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Ganassi at Daytona: Since 2001 as a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) car owner, Chip Ganassi has 60 starts at Daytona International Speedway (DIS). In those 60 starts his cars have completed 9,634 laps (24,085 miles) of competition, led 210 laps and have posted one victory (2010 Daytona 500), six top-five, 15 top-10 finishes and two pole awards.

JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S CHEVROLET SS met with media and discussed his approach to the upcoming Duel and the Daytona 500, his thoughts on a seventh title, and more.

“That’s just not how you wanted to start the day out. We’ve still got a lot of racing left to do and we had a good car. The guys worked so hard on it. I just hate it for everyone on this Aaron’s team who put so much into that car. Fortunately we’ve got another backup. I haven’t seen the replay yet -- I think the 26 (Cole Whitt) -- I don’t know if he just lost it."

Trevor Bayne, driver of the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion, received minor nose damage to his car during a multi-car accident in today’s first practice session. The team is currently making repairs and the car will run in tomorrow’s Duel.

"The whole thing happened so quick. I hadn’t even made half a lap. The field had just gone by me. I, actually, as the field was going by me, I came on the radio and I said, ‘Alan (Gustafson), do we want to be in the middle of this because it looks like a debris big mess’.

Joey Logano, driver of the No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Fusion, was involved in a multi-car accident during today’s first practice session at Daytona International Speedway and will be forced to a back-up for tomorrow’s Duel event.

Jimmy Weller will make his first career start at Daytona International Speedway driving the No. 08 Engine Parts Plus / Genmak Geneva-Liberty Steel Chevrolet Silverado in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series on Friday, February 21.

A number of the greatest drivers to ever turn a lap on the oval at Phoenix International Raceway will return to the Valley of the Sun to help kick off the track’s 50th anniversary season, PIR President Bryan R. Sperber announced today.

Carl Edwards, driver of the No. 99 Fastenal Ford Fusion, held a Q&A session this afternoon before practice for Sunday’s Daytona 500. He spoke about a variety of topics with members of the media.

Tracy Hines had a pretty successful trip to Florida last season, winning two of the three Amsoil USAC National Sprint Car Series races at Bubba Raceway Park in Ocala. Making the feat even more impressive was the fact that those races were the first three events he ran in a self-owned machine, after quickly putting a team together in the short couple of months following the 2012 campaign.