At 7:00 p.m. on Thursday night, most of the 800-plus acres of the Daytona International Speedway were empty, the thousands of fans from the Gatorade Duel 150s chased back to their hotels by the cold and the wind.
As the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series machines roared through their qualifying laps for Friday night's race, they hammered past a massive front stretch grandstand that contained exactly zero race fans.