Chase Elliott wins first Daytona Duel race

Gordon (2015) and Stewart (2016) retired from full-time racing in consecutive years, walking away with a combined seven championships.

“The biggest thing to look at is tracks where they’re limiting the sets of tires for us; that’ll come into play”, said Busch, a 28-time victor in NASCAR’s top-tier series.

With so much attention focused on Earnhardt, he’s been the busiest driver in the garage this week. “I should have been out there sooner and tried to get that run”. I want to learn how to enjoy it all the way, fully. He’s won at least four races for the last five seasons and multiple races in all 15 of his full-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series campaigns.

Chevrolet has won the Daytona 500 23 times, and Ford is runner up with 14 wins.

Denny Hamlin provided one of the most dramatic victories in the history of the DAYTONA 500 last season when he passed Martin Truex Jr.to take the checkered flag by the race’s closest-ever margin of victory (.010 seconds).

In past years the complaint about this race was that drivers were overly careful of protecting their primary 500 vehicle and didn’t want to take any chances.

Cup Series practice for the Daytona 500 starts at 1, followed by another Xfinity session at 2, and one more Cup Series shakedown at 3. The greatest star in the sport died at the site of its biggest race.

As significant as the change may be, Busch says it’s still about winning.

The Daytona 500 entry list was divided into groups of 21 for each of the 150-lap heat races. “Obviously, I would rather the highlight of my Daytona 500 win be like (Denny Hamlin last year) when he makes that attractive move and wins the race, but you know, that’s just not the way it is”. But he also knows that he can only do so much. And with nearly a zero tolerance to get a passing grade, our Furniture Row Racing crew went into a nonstop work mode to correct the issue. Good decision. … It’s been 22 years since back-to-back Daytona winners (Sterling Marlin) and it’s only happened three times.

Kennington outgunned the drivers he needed to beat in the Can-Am Duel at Daytona International Speedway Thursday night, securing the last of 40 starting positions in NASCAR’s biggest race.

The Daytona 500 has a reputation and tradition all its own in the NASCAR world, and the race also has a qualifying format all its own.

Unfortunately for Earnhardt and Elliott, both were involved in wrecks that ended their day early.

“I’ve been reflecting for a few years about this and when it would come and what it would mean”, Waltrip said this week. “I think we like to sweep it all under the rug as drivers like we feel fine and nothing is wrong, but it’s our life”. We weren’t all there the whole weekend. “Whatever we missed on, we need to find it”. David Ragan 23. Kyle Busch 24.

“It’s a power in what cars are lined up in what row, how they’re stacked against you, whether they’re two wide or three wide behind you”, Elliott said.

It wasn’t easy to do, so that might be considered his first win of the year. “I was trying to fill a hole and Reed didn’t think I should be there”.

“So sometimes people say, ‘What about the children?’ No, it’s more reflective of you seeing this as over-zealous than your kids because your kids have no idea, and that example could be applied in a number of other areas”. “A lot of it is vehicle, a lot of it’s luck, a lot of it’s skill, it’s all embedded in there”.