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Ryan Preece begins 2021 with back-to-back Top-10s
Two races into the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season, Ryan Preece is off to his fastest start in his career. Preece opened the season with a sixth-place showing in the Daytona 500 and backed up the run with a ninth-place showing Sunday (Feb. 21) at the Daytona Road Course. It is the first time in…
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Ryan Blaney completes 200th Cup race
Ryan Blaney’s 15th-place finish Sunday in the O’Reilly Auto Parts 253 completed the 27-year-old’s 200th start in NASCAR’s premier series. The Team Penske driver is the 138th driver in series history to start in at least 200 races. Blaney started the Daytona Road Course race in 27th, ultimately finishing on the lead lap and earning…
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Christopher Bell 197th different winner in Cup
Christopher Bell is the latest Cup Series driver to earn a points-awarding win in the premier series of NASCAR. Bell passed race leader Joey Logano with two laps to go Sunday (Feb. 21) in the O’Reilly Auto Parts 253 at the Daytona Road Course. “I knew that going into this year that I was going…
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Michael McDowell eyes NASCAR history at Daytona Road Course
As if a win on NASCAR’s largest stage wasn’t enough for Michael McDowell last weekend in the Daytona 500, the Front Row Motorsports driver has another shot at NASCAR history Sunday at the Daytona Road Course. A win on Sunday would make McDowell the fourth driver in Cup Series history to back up a first…
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Ty Gibbs makes Xfinity Series history
In his series debut, Ty Gibbs became the sixth driver in NASCAR Xfinity Series history to win in their series debut. Gibbs, 19, joins Dale Earnhardt, Joe Ruttman, Ricky Rudd, Terry Labonte and Kurt Busch as winners in their first Xfinity Series start. Gibbs won Stage 2 and led 14 laps en route to the…
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Rhodes goes two-for-two at Daytona
Ben Rhodes earned his second consecutive NASCAR Camping World Truck Series win in Friday’s BrakeBest Brake Pads 159 at Daytona. Rhodes became just the third driver in NCWTS history to earn two consecutive wins to start the season with his second win at Daytona. “I’m just taken aback by the whole thing,” Rhodes stated. “I…
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David Starr could run Cup races in 2021
NASCAR Xfinity Series competitor David Starr is open to running Cup Series races this year for Carl Long’s MBM Motorsports, the team he will compete for in the Xfinity Series in 2021 starting at the Daytona Road Course. “If he needs me to help him out, run a Cup race, I will, but my focus…
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Ross Chastain posts career-high finish in Daytona 500
Ross Chastain kicked off the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series with his highest finish in a points-awarding race to date. Chastain placed his No. 42 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet seventh in the Daytona 500, earning his second career Top-10 finish in NASCAR’s elite series. Chastain’s prior highest finish was a 10th-place run in the Daytona 500…
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Kyle Larson nets Top-10 in return to Cup
In his first Cup Series start since Phoenix in March 2020, Kyle Larson placed 10th in the season-opening Daytona 500 (Feb. 14). Despite involvement in the final lap crash, Larson was able to earn the Top-10 run in his debut at Hendrick Motorsports. “All-in-all a good day,” Larson said. “I thought we were in an…
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0 for 357 no more: Michael McDowell wins Daytona 500
20 years after Michael Waltrip snapped a long winless drought, another Michael did the same in Sunday’s Daytona 500. Michael McDowell ended a 357-race winless streak as he claimed his first win in Sunday’s race. McDowell led one lap in becoming the eighth driver to earn their first win in the Daytona 500. McDowell avoided…