NASCAR Cup Series

As the excitement builds in the days leading up to the ‘Great American Race’ at Daytona International Speedway, Chevrolet is anxiously awaiting the beginning of a new era for the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It’s the start of a new tradition. It’s a new season with new livery.

The season’s first practice session saw the season’s first multicar accident, with five cars involved in an accident that took place only nine minutes into the season’s first practice. The result sends Roush Fenway’s Carl Edwards and the No. 99 Fastenal team to a backup car for tomorrow night’s Sprint Unlimited all-star race.

Practice is complete and in the end, Toyota found their way to the top just like in testing as it was Denny Hamlin topping the charts. The driver of the No. 11 FedEx Camry topped the charts with a speed of 196.053 mph.

One the eve of the Spring Unlimited, nee the Busch Clash and Budweiser Shootout, the media met with the stars of NASCAR. Never mind that only three weeks ago, they spent a whole week interviewing and questioning most of these same stars, but there was a new subject that became almost an obsession.

The first practice for the Sprint Unlimited is in the books and Kevin Harvick topped the speed chart while Matt Kenseth triggered a four-car wreck.

Carl Edwards was part of a multi-car incident in the opening practice for Saturday nights Sprint Unlimited just nine minutes into the opening session. Edwards spoke about the damage to his race car.

Trevor Bayne, David Ragan and David Gilliland were part of NASCR Media Day festivities yesterday. The trio have had recent success at Daytona, and spoke about that among many other topics.

After more than two years of development, including extensive work by the Ford Design Center and Ford aerodynamic experts, the 2013 NASCAR Fusion will take to the race track as practice opens for the 54th running of the Daytona 500.

2000 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion driver Bobby Labonte seeks to capture his first-ever Daytona 500 victory at Daytona International Speedway. The 21-time winner's career-best finish at the 2.5-mile tri-oval is second, which occurred twice in 1998 from pole position in the Daytona 500 and in the race later that season in October.

CASEY MEARS, No. 13 GEICO Ford Fusion – YOU GREW UP IN RACING. WHAT WAS IT LIKE FOR YOU AS A KID? WHAT ARE YOUR FIRST CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF RACING? “I remember going to the off-road races with my dad and they used to give me little jobs like when the truck would come in to scrub the mud off the tires and stuff when I was like four or five-years old they would let me do stuff like that. I have a ton of memories of being at the race track and my dad racing and me being there. A lot of really good old memories from being at the track.”