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Christopher Bell finished third in Friday night’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway and was the highest-finishing Camry driver.

Chase Elliott scored his fourth career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) pole putting the No. 9 Hooters Camaro ZL1 in the top spot at Daytona International Speedway with a lap of 46.381 seconds and an average speed of 194.045 mph. The run marks Elliott’s third pole in six races at the ‘World Center of Racing’ and his first pole win of the 2018 MENCS season.

MARTIN TRUEX JR, No. 78 Bass Pro Shops/5-hour ENERGY Toyota Camry, Furniture Row Racing - Qualifying Position: 13th - How was your car in qualifying? “It was okay I think -- you never know what you’re going to get here. Not much practice yesterday and we didn’t do any qualifying runs so we just kind of winged it. I think 13th will be an okay starting spot.”

CHASE ELLIOTT, NO. 9 HOOTERS CAMARO ZL1 – Pole Winner - YOU KNEW THE CAR WAS FAST GOING INTO QUALIFYING, BUT DID YOU KNOW IT WAS TWO AND A HALF TENTHS FASTER THAN THE REST OF THE FIELD? “No, I didn’t know it was that fast. Our Hooters Chevy has been nice all weekend. We made a couple of changes actually at the end of that last practice before the rain and made it go a little faster. I hope that translates to a good driving car tomorrow night. Obviously, a lot of speed in our Chevrolet’s. I’ve said this before, but we have put a lot of effort into our speedway program at Hendrick Motorsports. The engine shop, chassis shop, body shop, we take a lot of pride in coming to these races. They pay the same amount of points as the rest of them, so it matters and our team treats it that way and their hard work pays off.”

BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion – “That’s good. We’re the top Ford and were pretty close to second, but a long ways from the pole. We’ll see what we can learn, but, all in all, starting up front is always a good omen for these plate tracks.”

Elliott powered around the 2.5-mile track in 46.381 seconds (194.045 mph) to win the pole position for Sunday’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 (7 p.m. on NBC, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) by a whopping .24 seconds over Hendrick Motorsports teammate Alex Bowman (193.046 mph).

DENNY HAMLIN, No. 11 FedEx Cares Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Tell us about your special paint scheme you have going on this weekend and some of the activities that took place this morning. "This weekend FedEx Cares and Team Rubicon teamed up. Team Rubicon is a great disaster relief group that is mostly and largely formed the volunteers that perform all the work are ex‑military members that have spent a lot of time serving their country, and when they come back, they want to continue that and serve their community."

A six-man list of racing pioneers, legends and modern-day champions joined “The First Lady of Motorsports” in a colorful and accomplished 2019 Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) inductee class announced today at Daytona International Speedway (DIS).

Quality Inn is teaming with “The Voice of NASCAR,” Motor Racing Network, to offer two lucky NASCAR fans the opportunity to win tickets to the 2019 Coke Zero Sugar 400 at the legendary Daytona International Speedway. The “It’s Quality® Time, Race Weekend Giveaway” sweepstakes runs from July 6 to July 22, 2018, and fans can enter at QualityInn.com.

The 82nd Airborne Division’s “All-American” Chorus, based out of Fort Bragg, N.C., will sing the National Anthem prior to the 60th annual Coke Zero Sugar 400, the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race scheduled for Saturday at Daytona International Speedway (TV – NBC; Radio – MRN Radio, SiriusXM).