Claiming copyright infringement, NASCAR officials attempted to pull this race fan's recording of yesterday's DRIVE4COPD 300 crash off YouTube. They were successful, but not for long.

Yesterday's opening NASCAR Nationwide Cup race at the Daytona International Speedway ended with one of the most terrible crashes in recent motorsports history when debris from one of the race cars flew into the stands and injured dozens of fans. Here's everything we know as of this morning. 

Today is the Nationwide Series' run at Daytona, the Drive4COPD 300. It's a pack racing affair. And like any pack race, there are big crashes. Including one on the final lap that put an engine nearly in the grandstand.

 #1 Jamie McMurray

The 2013 NASCAR season officially kicks off tomorrow with the Daytona 500, and the man who will wave the green flag to start the race is one of the most beloved men in all of professional sports: now-retired Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis.

As we head into the 55th running of the Daytona 500, let's revisit one of the moments that put NASCAR on the map. The current drivers that were chosen to comment on this historic battle are pretty fitting.

Clint Bowyer #15 5 Hour Energy Toyota Camry

Crashes almost every lap. A car flipped over and on fire. Cussing on live TV. The best accents in the world. All this and more from the modified stock car race on Tuesday night, the best/worst TV I’ve seen in a long time.

In 1949, the first season of what is now called the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series was held. Red Byron won two of his six starts to take the inaugural champoinship in a fresh-from-the-showroom Oldsmobile. Sixty years later, Jimmie Johnson won the 2009 edition of the same championship in a car that was in no way comparable…

USA Today has some pretty in-depth and excellent NASCAR coverage. They don't seem to have excellent copy editors.

The question to you all is simple - Does Danica deserve the accolades for her empowered stature in Motorsport?

Your move Formula 1.

Yes, for the first time ever, a woman will lead a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race to the green flag as Danica Patrick wins the pole for the Daytona 500. of course, plate qualifying isn't really about the driver as much as it is about the team, so that's really not her accomplishment so much as it is Crew Chief Tony…

Nobody cuts off Kurt Busch.  From today's Sprint Unlimited practice

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series may not be the most prestigious series on earth (it's a distant second to F1, even though in my opinion both should be well behind the whatever the world's top sports car series is at any time, but that's the fault of the ACO and the factory teams of sports car racing, not those at NASCAR…

Who is the first actor you think of when you think of motorsports? Paul Newman? James Garner? Steve McQueen? Patrick Dempsey? Jason Priestly? Tom Cruise?

Nellis AFB is three miles away from Las Vegas Motor Speedway. That means you can stand in one spot and hear a Nascar thundering down the course and a B-2 bomber coming in for a landing at the same damn time.

NASCAR driver Shane Hmiel was banned from driving in the series in 2006 thanks to a series of failed drug tests. He cleaned up his act and got back to racing with a new goal: Win the Indy 500.

The GoDaddy commercial that just aired during the Super Bowl was extremely effective advertising.

"There's nothing like driving to avoid jail." That timeless bit of wisdom from Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby proved to be true in real life this week after ex-NASCAR driver Tyler Walker was arrested after he led police on a high-speed chase through three states.