Fans confused by Daytona replay

[charlie and algernon]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Jimmie Johnson's phone is blowing up -- and he's nowhere near Victory Lane.

Johnson is being hailed as the Daytona 500 champion all over the place -- he's trending on Twitter and even has friends congratulating him via text message -- despite the race being in a rain delay Sunday.

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I hear I won the #Daytona500? Haha! I also have friends confused and texting congratulations to me. #2013Replay
6:05 PM - 23 Feb 2014

Fox Sports showed a replay of last year's season opener, the one in which Johnson won his second 500 and Danica Patrick made history by becoming the first woman to lead laps in "The Great American Race."

Fox ran a crawl across the bottom of the screen, saying the 2013 race is being shown while Sunday's race is being delayed because of rain. But thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of people failed to get the message.

http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/cup/story/_/id/10508259/replay-leads-many-think-jimmie-johnson-won-daytona-500



The most amazing thing about this is that it's not like this is the first time that Fox has shown a replay of a past race during a rain delay.

[Renew Deal]

1. They should have shown the one that ended at night

To really mess people up.

[charlie and algernon]

2. particularly the one with the massive explosion and fireball from a couple years ago.

[Renew Deal]

3. That's the one I was thinking about

The internets would have been so confused.

[charlie and algernon]

4. LOL, you'd see fans trashing Montoya for causing yet another fire

[bigwillq]

5. The multi-media corporation I work for sent out a text declaring Johnson the winner.

Then 5 minutes later sent out a correction. LOL