Richard Childress Racing teammates Austin Dillon, Paul Menard and Ryan Newman finished fifth, 16th and 24th, respectively. Newman ranks eighth in the Sprint Cup Series championship point standings, trailing current leader Jeff Gordon by 117 points, while Menard ranks 10th and Dillon ranks 13th.
After rain cancelled night racing at Daytona International Speedway, Carl Edwards hit the two-and-a-half mile track Sunday morning, starting in the 11th-spot. The No.99 Subway Ford Fusion was running with a tight pack in three-wide formation and was caught up in a 16-car pileup on lap 20.
“That is close quarters racing,” said Biffle. “David Ragan gave me a big push and then Kasey (Kahne) got up and went to the middle and ran into the back of the No. 13 car and slowed way up and I hit the back of the No. 5.
After rain postponed the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway until Sunday, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. had worked his way into the top-five before a multi-car accident on lap 19 which sent the Cargill/Winn-Dixie Ford to the garage. After the crew worked feverishly to get the machine back on track, rain soaked the superspeedway ending the 160-lap race early forcing Stenhouse to settle for a 41st-place finish.
Team Chevy’s Kurt Busch was looking for his second win of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and first restrictor plate win at the rain delayed Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday when the skies opened up again and dashed his hopes.
Though Martin Truex Jr. escaped two major wrecks, he had to contend with a vibration in his car plus a battery change in Sunday’s rain-delayed and rain-shortened Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
TONY STEWART, NO. 14 BASS PRO SHOPS/DUCKS UNLIMITED CHEVROLET SS – Involved in multi-car crash on lap 20: WHAT HAPPENED FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE? “The No. 17 car (Ricky Stenhouse Jr.) got sideways on the lap that we’re all getting a competition caution. I don’t know. I guess Ricky thought it paid something to get to lap 20. I don’t know. It didn’t make much sense to me, but I’m not that smart either; so I don’t know. I don’t know that I’m the right person to ask."
Brian Vickers (second) was the first Toyota driver to the finish line in Sunday’s rain-shortened NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Daytona International Speedway.
Aric Almirola’s win today was the first of his career and the first of the season for Richard Petty Motorsports
The win is Ford’s third straight. The last time Ford won three-straight Cup races was 2005 when Greg Biffle won Dover (June 5) and Michigan (June 19) bookending a Carl Edwards Pocono (June 12) victory.
JAMIE MCMURRAY, NO. 1 CESSNA CHEVROLET SS – Involved in multi-car crash on lap 98 - AT TIMES TODAY, YOU HAD THE BEST CAR. WHAT CAUSED ALL THAT? “I don’t know. I knew I was going to walk out here and you guys were going to ask me what happened, but from my seat I didn’t see anything. Kasey (Kahne) came over and said that maybe Greg (Biffle) bumped him a couple times and got him squirrelly and he said he couldn’t catch it."
Scott McLaughlin had a great time in the first practice Friday for the inaugural Java House Grand Prix of Arlington, and his pleasure didn’t come just from the fast digits next to his name on the results sheet.
Scott McLaughlin, in the No. 3 DEX Team Penske Chevrolet, was the quickest of the drivers sporting a Bowtie during the first practice of the inaugural Java House Grand Prix of Arlington.
Max Taylor was the star student in the opening practice for the Grand Prix of Arlington, leading the field by more than a second Friday as 24 drivers in the INDYCAR development series learned the new circuit at this inaugural event.
Larson who fended off a young racer in the making and Hendrick Motorsports developmental Corey Day in the waning laps of the 25-lap feature by 0.096 seconds.
NHRA is celebrating at tracks across the country, including one of its most historic venues and races during the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals at the famed In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip on April 9-12.
