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."
At Charlotte Motor Speedway, Kyle etched his name in history, earning more victories across NASCAR’s top three series than any other driver in our sport
On behalf of the Busch family, everyone at Richard Childress Racing and all of NASCAR, we are devastated to announce the sudden and tragic passing of Kyle Busch.
The two-time Cup Series champion from Las Vegas, Nevada, will be absent from this weekend's Truck and Cup Series events at Charlotte due to being hospitalized with a severe illness.
Hendrick Motorsports enters this weekend's Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway as the facility's all-time leader in NASCAR Cup Series wins (21), top fives (72), top 10s (118), laps led (6,396) and stage wins (12).
Sonoma Raceway announced today that former San Francisco Giants ace pitcher and three-time World Series champion Matt Cain will serve as an Honorary Race Official for the Toyota/Save Mart 350
