It’s been 14 weeks since Joey Logano received his third NASCAR Cup Sequence championship in Phoenix and now it’s lastly time to start out the 2025 marketing campaign with the .
We’ve coated , and saved monitor of within the offseason, however now let’s give attention to the “Tremendous Bowl of motor racing occasions.”
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Mon, February 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM GMT+1🟩 🟩 🟩 GREEN FLAG 🟩 🟩 🟩
We’re again to racing on Lap 24, with Joey Logano main the sector to inexperienced.
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM GMT+1No pit stops till the stage ends or one other wreck
… hopefully.
They need to be capable to run exhausting as soon as this stage goes again to inexperienced. Needs to be good on gasoline to the top.
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM GMT+1🟨 🟨 🟨 RED FLAG LIFTED 🟨 🟨 🟨
Automobiles again (once more) on monitor hoping to get underway after a more-than four-hour delay
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM GMT+1Mon, February 17, 2025 at 12:01 AM GMT+1🟥 🟥 🟥 RED FLAG 🟥 🟥 🟥 Solar, February 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM GMT+1Cars again to pit street
Paul Wolfe telling Joey Logano over group radio that this cell is about 5 miles broad they usually do not anticipate to lose the monitor.
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM GMT+1More unhealthy information
NASCAR goes to maintain the warning out as this gentle bathe strikes in.
experiences rain drops in Turns 1 and a pair of.
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 11:35 PM GMT+1Sun, February 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM GMT+1🟨 🟨 🟨 RED FLAG LIFTED 🟨 🟨 🟨
Drivers again of their automobiles and leaving pit street underneath the yellow flag
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM GMT+1Bowman the Showman: man of the peopleSun, February 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM GMT+1Sun, February 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM GMT+1We might get racing this hour
UPDATE: NASCAR has issued a name for drivers to report back to their automobiles at 5:25 p.m. ET.
Protection of the continues reside on FOX.
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM GMT+1Dale Jr. weighs in
Monitor appears to be like prepared, let’s go
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM GMT+1More encouraging scenes as we wait to go racing at DaytonaSun, February 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM GMT+1THIS angle of the Thunderbirds flyover 👀Solar, February 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM GMT+1Sun, February 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM GMT+1Welcome sights and sounds at DaytonaSun, February 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM GMT+1They’ve fired up the jet dryersSun, February 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM GMT+1Good information, unhealthy information
Rain is clearing developing, however extra is trailing it…
Solar, February 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM GMT+1
All occasions 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 Seaside, 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 automobiles will flip one lap at prime velocity, the order of which is set by a Tuesday evening draw of numbers. The highest 10 drivers then go right into a shootout with the highest two occasions from that session setting the entrance row for Sunday’s race.
The remaining automobiles 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 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 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 similar 12-to-1 odds and 10 drivers are available in at 20-to-1 or higher.
Ryan Blaney +1200Joey Logano +1200Brad Keselowski +1200Kyle Busch +1400Denny Hamlin +1500
On account of a brand new rule this yr, a provisional is granted for a “world-class driver” who doesn’t run the Cup sequence full time to hitch the sector for any occasion because the forty first automotive. Groups should put within the request at the very least 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 occasions, there will likely be solely 40 automobiles working on Sunday. If he doesn’t make it on time, the Daytona 500 could have its largest area in 10 years.
Seven-time sequence 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 group that he owns. Johnson, 49, has run within the occasion twice since retiring from full-time racing in 2020, with a finest end of twenty eighth.
