NASCAR Cup Series

Furniture Row Racing’s Erik Jones qualified 17th and teammate Martin Truex, Jr. 25th for Saturday night’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.

DALE EARNHARDT JR., NO. 88 NATIONWIDE CHEVROLET SS – Pole Winner: ON WINNING THE POLE: "I have to give Hendrick Motorsports a lot of credit, particularly for me personally it has been the No. 24 (Chase Elliott) bunch. We've been kind of pushing each other over the last several years in qualifying at Talladega and Daytona. It's been a healthy competition. That's why we win poles and qualify so well at some of these race tracks is a healthy competition within the company. Greg and all the guys deserve all the credit for the car."

In what might be his final start at a track synonymous with the Earnhardt family, Dale Earnhardt Jr. will lead the field to the green flag tomorrow night after grabbing pole position for the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.

BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 2 Detroit Genuine Parts Ford Fusion (Qualified 3rd) “We didn’t have a lot of practice time and we we’re really concentrating on our race trim. We’ll be okay. It was a good track for us last year and hoping to make it a great track tomorrow night. We’ll be fast. We know the Fords are fast at these types of tracks. We’re at high rpm, restrictor plate, low drag tracks and I think it will be really important tomorrow night to make the most of that.

Brad Keselowski, driver of the No. 2 Detroit Genuine Parts Ford Fusion, met with media members Friday prior to qualifying of the Monster Energy Cup Series race at Daytona International Speedway.

TY DILLON, NO. 13 GEICO MILITARY CHEVROLET SS, met with media and discussed his throwback paint scheme for the upcoming Darlington race, his season to date, the stage races, and more.

DALE EARNHARDT, JR., NO. 88 NATIONWIDE CHEVROLET SS, met with media at Daytona International Raceway and discussed racing at Daytona, the emotions of racing, his favorite wins, his future hopes & plans, and more.

Team Penske and its long-time partner, Miller Lite, today announced a unique promotion with Brad Keselowski’s Checkered Flag Foundation charity designed to raise money and awareness for our nation’s veterans around the upcoming Veterans Day weekend of racing at Phoenix Raceway.

NASCAR and the NASCAR Hall of Fame today announced legendary motorsports reporter Norma “Dusty” Brandel as the seventh recipient of the Squier-Hall Award for NASCAR Media Excellence.

But did you know that the first summer race at Daytona International Speedway was called the Firecracker 250? The 250-miles race was held on July 4, 1959, and was won by Fireball Roberts. He dominated the caution-free event, leading 84 of 100 laps and finishing ahead of the second-place finisher, Joe Weatherly, by 57 seconds.