It’s been 14 weeks since Joey Logano gained his third NASCAR Cup Sequence championship in Phoenix and now it’s lastly time to begin the 2025 marketing campaign with the .
We’ve coated , and stored observe of within the offseason, however now let’s deal with the “Tremendous Bowl of motor racing occasions.”
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Solar, February 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM GMT+1More encouraging scenes as we wait to go racing at DaytonaSun, February 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM GMT+1THIS angle of the Thunderbirds flyover 👀Solar, February 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM GMT+1Sun, February 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM GMT+1Welcome sights and sounds at DaytonaSun, February 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM GMT+1They’ve fired up the jet dryersSun, February 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM GMT+1Good information, dangerous information
Rain is clearing developing, however extra is trailing it…
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM GMT+1Sun, February 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM GMT+1Sun, February 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM GMT+1How reporters go the time
And the web is beginning to take a dive right here within the media heart, which implies the Streaming 500 has begun.
We hear there was that simply wrapped 👀
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM GMT+1A good time to display ‘Days of Thunder’
Who might overlook Cole Trickle’s epic comeback win on the 1990 Daytona 500?
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM GMT+1Potential rain delay timeline
Here is the rain delay plan on the :
— anticipating it to rain for awhile (2-3 hours?)
— After it clears, they’re going to attempt to dry the observe (2-2.5 hours sometimes) and get the race in.
— Potential late night time forward. Gonna try to nap in my automobile now, see ya later.
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM GMT+1Sun, February 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM GMT+1Initial storm cell has blown by
Monitor drying has begun because the TV image has improved significantly.
is staging observe drying gear
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM GMT+1The wind and rain are choosing up
… studies 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 🟥 🟥 🟥
Vehicles have returned to pit highway on Lap 11
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM GMT+1The climate does 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 largest 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 stress problem by way of the Fox broadcast group.
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM GMT+1🟩 🟩 🟩 GREEN FLAG 🟩 🟩 🟩
The 67th Daytona 500 is on!
All occasions Jap
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 Seashore, 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 includes a distinctive qualifying format not used on some other race weekend. On Wednesday night time all entered vehicles will flip one lap at prime velocity, the order of which is decided 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 vehicles are dropped — as evenly as potential, 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 surface.
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 an identical 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
As a result 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 hitch the sector for any occasion because the forty first automobile. Groups should put within the request a minimum of 90 days forward of time and solely . Castroneves will nonetheless try and qualify for the race and if he posts one of many prime 40 occasions, there will likely be solely 40 vehicles 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 and 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 finest end of twenty eighth.
