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When Ross Chastain's bold move up the middle resulted in he and Austin Cindric spinning into the infield, the final lap of the Daytona 500 was just about to begin.NASCAR waited a moment and as Cindric's car slid back up the track, NASCAR made the decision to throw the caution. Per NASCAR rules, a caution flag on the final means the field is frozen and the race is over.Alex Bowman, who was the ...Keep readingView the full article

Byron, who had never finished better than 21st in the NASCAR Cup season opener, grabbed the lead from Ross Chastain on a restart with four of 200 laps remaining.Byron had just taken the white flag – signalling the start of the final lap – when a multi-car wreck erupted behind him which forced NASCAR to immediately throw a caution, which froze the field.That locked Byron into the victory in ...Keep readingView the full article

Chastain took the lead after the final set of green flag pitstops, and narrowly avoided a 23-car pileup in the closing laps. Daytona 500 glory was in sight, but the battle wasn't over just yet.When the race resumed after a brief red flag, there were just four laps remaining in the 200-lap event. William Byron took the lead on the restart, but Chastain was able to mount a massive charge coming to ...Keep readingView the full article

Byron was one of few who escaped a massive 20+ car pileup late in the race, and were left to fight it out for the race win.Coming to the white flag, Ross Chastain was closing fast with a massive run on the No. 24. The Trackhouse Racing driver sent his car up the middle between Byron and 2022 Daytona 500 winner Austin Cindric. Contact was made, Chastain and Cindric spun, and the caution flew as ...Keep readingView the full article

Launched in Vista Jet's Milan hangar, located at Linate Airport, the company founded by entrepreneur and driver Thomas Flohr, the main sponsor of the Piacenza-based team, revealed the 296 GT3s in silver and red colours that will take part in the LMGT3 Class. In the #54 there will be Flohr himself, Francesco Castellacci and Davide Rigon (a Ferrari factory driver), a trio confirmed after last ...Keep readingView the full article

The three-time Supercars champion logged only three laps in the race before as he was one of more than two dozen cars caught up in multi-car wreck on lap four of 100.Gus Dean got loose after getting hit from behind and turned into Venturini Motorsports team-mate Toni Breidinger in Turns 1 and 2, which triggered the pile-up that collected several contenders for the win, including van Gisbergen.“I ...Keep readingView the full article

In the second Duel of the evening, Hamlin had powered by to the lead with five of 60 laps to go, but Bell had made his way to second at the start of the final lap.As the duo entered Turns 3 and 4, Bell first dived low, then high to get around Hamlin and held off Austin Cindric by 0.113 seconds for the win. Hamlin ended up third behind Cindric, as John Hunter Nemechek took fourth and Harrison ...Keep readingView the full article

Bubba Wallace on the end of the Clash (when he was spun by Kyle Larson). It doesn’t seem he is carrying any beefs from that race. View the full article

John Hunter Nemechek on the Clash and how he earned respect from his Cup competitors. View the full article

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. explained his source of frustrations with John Hunter Nemechek and Michael McDowell at the Clash. View the full article

Ross Chastain explained why he paid for Michael McDowell's haircut after the Clash. View the full article

Ross Chastain paid for Michael McDowell’s haircut after wrecking him at the Clash. McDowell on that and his Clash adventures. View the full article

Ryan Blaney doesn’t have any Cup championship tattoos…yet. And he said it was awesome that Penske teammate and Indy 500 winner Josef Newgarden had Blaney’s face on his leg — even if it was a temporary tattoo. View the full article

Ryan Preece on return to Daytona after wild flip in August: “No different than me pulling into another race track.… We as race-car drivers have to be numb to it.” He said seeing the clip does not bother him. View the full article

The 2024 NASCAR Cup season has begun in earnest. Following the non-points exhibition race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum won by Denny Hamlin earlier this month, Joey Logano took pole for this weekend's Daytona 500 season opener by leading a Ford front-row lockout in qualifying on Wednesday night.Thursday night’s twin 150-mile qualifying races will set the remainder of the grid, with Jimmie ...Keep readingView the full article

Jimmie Johnson will make history Sunday as the first NASCAR Hall of Fame driver to compete in a Cup Series race during the Daytona 500. View the full article

Team Penske’s Logano was the last of the 10-car final round to qualify and bolted to the top of the speed chart with an average lap speed of 181.947mph to secure pole for Sunday’s race.Logano’s pole is the first for a Ford driver in the pole since Carl Edwards in 2012 and first in the race for team owner Roger Penske. It was also the first 500 pole for Logano, who won the race in ...Keep readingView the full article

For the first time, 2018 and 2022 Cup Series champion Joey Logano put his car on the pole for the Daytona 500. View the full article

"It's truly what I love to do." – Jimmie Johnson told Bob Pockrass he is competing in the Daytona 500 because he is passionate about racing, not breaking his winless streak. View the full article

Looking at his results at superspeedway races, that shouldn't come as a surprise. Four of Blaney's 10 Cup victories have come at Daytona or Talladega.In the Daytona 500, the Team Penske driver has two runner-up finishes and has been so close to capturing the chequered flag on several other occasions. “I feel like I’ve been close to this thing a couple of times. I had a good shot to win it a ...Keep readingView the full article