Trevor Bayne, driver of the No. 6 AdvoCare Ford Fusion, ran inside the top three for much of the closing stages of the rain-delayed NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) event at Daytona International Speedway, ultimately earning a hard-fought ninth-place finish.
DALE EARNHARDT JR., NO. 88 NATIONWIDE STARS AND STRIPES CHEVROLET SS – Race Winner
YOUR FIRST REACTION WASN’T ‘HEY WE WON’ YOU WERE WORRIED ABOUT AUSTIN DILLON AND EVERYONE ELSE: “Yeah that scared the hell out of me, I will be honest with you. I saw the whole thing happen. You are looking in the mirror the whole last lap."
AUSTIN DILLON, NO. 3 BASS PRO SHOPS CHEVROLET SS – Involved in severe multi-car accident on final lap. Finished 7th: I DON’T THINK I HAVE SEEN MORE HAPPY PEOPLE AFTER A CRASH, HOW ARE YOU? “I am just going to be really sore."
Denny Hamlin was the top-finishing Toyota driver with a third-place result in Sunday’s rain-delayed NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Daytona International Speedway, marking his fourth consecutive top-six finish at the World Center of Racing.
TREVOR BAYNE, No. 6 AdvoCare Ford Fusion (Finished 9th) – “I am good to go. It stinks to tear a race car up at the checkers but that is the first time I have gone to the infield care center and not been broken hearted from a bad run. We finished 9th I guess or wherever they line us up at after they look at all of it.
KYLE LARSON, NO. 42 COCA-COLA CHEVROLET SS – Involved in a multi-car accident on lap 105
WHAT HAPPENED FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE? “The first time we caught the lapper and he was on the bottom and I just got to the middle at the wrong time."
J.J. Yeley and his JGL Racing team had extremely high hopes as they returned to the high banks of Daytona International Speedway with their No. 28 Toyota. Unfortunately the veteran racer suffered through a rough night on his way to a disappointing 20th-place finish in the running of the Subway Firecracker 250 at the "World Center of Speed".
Harrison Rhodes finished ninth in Saturday night’s Subway Firecracker 250 Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway, wiping out bad memories from February, when a wreck in qualifying forced Rhodes to miss the race.
Ross Chastain, celebrating the Fourth of July with a patriotic paint scheme, had even more to celebrate after Saturday night’s race at Daytona International Speedway.
A pit-entrance crash early in the race cost Landon Cassill a solid run in Saturday night’s Subway Firecracker 250 Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway.
The 2022 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series champion from Charlotte, North Carolina, led the final 25 of 505 over-scheduled laps and utilized a late strategic call to assume the lead with worn tires to beat Ryan Blaney and Kyle Larson through two restarts, including an overtime shootout, to become the 207th competitor to win in NASCAR's premier series.
Ty Gibbs earned his first NASCAR Cup Series victory Sunday afternoon at Bristol Motor Speedway, holding off his competitors in a dramatic two-lap overtime shootout.
Daniel Suárez, driver of the No. 7 NationsGuard Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Spire Motorsports, fought hard all day despite handling issues and earned a 12th-place finish in Sunday's 503-lap race at Bristol
RYAN BLANEY, No. 12 Discount Tire Ford Mustang Dark Horse – “Before the last yellow I was side-by-side for the lead and I slipped into three and that kind of cost us a shot to get it before that last yellow."
