It’s been 14 weeks since Joey Logano gained his third NASCAR Cup Sequence championship in Phoenix and now it’s lastly time to start out the 2025 marketing campaign with the .
We’ve coated , and stored monitor of within the offseason, however now let’s deal with the “Tremendous Bowl of motor racing occasions.”
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Potential rain delay timeline
This is the rain delay plan on the :
— anticipating it to rain for awhile (2-3 hours?)
— After it clears, they will attempt to dry the monitor (2-2.5 hours usually) and get the race in.
— Doable late evening forward. Gonna try to nap in my automobile now, see ya later.
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM GMT+1A good time to display ‘Days of Thunder’
Who might neglect Cole Trickle’s epic comeback win on the 1990 Daytona 500?
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM GMT+1Sun, February 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM GMT+1Initial storm cell has blown by way of
Monitor drying has begun because the TV image has improved significantly.
is staging monitor drying gear
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM GMT+1The wind and rain are choosing up
… reviews that rain is choosing up in Turns 1 and a pair of. Groups can cowl the vehicles.
says that drivers can exit their vehicles
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM GMT+1🟥 🟥 🟥 RED FLAG 🟥 🟥 🟥
Automobiles have returned to pit street on Lap 11
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM GMT+1The climate would not look promising…Solar, February 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM GMT+1After 10 laps …
Byron
Cindric
TDillon
Briscoe
Logano
Kyle Busch is among the many greatest gainers within the discipline, whereas Ryan Blaney has fallen 14 spots
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM GMT+1🟨 🟨 🟨 YELLOW FLAG 🟨 🟨 🟨
Warning is out at lap 10 for rain.
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM GMT+1Carson Hocevar struggling early
The 2024 Rookie of the 12 months has misplaced the tail of the draft and is 7 seconds off the chief. Gas strain situation by way of the Fox broadcast workforce.
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM GMT+1🟩 🟩 🟩 GREEN FLAG 🟩 🟩 🟩
The 67th Daytona 500 is on!
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM GMT+1President Trump’s message to the drivers forward of the inexperienced flagSun, February 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM GMT+1Sun, February 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM GMT+1Cap provides the command to fireplace enginesSun, February 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM GMT+1Strategy replace
However let’s simply hope the rain misses the speedway fully.
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM GMT+1Morgan Freeman narrates the opening on FoxSun, February 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM GMT+1Rain potential within the subsequent hourSun, February 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM GMT+1Michael Waltrip’s grid stroll, that includes a near-takedownSun, February 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM GMT+1Joey Logano is introducedSun, February 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM GMT+1Daytona 500 well-represented
Per Chris Myers on the Fox broadcast, the race is offered out with its highest attendance ever with all 50 states within the union and 44 nations the world over represented.
All occasions Japanese
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
No. 19 Chase Briscoe
No. 2 Austin Cindric
No. 23 Bubba Wallace
No. 43 Erik Jones
No. 24 William Byron
No. 17 Chris Buescher
No. 10 Ty Dillon
No. 11 Denny Hamlin
No. 1 Ross Chastain
No. 22 Joey Logano
No. 45 Tyler Reddick
No. 01 Corey LaJoie
No. 16 A.J. Allmendinger
No. 34 Todd Gilliland
No. 3 Austin Dillon
No. 12 Ryan Blaney
No. 9 Chase Elliott
No. 42 John Hunter Nemechek
No. 40 Justin Allgaier
No. 20 Christopher Bell
No. 8 Kyle Busch
No. 5 Kyle Larson
No. 54 Ty Gibbs
No. 35 Riley Herbst
No. 71 Michael McDowell
No. 88 Shane van Gisbergen
No. 60 Ryan Preece
No. 51 Cody Ware
No. 4 Josh Berry
No. 41 Cole Custer
No. 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
No. 4 Noah Gragson
No. 77 Carson Hocevar
No. 6 Brad Keselowski
No. 7 Justin Haley
No. 99 Daniel Suarez
No. 38 Zane Smith
No. 48 Alex Bowman
No. 56 Martin Truex Jr.
No. 84 Jimmie Johnson
No. 91 Helio Castroneves
The largest race on the NASCAR calendar additionally incorporates a distinctive qualifying format not used on another race weekend. On Wednesday evening all entered vehicles will flip one lap at prime velocity, the order of which is decided by a Tuesday evening 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 vehicles are dropped — as evenly as potential, together with the highest two qualifiers — into two 60-lap qualifying “duels” to be run Thursday evening that set the sphere 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 an identical 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
Because of a brand new rule this yr, a provisional is granted for a “world-class driver” who doesn’t run the Cup collection full time to hitch the sphere 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 vehicles working on Sunday. If he doesn’t make it on time, the Daytona 500 may have its largest discipline in 10 years.
Seven-time collection champion and winner of the 2006 and 2013 Daytona 500s Jimmie Johnson will try to make the sphere 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.
