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NASCAR: Bubba Wallace wins first Daytona Duel qualifying race as Austin Cindric wins the second
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NASCAR: Bubba Wallace wins first Daytona Duel qualifying race as Austin Cindric wins the second

By Miles Cooper February 14, 2025
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NASCAR: Bubba Wallace wins first Daytona Duel qualifying race as Austin Cindric wins the second

Bubba Wallace will begin third within the Daytona 500 on Sunday

Wallace gained the primary Duel qualifying race forward of William Byron and Ty Dillon. He had a quick automotive for a lot of the race and was in a position to management the lead on the entrance for the ultimate laps.

“I’ve wished one in all these Duel wins for thus lengthy, all my buddies have gotten them,” Wallace stated after the race.

Justin Allgaier completed ninth to qualify for the race for automotive proprietor Dale Earnhardt Jr. It’s the primary time a automotive owned by Junior’s JR Motorsports crew will compete in a NASCAR Cup Collection race. The crew is a stalwart in NASCAR’s second-tier Xfinity Collection.

Wallace is the No. 11 favourite at BetMGM (+2500) to win the Daytona 500. He has 5 top-five finishes in 15 begins at Daytona and has completed within the prime 5 of the Daytona 500 in two of the previous three seasons. Wallace was second in 2022 and completed fifth in 2024.

Chase Briscoe gained the pole for Sunday’s race throughout Wednesday’s entrance row qualifying session. He lingered in the back of the pack earlier than retiring the automotive out of precaution on account of a possible particles strike. If Briscoe’s crew needed to go to a backup automotive, he’d should relinquish his No. 1 beginning spot.

Helio Castroneves would be the forty first automotive within the Daytona 500 due to a brand new NASCAR provisional rule that granted him an computerized berth into the race. The four-time Indianapolis 500 champion was concerned in a wreck when Chandler Smith — additionally racing for a spot within the Daytona 500 — tried to chop in entrance of Justin Haley within the prime 5. Smith had no room and took out Haley, Castroneves and others.

Castroneves stored happening the backstretch after the wreck and his automotive crashed once more when he clipped the apron.

Due to NASCAR’s constitution guidelines 36 full-time groups are routinely within the race. That left 9 automobiles for the 4 remaining spots within the area exterior of Castroneves’ provisional. Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson took two of these 4 spots on Wednesday night time by advantage of their qualifying speeds, leaving one spot accessible in every Duel race.

Austin Cindric gained the second Duel race as he was simply forward of Erik Jones on the ultimate lap when a warning flew for a crash in the midst of the pack.

Cindric and Jones have been side-by-side for the win and Jones crossed the end line first. However the warning got here out earlier than the automobiles acquired to the end line.

Jones parked his automotive on the frontstretch after the race within the hope that he was the winner. However Cindric’s automotive was clearly forward when the warning got here out.

Cindric was already set to start out second within the 500 because of his qualifying velocity on Wednesday. Jones will begin fourth.

Corey LaJoie was the highest-finishing open driver and took the ultimate spot within the 500. He beat Anthony Alfredo and BJ McLeod to make the race.

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