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FLAT TRACK
DAYTONA SHORT TRACK
PREVIEW
about winning a National. All the
hard work I put in this winter paid
off. The end of the race seemed
to last forever. I saw the five-lap
board and couldn't believe there
was that much still to go."
Rush is coming back to Dayto-
na this season after winning the
other round of the doubleheader
last year. He said he thinks he
knows one of the key reasons the
track produces such a diversity
of winners.
"Daytona always gets rutted
up and really rough," Rush said.
"You have to be willing to just
throttle through the rough stuff
and that takes a lot of confidence
or maybe you have to be a little
nuts to be able to go fast on that
kind of track. The way I look at
it is the ruts give you a place to
find traction. I like it better than
a cushion track where you just
slide through and have to use a
(Left) Mikey Rush won his first
and only National at Daytona in
2007. Then he came back last
year and won again.
(Below) Rush (54) vs. Baker (12)
in last year's Friday night race.
