And now for sports' next trick:

Anyone stop me if you see this coming too...

This year will mark the tenth anniversary of Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s death at the Daytona 500.

So much is made out of this that the entire third lap of the race is being asked to be run in silence, with the crowd standing and extending three fingers into the air.

So why is this here?

For the same reason that many people believe that Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the summer Daytona race, the 2001 Pepsi 400.

It's one of the more prevalent NASCAR theories, that the league wanted Dale Jr. to win that race the first time the circuit came back after his father died.

So, ten years later and Dale Jr. far removed from being a relevant Cup driver (IMHO, he has no business on the circuit at all -- his car ownership and celebrity have sapped him from being a valid driver on the Sprint Cup!), he wins the Shootout pole and the 500 pole.

And they're going to run the 3rd lap silently and all that too...

Watch this one.

EDIT: And now he HAS fucked it up.

He crashed his car in practice and has to start the 500 in the back.

Of course, that would make the rig-job even bigger.