Daytona 500 urge outcomes: William Byron wins forward of teammate Alex Bowman in break-stuffed quit; pudgy leaderboard

Daytona 500 pudgy outcomes

1. William Byron (24), Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

2. Alex Bowman (48), Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

3. Christopher Bell (20), Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

4. Corey LaJoie (7), Spire Motorsports Chevrolet

5. A.J. Allmendinger (16), Kaulig Racing Chevrolet

6. Bubba Wallace (23), 23XI Racing Toyota

7. John Hunter Nemechek (42), Legacy Motor Membership Toyota

8. Trail Briscoe (14), Stewart-Haas Racing Ford

9. Erik Jones (43), Legacy Motor Membership Toyota

10. Noah Gragson (10), Stewart-Haas Racing Ford

11. Kyle Larson (5), Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

12. Kyle Busch (8), Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet

13. Zane Smith (71), Spire Motorsports Chevrolet

14. Trail Elliott (9), Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

15. Martin Truex Jr. (19), Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

16. Daniel Hemric (31), Kaulig Racing Chevrolet

17. Ty Gibbs (54), Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

18. Chris Buescher (17), RFK Racing Ford

19. Denny Hamlin (11), Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

20. David Ragan (60), RFK Racing Ford

21. Ross Chastain (1), Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

22. Austin Cindric (2), Crew Penske Ford

23. Ryan Preece (41), Stewart-Haas Racing Ford

24. Riley Herbst (15), Rick Ware Racing Ford

25. Josh Berry (4), Stewart-Haas Racing Ford

26. Justin Haley (51), Rick Ware Racing Ford

27. Anthony Alfredo (62), Beard Motorsports Chevrolet

28. Jimmie Johnson (84), Legacy Motor Membership Toyota

29. Tyler Reddick (45), 23XI Racing Toyota

30. Ryan Blaney (12), Crew Penske Ford

31. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (47), JTG Daugherty Racing Chevrolet

32. Joey Logano (22), Crew Penske Ford

33. Brad Keselowski (6), RFK Racing Ford

34. Daniel Suárez (99), Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

35. Todd Gilliland (38), Front Row Motorsports Ford

36. J.J. Yeley (44), NY Racing Crew Chevrolet

37. BJ McLeod (78), Reside Rapid Motorsports Ford

38. Michael McDowell (34), Front Row Motorsports Ford

39. Austin Dillon (3), Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet

40. Kaz Grala (36), Front Row Motorsports Ford

41. Harrison Burton (21), Wood Brothers Racing Ford

42. Carson Hocevar (77), Spire Motorsports Chevrolet

William Byron won his first profession Daytona 500 on Monday, main ethical the closing four laps.

A huge break he had a hand in entertaining half of the 40-car arena with eight laps to head promoted him to 2d space for the restart with six laps closing. Byron, main the inner line obtained previous Ross Chastain on lap 197 and took the white flag as Chastain and Austin Cindric wrecked leisurely him, making him the urge winner.

The Lap 193 incident become once triggered when Byron obtained a mountainous push from teammate Alex Bowman, who performed 2d, that obtained him sideways and grew to become him into Brad Keselowski, which triggered a huge chain reaction break.

Blaney perseveres in Stage 2

Ryan Blaney won an all-green 2d Stage of the Daytona 500. Blaney breezed previous teammate Austin Cindric when the latter opted for the high line coming into flip 3 on the closing lap of the stage.

Blaney wiped out the frustrations of earlier within the stage when he become once averted from pitting with his fellow Fords because he become once caught within the skin draft. He become once at closing forced to pit with a mainly Chevrolet contingent because the closing group on lap 115, however that pack emerged with adequate fade to no longer be swallowed up by the leisure of the arena.

The lone warning of the urge flew on lap 5 for an incident that took out Austin Dillon, Kaz Grala, Carson Hocevar and Harrison Burton.

Elliott claims Stage 1

Trail Elliott won the most necessary stage of the Daytona 500 on Monday. Elliott led a command of six Chevrolets to the golf green-and-white checkered flag, including Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson in 2d. A Chevy did no longer lead the urge till lap 44 as Toyota and Ford dominated early.

The pit device games began early with a lap 5 break that would at closing defend cease out Austin Dillon, Kaz Grala, Carson Hocevar and Harrison Burton. Most effective Ryan Blaney, Christopher Bell and Daniel Hemric stayed out and it ended up hurting them as they contain been main the pack and having to burn extra fuel than the simpler-fueled cars leisurely.

Blaney and Bell first and most necessary backed the arena up, however, upon realizing they contain been helping the trailing cars powerful extra, upped the fade by three seconds per lap. That tactic succeeded in requiring the leisure of the arena to pit again forward of the tip of the stage, however they contain been out of sequence and hurt up cease to the tip of the lead lap pack.

Daytona 500 TV/streaming agenda

All times Jap

Monday

4 p.m.: Daytona 500 (Fox, Fox Sports activities app)

9 p.m.: Xfinity Sequence United Rentals 300 (FS1, Fox Sports activities app)

Daytona 500 urge necessary aspects

Music: Daytona International Speedway (2.5-mile high-banked tri-oval) in Daytona Seashore, Florida

Banking: Turns minus-31 degrees | Tri-oval minus-18 degrees | Backstretch minus-3 degrees

Lumber dimension: 200 laps for 500 miles

Stage lengths: Stage 1 — 65 laps | Stage 2 — 65 laps | Stage 3 — 70 laps

2023 winner: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (47), JTG Daugherty Racing Chevrolet

Daytona 500 starting grid

1. Joey Logano

2. Michael McDowell

3. Tyler Reddick

4. Christopher Bell

5. Trail Elliott

6. Austin Cindric

7. Alex Bowman

8. Denny Hamlin

9. Carson Hocevar

10. John Hunter Nemechek

11. Erik Jones

12. Harrison Burton

13. Daniel Suarez

14. Zane Smith

15. Ty Gibbs

16. Brad Keselowski

17. Kyle Larson

18. William Byron

19. Chris Buescher

20. Trail Briscoe

21. Ross Chastain

22. Justin Haley

23. Jimmie Johnson

24. Bubba Wallace

25. Ryan Preece

26. Kaz Grala

27. Martin Truex Jr.

28. AJ Allmendinger

29. Corey LaJoie

30. Josh Berry

31. Todd Gilliland

32. Ryan Blaney

33. Austin Dillon

34. Kyle Busch

35. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

36. Riley Herbst

37. Daniel Hemric

38. Noah Gragson

39. Anthony Alfredo

40. David Ragan

Toyotas flexing their muscle

After a lackluster showing all the map via single-car front row qualifying Wednesday night time, the unique-for-2024 Toyota package has recovered smartly all around the last couple days. Tyler Reddick and Christopher Bell won their respective Duels on Thursday night time, every of them coming from deep within the arena.

On Friday, Denny Hamlin topped the time sheets with a lap of 45.575 in front of seven other Toyota drivers, including Bell and Reddick. So whereas the single car fade will not be always indubitably there, the revamped package runs extremely smartly within the pack.

Michael McDowell, who will originate the Daytona 500 on the skin of the front row become once the fastest non-Toyota in ninth, turning a lap of 46.256 in his Front Row Motorsports Ford. Austin Dillon’s Richard Childress Racing entry become once the fastest Chevrolet with a 46.411, ethical for 12th.

Reddick, Bell defend cease qualifying duels as Johnson sneaks in

Tyler Reddick won the most necessary Daytona 500 qualifying duel with a dauntless closing-lap cross of Kyle Larson and ought to originate inner row two for the urge. About 4,000 feet of pavement down the avenue, Jimmie Johnson snuck previous JJ Yeley to manufacture the arena for his 21st Daytona 500.

As within the most necessary duel, Christopher Bell pulled off the successful switch on the closing lap. A break with 13 laps closing caught up half the arena of the 2d duel and after the ensuing restart leader Michael McDowell — already assured the 2d initiating — become once frolicked to dry, handing the result in Denny Hamlin. Hamlin led till the closing half of the closing lap when Bell made a dauntless switch on the backstretch that led to victory.

BJ McLeod — who had been running smartly early on — become once caught up within the lap 47 incident and had rapidly overtaken Kaz Grala misplaced his set within the Daytona 500 when Grala pipped him on the closing lap.

Daytona 500 qualifying layout

The largest urge of the 12 months also aspects a distinctive qualifying layout no longer aged anywhere else on the NASCAR calendar. On Wednesday night time all 42 entered cars will flip one lap at top fade, the expose of which depends upon on a Tuesday night time map of numbers. The tip 10 drivers then run right into a shootout with the discontinuance two times from that session setting the front row for Sunday’s urge.

The closing 40 cars are dropped — 20 apiece, alongside with the discontinuance two qualifiers — into two 60-lap qualifying “duels” to be skedaddle Thursday night time that pickle the arena from spots three via 40. The finishing expose for the most necessary duel determines the inner row slots and the finishing expose from the 2d duel sets the skin.

The 36 entries that have a NASCAR charter are assured to manufacture the urge, so two of the six non-chartered entries will be no longer illustrious. That group is headlined by Hall of Famer and seven-time sequence champion Jimmie Johnson, who’s running an abbreviated nine-urge agenda this season for his have Legacy Motor Membership group.

Logano ends the Hendrick, Chevy skedaddle

Ford broke up Chevrolet’s Daytona pole monopoly Wednesday night time. Crew Penske’s Joey Logano earned his first pole space for the Daytona 500 with a 2d-round time of 49.465, which become once ethical 0.071s sooner than the Front Row Motorsports entry of 2021 Daytona 500 winner Michael McDowell.

Logano grew to become the fastest lap within the all-42 car first round and, after McDowell had a reputedly insurmountable 2d round lap of 49.536, bettered it by ethical over seven hundredths of a 2d.

Top drivers and having a bet odds for the Daytona 500

Superspeedway pack racing is rife with peril, where one mistake you don’t contain anything to attain with straight away forward can wipe out your urge. Daytona, Talladega and Atlanta odds customarily mirror that dynamic. No driver enters the week with better than 11-to-1 odds, in step with BetMGM.

Most effective odds to defend cease

• Ryan Blaney +1100

• Trail Elliott +1100

• Denny Hamlin +1100

• Brad Keselowski +1100

Reigning Cup Sequence champion Ryan Blaney boasts a defend cease within the summer urge at Daytona, having won the everyday-season finale in 2021. Whereas Trail Elliott has by no map won at Daytona, he has performed within the discontinuance 10 in ⅓ of his races there. Denny Hamlin owns the most Daytona 500 wins of any driver within the arena with three and has performed 32 of 36 races at Daytona with a median space of 17th. Brad Keselowski is third in profession laps led at Daytona (345) leisurely Hamlin (666) and Kyle Busch (519).

Daytona 500 weather forecast

It is far extremely unlikely the total urge weekend will run off with out a rain delay as precipitation is within the forecast for Saturday and Sunday. The daylight hours hot temperature ought to be within the low 70s and there is a 66 percent likelihood of rain for Saturday’s closing Cup Sequence be aware session, ARCA and Xfinity races. For Sunday’s Daytona 500, temperatures will descend to the mid-60s however the likelihood of rain increases to 75 percent.

Three of the closing 10 Daytona 500s contain been delayed by rain (2014, 2020 and 2021) with the 2020 edition fascinating to the following Monday night time resulting from a Sunday deluge.

Daytona 500 entry checklist

Ross Chastain (1), Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

Austin Cindric (2), Crew Penske Ford

Austin Dillon (3), Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet

Josh Berry (4), Stewart-Haas Racing Ford

Kyle Larson (5), Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

Brad Keselowski (6), RFK Racing Ford

Corey LaJoie (7), Spire Motorsports Chevrolet

Kyle Busch (8), Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet

Trail Elliott (9), Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

Noah Gragson (10), Stewart-Haas Racing Ford

Denny Hamlin (11), Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

Ryan Blaney (12), Crew Penske Ford

Trail Briscoe (14), Stewart-Haas Racing Ford

Riley Herbst (15), Rick Ware Racing Ford

A.J. Allmendinger (16), Kaulig Racing Chevrolet

Chris Buescher (17), RFK Racing Ford

Martin Truex Jr. (19), Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

Christopher Bell (20), Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

Harrison Burton (21), Wood Brothers Racing Ford

Joey Logano (22), Crew Penske Ford

Bubba Wallace (23), 23XI Racing Toyota

William Byron (24), Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

Daniel Hemric (31), Kaulig Racing Chevrolet

Michael McDowell (34), Front Row Motorsports Ford

Kaz Grala (36), Front Row Motorsports Ford*

Todd Gilliland (38), Front Row Motorsports Ford

Ryan Preece (41), Stewart-Haas Racing Ford

John Hunter Nemechek (42), Legacy Motor Membership Toyota

Erik Jones (43), Legacy Motor Membership Toyota

J.J. Yeley (44), NY Racing Crew Chevrolet

Tyler Reddick (45), 23XI Racing Toyota

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (47), JTG Daugherty Racing Chevrolet

Alex Bowman (48), Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

Justin Haley (51), Rick Ware Racing Ford

Ty Gibbs (54), Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

David Ragan (60), RFK Racing Ford*

Anthony Alfredo (62), Beard Motorsports Chevrolet*

Zane Smith (71), Spire Motorsports Chevrolet

Carson Hocevar (77), Spire Motorsports Chevrolet

BJ McLeod (78), Reside Rapid Motorsports Ford*

Jimmie Johnson (84), Legacy Motor Membership Toyota*

Daniel Suárez (99), Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

*—No longer assured a collection within the arena