It’s been 14 weeks since Joey Logano gained his third NASCAR Cup Collection championship in Phoenix and now it’s lastly time to begin the 2025 marketing campaign with the .
We’ve coated , and saved monitor of within the offseason, however now let’s deal with the “Tremendous Bowl of motor racing occasions.”
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Friday5:30-6:30 p.m.: Daytona 500 apply 2 (FS1, Fox Sports activities app)
Saturday10:30-11:30 a.m.: Daytona 500 ultimate apply (FS1, Fox Sports activities app)
Sunday2:30-6 p.m.: Daytona 500 (Fox, Fox Sports activities app)
Observe: 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 most important race on the NASCAR calendar additionally encompasses a distinctive qualifying format not used on some other race weekend. On Wednesday night time all entered automobiles will flip one lap at prime pace, 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 occasions from that session setting the entrance row for Sunday’s race.
The remaining automobiles 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 way of 40. The ending order for the primary duel determines the within row slots and the ending order from the second duel units the surface.
Restrictor plate racing presents a randomizing ingredient 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 at 20-to-1 or higher.
Ryan Blaney +1200Joey Logano +1200Brad Keselowski +1200Kyle Busch +1400Denny Hamlin +1500
Because 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 prime 40 occasions, there can be solely 40 automobiles operating on Sunday. If he doesn’t make it on time, the Daytona 500 may 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 group 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.
