Official Release

Austin Dillon captured the Alert Today Florida 300 pole position and was the highest qualifying Richard Childress Racing driver at Daytona International Speedway. Brendan Gaughan qualified fourth, followed by Brian Scott in the 15th position and Ty Dillon 34th.

Ryan Reed raced down Brad Keselowski in the final turns of Saturday’s NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) race at Daytona International Speedway (DIS), taking the lead and crossing the checkered in a nail-biting finish to earn his first career NASCAR victory in his 40th start.

Roush Fenway Racing’s Ryan Reed made a terrific last-lap move to the inside and got a great push from teammate Chris Buescher to power his No. 16 Lilly/American Diabetes Association Ford Mustang to victory in Saturday’s Florida 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) season opener at Daytona International Speedway. Reed’s trip to victory lane capped a strong kickoff to the 2015 season for Roush Fenway, with three of its four Ford Mustangs leading laps in the race.

This evening, the National Motorsports Final Appeals Officer, Mr. Bryan Moss, heard and considered the appeal of driver Kurt Busch.

Kyle Busch, driver of the No. 54 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR), sustained a compound fracture of the right lower leg in an accident during Saturday’s NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway. Additionally, Busch suffered a mid-foot fracture of his left foot in the accident.

Ryan Reed won his first race in one of NASCAR’s top three touring series by taking the checkered flag in today’s inaugural NASCAR XFINITY Series event.

CHRIS BUESCHER, No. 60 Kellogg’s Cheez It Ford Mustang – RUNNER-UP PRESS CONFERENCE “First off, we are just happy to be running this race this year after last year going the way it did. We are just proud that we were in it and has Cheez-It on board our Ford Mustang."

RYAN REED, No. 16 Lilly Diabetes Ford Mustang – VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW “We got shuffled back with about three to go and were on the top with nowhere to go and luckily I ducked in line on the bottom and I was just trying to salvage hopefully a top seven or eight and get a good points day.

Daytona wouldn’t be Daytona for Wood Brothers Racing if team patriarch Glen Wood wasn’t sitting in front of the hauler holding court with the who’s who of NASCAR racing.

Upon hearing the testimony, the National Motorsports Appeals Panel decided that the Appellant violated the rules set forth in the penalty notice. The Panel therefore decided to uphold the original penalty assessed by NASCAR.