NASCAR Cup Series

"It was more than nerve-wracking. I was waiting on what happened off of four to happen a lot earlier. Fortunately, we just happened to go to the bottom. I can’t take credit for any of that, that’s just being at the right place at the right time, and I’m just so thankful for this team.

“I had a really strong Dollar General Toyota Camry and Kevin (Harvick) is one of the best -- Kevin, Tony (Stewart), there’s a few of those guys that you want to see behind you because you trust them to do the right things, but you also don’t because they’re so smart and I saw him laying back getting a run and he made the perfect move.

“Well I was prepared to go with a couple of laps to go it just depended on when they group really started getting antsy and getting tightened up as much as they could to get that run that you needed. I had to just go whenever I thought that run was going to be the biggest.

“Our car was really fast. At the start of that we had been on the bottom and got shuffled to the back. Everybody fell in line on the top and I think we were the last car on the lead lap in the line for a while. We made the move to the bottom and really worked our way to the front and had some pushers, and some of the others dropped down in front of us because they saw we had a good car.

Matt Kenseth would hold off an impressive move on the last lap by Kevin Harvick and Kasey Kahne to win the first of the two Budweiser Duels at Daytona International Speedway.

My grandfather might have fought on the front lines in World War I from the time he was 18 until he turned 22, but he did not invent NASCAR. My father might have turned limited educational opportunities in World War II Saskatchewan into a career in public works, but he never ran NASCAR.

Chevrolet unveiled today the trio of vehicles that will pace NASCAR’s opening round of events at Daytona International Speedway this weekend.

Moving On Up...Allgaier will compete fulltime in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) this season for HScott Motorsports, with primary sponsorship for 21 races from BRANDT Professional Agriculture. BRANDT sponsored Allgaier at Turner Scott Motorsports for the previous three seasons in the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS).

DALE EARNHARDT, JR., NO.88 NATIONAL GUARD CHEVROLET SS, met with members of the media at Daytona International Speedway and discussed past success at restrictor plate races, side-drafting, his expectations for the Daytona 500, and more.

I don’t think we’ve put any more or less effort into the Daytona 500 than we did last year. It’s always a focus, it’s always something you’re working on -- it’s the biggest race of the year and kicks off the season.