Daytona Beach, Florida. Call it the James Taylor 500. "I've seen it, I've seen fire and I've seen rain." It was bad enough disappointing soaked race fans for a 14th time with a rain-delayed Sunday. Mike Helton, president of NASCAR said: "Just when you think you've seen it all, you see something different." Two years ago, it was a pothole on pit road that caused the race to be delayed until workers filled holes with Bondo. Sunday, it was a rain-soaked delay of the race until Monday. Then on Monday, a piece of drying debris hit Juan Montoya's car as he was cautiously making his way around the track, causing his car to go out of control and crash into a fuel truck and its gas tank exploded. Imagine how the race fans felt. Thousands of them had saved their money all year just so they could take a vacation to Florida, buy bathroom fixtures, and watch a great American race. Many of them had to leave and head back to work after the race was rained out on Sunday. Those who stayed on Monday had to endure another lap only to end up with an unusual jet-fuel delay due to rain. For every blue-collar fan, the Daytona 500 will go down as one of the most disappointing. This was supposed to be the Danica 500, but it turned into a torrential downpour, then the Exploding 500. Going into the weekend, Danica Patrick was a huge story, but unfortunately for NASCAR, Danica mania never materialized. Instead, fans endured two days of rain delays and Danica was involved in three wrecks in as many laps as she completed in the race. Not long after the 500 started Monday night, Jimmie Johnson lost control of his car on the second lap, which led to race champion Patrick and Aric Almirola's car hitting Bayne and wrecking. Even when she finally got back into the race, Patrick's car suffered major damage and she was never a factor. And who would have thought that just two days earlier we were talking about the Daytona 500 and the NBA All-Star game forming the biggest sports weekend in Central Florida history? The All-Star game delivered on its promise, but the same certainly can't be said for the James Taylor 500. "Not exactly what we had hoped for," said Duncan Higgins, a Patrick fan who traveled from Atlanta. "She had bad luck this week." Same went for the entire Daytona 500. Again and again, the race was postponed, weather conditions delaying it. It reached a point where the start finally came when you expected the opening command Monday night to be: "Gentlemen, start your windshield wipers!" But who could have imagined that this race would end, mercifully, with Matt Kenseth winning at 12:55 a.m. Tuesday after being delayed late Monday night because a jet-fuel fire burned? It's only fitting that the No. 1 song in America right now is Adele's "Set Fire to the Rain." Who knew she was a NASCAR fan? In one of the strangest events in racing history, driver Juan Pablo Montoya lost control of his car and collided with a safety truck carrying jet fuel with 40 laps to go. The massive collision caused 200 gallons to gush out of the truck and ignite on the track. Not boring, but still disappointing in Daytona.