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Feb

2012

5:12pm, EST

Tom Pennington / Getty Images

A member of the #88 Diet Mountain Dew/National Guard Chevrolet crew wipes water from pit equipment during a rain delay for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 26, in Daytona Beach, Fla.

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Although heavy showers have stopped and numerous jet driers are pushing water off Daytona International Speedway, radar shows more storm cells moving toward the high-banked track.

"Radar is not our friend right now," NASCAR executive Steve O'Donnell wrote on his Twitter feed. "Still drying, but looking ominous. If we get hit again, it does not look good."

-- Reported by the Associated Press