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Rick Santorum joked that the NASCAR car sponsored by his campaign should employ the "Santorum strategy" at Monday's Daytona 500: "hang back and let the other cars in front get in wrecks or drop out of the race."

The former Pennsylvania senator made the joke - alluding to his late rise in a bruising GOP presidential race - during a lighthearted morning appearance on Fox News.

"I will tell you I talked to the driver, Tony Raines, yesterday and told him since he's starting at the back of the pack, in the 21st row, I said, you know, let's use the Santorum strategy - hang back and let the other cars in front get in wrecks or drop out of the race and then move up in the end, thats hopefully the pattern he'll use," Santorum said.

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