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Texas TV station gets confused by Daytona 500 replay during weather delay

By Mike Dyce

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Feb 23, 2014; Daytona Beach, FL, USA; Jet dryers dry the track during a rain delay at the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway. Mandatory Credit: Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 23, 2014; Daytona Beach, FL, USA; Jet dryers dry the track during a rain delay at the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway. Mandatory Credit: Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports /

The Daytona 500 is under a weather delay and has been for some time this afternoon. In the picture above you can see crews working to keep the track dry while the cars sit covered in pit road. So to keep the viewers of the Daytona 500 on FOX entertained, they aired last year’s Daytona 500.

Some, including a television station in Texas didn’t realize that it was last year’s and live tweeted the conclusion.

They had tweeted various reminders and it said so in the ticker at the bottom of the screen, but still people missed it.

From Deadspin:

[UPDATE:] KTXS tweeted out a clarification.

They tried to play it off like they weren’t among the “people” that were confused and were called out for it.

And eventually they accepted responsibility and acknowledged the mistake.

[UPDATE:] They weren’t the only ones…. Fox News messed it up and the race was on FOX. Again from rom Deadspin:

And ESPN W:

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