Daytona 500 stay updates: Ryan Blaney wins Stage 2 after pit window mix-up, Kyle Busch has tire change concern

Ryan Blaney gained an all-green second Stage of the Daytona 500. Blaney breezed previous teammate Austin Cindric when the latter opted for the excessive line coming into flip 3 on the ultimate lap of the stage.

Blaney worn out the frustrations of earlier within the stage when he was prevented from pitting together with his fellow Fords as a result of he was caught within the outdoors draft. He was finally compelled to pit with a primarily Chevrolet contingent because the final group on lap 115, however that pack emerged with sufficient tempo to not be swallowed up by the remainder of the sector.

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

Elliott claims Stage 1

Chase Elliott gained the primary stage of the Daytona 500 on Monday. Elliott led a practice of six Chevrolets to the green-and-white checkered flag, together with Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson in second. A Chevy didn’t lead the race till lap 44 as Toyota and Ford dominated early.

The pit technique video games started early with a lap 5 crash that may finally take out Austin Dillon, Kaz Grala, Carson Hocevar and Harrison Burton. Only Ryan Blaney, Christopher Bell and Daniel Hemric stayed out and it ended up hurting them as they had been main the pack and having to burn extra gas than the better-fueled automobiles behind.

Blaney and Bell initially backed the sector up, however, upon realizing they had been serving to the trailing automobiles much more, upped the tempo by three seconds per lap. That tactic succeeded in requiring the remainder of the sector to pit once more earlier than the tip of the stage, however they had been out of sequence and wound up close to the tip of the lead lap pack.

Daytona 500 TV/streaming schedule

All instances Eastern

Monday
4 p.m.: Daytona 500 (Fox, Fox Sports app)
9 p.m.: Xfinity Series United Rentals 300 (FS1, Fox Sports app)

Daytona 500 race particulars

Track: Daytona International Speedway (2.5-mile high-banked tri-oval) in Daytona Beach, Florida
Banking: Turns minus-31 levels | Tri-oval minus-18 levels | Backstretch minus-3 levels
Race size: 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 beginning grid

1. Joey Logano

2. Michael McDowell

3. Tyler Reddick

4. Christopher Bell

5. Chase 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. Chase 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 displaying throughout single-car entrance row qualifying Wednesday night time, the new-for-2024 Toyota bundle has recovered effectively over the previous couple days. Tyler Reddick and Christopher Bell gained their respective Duels on Thursday night time, every of them coming from deep within the subject.

On Friday, Denny Hamlin topped the time sheets with a lap of 45.575 in entrance of seven different Toyota drivers, together with Bell and Reddick. So whereas the only automobile tempo is not there, the revamped bundle runs extremely effectively within the pack.

Michael McDowell, who will begin the Daytona 500 on the surface of the entrance row was the quickest non-Toyota in ninth, turning a lap of 46.256 in his Front Row Motorsports Ford. Austin Dillon’s Richard Childress Racing entry was the quickest Chevrolet with a 46.411, good for twelfth.

Reddick, Bell win qualifying duels as Johnson sneaks in

Tyler Reddick gained the primary Daytona 500 qualifying duel with a daring last-lap move of Kyle Larson and can begin inside row two for the race. About 4,000 ft of pavement down the street, Jimmie Johnson snuck previous JJ Yeley to make the sector for his twenty first Daytona 500.

As within the first duel, Christopher Bell pulled off the successful transfer on the ultimate lap. A crash with 13 laps remaining caught up half the sector of the second duel and after the following restart chief Michael McDowell — already assured the second beginning spot — was frolicked to dry, handing the result in Denny Hamlin. Hamlin led till the ultimate half of the ultimate lap when Bell made a daring transfer on the backstretch that led to victory.

BJ McLeod — who had been operating effectively early on — was caught up within the lap 47 incident and had briefly overtaken Kaz Grala misplaced his spot within the Daytona 500 when Grala pipped him on the ultimate lap.

Daytona 500 qualifying format

The greatest race of the yr additionally includes a distinctive qualifying format not used wherever else on the NASCAR calendar. On Wednesday night time all 42 entered automobiles will flip one lap at high velocity, the order of which is set by a Tuesday night time draw of numbers. The high 10 drivers then go right into a shootout with the highest two instances from that session setting the entrance row for Sunday’s race.

The remaining 40 automobiles are dropped — 20 apiece, 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 means of 40. The ending order for the primary duel determines the within row slots and the ending order from the second duel units the surface.

The 36 entries that personal a NASCAR constitution are assured to make the race, so two of the six non-chartered entries can be not noted. That group is headlined by Hall of Famer and seven-time sequence champion Jimmie Johnson, who’s operating an abbreviated nine-race schedule this season for his personal Legacy Motor Club crew.

Logano ends the Hendrick, Chevy streak

Ford broke up Chevrolet’s Daytona pole monopoly Wednesday night time. Team Penske’s Joey Logano earned his first pole position for the Daytona 500 with a second-round time of 49.465, which was simply 0.071s quicker than the Front Row Motorsports entry of 2021 Daytona 500 winner Michael McDowell.

Logano turned the quickest lap within the all-42 automobile first spherical and, after McDowell had a seemingly insurmountable second spherical lap of 49.536, bettered it by simply over seven hundredths of a second.

Top drivers and betting odds for the Daytona 500

Superspeedway pack racing is rife with peril, the place one mistake you don’t have anything to do with immediately forward can wipe out your race. Daytona, Talladega and Atlanta odds sometimes replicate that dynamic. No driver enters the week with higher than 11-to-1 odds, in accordance with BetMGM.

Best odds to win

• Ryan Blaney +1100

• Chase Elliott +1100

• Denny Hamlin +1100

• Brad Keselowski +1100

Reigning Cup Series champion Ryan Blaney boasts a win in the summertime race at Daytona, having gained the regular-season finale in 2021. While Chase Elliott has by no means gained at Daytona, he has completed within the high 10 in ⅓ of his races there. Denny Hamlin owns probably the most Daytona 500 wins of any driver within the subject with three and has completed 32 of 36 races at Daytona with a mean position of seventeenth. Brad Keselowski is third in profession laps led at Daytona (345) behind Hamlin (666) and Kyle Busch (519).

Daytona 500 climate forecast

It is very unlikely your complete race weekend will go off with out a rain delay as precipitation is within the forecast for Saturday and Sunday. The daytime excessive temperature must be within the low 70s and there’s a 66 p.c likelihood of rain for Saturday’s last Cup Series observe session, ARCA and Xfinity races. For Sunday’s Daytona 500, temperatures will drop to the mid-60s however the likelihood of rain will increase to 75 p.c.

Three of the final 10 Daytona 500s have been delayed by rain (2014, 2020 and 2021) with the 2020 version shifting to the next Monday night as a result of a Sunday deluge.

Daytona 500 entry record

Ross Chastain (1), Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
Austin Cindric (2), Team 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
Chase Elliott (9), Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
Noah Gragson (10), Stewart-Haas Racing Ford
Denny Hamlin (11), Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
Ryan Blaney (12), Team Penske Ford
Chase 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), Team 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 Club Toyota
Erik Jones (43), Legacy Motor Club Toyota
J.J. Yeley (44), NY Racing Team 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), Live Fast Motorsports Ford*
Jimmie Johnson (84), Legacy Motor Club Toyota*
Daniel Suárez (99), Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
*—Not assured a spot within the subject