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William Byron wins rain-filled Daytona 500 for second consecutive 12 months
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William Byron wins rain-filled Daytona 500 for second consecutive 12 months

By Miles Cooper February 17, 2025
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William Byron wins rain-filled Daytona 500 for second consecutive 12 months

It might need taken longer than anticipated however the 2025 Daytona 500 gave followers just a little little bit of the whole lot regardless of it ending underneath the lights.

William Byron received his second consecutive Daytona 500, taking the checkered flag after a last-lap wreck took out a number of contenders.

The 27-year-old turns into the primary back-to-back winner of the primary race of the NASCAR season at Daytona Seaside, Florida since Denny Hamlin in 2019-2020.

Hamlin was main coming into the ultimate lap however his automobile spun out after being concerned in a crash with Austin Cindric on the again stretch.

Byron, the Hendrick Motorsports driver, advised the Fox broadcast after the race, it was “tremendous luck” to get the win.

“Simply clearly lucky it labored out in our favor,” Byron mentioned. “Simply actually pleased with this workforce. Labored tremendous arduous all week. Had a tremendous automobile…Loopy? Yeah. I can’t actually imagine that however we’re right here.”

The ultimate lap was on a green-white-checker restart after one other large wreck 4 laps earlier noticed Ryan Preece’s No. 60 Ford go airborne and into the wall.

The 34-year-old Preece gave his workforce a sign that he was okay and later was “evaluated and launched from the infield care middle,” per NASCAR.

Preece advised the printed what his ideas had been when his automobile flipped.

“When the automobile took off like that, it received actual quiet and all I thought of was my daughter,” Preece mentioned. “So, I’m fortunate to stroll away.”

Christopher Bell, who was concerned within the wreck, was additionally evaluated and later launched.

Moist climate was at all times within the forecast for NASCAR’s premiere race, and fewer than 10 minutes after the inexperienced flag dropped, the skies opened over Daytona Worldwide Speedway, prompting the race to be purple flagged after simply 11 of the scheduled 200 laps.

After a delay of greater than three hours, the race resumed underneath warning. The drivers took 9 yellow flag laps across the two-and-a-half mile tri-oval monitor earlier than rain started to fall once more, drawing one other purple flag.

Twenty-three minutes later, the climate cleared for good and the Nice American Race was capable of begin in earnest.

The race ran comparatively uneventfully for greater than 40 laps with a number of drivers taking turns within the lead earlier than a small wreck on the 63rd lap led to a warning.

When the inexperienced flag waved to restart the race on the 71st lap, Joey Logano, who was in entrance of the surface lane, couldn’t discover any energy. His automobile slowed down, inflicting a series response behind him that finally led to a crash which knocked a number of automobiles out of the race.

Logano, the reigning NASCAR champion, who received the primary stage of the race, made his option to pit row, the place his automobile was labored on by his mechanics. Logano’s mechanical points took him from up entrance again into the center of the pack, as his Crew Penske teammate Ryan Blaney received the race’s second stage.

Previous to the beginning of the race, President Donald Trump made an look on the monitor, the place his presidential motorcade led the sphere of drivers in a single lap across the tri-oval course, and he delivered a message of encouragement by way of radio.

“That is your favourite president,” Trump mentioned. “I’m a extremely large fan of you folks. The way you do that I don’t know, however I simply need you to be protected. You’re proficient folks and also you’re nice folks and nice People. Have a superb day, have plenty of enjoyable and I’ll goodbye.”

President Donald Trump, left, speaks with NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Richard Petty at the Daytona 500. - Chris O'Meara/AP

Trump, sporting his trademark purple “Make America Nice Once more” baseball cap, was joined by his younger granddaughter, carrying a white MAGA cap, as he mingled with drivers and racing royalty reminiscent of Richard Petty on pit row earlier than the race started.

The president was additionally available for the pre-race invocation and nationwide anthem.

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