It’s been 14 weeks since Joey Logano gained his third NASCAR Cup Collection championship in Phoenix and now it’s lastly time to start out the 2025 marketing campaign with the .
We’ve lined , and stored monitor of within the offseason, however now let’s concentrate on the “Tremendous Bowl of motor racing occasions.”
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Mon, February 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM GMT+1🟩 🟩 GREEN FLAG 🟩 🟩
Lap 166, Austin Cindric and Bubba Wallace on the entrance row
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 2:45 AM GMT+1🟨 🟨 YELLOW FLAG 🟨 🟨
Lap 163 for particles. Closing (potential) stops coming below warning.
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM GMT+140 laps to go within the 67th Daytona 500
“Gas window is open,” says Mike Pleasure on Fox. “Closing pit stops within the offing.”
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 2:26 AM GMT+1It’s getting crowded on the market
Chase goes to the highest of three lanes early on this stage
“Three huge. Complete discipline.”
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM GMT+1🟩 🟩 STAGE 3 BEGINS 🟩 🟩
Ryan Blaney leads the best way.
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM GMT+1🟩 ⬜️ 🟩 ⬜️ STAGE 2 ENDS 🟩 ⬜️ 🟩 ⬜️
The Workforce Penske fords have been dominant, main 87 OF 130 laps up to now, as Ryan Blaney wins Stage 2 with Austin Cindric and a resurgent Joey Logano lurking.
Workforce Penske sweeps the levels (Logano S1, Blaney S2).
1. Blaney2. Cindric3. Elliott4. Bowman5. Gilliland6. Buescher7. Jones8. Logano9. Wallace10. Busch
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM GMT+1Joey Logano on the transfer
From the tail finish of the lead lap with engine hassle to working between P10-15 with 10 to go in Stage 2
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM GMT+1Should have some exhausting racing to the tip of Stage 2
Most…however not all…are good on gas to the tip of the stage. Very similar to stage one you’ll see some drop again making an attempt to avoid wasting.
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM GMT+1Daytona 500 is official
Not that there is anymore rain anticipated…
… Midway within the Daytona 5001 – Preece2 – Gragson3 – Bowman4 – Cindric5 – McDowell6 – Buescher7 – Elliott 8 – Gilliland9 – Bell10 – Blaney
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM GMT+1Joey Logano’s automobile seemingly mounted
The perpetrator was a paper bag getting by way of the grill and into the throttle meeting. They mounted it on pit street, acquired the wave round and he’s again in control.
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM GMT+1🟩 🟩 🟩 GREEN FLAG 🟩 🟩 🟩
Lap 87 with Austin Cindric main the best way
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM GMT+1🟨 🟨 🟨 YELLOW FLAG 🟨 🟨 🟨
Lap 83 for particles on the monitor. Excellent news for Joey Logano, who’s having engine hassle and was 20 mph off the tempo.
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM GMT+1Update on those that are in/outMon, February 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM GMT+1🟩 🟩 🟩 GREEN FLAG 🟩 🟩 🟩
Ryan Blaney leads the sphere to inexperienced on Lap 77.
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM GMT+1🟨 🟨 🟨 YELLOW FLAG 🟨 🟨 🟨
Lap 71, they made one nook earlier than a wreck. Joey Logano reporting his automobile had no energy, which stacked up the sphere behind him and triggered everybody behind to take evasive motion.
Concerned: Chastain, Castroneves, Busch, Herbst, Truex, Allgaier, Johnson
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM GMT+1🟩 🟩 🟩 GREEN FLAG 🟩 🟩 🟩
Joey Logano leads the sphere to inexperienced on Lap 71 to start the second 65-lap stage.
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM GMT+1On-board seems at what introduced out the cautionMon, February 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM GMT+1Time for yellow-flag pit stops
Lap 68Four tires and gas for almost everybody per Larry McReynolds on the Fox broadcast
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM GMT+1🟩 ⬜️ 🟩 ⬜️ STAGE 1 ENDS 🟩 ⬜️ 🟩 ⬜️
Logano
Keselowski
Blaney
Stenhouse Jr.
Bell
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM GMT+1🟨 🟨 🟨 YELLOW FLAG 🟨 🟨 🟨
Lap 63. Denny Hamlin checked up, went right down to the apron, inflicting Zane Smith to get out of practice and gather Josh Berry as properly.
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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 most important 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 pace, 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 instances from that session setting the entrance row for Sunday’s race.
The remaining vehicles are dropped — as evenly as doable, 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 aspect that makes handicapping the outcomes difficult, and that’s mirrored in BetMGM’s odds. Three drivers enter the week with equivalent 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 yr, a provisional is granted for a “world-class driver” who doesn’t run the Cup collection full time to affix the sphere for any occasion because the forty first automobile. Groups should put within the request not less than 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 instances, there will probably 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 and 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.
