through. Play the odds. No way she wants to choke out some guy and create a scene
• Here comes Kurt, can’t get any closer to the winning Daytona ride than this
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• I literally got behind the car as it was rolling past, followed it about 20 feet and noticed Kurt’s team jumping on stage. Bodies are everywhere. No time to waste. Get up on that stage! Goooo! So I sorta rolled up on stage. I’m beyond the climbing part of life. Barrel roll.
• First thing I notice once I’m on the stage: Gronk!
• So at this point I just start shooting video because this is a Monster Energy event and it’s time to rage…look like you belong and nothing says belong than a phone in the air, backpack and a rolling Periscope. You’re gold.
• Then I notice the Busch pit crew putting on goggles and I figure Monster’s going to start flying, girls are going to be covered in sticky Monster, my phone’s going to get ruined by the flying Monster and Mrs. BC’s going to kill me when my phone is ruined
• Kurt does his media responsibilities, then it’s time for Kurt to wear 15 different sponsor hats and the assembled media starts snapping. Pretty sure I’m in those team photos, especially once I threw on the Monster hat some lady handed to me.

Gronk was two rows behind me just raging

Podcast Paul was too busy trying to take a Monster Girl home to Nebraska and missed jumping on the podium

Monster comes in, sponsors the sport and its driver wins the Daytona 500 after most of the top cars wrecked…time to RAGE

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