It’s been 14 weeks since Joey Logano received his third NASCAR Cup Collection championship in Phoenix and now it’s lastly time to begin the 2025 marketing campaign with the .
We’ve lined , and saved observe of within the offseason, however now let’s give attention to the “Tremendous Bowl of motor racing occasions.”
Live18 updates
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. Gasoline stress concern by way of the Fox broadcast staff.
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM GMT+1🟩 🟩 🟩 GREEN FLAG 🟩 🟩 🟩
The 67th Daytona 500 is on!
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM GMT+1President Trump’s message to the drivers forward of the inexperienced flagSun, February 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM GMT+1Sun, February 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM GMT+1Cap provides the command to fireside enginesSun, February 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM GMT+1Strategy replace
However let’s simply hope the rain misses the speedway completely.
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM GMT+1Morgan Freeman narrates the opening on FoxSun, February 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM GMT+1Rain doable within the subsequent hourSun, February 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM GMT+1Michael Waltrip’s grid stroll, that includes a near-takedownSun, February 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM GMT+1Joey Logano is introducedSun, February 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM GMT+1Daytona 500 well-represented
Per Chris Myers on the Fox broadcast, the race is offered out with its highest attendance ever with all 50 states within the union and 44 international locations internationally represented.
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM GMT+1Daytona 500 grand marshal Anthony Mackie signing in for dutySun, February 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM GMT+1President Trump is on the Daytona Worldwide Speedway groundsSun, February 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM GMT+1Some last-minute race updates
Daytona 500:
NASCAR RaceDay is airing now on FOX
2-Cup inexperienced, levels 65-65-70, 9 units tires, gas 35-45 laps
To the rear:Backups: Larson Keselowski Haley Herbst Bowman Gibbs SVG(and tech) Suarez Engine: CastronevesTech: Stenhouse
Lineup and pit street
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM GMT+1Sun, February 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM GMT+1It would not be an occasion in Florida with out Mr. 305Sun, February 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM GMT+1President Trump arriving imminently on the speedwaySun, February 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM GMT+1Daytona 500 climate replace
All instances 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 incorporates a distinctive qualifying format not used on every 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 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 night time that set the sector from spots three by means of 40. The ending order for the primary duel determines the within row slots and the ending order from the second duel units the skin.
Restrictor plate racing presents a randomizing ingredient 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
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 collection full time to affix the sector 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 to qualify for the race and if he posts one of many prime 40 instances, there will probably be solely 40 vehicles operating on Sunday. If he doesn’t make it on time, the Daytona 500 may have its largest area in 10 years.
Seven-time collection champion and winner of the 2006 and 2013 Daytona 500s Jimmie Johnson will try to make the sector in a 3rd entry for the Legacy Motor Membership staff 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.
