A rain delay during the 56th running of the Daytona 500 on Sunday – not to mention a second win in the Great American Race by NASCAR’s 16-time Most Popular Driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. – had fans flocking to NASCAR’s second screen products in huge numbers for updates and exclusive content.
Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s big win Sunday evening means a big payoff for anyone who wants to purchase tickets for the STP 500 at Martinsville Speedway on March 30. Earnhardt put his No. 88 into victory lane at Daytona International Speedway and that same number is the key to a day of fun and excitement at Martinsville Speedway.
Austin Dillon drove Richard Childress Racing's No. 3 Dow Chevrolet SS to a ninth-place finish in front of a prime time audience of Fox viewers on Sunday evening. The Welcome, N.C., driver kicked off his inaugural season in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in spectacular fashion by earning the pole award for the Great American Race.
Chad Boat showed tremendous poise and patience in his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut on Saturday at Daytona International Speedway. The 21-year old rookie safely qualified the No. 84 Billy Boat Motorsports Chevrolet into the 40 car field and would go on to survive a few different obstacles during the course of the DRIVE4COPD 300 to safely come home with a 24th-place finish in the season opening event.
Brian Scott qualified his way into NASCAR's most prestigious race, the Daytona 500, and did it in impressive fashion. In only his second NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, the 26-year-old rolled off the starting grid from the 12th position in his No. 33 Whitetail Chevrolet.
After an almost six-and-a-half hour rain delay, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. sealed the deal with a popular win of the 2014 Daytona 500. After finishing second in three of the last four Daytona 500 races, the driver of the No. 88 National Guard Chevrolet SS fielded by Hendrick Motorsports captured his second career victory in the Great American Race by leading six times for a total of 54 laps. His first Daytona 500 win came in 2004.
"“I don’t know. I was going to the top with Kurt. We were trying to do something. We were a lap down. We had a mistake in the pits that got us a lap down, but what a shame. This Smithfield Ford was so fast. We had a really good strategy. We were in the top five racing for the lead and came down pit road and had a mistake."
“I thought we were really strong in the middle all night with our Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford and we’d work our way from the back to the front time and time again. There at the end we were running the middle with the 24 and the 11 and felt really strong and all of a sudden the 40 shoved it four-wide down into turn one and really squeezed everybody.
"“I don’t know. I was going to the top with Kurt. We were trying to do something. We were a lap down. We had a mistake in the pits that got us a lap down, but what a shame. This Smithfield Ford was so fast. We had a really good strategy. We were in the top five racing for the lead and came down pit road and had a mistake."
The 24-year-old Riggs from Bahama, North Carolina, led 47 of 134 laps and outdueled Kaden Honeycutt amid an 11-lap shootout for his seventh Truck victory of 2026 and narrow his points deficit to 17.
Kaden Honeycutt led 85 of 167 laps, won the second stage and was battling for the win in the closing laps before finishing third to lead Toyota in the NASCAR Truck Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway
The 34-year-old Daly from Noblesville, Indiana, has finished 26th and 16th in his two previous Truck starts this season with Kaulig Racing as he strives to maximize his third start at Phoenix, Arizona, on October 16.
The 27-year-old Mosack from Charlotte, North Carolina, posted a single pole-winning lap at 180.234 mph in 29.961 seconds for his second Truck career pole and first since Atlanta 2025.
The 2023 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series champion from Ladera Ranch, California, will campaign in a sixth Cup Series season in 2027 and continue to drive the No. 41 entry for Haas Factory Team.
