After a 36-hour delay and what felt like 36 caution flags, Matt Kenseth was finally declared the winner of the 2012 Daytona 500 after he held off the feisty Dale Earnhardt, Jr., but nobody really cares about that, because DID YOU SEE THAT CRASH??? Juan Pablo Montoya inexplicably slammed into a track dryer truck, which is, of course, just a giant jet engine. So Montoya’s crash led to quite the toasty bonfire. Thankfully, neither Montoya nor the driver of the truck were severely harmed.

But out of a massive inferno rises a different kind of winner – aside from, you know, Kenseth who won the race and all – as driver Brad Keselowski became the first NASCAR driver to ever Tweet a race photo from inside his car. Keselowski Tweeted a cell phone pic of his view of Montoya’s crash and it resulted in him gaining 100,000 followers within an hour. Damn, son. That’s exposed breast followers right there.

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We didn’t get to this yesterday (we didn’t finish the photo edit in time) but the comment that Bob Griese made about Juan Pablo Montoya “out having a taco” seemed so innocuous that it wasn’t even worthy of mention. ESPN thought otherwise–and suspended Griese for a week.

ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz says Griese will not be working a game this week. Krulewitz says ESPN has spoken to Griese and “he understands the comment was inappropriate.” –AP, sent in by Oliver.

And on Hispanic Heritage Month, too! But then again, it’s also “Breast Awareness Month” and “Apathy Toward Barely Racist Remarks Month.” I mean, Montoya’s Colombian, and he’s already said that he doesn’t care. You’d have to, like, steal that guy’s cocaine to really get him upset…What?