DAYTONA BEACH -- Central Florida's metro giant, The Orlando Sentinel, crushed the once mighty metro, the Daytona Beach News-Journal, in online breaking news coverage of the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
It wasn't even close. Orlandosentinel.com posted its story at 12:52 a.m., along with photos and blow-by-blow highlights with quotes from the track. News-journalonline.com posted its story at 1:21 a.m. NSBNEWS.net posted at one-paragraph news flash at 12:51 a.m. and had its story with photos posted by 1:30 a.m.
The Sentinel, the News-Journal and NSBNEWS.net were the only Central Florida media outlets to post stories after the race.
Just minutes after the big crash collected 19 cars and the race was red-flagged (stopped), the Sentinel had its first story posted at 12:23 a.m., the only in-race posting.