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As Sunday’s Daytona 500 headed into overtime, Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch were working together to remain out front. Logano, who had one of fastest cars in Sunday’s race, was looking for a push in an attempt to run down the duo. He looked to fellow Ford driver Michael McDowell, but McDowell instead elected to go work with Busch. Hamlin ended up with the ...Keep reading View the full article

In Sunday’s season-opening Daytona 500, DiBenedetto led a race-high 49 laps but was collected in a multi-car incident with 10 laps to go in regulation, bringing an abrupt end to one of the best races in his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career. “This was the most amazing and most heartbreaking day all in the same day,” DiBenedetto said. “Unbelievable how fast my car was. It’s ...Keep reading View the full article

Denny Hamlin held his nerve through a messy final part of the Daytona 500 to win the NASCAR Cup Series' premier event for the second time View the full article

In overtime, Hamlin – with J.D. Gibbs’ name on Hamlin’s No. 11 Toyota - feverishly held off his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Kyle Busch, in overtime to win the 61st running of the Daytona 500. The win is Hamlin’s second in the 500 but also ends his 47-race winless streak in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series dating back to September 2017. Erik Jones finished third, Joey Logano was ...Keep reading View the full article

You knew it was coming eventually. The Big One struck late at the 2019 Daytona 500, taking out 21 cars in a shower of sparks and carnage after a mistake by Paul Menard. Everyone walked away okay. View the full article

On lap 159 of the Daytona 500, Cody Ware runs into Ryan Newman as he's heading into pit row and causes a big pile up. Check out the video of the crash. View the full article

Aric Almirola ended up third, Brad Keselowski fourth and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. completed the top-five. Also collecting stage points were Matt DiBenedetto, Kevin Harvick, Daniel Suarez, Jimmie Johnson and Joey Logano. Following the break between stages 1 and 2, many cars elected to pit with Logano moving up to the lead when the race returned to green on Lap 66. Jamie McMurray, Darrell ...Keep reading View the full article

Busch had to make several blocks on the final of the 60 laps to remain out front but was able to pick up his first stage win of the 2019 season. Bowman was second, Joey Logano third, Daniel Suarex was fourth and Ryan Blaney ended up fifth. Also collecting stage points were Denny Hamlin, Chase Elliott, Kyle Larson, Kevin Harvick and Erik Jones. William Byron, the pole-winner, led the first ...Keep reading View the full article

Did he or didn't he? That's the question for Ricky Stenhouse after a near-touch on Kurt Busch led to the first major wreck of the day at the 2019 Daytona 500. View the full article

Before the start of the Daytona 500, go backstage with some of the biggest names in NASCAR as they prepare to try to make their way to Victory Lane. View the full article

Asked if he was going to need help from other traffic to win today’s Daytona 500, the #11 JGR FedEx Toyota driver replied, “For sure. You’re going to need help from somebody. “There’s advantages and disadvantages to having less Toyota cars. Most of the time it’s more of an advantage to having fewer Toyota cars because the information is kept within a tighter group. We’re all ...Keep reading View the full article

Toyota's American motorsport chief has dropped a strong hint that two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso wants to contest a NASCAR Cup Series road course race View the full article

Alonso drove Jimmie Johnson’s Hendrick Chevrolet at Bahrain’s Sakhir circuit last year as part of their winter ride swap, and won Le Mans with Toyota last year as part of his FIA World Endurance Championship commitments with the team. Before that Cup car test, Alonso said that he “sees NASCAR as a top of motorsports in the U.S. and that means a lot.” Wilson, the president and ...Keep reading View the full article

During the Advance Auto Parts Clash exhibition race last Sunday, Harvick snubbed his team’s pit strategy and eventually went on to finish 12th. Thursday night, however, Harvick rebounded by winning the first of two Daytona 500 qualifying races. “I felt like I kind of let them down the other night, kind of turning their strategy off in the Clash, not pitting when we had planned on ...Keep reading View the full article

Denny Hamlin has won his second Daytona 500 in four years View the full article

The Daytona 500 has turned into a wreck-fest View the full article

"The Big One" came late in the Daytona 500, with Paul Menard triggering a multicar accident View the full article

Jimmie Johnson's chances of winning a third Daytona 500 ended with a strange accident on pit road View the full article

Ryan Blaney was on the money in the second stage of the Daytona 500 View the full article

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