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As I wrote almost immediately in the virtual, irate town hall that is often known as Twitter, Justin Haley’s victory in the Coke Zero Sugar 400, which I find myself wanting to call the Sugar 400, was a miracle.

It’s a miiirrrracle!

I was happy to see an underdog win, but it came by the most extraordinary of circumstances since it prevented Haley and his obscure team, by virtue of fate and lack of sufficient communication from NASCAR, from finishing about 27th.

Miracles happen in life. Someone actually wins the lottery. Lightning sometimes burns someone’s “she-shack,” and it is recorded for posterity using actors in a commercial. Once I slipped behind a closed gate at O’Hare International Airport, behind a boarded-up partition, to find that Michael Jordan had done the same thing.

How you doing, Michael?

Fine. You?

I’m good.

It was in the pre-selfie age. I can’t prove it. It was a miracle, like Haley’s victory in Daytona Beach. I may have played a small role by saying on a radio show two nights before that I thought Kurt Busch would win. If Busch had known NASCAR was not going to throw the green flag the next time around, he would have won the race, and it would have been a bit of an upset.

Sam McQuagg, Greg Sacks, David Ragan and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. pulled off summer upsets in Daytona Beach.

I hope Haley wins 20 more races and does something to win every other one except have his crew chief say, what the hell, let’s stay out.

Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you if you’re young at heart …

They happen, miracles. Joey Logano’s first victory was a miracle in New Hampshire, and David Reutimann had one in Charlotte.

Willie Nelson wrote a song about one:

Miracles appear in the strangest of places, fancy meeting you here …

The next race is in Kentucky. When I go on the radio Friday night, I think I’ll pick

Justin Haley.

Wait. I don’t think he’s entered. The entry list has a driver named Quin Houff in No. 77. Unbeknownst to me, this is his 10th Cup race of the season. His career-best is 28th at Charlotte in May.

I’m not going to pick him but wish him well.