It’s been 14 weeks since Joey Logano received his third NASCAR Cup Collection championship in Phoenix and now it’s lastly time to begin the 2025 marketing campaign with the Daytona 500.
We’ve coated , and saved observe of a reasonably vital lawsuit within the offseason, however now let’s deal with the “Tremendous Bowl of motor racing occasions.”
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Wednesday8-10 p.m.: Daytona 500 front-row qualifying (FS1, Fox Sports activities app)
Thursday7-8:45 p.m.: Duel 1 (FS1, Fox Sports activities app)8:45-10:30 p.m.: Duel 2 (FS1, Fox Sports activities app)
Friday5:30-6:30 p.m.: Daytona 500 follow 2 (FS1, Fox Sports activities app)
Saturday10:30-11:30 a.m.: Daytona 500 remaining follow (FS1, Fox Sports activities app)
Sunday2:30-6 p.m.: Daytona 500 (Fox, Fox Sports activities app)
Monitor: Daytona Worldwide Speedway (2.5-mile high-banked tri-oval) in Daytona Seaside, FloridaBanking: Turns – 31 levels | Tri-oval – 18 levels | Backstretch – 3 degreesRace size: 200 laps for 500 milesStage lengths: Stage 1 – 65 laps | Stage 2 – 65 laps | Stage 3 – 130 laps
The largest race on the NASCAR calendar additionally includes a distinctive qualifying format not used on another race weekend. On Wednesday night time all entered vehicles will flip one lap at high velocity, the order of which is set by a Tuesday night time draw of numbers. The highest 10 drivers then go right into a shootout with the highest two instances from that session setting the entrance row for Sunday’s race.
The remaining vehicles are dropped — as evenly as attainable, together with the highest two qualifiers — into two 60-lap qualifying “duels” to be run Thursday night time that set the sector from spots three by 40. The ending order for the primary duel determines the within row slots and the ending order from the second duel units the skin.
Restrictor plate racing presents a randomizing component that makes handicapping the outcomes difficult, and that’s mirrored in BetMGM’s odds. Three drivers enter the week with similar 12-to-1 odds and 10 drivers are available in at 20-to-1 or higher.
Ryan Blaney +1200Joey Logano +1200Brad Keselowski +1200Kyle Busch +1400Denny Hamlin +1500
On account of a brand new rule this 12 months, a provisional is granted for a “world-class driver” who doesn’t run the Cup sequence full time to affix the sector for any occasion because the forty first automobile. Groups should put within the request no less than 90 days forward of time and solely . Castroneves will nonetheless try to qualify for the race and if he posts one of many high 40 instances, there shall be solely 40 vehicles working on Sunday. If he doesn’t make it on time, the Daytona 500 could have its largest discipline in 10 years.
Seven-time sequence champion and winner of the 2006 and 2013 Daytona 500s Jimmie Johnson will try to make the sector in a 3rd entry for the Legacy Motor Membership workforce that he owns. Johnson, 49, has run within the occasion twice since retiring from full-time racing in 2020, with a greatest end of twenty eighth.
