Daytona 500: William Byron celebrates win for Hendrick Motorsports
Daytona Worldwide Speedway hosted a Daytona 500 championship celebration for William Byron and Hendrick Motorsports Monday.
The 2027 Daytona 500 will transfer off its conventional Presidents Day weekend date.This scheduling battle is a results of the NFL including a seventeenth sport to its common season in 2021.
It took a number of years, however the NFL’s addition of a seventeenth regular-season sport has lastly stiff-armed the Daytona 500 off its (largely) conventional race date.
Getting forward of issues by 16 months, NASCAR has introduced the 2027 Daytona 500 — NASCAR’s personal “Tremendous Bowl” — will transfer off Presidents Day weekend and as an alternative take the inexperienced flag Sunday, Feb. 21, seven days after Tremendous Bowl LXI, scheduled for Feb. 14 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
“It’s a really crowded sports activities panorama in February of ’27, together with the Tremendous Bowl scheduled for Feb. 14,” stated Frank Kelleher, president of Daytona Worldwide Speedway. “The choice was made to maneuver the Daytona 500, to permit for it to face by itself.”
Subsequent season’s 2026 Daytona 500 stays on Presidents Day weekend and is scheduled for Feb. 15. Kelleher stated the Speedway and NASCAR really feel “accountability” towards attending followers to allow them to know the following yr’s date as quickly as doable.
“Our followers are essentially the most loyal, and we all know lots of them make their journey plans over a yr upfront for the Nice American Race,” Kelleher stated.
“So we wish that information on the market proper now, so when individuals are making ready, finalizing their journey for this upcoming yr, after they’re right here speaking about renewing or extending their VRBO or Airbnb, or trying out a brand new resort chain, they’ll know the dates they’re for the next yr.”
Why the NFL crashed into the Daytona 500
This collision of dates first turned doable in 2021 when the NFL added a seventeenth sport to the common season. With that extra week added to the slate, the Tremendous Bowl started falling on the second Sunday of February.
February of 2027 would be the first time for the reason that NFL schedule change that February’s second Sunday falls on the day earlier than Presidents Day, which is historically the third Monday of the month. The date was formally introduced final month.
NASCAR’s Daytona 500 has been throughout February
The Daytona 500 debuted in 1959 on the weekend after Presidents Day, and thru 1970 was held as early as Feb. 14 and as late as Feb. 27. The following 41 editions, from 1971 to 2011, the five hundred was held on the Sunday previous February’s third Monday, and returned there in 2018 after racing every week later for six years.
The Daytona 500 has been run at the very least as soon as on each day between Feb. 14-28. The one Feb. 28 operating got here with an asterisk, and it truly additionally included Feb. 29. Scheduled for Feb. 27, daylong rains postponed the race earlier than it started, with a brand new begin time deliberate for the following afternoon.
Nevertheless it was moved to Monday evening — a 7 p.m. begin — as a consequence of continued damp circumstances. The notorious jet-dryer accident, ensuing within the observe catching on hearth, introduced out a two-hour purple flag and it was after midnight earlier than Matt Kenseth took the checkers.
If not for the 2012 Leap 12 months, that one would’ve technically completed in March.
