With their respective top-10 runs at Daytona, Chris Buescher and Ty Gibbs are currently scored above the top-16 cutline to make the 2024 Cup Series Playoffs while Bubba Wallace is scored below the cutline ahead of next weekend's regular-season finale at Darlington.
The 23-year-old Burton from Huntersville, North Carolina, executed a final lap pass on Kyle Busch amid an overtime shootout to become the 205th competitor to win in NASCAR's premier series, the 13th competitor to claim a 2024 Cup Series Playoff berth by winning a regular-season event and deliver a milestone victory for Wood Brothers at the World Center of Racing.
The 2021 Daytona 500 champion from Glendale, Arizona, posted a pole-winning lap at 183.165 mph in 49.136 seconds, which was enough to edge teammate Todd Gilliland by three-tenths of a second for his fourth Cup pole of the 2024 season and set the best qualifying lap in a Next Gen car at Daytona.
Chase Briscoe captured the NASCAR Cup Series pole for Saturday’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway after posting a qualifying lap of 181.822 mph in the No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford. It marks Briscoe's second Cup Series career pole.
Martin Truex Jr. finished 8th at Daytona, but it wasn't enough to put him in the playoffs as first-time season winner Austin Dillon took the surprising win.
The 32-year-old Dillon from Welcome, North Carolina, became the 15th different competitor of the 2022 season to win and clinch a spot for the Cup Series Playoffs.
The end result of a bizarre regular-season finale at Daytona resulted with Blaney edging Truex for the final berth to make the 2022 Cup Series Playoffs.
The High Point, North Carolina, native claimed his third victory of the season and his second consecutive in recent weeks at the world center of racing.
