Daytona 500 Victory Lane Recap - The Trevor Bayne Edition

Scrumtrilescent.
This was the decided-upon word used by treywilson3 should Trevor Bayne manage to somehow win the Daytona 500.
The word has it’s roots in a Will Farrell SNL skit used to describe utter perfection that, ironically, is too perfect to describe. The idea here at Ranting and Raving was that no other word could possibly describe how awesome it would be should Bayne hold on to win at Daytona.
As it turns out, Bayne was nearly perfect and held off a late charge from Carl Edwards and David Gilliand to win the Daytona 500 on Sunday afternoon.
Roush-Fenway’s David Ragan was the leader at the first Overdrive and was black flagged for changing lanes before passing the start/finish line. Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Martin Truex Jr. immediately brought out the caution and Ragan suffered a pass-through penalty.
That placed Bayne in the lead for the final restart and the 20-year old never looked back.
The two-by-two ‘love bug-style racing’ was still the order of the day and it resulted in a record-15 cautions. Speeds approached 200mph and NASCAR likely is not done tinkering with the current plate package.
The two-car tandems possess incredibly faster velocity levels and the difference in speed was the cause of most track incidents, including the Big One on lap 29, that eliminated Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Marcos Ambrose and Brian Kesolowski from contention.
In all, 17-cars were included in the early melee that drastically changed the face of the race.
A relative unknown entering Speedweeks, Trevor Bayne now goes down in Daytona 500 history. At 20-years old, he is now the youngest race winner in event history. This erases Jeff Gordon’s previous record of 25 years old.
The words to describe this Daytona 500 are hard to come by. Scrumtrilescent will have to do.