is locked into, no matter the way it goes in pole and his Thursday night time Duel race.
And guess what: Lots of people aren’t pleased with permitting an automated entry, for any Cup Sequence race, to a “world-class” driver. In spite of everything, Jimmie Johnson is a seven-time NASCAR champ and two-time Daytona 500 winner, but he’s now a part-time driver and never assured a beginning spot.
“I perceive. You recognize, I am not making the foundations,” mentioned throughout Wednesday’s NASCAR Media Day at Daytona. “I did not know that, truly, these guidelines exist.”
Helio Castroneves can truly race his method into Daytona 500
Castroneves is making this one-off run for Trackhouse Racing in its occasional “Mission 91” effort — the No. 91 Chevrolet, which this week appears to be like very sharp in its Wendy’s sponsorship outfit.
He could make the five hundred with out the newly shaped rule if he’s one in every of two quickest non-charter drivers throughout pole qualifying or the best ending non-charter in his Thursday qualifying race.
But when not …
“Once we accepted this chance, we accepted to go and race,” he mentioned. “No matter occurs within the Duel … if I’ve to take it, I am going to take it.”
Helio Castroneves: ‘I would like follow’
He guarantees to withstand the chance take it simple Thursday and easily flip laps, figuring out he’s locked in to Sunday’s lineup.
“I would like follow. I have to run,” he mentioned via amusing. “I haven’t got any expertise in any respect. In the present day is my second time within the automotive, so I feel each time, each second that I leap within the automotive, I’ll study one thing.”
That features Saturday, when he’s entered within the 200-mile ARCA collection race.
“It is a completely different beast,” he mentioned of the NASCAR equipment. “It is an incredible automotive. It is utterly completely different — completely different guidelines, ? And I feel the competitors can also be completely different than what I am used to. So each time I am in a automotive, I am gonna study.”
