NASCAR: Riley Herbst to miss Daytona race, Burton filling in
Riley Herbst will miss the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway Saturday.
23XI Racing confirmed Saturday, Aug. 29, in a statement that Herbst “woke up with lingering effects from last weekend’s incident, and along with the team, decided it was in his best interest” to step aside from the No. 35 Toyota in the Saturday night race.
Harrison Burton, the 2024 Daytona summer winner, will race the No. 35.
Herbst had started in each of the season’s first 25 races, racking up three Top-10 finishes and ranked 26th in driver’s points.
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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