It’s been 14 weeks since Joey Logano gained his third NASCAR Cup Sequence championship in Phoenix and now it’s lastly time to begin the 2025 marketing campaign with the .
We’ve lined , and stored monitor of within the offseason, however now let’s concentrate on the “Tremendous Bowl of motor racing occasions.”
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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 includes a distinctive qualifying format not used on another race weekend. On Wednesday night time all entered automobiles will flip one lap at high pace, 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 occasions from that session setting the entrance row for Sunday’s race.
The remaining automobiles are dropped — as evenly as attainable, 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 way 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 in at 20-to-1 or higher.
Ryan Blaney +1200Joey Logano +1200Brad Keselowski +1200Kyle Busch +1400Denny Hamlin +1500
Because of a brand new rule this 12 months, 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 least 90 days forward of time and solely . Castroneves will nonetheless try and qualify for the race and if he posts one of many high 40 occasions, there will probably be solely 40 automobiles operating on Sunday. If he doesn’t make it on time, the Daytona 500 can have its largest discipline in 10 years.
Seven-time sequence champion and winner of the 2006 and 2013 Daytona 500s Jimmie Johnson will try and make the sector in a 3rd entry for the Legacy Motor Membership workforce 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.
