Daytona International Speedway

The NASCAR Xfinity Series and the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series head to Daytona International Speedway this weekend. Saturday will mark the end of an era as next year's event will be moved from its traditional Independence Day date to Aug. 29 where it will host the regular season finale.

On Tuesday, NASCAR announced the 2020 schedule for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. It's the biggest schedule realignment in over a decade. After sleeping on it overnight, I have some thoughts on the matter.

If you ask anyone about the Coke Zero Sugar 400 or the Coca-Cola Firecracker 250, they immediately visualize a group of stock cars pouring onto the straightaway while the sun sets behind them, casting a deep blue-red hue across the sky.

NASCAR announced on Tuesday the 2020 schedule for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. It's the biggest schedule realignment the Cup Series has undergone in over a decade.

In this week's shoutout of the week, we'll highlight Josh Reaume who is the owner of his own team in the Truck Series, Reaume Brothers Racing, that fields the No. 33. Reaume might be the one that got lost in the shuffle when the race was all said and done at Daytona.

McDowell said of Logano: “I just told him that my team doesn’t pay me to push Joey Logano to a win. That’s not what I get paid to do.

Rookie Ryan Preece wheeled his way to an eighth-place finish Sunday evening in overtime scoring a top-10 in his debut Daytona 500.

"I went winless in 2018," Hamlin said, "so naturally, I started to question myself. I also had other questions at Daytona, like 'When is this race going to start?' and 'When is this race going to end?'"

The Truck Series returned to Daytona International Speedway this past weekend for its annual running of the NextEra Energy Resources 250. As usual, the action didn't disappoint and it was quite possibly, the best race of the whole week.

Before we turn our focus to Atlanta Motor Speedway and beyond, here's some thoughts I had on Sunday's Daytona 500.