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500. rookie or veteran, no matter how long you've been coming to this event, there are butterflies. There has to be Jeff Gordon, who has won this three times and I bet even you are a little nervous right now. Well, today we have some newbies in the field. I'm sure those butterflies are going crazy right now, but even the veterans, I mean, I mean, there's nothing like the buildup, the amount of hard work that goes into preparing for the Daytona 500, the most important

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of your career, one of the most important races in the world, I guarantee there are a lot of butterflies. but we have 500 miles to decide the winner of this race.

Well, we'll guide you through three stages of the race at the biggest event of the year. Let's start with our starting lineup. Ricky Stenhouse, an aggressive two-time Super Speedway winner, and Alex. Bowman, third consecutive 500, will be on the front row, two Joey Logano, who won his double race here on Thursday, and William Byron, who did so well and earned the second row places, then it will be Eric Almarola, who He has two cup victories, and Jimmy. johnson begins his last

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ryan newman a former Daytona 500 winner and kyle larson who ran out of gas leading in 2017. and in row five brad keselowski has yet to win the daytona 510 and just hear me say my pick for the day kevin harvick 2007 Daytona 500 champion bubba wallace runner up two years ago and cole custer one of six rookies in the field austin dillon the 2018 winner and eric jones who won the clash here the last weekend row eight starter fifteenth mark trucks junior oh so close 2016.

Look for him to be a real threat today and next to him matt de benedetta led the most laps last year in the 500 now with One team, the Wood brothers were the last avid losers to win this race. christopher bell one of the big three of the xfinity series move on to the cup this year and 2017 winner kirk bush, chris busher returns to ford and roush racing this season and ross chastain danny hamlin has won two of the last four or five hundreds for which he will have to go to the back inspection problems and two time xfinity champion tyler reddick john hunter nemechek his father is running this race he is a rookie and ty dillon who finished in the top 10 his last three starts at daytona chase to elliott, nascar's most popular second-generation driver, and michael mcdowell, two top tens in the The last two 500 ryan blaney has gone to a backup car after a crash earlier in the week and the defending series champion kyle busch clint boyer is his 15th attempt to win the 500 will this be the day and david reagan who has a great record in super speedways coming out of a brief retirement in row 16 starting 31.

You want to know who has the best active finish uh average of active drivers Ryan Priest alongside him an emotional day arriving at Thursday's race running at Timmy Hill Justin Haley won Here last July, Brennan Poole, a rookie, Quinn House, another rookie on row 18 with the third generation racer , Corey Lejoy, Joey Gase and B.J. Mcleod in row 19 and in the last row, gaining speed. 44 year old veteran Brendan is gone and announces that he is retiring. at the end of this season and reed sorensen, who also timed the great american race, moving to the front of the 40-car field, is car number 48, the only number jimmy johnson has raced in his cup series campaign, the only owner who has driven. because it's rick hendrick in one of rick's seven chevrolet championships who ties richard petty and dale earhardt on the all time list of titles he's not one to show emotion but mike i have to believe that under that helmet jimmy is feeling the impact of this final lead in the Daytona 500 at this What a moment, a lap of honor for Jimmy Johnson as he begins his last

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season and what could be his last 500.

Before we get things started here at Daytona, let's speed up to green. Presented by Toyota. Chevrolet is in the front row. a ford and a chevy row two is the same with row three and four two fords in row five the first toyota is back in row seven that's eric jones I calmed down a little Mike but I'm getting excited again I can't wait Let's see what happens to develop under green flag conditions and so are these fans 101,500 seats, all sold out a large crowd of campers on the field and here they come out of turn number four.

I'll try again, try again folks, if you have a favorite quote you'd like. yell at your TV before they wave the green flag now it's your time taylor and hart jr wave the green flag the 62nd daytona 500 is underway ricky stenhouse started outside fell in front of alex bowman on the outside that's 24 byron backing up yeah , they clearly had made it a plan where Ricky Stanton asked Junior who was going to go down in front of Alex Bowman's other Chevrolet, but I don't think those Fords want to play that kind of game right now, they're trying to mix these Chevrolets with the back joey logano eric almarola on the outside logano and yellow and red see if stenhouse can lead the first lap of the Daytona 500 three wide six rows behind him stenhouse leads lap one guy joey logano already very aggressive got a good push for marek almarola, i thought i was going to make a move around stenhouse when we got to the starting line kyle larson in the middle lane, that lane backing up the middle, look at stenhouse moving to the outside to cover the spot, well, ya You know one of the reasons.

The reason these drivers block is because track position is very valuable if you are pushed back, it is not an easy task to get back to the front, so if you have the momentum, you have the advantage, go ahead and keep it. the inside with bubble wallace in tow and martin or rather austin dillon in the top ten on the inside trying to gain some ground against that outside lane that is fully formed see that the inside line goes up makes a lateral turn towards that outside line that stops it a little slows it down helps you stay you see right there in the middle kevin harvick's four going three inside of jimmy johnson and william byron he wants to come back with some of his Ford teammates getting a push from one of his real teammates, cole custer harvick in ninth place, the red car was custer here's jimmy johnson and you see the four of harvick, custer's 41 passing by, all I can think is these guys must like the way they drive their cars.

You must feel some security, maybe the clouds made the track nice and cool because they are very comfortable right in the center lanes, you see Kevin Harvick lunging forward to get to the back, he got a big push from Cole Custer, you know, Guys, to start. In this race we know that denny hamlin in the 11th christopher bell in the 95th had to start at the back of the field the moment the green flag fell martin trex jr in the 19th and eric jones in the 20th went back there to pick them up and they They're already lined up five in a row, as you see there on the inside, yes, I see Larry and you can see that pack, that's right, the width that they're taking out has actually lost contact with the leading packs. big gap between these two groups no points no reward for leading laps in this race the toyotas have returned to the second group stenhouse and a chevrolet in front loganos ford in second matt logano spotter tj majors told me the lessons learned from the end of the year past this packet He felt that Joey really needed to focus on speeding up his thought process and planning his moves, that's why on the first lap he says the fords are lined up, go whenever you want, that's why he retreats every time the closing speed increases, like we did. look this year a big rear wing a lot of horsepower about 150 horsepower more this year compared to last year at Daytona you have to think faster everything around you happens faster you need more information from your spotter and you need to make decisions very concise at 200 miles per hour into turn three, now Stenhouse is the only Chevrolet in the top six, there are five Fords behind him, but they can be content with letting him lead because the lead car burns more fuel faster, yes we saw it and we know that fuel consumption is a concern, it's something that you We're going to play that game all day because you just backtrack from the end and you and you start.

We saw on the pace lap some of these guys saving fuel in a nice orderly line to save the presidential motorcade. at Daytona Foreign nine laps completed the Daytona 500 ricky stenhouse has led the most laps that jtg doherty racing has led in the history of the 500 chevrolet in front five fords behind him then three chevrolets then four fords the toyota They wasted no time in moving backwards They are 32nd to 36th deep in this group when we heard Mark Trixx Jr tell us they had a plan. Clearly, his plan was to fall back because we saw cars like Eric Jones go back there and pick up that group. here's eric jones, I mean, right at the beginning, that's when they got the green flag, they went into turn one, he immediately waved those cars in, went out and just backed off to pick up his teammates, him and 19 martin truex both fell.

Back to the 30's of this 40 car field single file out of turn four 10 full laps 65 laps will form the first stage they will need a fuel stop if we stay green during this stage so there are the race cars throwbacks that also include Alex Bowman. and bubba wallace, well the only one that surprises me is Clint Boyer, you know, he was already starting further back than he wanted and he decided to go ahead and let it happen, let's see what these guys want to do, how eager they want to go. be here early in the stages of the Daytona 500 and this is the advantage look at our telemetry on the left you could run 195 196 miles per hour you're not even running at 50 percent throttle that's jenny hamlin and that little yellow bump on The top of the circle is the steering angle indicator, 12 o'clock straight, but we asked what happened to Clint Boyer.

Here's Jamie. Well, he started this race in 29th place and now he's back to 37th. The only thing he said on the radio is this. The car is tight, it's out of control, containers tight, good on the 10 Eric Amarola, he says the car drives very well and right now, as Mike you indicated, they are very happy to ride in their position right now and let Stenhouse burn the gas, but me. I'm Arola and Joey Logano, we've seen this act before. Remember that Amarola pushed Legano to win in the duel. They said he has a great car to push and we'll probably see him later today.

Here is the feel good story of this Timmy 500. port tobacco hill maryland in that 66 he is 26 years old he had to race to get there on Thursday and on Thursday night he said if we had not made it to the Daytona 500 we would have had to close this team he is in tenth place regan bien mike just to go one step further, tenth place today, he was third in the xfinity race yesterday, the best successes of his career, crew chief, steven idol, has never called the race from the top of the big box, we're talking about nervous drivers, that's a nervous crew chief at that. pit box too, 14th place, chasing elliott a second and a half off the leader and that number nine, hendrick chevrolet ross chastain with him and then right behind him, alex bowman, who started off the pole and as he was in that inside line, couldn't keep up with the outside lane formed, now it's down to 16.

Yeah, we saw that's the result of uh joey logano and eric almarola and some of those fords took him out, they went to the outside, he was trapped into that inside lane without help and fell back a little bit, so good job on Alex Bowman, who's even 16th right now. Chase Elliott working on the low side practically alone and let's go to the back of this long line of cars and here's your nascar champion kyle bush 33. that's martin shuriks right up front one of those joe gibbs racing toyota four of them in this race practically together one of the most difficult things I did, mike, was in a race in which we decided to have a strategy to get to the end Back because, as a driver, all you want to do is overtake the cars that are going very open.

I know I have a car that handles well and is fast. I know I can fight my way to the front, but you know what the strategy is sometimes. patient and you have to be patient in a 500 mile race drivers get off the line that time it was ryan blaney and here's john hunter nemechek in and rookie 38 trying to gain some experience and some ground here 16 green flag complete laps in the 62nd Daytona 500 How are you?this walk on Lake Lloyd? The Daytona 500 on Fox is sponsored by Credit One Bank, the official credit card of Nascar, perfect for racing fans and by Pizza Hut, no one goes out for pizzas at the cabin, 20 laps on the field.

Reach the start and finish line under the yellow flag. A few drops in turn two stopped things temporarily. I once worked here on the 4th of July race and in the scorching 85 degree heat, I was on scaffolding in turn four, everyone was getting soaked in turn two. It was dry, it never rained in turn four, but everyone in the field and in turn two was soaked. The race was delayed about 30 minutes, but it just goes to show you how big this track is. It could be raining at one end of the track and completely drying out at the other.

Very good perspective to see how long that return straight is near 3000 feet. Ricky Stenhouse has led every lap of the Daytona 500 so far with 65 laps in the first stage. Well, we'll see when we come back how this could affect race strategy. first yellow flag of the day in the Daytona 500. Welcome back to the 62nd Daytona 500. The track was dry, the cars were uncovered, the drivers were primed and ready to get on board and you wouldn't believe what happened, a wall of water swept over. across this track just a deluge went a full 50 miles ricky stenhouse joey logano their leaders in the 62nd Daytona 500 postponed to tomorrow so this is how they will restart with 20 lapsRicky Stenhouse led them all and then there are those front five right behind of them before William Byron and Jimmy Johnson.

You see how much they have won or lost since the start of the race. Yeah, not much changes on that first page. go back to row five look at these big gains from timmy hill david reagan and what does that mean that means some had to lose you saw alex bowman lose 14 spots a lot of swings in this part of the pack until you get back to bubba wallace who was down 13 positions and then look at the final result here in the toyota martin truax dropped back 16 positions to pick up kyle bush and his teammates, we talked about these toyota that fell backwards, heard from kyle bush, we are all very anxious to see what his strategy, let's look at the latest news from pit road, starting with Matt Yoakam Mike, several hours of debate this morning about pit strategy, which has basically been written in thought, depending on your brand, now in the Ford camp they need about 13 gallons so when joey logano comes to the pits look for your gas man nick hensley down here to hit not one but hit him with the second can for maybe about a second and a half that's all what do you need. regan, well, two-time daytona 500 champion denny hamlin had to do it.

He started from the back yesterday after fouling out in pre-race inspection. Conventional wisdom would have him move to the front very quickly, but instead, his teammates backed up toward him as part of a Toyota plan. That plan must be modified slightly today, they anticipated gaining track position. As things happened, they will possibly have to overtake cars at the end of this first stage. Vince Kevin Harvick and his crew chief, Rodney Childers, have been together seven years and both will tell you this is the best car they have. The 20 laps I had here at Daytona yesterday didn't change my opinion in recent years.

The problem for Harvick has been getting caught up in someone else's mess, but if Harvick can keep his car clean, today will be a good choice to get his second. Daytona 500 victory Jamie Little Well, Vince's teammate Clint Boyer opted to stay back in those early laps of the Daytona 500 yesterday. It was actually a good opportunity for the team to get a read on their fuel consumption, something that may come into play today. already in this next round of 20 laps, 30 laps to go when you get to this first pit stop watch the 14 to take four tires and pack them as full as possible with the fuel mic thanks jamie good job on the field. the back, right behind the pace car, as they go through the start and finish line turns, there's our 80 mile per hour Fox Drone camera.

What a great view you can't get when you buy a ticket alone in front of your TV. Great, I'm excited about today. You know, when the sun comes out like this and this track is going to be slippery, it's going to be tough for these drivers, which is going to make it very, very entertaining for all of us. 75 degrees right now. The drop comes in at around 68 when this race is over and as they go through the pits the road is not open yet there will be a green light at the end of the pit road when the teams can pit so we hear seven.

Time series champion Jimmy Johnson competing in his last Daytona 500 today, here's his crew chief. Good afternoon, everyone had a great episode for a career. I want to thank all the fans who came yesterday and those who stayed today. we have a big crowd in the stands 4018 you guys need to buckle up finish this the way we want with larry mack i think you have competition for your job there these crew chiefs become announcers take a look inside jimmy's car at his monitor heart rate we have good there his resting heart rate is correct about 40 beats per minute 71 right now under the caution flag we talk about the calm before the storm well this is the calm because and Jimmy Johnson's heart rate , I'll be honest, it doesn't increase much. high, but this race stresses you out mentally, so as this race goes on, I can't wait to track their heart rate and those beats per minute and see what's affecting them and what's making them go up or down, it's mostly going to be stress.

Now Johnson is lined up eighth, we expect major changes to this lineup when pit road is open and the green light is on so cars can enter the pits this time. How come when I operate my drone, the shots don't look very similar? that he is a great piece of equipment that we have there and we will find very creative uses for him as the season progresses. We will see the green light as they go through turns three and four and we will notice that the pit entrance is It will be open next time by Larry if you don't pit now what is your strategy if you don't pit now Mike you will have to pit probably with about 15 laps left at this stage, I just couldn't Imagine following that strategy, yes, and that means you rely on the warnings because the last thing you want to do is go down to the pits under green, so it looks like more than half the field will enter in the pits at the front of the field, all but two.

Mcdowell and Custer cars enter. I see more four tires than I anticipated. I saw Joey Logano taking four tires and gas. Here comes our leader, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., to his box. William Byron, taking four tires and fuel. Almost everyone who wants to go up and down pit road. four new Goodyears and a full tank of gas for this restart and this track is green so they want new tires because they know you're probably going to use them in this race a little more than normal so the cars that did not pit michael mcdowell cole custer reed sorensen b.j mcleod corey lejoy brendan gone ryan preece and all the toyota joey legano taking advantage of that first pit spot in pittstall 40 I think they're calling him and he leaves pit road first getting ready to resume the 500 at Daytona, here there's a quick word from Goodyear Fantasy, ready for the restart, there will be a full 24 laps when they arrive, as scoring resumed as soon as they brought out the yellow flag and the cars pulled away, it will be one more caution lap.

I saw the lights off on top of the pace car, but now that group up front led by michael mcdowell and cole custer all heading towards pit road, that's how close they are in fuel consumption, look at some of these cars that just came off the pit road, joey. Logano in the back, I don't know if he had any problems, but is he filling up and getting in this time because they are so tight on their fuel window and here come all the Toyotas for the first time? pit road first time in the pits for joe gibbs machines jimmy johnson's team cited by too many men on the wall for the hawkeye officiating system that nascar uses to electronically transmit pit road violations to the officials who then make the decision with kevin harvick stop Here's the time to start the fastest Bush giveaway every time Harvick Pits today, fans will have the opportunity, no matter how long the stop takes, to tweet the hashtag Pit 4 Bush and the hashtag giveaway to have a chance to win a new sports car, so tweet now for your chance to win Brad Keselowski's team cited for being over the wall too soon NASCAR will have to find a way to reposition him in this lineup because the lights are out on pit road he's on the front row I would have restarted second ryan newman a little anxious to see ricky stenhouse jr he's led this entire race he's had everyone in his rear view mirror now he's got a little work to do but I think he's going to be just as aggressive trying to regain that lead, the safety cars dive into pit road and here they are Come on, Keslowski wasn't the car that was seen, it was Corey Lejoy, so Keslowski lined up with Ryan Newman on the restart.

Sorry for the bad information. There you can immediately see many Fords jumping into that inside lane to line up bumper to bumper. that inside row moving three towards the middle of the field ryan custer was on the outside yes, ryan newman jumped in front of ricky stenhouse jr eric almarola gets a good push from teammate kevin harvick to move into second place three further back while you We mentioned that we have one that slid in from underneath, Jimmy Johnson got a push through center Harvick behind teammate Almarola at the 10. And you see Keselowski moving lanes, he goes to the outside to block that outside lane, but here comes a big run on the inside eric almarola said he had a fast race car, he's proving it right now, he really notices driving there by kevin harvick behind eric elmarola's tent in that inside lane, see, he pushed the rear bumper, but when they got to the corner he backed off just to make sure eric almarola's car was sitting in the rookie bench 10 house 47 our center pole a little locked in here sitting third on the outside here's vince eric amarola , got a big push from Kevin Harvick and immediately went on the radio. to the observer of him and said, tell him I don't need it, so they didn't want the big push at that particular time.

He feels like he has enough speed right now without the big hit behind him so early in the Daytona 500. Don't blame him, you know you're in the lead, you're in a pretty happy position, yes you'd like to lead, but how much risk do you want to take in doing so? We saw him take a pretty big hit entering the tri-oval on the last lap and his hands turned to the right as that car almost jumped to the side. Almarol is winning, he has the lead into turn one on the inside, yes, taking advantage of that shorter route in the bottom lane, as the Keselowski-led cars have to. he runs that high line, but you can see the momentum from that outside lane carrying them down the straight Ford Mustangs in front for Brad Keselowski and Eric Almarola.

That draft leader has about 20 cars, 21 cars and basically nothing but Forge, he got Stenhouse there and six against chevrolet and kurt busch in 10th place, jimmy johnson, how about the penalty given to jimmy johnson? Yeah, what got them in trouble was actually where they were stopping with that opening in front. You'll see the guy just walk out onto pit road. You see him in a circle right there, he just came out onto pit road even though there's no wall there that counts as too many men on the wall. Thanks Larry and again it was 32 Corey Lejoy.

We also got bad information about which team was on the wall. Soon no Brad Keselowski who runs in this front group in the first three cars on the outside towards Almarola and Kevin Harvick saw Jimmy Johnson wave a little, I think it was 37 behind him, a priest Brian probably let Jimmy in alone showing a little. thank you joey logano ran second for the first 20 laps of this Daytona 500 matt mike in that outside lane logano told spotter tj majors a few moments ago you're going to need to help me out of turn four because the sun is like this a challenge that's not I can see in my mirror because of the angle of the sun, well that won't be a problem at the end of this Daytona 500, the lights will be on, it will be dark, sparks will be flying, hopefully, from below. the car and not between the cars, the only glow you want when the race is over comes from the flashes going off from the cameras in victory lane, what a different race, although today, Mike, we sawthis race took off yesterday and i think a lot of teams had a strategy that had fuel involved right now these teams are not worried about fuel they are side by side since the draft here from the beginning here is alex bowman with the move and his teammates of team lined up behind him and William Byron and Jimmy Johnson Kazlowski take the high pace up front with Ryan Newman and Stenhouse in tow, then Custer Logano and Matty Benedetto, who are new to the Wood Brothers' 21 this year, now go to the other end of the field in 36th place, clint boyer jamie and like us I saw Mike yesterday Clint Boyer by design has chosen to fall back, he just feels that is his best bet to be safe and be there at the end, he has not been nice to him at the Daytona 500 the last few years. he's having a hard time finishing these races now I talked to his crew chief and he's new this year johnny klosmeier johnny worked with our uh he's actually in third place now eric almerola from the last two years eric likes to be up front so johnny He told me with Clint falling back it's a completely different dynamic setup, you have to look at different fuel consumption numbers, but he's going to hang in there and hope it works for him today.

Clint told me yesterday that I hate running as hard as I can here only to get stuck. Someone else's mess I don't know what the right strategy is, Mike. I have spoken to many drivers in the garage. I've done it myself, and I've pushed hard to be in front. I try not to get into trouble. and you still get caught up in it, you travel in the back and even then when it's time to go you still get caught up in an accident, so there's no set strategy that really works, there's no real game plan, you just have to try it and Stick with whatever your plan is with 33 full laps, Ford has nine of the top 10 places and we'll be back with more from Daytona, but first here's a special message from Wendy's, so hey, I heard they're remaking a big movie racing. gun, that's a great shot, 37 laps of 200 complete that will complete the 500 miles here at Daytona, Ford in point eight of the first nine, Ricky Stenhouse in 47, the only Chevrolet in that group, the rest of the Chevys are lined up from 11th to 20th.

Then a group of cars came back to the Toyotas from 34th onwards and those Toyotas were wondering: Well, shall we sit here? We are leaving? Are we going back too far? How are we doing? I think the 34 needs to catch up with the tail. With the other group, I know what they are doing, but the gap is too big. I might have to go around them if they're going to fall that hard. Now they go, they go forward, don't skip it, don't abandon it. If we're going to race them and then get stuck next to each other, don't do it right, Jeff, if they're so worried about being next to each other that he tells me they're in full fuel conservation mode.

Well, I think they definitely want to stay in touch with this group and the best thing that's happening to them right now is that they're right next to each other. side, but as you mentioned at 34, there's definitely a bigger gap than you want to see. Now what we've been trying to figure out about what their strategy is is that we think towards the end of this stage they're really going to try to make a run at that front group and make up some positions because they're going to have to stop at that stage anyway, so which I don't know what the advantage of saving fuel would be right now, well, we'll find out that 65 laps are At the end of stage one, completing lap 39 right now with Roush Fenway's Brian Newman running in the number six Ford up front, Eric Almarola and Brad Keselowski and he's in the lead, here comes Almarola, who was a mile away from winning the Daytona 500 a couple ago.

Many years ago he was leading down the stretch and turned around on the last lap and what a fast race car he has today. He was very excited in his pre-race interview yesterday. You could tell he had that arrogance and that confidence. And he is proving it today. One of the things he could have easily done is move in front of Ryan Newman to maintain this lead and control which lane he wanted to stay in, but he is working with his teammate right behind him, Kevin Harvick. I'm pretty happy to be in that uh, nose to tail right now, how about that Chevrolet up front?

Ricky Stenhouse, our poleman, Vince, well, and you just told Ricky, since you guys have been talking about fuel consumption. It's really important, here are these teams trying. to get to the end of this first stage and Ricky has just been told that the mileage is not good if you are one of the first two cars in line, so keep that in mind when you see where Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has positioned himself. Well, Look, he's got a little help now Chase Elliott and Jimmy Johnson's number nine and number 48 Chevrolets are right up there with him, Larry, yeah, Mike, I spent a lot of time last night and this morning talking to different crew chiefs and it's amazing how difference in mileage when you're up there, leading, pulling the pack or you're back, drawing single file, for example, if you're leading you'll get about 5.2 to 5.3 miles per gallon, that's a fuel window of 39 to 5.3 miles per gallon. 40 laps if you're on a single shot.

As you write, you get between 5.8 and 6 miles per gallon, which will add two to three, maybe even four laps, to what you can run on fuel. You can see right here riding on board with Christopher Bell, it's running at about 60 70 percent throttle, so definitely in fuel mode and, you know, now I'm starting to get really worried about some of these cars in the front that are going wide open and they've been next to each other, they're not getting any fuel economy and some of Those cars didn't even complete Mike now, how about the Toyotas that were in the back, Matt Mike went back to practice on Friday.

The five Toyotas were all in a row for over 20 laps, they ran five laps each rotating who was in the Front that way they could have great information on which Toyota would be the best shooter for this same situation during the event. All right, they're waiting in the back. Now there is a big difference in this group and the cut-off line is sixth, everyone at the top. the line pitted on lap 23. Everyone below this line, well, now Stenhouse pitted and completed his run on lap 24. So an extra lap could make a difference, I think it will make a difference. , otherwise I think some of these drivers are going to I have to start saving a lot of fuel towards the end of this stage, Jamie, guys, I'm watching.

I'm thinking the only way Toyota will work with their strategy is for these guys to line up single file at the front because that's the only way they can do it. Advancement is if they are in single file and everyone can push. We saw how fast those guys went together on their own, but I think as long as these guys are too wide in the front, the Toyotas can get to the back of this group, but they. We won't be able to get to the front. I don't know what they have to gain. Then, in 26 laps, we'll find out it's the end of stage one.

Eric Almarola in a Ford is your race leader. The first Chevy is Ricky Stenhouse. In sixth place, the first Toyota Martin Truex returned to 34th place, 39 complete laps in the Daytona 500. So, just like that, Bill Elliott won the Daytona 500 in 1985 and was the perennial choice for the most popular driver now that the battle falls to his son Chase, who was Hendrick Chevrolet a few moments ago. took the lead from Chris Busher, the Chevy moved to the front, including Jimmy Johnson who restarted the end of the field, yes second place, he had that penalty during that pit stop, but Jimmy Johnson got caught in the bumper of either Chase Elliott, I think I saw him working with William Byron and Alex Bowman, so those four Chevrolets at Hendrick Motorsports feel like they saved enough fuel and you know they showed a lot of speed and in qualifying, we haven't seen that so far until now, so now there's a chevy six pack at the front of the field chase elliott jimmy johnson alex bowman william byron hendrick's cars ricky stenhouse for jtg doherty racing and ty dillon in 13. it's a holiday monday afternoon 48 full laps stage break on the lap 65 sounds For me it's a good time to start it right here, this time it's okay, tell me when I can open it and do it like this hmm, 15 left in the state, one above floating, you say I let it go?

That was 15 cars. In the main draft out of turn four, things are getting busy though behind them, as drivers start jockeying for position, uh, Kyle Busch just said on the radio, come on, it's time to start. . There are 14 laps left to reach stage one that far back. as it is, I don't know where they're going, here's the Kevin Harvick radio I've ever seen, yeah, all those guys around me were riding fuel efficient, Vince, yeah, Kevin was confused as to why they all went al at the top of the track when they had been racing at the bottom and they told him there were only four forwards at the bottom so they all went to the top and Kevin didn't like that strategy in that line of thinking, but That's where they went.

He was a good team player, but he wasn't very happy with it, he didn't understand now that you're traveling with Austin Dillon, Coca-Cola Cam Dylan was worried that by leading that group he was burning too much fuel, so he detoured. backward. from the lead position, but things quickly went off the rails in 12th place. Ryan Blaney, here's Regan. The crew chief's report to driver Ryan Blaney a moment ago was that you've saved enough fuel. Feel free to go whenever you want. Are you ready. Go to the end of the stage, so these cars in front, some of them seem to be doing well on fuel now and I think that's what you see in these Chevrolets leaving right now, they came in a lap later and then they got saved . a bit in the middle of the pack as soon as these Fords had to start saving a bit more they passed him and took the lead within 11 laps.

We'll see who wins the first stage of this year's Daytona 500. a group of them saved a couple of them, I'll probably be around so everyone can make it, we're competing with the whole group so do we go there and run or do we just stay here and lose, oh you're looking at the draft leader of 15 cars from the Goodyear blimp providing our aerial coverage today Goodyear discovers what's possible keeps moving Goodyear more driven eight laps left in stage one joey logano the yellow car in the outside lane trying to make something happen here with eric almarola on the outside Yes, I feel like they are now in their fuel window, they have saved enough fuel and they want to try to get a track position or get those valuable points that will be awarded at the end of this stage, now a quarter of a lap away from what that is.

Continuing with the Toyotas, here is Kyle Bush's radio. Can the leader make it this far? A group of them saved a couple of them, probably nearby so they could all make it. We are competing with the whole group, so we either go up and run. Or we just stay here and lose. Wow, listen, I'm as baffled as Kyle Bush right now about what his strategy is. I don't know if anyone really knows. They just don't see what they have to gain and they do it. It looks like they're going to pit before this stage is over so I'm completely confused, well look I thought they were saving gas or just being conservative, stay in their mess and then they thought, and there's a car sliding by the Countryside.

Grass william byron, who won his qualifying race here on thursday and that will change everything, has certainly changed it exactly for that 24. Contact with ricky stenhouse puts william byron against the inside wall in a hard hit, i think he was on fourth position ahead of ricky stenhouse jr, well you'd like to put him away but you haven't seen the front of it, oh that's definitely what's going to work somehow to win this Daytona 500. So it's officially the second caution flag for the Daytona 500. Look at Stenhouse's 47 and they had just run the 10 gets to the rear bumper the 13 little increase from the 47 oh gets to the left side of that rear bumper and we've seen when you try to crash draft you need to be in the center or on the right oh it almost looked like Stenhouse was going to lean out and try to get by him and maybe he misjudged it, made contact, turned William Byron, ah you know those guys had so much anticipation after That big duel on Thursday, you know, you could see when Ricky Stenhouse Jr moved to the left, he just caught the left ear of the bumper against the safer barrier that now borders the inside of this track as well as the outside and here's Chad Kanas, his team leader.

You know you work so hard, William's okay, that's Amr's security team taking care of him back there immediately and he's making the obligatory trip to Advent healthcare and his hopes of winning the 500 are dashed, yeah,you just worked It's very difficult to get here, you have one chance every year to win the Daytona 500 and that chance no longer exists for that 24 team now that they're on pit road. Ford led by the Fords of Ryan Newman, Brad Keselowski, Kevin Harvick and Cole Custer and all the Toyotas that come to complete also Joey Gase will get the free pass, meaning he can pass under caution and get back on the lead lap.

Well, this is an area where you see Christopher Bell, one of our rookies overshot the pits and had to back off. entering, that will cost you a little bit of time, so you're going to give up those stage points by stopping. Now you see that they turn to the left side, they put four tires on the 18 for Kyle Bush, but they are there. We will regain that track position after everyone else pits when this stage ends the race off pit road 12 drivers at the front of the field did not crash when William Byron was sent sliding across the grass towards the infield barrier and outside the 500. regular, regular, the Daytona 500 on Fox is sponsored by the new Ford Explorer, built by Ford Pride, another pit stop for car number four means another chance for you to win a new car from Bush Beer.

All you have to do is tweet pit for bush and hashtag giveaways while harvick is participating and you could win big, so tweet now until the end of stage one, let's get one to go this time, michael mcdowell enters To top it all off, so does Timmy Hill and here comes Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch and the rest of the Toyotas. Well, I think we are now starting to learn more about this Toyota strategy. I think they are going to give up track position, give up stage points and try to recover. get out of potential accidents and be in position to win the Daytona 500 at 400 or 450 miles, not right now Larry, are you okay with this as a long term plan, yeah, I thought they were just trying to get their track position right there, but they come. going back to the beginning that doesn't buy them anything more than being at the back of the field to avoid problems, so when they take the green there will be two laps left to reach the end of stage one, playoff points at stake for the winner of the stage and Points will be awarded to the top 10 when they take that green and white checkered flag on lap 65.

Where are you going to restart our drone anywhere you want? Well, we know what the safety car is running. Our drone is running the safety car right now. That thing gets up and goes 80 vs. 70 I think it's okay so at the point Chevrolet's chase Elliot Jimmy Johnson Bowman and Stenhouse in Chevy's Eric Almarolo the lone floor ford in the top five looks like a fighter jet x-wing a star wars fighter no. Isn't that so cool? Yes, I'm a Star Wars fan. I know I'll be really curious to see how important stage points are to these competitors right now, because if they're going to be aggressive in getting those points. then at the end of each of these stages today we will see a great race in the battle for him.

None of the top 13 have been in the pits since lap 24. Everyone from 14th onwards has just pitted for two laps. race to the end of stage one as Chase Elliott and Jimmy Johnson lead them into turn one and right now the Toyotas are crossing the start-finish line half a lap behind and they're not really even moving at full speed, so I think They feel like maybe Something Big is about to happen in front of them and they're also saving a lot more fuel by making that big push from Alex Bowman's 88 to teammate Chase Elliott's rear bumper.

It seemed that Kurt Bush was going to show himself out. he tries to take it three times, yes he and Matthew Benedetto had to look up, but when they come out of four it will be one lap until the end of stage one. Remember the top ten payoff points at the end of this stage. Jimmy Johnson with Stenhouse. leading the outside row and the joe gibbs cars are coming to the line now i think they can probably speed up a third to the end ofOn the stage, some decisions for those Hendrick Chevrolets: are they going to move forward and work with Jimmy Johnson, their partner of team, and the other Chevrolet on the outside row of Stenhouse, or will they have to block that big run coming from that fast number 10 of Eric? almarola here come forwards 10 and 22 to the marola oh ty dillon three wide to the line and the winner of stage one chases elliott over alex bowman eric almarola joey logano buddy and jimmy johnson meanwhile half a lap later now these guys are in full fuel economy mode and the rest of the field crosses the line, let's check with jamie and william byron has been checked and released and he's fine so much preparation so much draft practice all to finish like this what exactly happened yeah i don't know i want I mean, obviously I got hit in the rear bumper, I saw a brief

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of that, just look here, yeah, I mean, it was moving when it hit me first, so that pushed me to the left with it and then it hit me off the center left. back and just turned me around, so I think that was enough.

The first hit when it was sliding left on my bumper was what really made my car go with it and uh, so yeah, I don't know, I mean. It's just that it's unfortunate, you know, I feel like if I don't know, I feel like there's really no reason for it to be lap 45 or whatever to be so aggressive moving over my bumper, but it is what it is, we're going to Vegas. and and Go try to win it, okay, William Byron, the first one out of the Daytona 500. Mike thanks. Jamie Las Vegas Motor Speedway becomes the second race of the season starting this year.

That's where the Fox Nascar coverage will be this weekend and I take my hat off not only. our cameraman, the great camera work that you've seen and all of our technicians, all of our staff, many of whom haven't been home for 25 days, went to Miami to do the Super Bowl, came right here to Daytona, two weeks of speed and tonight. everything packs up and travels across the country to las vegas pit road should be open this time for the end of stage one elliott and bowman chevrolet services almarola and logano fords and jimmy johnson are your first five in stage one, chris busher got the final stage point on february 28 john cena is back joining the smackdown superstars as he returns home to boston a smackdown special on friday night february 28 8 this 7 center at fox you know, I would say that many of the drivers who faced that last yellow flag will leave out those who will not pit I have no idea what the toyota larry are going to do the way their strategy was developed in this first stage they pitted late they knew they only had to run two laps and they knew how slow they could go and not be overtaken before the end of the stage to save as much fuel as possible.

Yes, the road is a busy place. Matt Mike chases Elliott at times. He says that coming out of turn four he experiences a little bit of freedom, but overall. the car is fine in the meantime you can see the lugano 22 going on the left side drift air pressure adjustment of the four wheels to try to tighten them reagan 88 by alex bowman the only concern of Greg's that I have mentioned today was the strategy that I wanted to be around Chevy at the end of the race and the stages Vince Eric Cavarola said I'm fine just give me four tires and a tearaway Brad Keselowski wins the race out of the pits uh those cars with the green markings probably only used two tires Look, Denny Hamlin, our current leader, they're going down pit road, but let's dial in our stage one winner, Chase Elliott, hey Chase, this is Jeff in the Fox Sports booth, you got me buddy, hey, chase after Jeff in the Fox Sports booth.

Well, we'll ring again after the break, check the frequency, Kenneth, and, uh, try again after the break. Chase Elliott, stage one winner, like that, like that, yesterday here in Daytona, the president and the first lady marked the first laps of the Daytona 500 in the presidential limousine and we had 20 laps going now we're on lap 68 in the 500 here's your stage one winner yeah let's try it again hey chase this is Jeff at the Fox Sports booth you got me yeah go ahead great way to Start the Daytona 500 with a stage victory. Tell us about his car. How is he?

Do you know what the conditions are like? of being in the right place, as you know, I hope the lane goes your way. It's good to get a playoff point and hopefully we can finish the day like this. We're certainly seeing some different strategies being developed, you know, some fuel savings. mileage you are quite aggressive to get to the front, what do you think? How easy will it be for you to get back there this time? Yes, I think that's the question. You know, everyone was doing different things there for that. first stage and on different agendas, so you're just fighting, you know a quarter or half of the field, versus you know, here later on you'll fight whoever's left, so we'll see, thanks for talking to us, good luck for the rest of the way.

Everyone enjoy Chase Elliot, winner of stage one, there's his pit stop. Denny Hamlin will be out front for the restart with Cole Custer for stage two, so the Daytona 500 at Fox is sponsored by progressive insurance. Save when you bundle auto, home or motorcycle insurance. and by ram trucks motor trends truck of the year consecutive ready for the green flag for the second stage denny hamlin the race leader has chosen the inside lane against cole custer then truex harvick kyle busch eric jones approach the geico restart zone where the leader has the option anywhere in that area to step on the gas and take them to green and now let's see what those Toyotas could do since they have that position on the track, the first seven cars stopped in the pits before the break stage, including all five. of the toyota penny hamlin defending the 500 champion who comes to score tricks, his junior teammate kyle busch right behind him and more toyota with eric jones and christopher bell joey logano in the center lane fifth car back a little more information about what's going on in front of me when I'm right on top of them, uh, if I'm right on top of them I need to push, if I push it I need to know when to pick it up, so if you see me a foot or two feet from the car in front to me, give me. the gap in the front I'll take care of the back yeah Matt and then TJ Majors also said I'll tell you when I'm near the door.

TJ told me that with this package they are really trying to speed up his thinking and decision making. -creation process, I'm planning your moves, so on a football field, wait a second, you better talk fast, yeah, things are happening very fast and when you're fixated on the driver's bumper you can't see anything , that's why those eyes in the sky and the observer's position are very important. Excellent information. Joey Logano is giving his spotter five cars in front, single file, double file, back there, they're trying to form that outside lane in a continuous line and now they've done it as they come into turn one, but we were wondering what they were doing these Toyotas up front, we have the answer and you know, they basically gave up that first stage in any track position or stage points to take control of this race, we still have a.

However, there is more stage left so that someone further back can play the same game. Well, it's five o'clock here, it's rush hour in Daytona Beach. Yes, it's over 200 miles per hour. Well, it was an easy graph for our team to understand. build high performance toyota there are five cars in the race for toyota and they are running in positions one to five pretty impressed with some of our rookies here we talk a lot about christopher bell but cole custer another of our rookies sitting there in sixth position right now all 39 cars are on a fast continuous freight train in single file rookies nose to tail christopher bell in '95 and fifth custer colt in '41 and stuart haas running in sixth here's matt mike moving up in the cup christopher bell new in the digital board, he actually went down and talked to his xfinity team from a year ago and got a picture to come back and tell Jason Radcliffe that he wanted a more old school school with analog gauges, now that he lost his spot at pit road, it was not. so or christopher actually ratcliffe took the blame and said i have too many buttons on my radio sorry a couple of chevys sticking out the inside now of what was a 39 car freight train and ricky stenhouse the 500 nanny poles, he leads that group on the inside trying to get back to the front, well we know he has a fast race car, if he has someone to stick to the rear bumper like we see here with Jimmy Johnson, I think there's a good chance they can .

Work your way through that bottom lane to the front. The Chevys have a newmodel this year, which means a new front fascia and a new rear bumper compared to last year, which proved problematic. How is it different? Well, we saw it and here's Ryan Blaney jumping into the inside lane. I think they see those Chevrolets coming. He's going to try to block that lane or maybe use that to get some momentum, but you're right Mike, there's definitely a different nose on those Chevrolets, they're rounder, more rounded than in the past, but it still comes up to a slight point 77 complete laps in the Daytona 500.

Coca-Cola and Nascar are Sunday stuff, so welcome back to the Daytona 500 on Fox, presented by Nascar's top partners. 200 of the 500 miles completed. the winner of the year, denny hamlin, led by martin truex jr and kyle bush and here comes austin dillon, another 500 winner with a race to the inside of ryan blaney and these races are getting faster and faster and you have to be very careful. Ryan Blaney thought about blocking austin dillon and luckily I thought twice keselowski joey logano on the high side with penske teammate ryan blaney yeah we saw the toyotas were running that top lane and when that inside lane started to form and catch them, they moved down to block that now. and the outside lanes that are formed led by brad keselowski what is missing in that group of leaders are the rookies that every rookie driver in Nascar requires to have a yellow stripe on their bumper and it is almost as if someone has removed the tape because so much christopher bell and cole custer were eliminated from that front group they didn't get the memo that their teammates were preparing to go to the inside lane, that will be one of the many lessons they will learn this year and in this 500 mile race we have now Long He said the leader clears the track for everyone and Denny Hamlin has some junk on the grill and there's just no way to get that debris out of there if you're the leader, the only way if the temperature and water pressure start to drop. .

If it becomes a problem that maybe reaches around 300 degrees, we're going to have to back off and try to get the turbulent air around these cars to get that piece of debris out of the three Ford Penskes leading Chase Elliot Chevy trying to get it something happens outside. here, if we go back to last sunday's crash, where these two teammates had a little collision when joey logano put a big block on kyle bush caught his teammate brad keselowski in that big accident, i wasn't too happy about it, expressed his opinion. and joey legano remember one of the comments he said, someone asked him: are you going to solve it?, he says, we have to do it, but so far that is working for him, seeing the three of austin dillon being eliminated by ricky stenhouse jr, while So much, The inside line is moving away, okay, concern about that debris on Denny Hamlin's grill, well, the team has worried, yeah, on a page of 45, they won't be able to make it this far, so everyone just They need to stick together.

I can tell that's Denny Hamlin. Danny is very confident and has a lot of experience being out front and winning the Daytona 500 twice, so it doesn't surprise me that he showed leadership from the driver's seat by trying to give some instructions to others. Behind him, now those four Toyota drivers are effectively working together to figure out how they could trade that lead position without reducing lap times, but what's going on here in this big pile of traffic? And that's what Denny Hamlin was referring to, if we're locked together, they won't be able to get us out, so if we can work together now, they lost, helping Christopher Bell, so they lost one of their cars, but with four, I think they'll be fine. about this vince kyle bush's 18 is worried about martin truax's 19 he asked what's wrong with 19 here it's like he's been picked up and he can't keep 11. kyle doesn't like the way the 19 is being handled 19 and it's impacting the way your car handles, yeah Vince we just saw some movement on 19, I think maybe it was outside of turn four which may be a handling issue, the sun really It falls on that part of the curve where we saw the car moving up. about half lane 21 now 22 of 65 laps in stage two full Denny Hamlin out front at Daytona like that, like that, like that, double zero crashed here at Daytona, rookie Quinn House, other cars involved as they come to the flag caution, it will be the fourth yellow flag of the day came on lap 90.

That's a 52 mcleod b.j mccloud also got caught in it and half was running 28 mcleod 35 mcleod will pull away let's see what happens here to the left of the screen, you can see they're coming to give it a turn down, oh, it seemed to me that I, Quinn, just went up a little bit more than I expected on the 10 in yellow and they just touched each other and ended up turning it into the outside lane, that was almost that. was close to our 10th average soul roll too now those fords had been left behind to try to stay away from all this mess you see there's nowhere to go try to avoid that accident then catch the outside wall riding with kyle larson credit one onboardcamera, I really think that eric almarola was hoping that half of quinn would stay lower in that corner and he was going to get to his outside side, recruit him and keep going until he completed 90 laps under yellow for the fourth time today, the Daytona 500 on fox is sponsored by the strongest and most advanced chevy silverados of all time and by credit one bank, the official credit card of nascar, perfect for racing fans, so the accident involves the young man Quinn House from Virginia and veteran BJ Macleod from Florida, but the concern is for Eric Almarolo, who was one of the fastest forwards here, how many times can he block me by going much slower?

And that's common sense. I've seen it on TV, but you can't do that. Yes, I just told your observer not to do it again. I think it's I finished blocking today, yeah, you could see the left front, maybe a little damage on the can, I'm rolling and the bad thing, I thought Quinn looked like he was backing up and going, you know, slower, like I was going for a walk, they were going to go. to the outer room which was actually four positions and he was just trying to move up to stay at the front of that group.

See the repairs in progress and here they are all four now with a little damage to the right rear quarter, uh, corner of Kevin Harvick's bumper. The tire hauler crawled underneath to see how extensive the damage is. I want to drill holes in the bumper cover so that it retains some of its aerodynamic property. Larry well, again, pit road was closed at that time. Jamie Mack and I don't have windows in our bunker, but. the window is open to be able to get to this stage, so I would say when it opens, Mike, we're sitting right now, 38 to go to this stage, more than likely everyone will have four tires and fuel.

There is no safe strategy here. We have had two cautionary incidents in this race, one right near the front of the field and one at the back. There is no sure strategy or place to be in this field, as we are discovering and I have said that before. Mike, I've tried both strategies and this is where luck has to come into play. You have to be smart, be precise in your decision making and hope that it is your day. It looks like Quinn House will join William Byron in the Daytona 500. leaving 38 cars in pursuit of the harley earl trophy and the green light on pit road is open Harvick stopping before pit road opens means he will have to restart the last Matt Hamlin Truax on pit road one two, that's how they finish in 2016.

Truex says if it stays up about a foot the car is fine, but then it will go toward the loose side depending on how the 11 teams move. Reagan Eric Jones' teams did multiple long runs in practice for this scenario, so they knew how his car would perform properly. Now it's very good, Denny Hamlin at the front of the group with the debris, his car attempts went up a little, he monitored it the whole time. Vince, you see the 18 moving away just a little tight on the right sides just for Bush's 18, here's your ram. pit race denny hamlin ricky stenhouse gets three spots joey logano six rookie tyler reddick 11. quinn half and b.j mccloud problems on the backstretch regular regular in yesterday's pre-race two heads of state the president of the united states and the king of stock car racing, seven-time Daytona 500 winner Richard Petty, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992.

Kevin Harris' pit crew is moving fast today, so get ready for another chance to To win a personalized Bush Sports, simply tweet the hashtag Pitforbush and the hashtag giveaway during Harvick's. pit stops for a chance to win right now well this was a very busy pit cycle that started with eric jones yeah you see eric jones coming to the front of the tire changer look how the hose just gets pulled underneath of the car and when they release this jack, it falls on the hose. Eric Jones would be stopped there, he has to go back and it takes him a long time to get out of the pits and now it is close to Brad Keselowski and Ross Chastain leaving the pits at the same time, in the same place is the health camera on board. for chastain and that visor cam we're gonna get some cool shots we got one of ross chastain another one of jimmy johnson ross has a cold drink checking in with jimmy johnson's visor cam and our heart rate monitor is still pretty quiet I think You know we'll see things are going to heat up for Jimmy Johnson.

There's that view from the visor camera and we'll continue to monitor heart rate, beats per minute up to 95. So Johnson will restart in 11th place on this restart, he'll be third. Chevrolet Stenhouse will be on the front row with Chase Elliott in seventh place. Reid Sorensen had a runaway tire on that pit stop, so he will go all the way along with Kevin Harvick, who pitted with damage before the pits opened, will restart. back p.j mccloud still in the race two laps back the 37 cars in front of him are all on the lead lap we are almost halfway through stage number two which will take us to lap 130. and with that incident on pit road eric jones now not with those other teammates of his in joe gibbs running, so that's three left in front.

Denny Hamlin this time chose the outside of the inside front row last time and here we come to Green Hamlin falls in front of Stenhouse abandoning his teammate. truex leading the outside lane yeah well truex could take the lead here because he has a big push from Chase Elliott Shrek went up the hill and spun in two, he separated and created a big gap between him and Chase Elliot, the top six with the same number of the fords and toyotas of chevy in one piece starting to see that inside lane behind us three rows back they begin to prevail freeing themselves from mark trex jr now three toyotas in the top five with a stenhouse chevy and the ford on the 22nd logano now we heard before that caution came up with a 19 point Church junior who doesn't have as good a handle.

The race car gets loose from time to time, I'm just wondering if that will affect how aggressive he is on some of these side drafts, but now you'll see them go up. Best teammate Denny Hamlin gets to the top, allowing Joey Logano to run inside. Look who's behind him. Ross simply stays in the inside lane and is given a push by rookie Christopher Bell every time several cars change lanes if they drift out of the lane. From the inside to the outside lane, all of a sudden the momentum really stagnates in that particular lane, so you saw when Denny Hamlin went to the outside lane, that inside lane started to back off.

He now chases Elliot running into Kyle Bush. and here comes Legano to give it a big push into turn two, oh you see Stenhouse's 47 getting a big push from 18 to Kyle Bush on the back of that moving car, you hear Bush had to pedal a little to keep up away. from Stenhouse mid-turn, that push from Logano in turn two paid off for Elliott. He's there to lead Denny Hamlin's side down the line and you know Stenhouse is one of those guys, he's not just an aggressive pusher who likes it. Let them get to your rear bumper and just set it, you don't care if the car is moving down the straights, as long as it gets a big push halfway through, when you get to the line, you'll see the crossed flags that Brad Keselowski does. a move to the outside of the truex penske cars lined up on the outside keslowski blaney logano denny hamlin leads on lap 100. five rows back, two by two faster around chase elliott feels like entering that outside lane in front of brad Keselowski is the best route for him to get to the front.

Hamlin's No. 11 has won two of the last four Daytona 500s and is the only 500 winner of the last four years he has ledmore than one lap today compared to the previous Daytona 500, so we've seen a lot of different drivers leading quite a few laps, you know, seeing Chase Elliot lead 20+ laps to Stenhouse, 20+ laps to Hamlin in um you know, 30 laps lead, we just saw Toyota leading Chevy and Toyota Denny Hamlin out front while we. let's go fox side by side so hmm 104 laps 105 now complete at daytona denny hamlin continues to lead ricky stenhouse the front stretch is shaded the curves and the back stretch still in full sun but boy jeff the drivers sure get an eye full of sun as they try to exit turn four here at this time of day when the sun is starting to set and you have a real problem with visibility out of turn four, so when you go through turns three and four you see that They are in turn three. get on the visor camera Jimmy Johnson now you can imagine you know if you get hit from behind you have someone out there for a split second you're basically blind coming out of turn four at 200 miles per hour at 200 miles per hour and we join here with Kevin Harvick, he has a transparent shield and he didn't even close his eyes.

You know, you just have to suffer through that because of that split-second beer cam on Harvick that didn't move forward after having to restart. In the end due to pitting too early with damage, he moved up to 31st place, but two of his teammates, Clint Boyer and Eric Almarola, worked with him again and I wonder if they will try to use the same strategies that work so well for the Toyota. to give them track position will they come in before the stage ends and try to pass them after that now on that inside line around seventh place a Daytona 500 winner austin dillon jamie so far so good for austin dillon in That last stop he's one of the drivers who used four tires, he said it really seemed to help his handling now that Austin is reuniting with a former crew chief, Justin Alexander, at the top of the pitbox this season and you just mentioned that he won the Daytona 500 in 2018.

He did it with that man. which you're looking at on the left side of the screen, Justin said that they're both excited to top everything they've been through by working together again. The car has had good speed all weeks and they are hoping for maybe a number two down the road. today well they have shown speed, currently in 9th place when they won in 2018, led the last mile, that was from the restart. Let's look at our biggest US boosters since the last reset and there's Dylan gaining eight spots. Michael Mcdowell. and austin dillon's new rookie teammate xfinity champion tyler reddick yeah you said the last mile not the last lap because he only got that lead in turn three so one mile from turn three to start and finish line 108 complete laps, lap 130 will be the end of second stage a lot of pomp and circumstance in the race before yesterday's race austin dillon is excited to meet the president of the united states, so lap 112 in the books of our air coverage provided by goodyear celebrates the endless pursuit of forward momentum most motivated goodyear denny hamlin in a toyota ricky stenhouse our pole sitter and chevrolet and the two toyota gibbs of kyle busch and martin truex and how about ross chastain in that front five and jimmy johnson chase elliott christopher bell and austin dillon seven time jimmy johnson series champion single file in sixth oh that's never fun trying to communicate with your spotter you know that was earl barton talking to him and Cliff Daniels is the crew chief.

They've had some real issues with the radio at Hendrick Motorsports this week. Matt will be back at practice on Friday William Byron's 24th and also Alex Bowman's 88th were having problems at that practice, they were chasing him. Jimmy could be seen reaching down to try to change the channel to see if that would clear up the communication. Additionally, overnight rains may have had an effect. Cars were allowed in, but it rained quite a bit last night. Nascar requires teams to use analog radios so the driver and team can communicate with observers, so fans in the stands with their analog scanners can hear the communication.

Remember with all that rain you're just wondering if some connection maybe has a little bit of moisture that's causing that disturbance. Joey Logano peeks around the outside of his Penske teammate Ryan Blaney, with Logano and Kozlowski now working together without gaining much ground there. Well, we said we were going to follow Jimmy Johnson's heart rate monitor, so let's get in that 48 car on this last reset that you can see on the left at 97 beats per minute as you go up the gears it immediately starts running. up and what you're going through here as a driver, you want to restart and upshift, not miss any shifts, you have your spotter in your ear, talking to you about which lane choice you're going to close. up on the rear bumper like you did with Ryan Blaney, look how that heart rate shot up in that moment to 123, which is high for Jimmy Johnson for the average human being.

I think it would start at 123. Now, the Penske cars. I tried to do something on the outside but you see Keslowski in the subway lane and the 12 ended up right down we'll see if Logano goes down or stays up with Austin Dillon at the three I really think ryan blaney's 12 is having some handling problems, he has his hands full because we see that the car moves and slides a lot in the corners. These teams have the option of being able to lower the rear of these cars without height restrictions. when you do that, it gives the car a lot of speed, it gets that spoiler out of the air, but it also makes it difficult without having the downforce in the draft, twelve and a half laps to go in stage two of three, three wide. on turn number four things are getting a little bit closer there we'll be going side by side so you'll see it all here on Fox so wow there's nine laps left on stage number two last time by Ryan Newman, the fastest car on the race track 202.3. our xfinity pass to lap the fastest lap of the race to eric jones at 206 miles per hour, that's fast, I mean just running lap after lap at over 200 miles per hour and we're seeing some driving turn into a problem, so it's not like you're just standing on the race track, you're doing 202 miles an hour sliding the back of the car like we've seen Ryan Blaney and some others, I mean, it seems to me, guys, like that.Turns three and four where the sun is still on the track is where these guys are struggling and like when we look at Kyle Larson right now, he doesn't stay glued to the car in front of him and that tells me that when he gets close to His Probably the car just isn't driving as well as it needs to, yeah, he's just trying to get some air into the nose and into his car to push it onto the track, three Toyotas and four Chevrolets at the head of the pack first. ford is blaney in ninth place with his teammates how about ross chastain man?

It's amazing to see ross chastain up there he must be having a blast tommy baldwin he's a crew chief a former daytona 500 winner this is only chastain's fourth start at daytona he finished 10th here for the last year his only top 10 in the super speedways joe gibbs racing won the daytona 500 last year they have three in the top five right now and they have very fast race cars they have been in control of this race here recently but you have to look down on eric jones in the 21st place all it takes is a little bubble on pit road to get behind and now you see how hard it is trying to get back to his teammates he's there recruiting ryan priest now here's the race order of hendrick chevy jimmy johnson chases elliott in the top 10 alex bowman a little further back and william byron crashed out of the race on lap 60. team penske for captain ryan blaney brad keselowski joey logano all very close here in their Chris Bush mustangs are among them new to the Roush Fenway team in 17.

You saw Joey Logano right there, right behind 17. I had a little problem in turn three. These guys want some adjustments and four new tires very soon, which will happen in about five laps. Stuart Haas. running order larry, are they doing what the toyotas did before near 30th place? Mike, I'm just worried about how far they've fallen behind. They are more than 16 seconds behind the leader at one point. I felt like they might try to go down. a strategy of pitting before they closed pit lane, remember they closed pit lane with two to go before the end of the stage and they would get that track position, but I'm almost afraid they are too far back to do that Right now, strategy is nothing about anything other than what puts you in position to win the Daytona 500.

Yes, and to stay out of any incident that may occur at the end of this stage, we heard the urgency on the radio uh from Kyle Bush and his voice when they were in the back of the field and he said: we have to go, we have to go and I think a big part of that was managing that gap that we're not seeing right now with those fords that are in the queue, 37 of 40 cars still on the track. bj mccloud has joined quinhof and william byron out of the race 35 of them on the lead lap with 74 to go guys i think this is a great opportunity for ricky stenhouse kyle busch martin tricks to plan what they could do if They are in the same position at the end of the race when the big trophies were paid out, I think you are absolutely right Jamie, they are going to put their car, maybe back to the car behind them, to see if they can make a run for it. big enough, where if they wanted to make that move, maybe they won't make it to the end of the stage because it might be too risky, but maybe they can learn something, like you mentioned, the Daytona 500 wins.

Kurt Bush told me yesterday that he doesn't need a partner to pull out to pass, he just has to time it right to change lanes and get in front of the next car coming to give it a boost, you don't need a partner to dance, oh boy, it sure helps If you have one, well you have to do some things that allow that to happen, you can't do it alone, you certainly can't do it from 8th, 9th or 10th, 12th place here ty dillon joey logano chevy and ford seven The cars in a row India in the interior will be one lap away from the end of the second stage when they cross the line.

It will be interesting to see if Stenhouse can materialize a race if he wants to go after that stage win. Will he make that move at the end of this round? the stage winner gets a tiebreaker point that extends to the penultimate race of the season, in which four drivers compete for the bill france boyce cup in phoenix, a true side pick further back between jimmy johnson ryan blaney oh, there there's that race right there, look at Stenhouse coming to the left rear of the 11. Trying to get in, Hamlin, hugging the white line, bumps a car up with Stenhouse to the outside.

Hamlin goes up to block Kyle Busch to the bottom with Hamlin winning stage two. very excited right there outside turn four denny hamlin keeps all comers at bay denny hamlin your stage two winner over teammate kyle busch so in just five days don't miss the most anticipated title fight in years undefeated heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder takes on 29-0 Tyson Fury in the rematch the sports world has been waiting for on Saturday Nine Eastern Six Pacific buy it now on PPV or the Fox Sports app Matte ambient temperature drops 10 degrees Martin Tropas Junior says he pulls out the left front to try to help, but the car gets too tight Regan at the end of the race, sails smoothly for leader Denny Hamlin on the right side of the screen, his race car is a little free at the moment, that means the rear end wants to slide out vince the 18 of Kyle Busch likes his car, it will only be four tires and gas, since Ricky Stenhouse Jr is pretty loose at the end of that race and spins three and four, there's the race out of the pits, Timmy Hill only gas, but problems for Martin Truax, big problems, see Mark Pull. comes out of his pit stall and stabs a gas can that someone must have taken out of his pit stall when they dropped Martin off, good job trying to navigate, that did some damage to the nose of that 19 car, that's the question and So who does that belong to?

What are you saying? We mark our winner of stage two. Hi Danny, this is Jeff at the Fox Sports booth. You got me. Hey, Denny. Jeff at the Fox Sports booth. You got me. Yes, I have you good, congratulations. Man, wow, you guys look strong, you're really in control of this race, so how does it feel? And it certainly looks like everything is going his way to try to get a third Daytona 500 victory. Yeah, I mean, you know, with us we landed there. Our laptops were good enough and it didn't really matter how manycars were upstairs.

We were able to control the run at the bottom, so as long as we're still able to run that laptop at the bottom, you know it's going to be that way. It will be difficult, but we'll see, we've got our teammates here a little confused, so we'll see how it all plays out. Thanks for talking to us. Good luck for the rest of the way. Denny Hamlin, the winner of the second stage, someone has done it. a penalty for removing equipment from the pit stall. There you see Chase Elliott and there goes that can of gas that Martin Truex sent is on pit road right there so we're under caution at the end of stage two so the Daytona 500 on Fox is sponsored. by kfc his finger looks good at the end of stage two another look here at chase elliot's pit stop where he pulls out of the pit with the fuel can attached and drops it on pit road right in front of a martin truax running on top of his The screen now has no penalty for Truex, although Martin stopped for the team to check and make sure there was no damage, so he will end up starting backwards and there is a look at the front end that looks pretty good, I mean, when I saw how Strong stepped on the accelerator.

I thought for sure it was going to cause some damage, but it looks pretty good. You know, that alignment on that gas can when the gas guy made the connection, it's a pretty tight connection, so when the car starts running. takeoff if you haven't been able to disengage, it's pretty easy for you to get stuck there, which is exactly what happened to nine Chase Elliot that time, so Elliott will restart the finish and we're told so will Kevin Harvick who pitted . too soon before the pits opened 66 laps to go denny hamlin's toyota and ryan blaney's mustang planey has teammate joey logano on row two hamlin's teammate kyle bush also in the second row so hamlin has chosen the outside with kyle bush right behind him he puts blaney the inside with legano and then in the third row stenhouse and johnson in the chevrolet then ross chastain and chris busher here they come to the geico restart zone to begin the third and final stage of the 62nd Daytona 500.

Things are about to heat up right here. Mike, this is it, this is what you were waiting for. Congratulations to the guys at the front who have put themselves in position to try to control the end of this race. His teammates, Ryan Blaney and Joey Logano, lead the way. 22 47 Both are clear. 22 don't put on a show for 47 here he comes 20 15. and he's playing whatever goes five with you with that push coming from ricky stenhouse jr those three split up watch ricky evasive move to the outside lane trying to keep those toyotas The guy behind, Denny Hamlin, really had to check when he got to the rear bumper.

Joey Logano allows Stenhouse to move to second. A great aggressive side draft from Ricky Stenhouse to try and get the lead and look who's with him. Ross Chastain in '77 and then Keslowski. in the two men, what a job Ross Chastain is doing today, where Denny Hamlin had a great run up front right away at the tri-oval, Joey Logano put a great block on Stenhouse trying to be three lanes wide to control this Daytona 500 .2-4 here they go, he won't be able to block such a big run now he has to get up and try to keep Joe Denny Hamlin behind him if he can, another big run is coming up.

We saw Denny Hamlin come up behind. bumper ten house look at sandhouse pushing the 22 to the right towards the rear bumper the 12. still half of it the first six simple five up is getting another push back to get one back still half back for seven simple five up these bumpers are getting a workout right now as we close out this Daytona 500 and we might find out which bumpers line up best which cars can lock the bumpers and find extra speed we know how well they can push those fords joey logano left alone joey logano got swept away by ricky stenhouse jr now remember the sun is setting track temperatures go down grip is going to go up these guys should be more aggressive here comes a big run 95 from christopher bell bell closing in on logano on the outside trying to get that lane back to the front goes to the outside of ryan blaney he wants the lead and hamlin comes with him had to check a little they almost got together and caused an accident fellaini in the background with kyle bush now and jimmy johnson great side draft stenhouse to the fourth panel right rear blaney here comes a push from denny hamlin inside a big push comes from uh kyle busch look what happened look how much more speed they have that's what four or five miles per hour more speed when block bumper something happened to stenhouse going into turn three that car got nervous and backed off and lost the lead now he's coming back on the outside and blaney is ready to block here comes denny hamlin to the guy on the outside this could be a problem for ricky stenhouse jr but eric amarola could be his saving grace here goes joey logano to his teammate ryan blaney man three wide look four rows deep three wide kyle busch is going to go up and try to block that outside lane with his teammate, that leaves the open half for Blaney's 12, Logano's 22 and the Chevrolets have the inside to themselves, yeah, but now look in that outside lane, you've got four Toyotas lined up, bumper to bumper, I think it's happening to Jimmy Johnson by the mind what is at stake at this moment. the last Daytona 500.

I lost a little help when Brad Keselowski jumps into that inside lane. I think this is Denny Hamlin doing a little bumper blocking test with this teammate. Remember that it is legal in the cup series. You can do that. Push these cars as long as the top of the water can handle it, you can push, but I wonder if those guys, if Denny's was testing that, might be in that position on that last lap that might allow them to separate themselves from the pack. With 58 laps to go and at least one pit stop for race fans, instead of going to a commercial break, we're going to stay here and do everything we can for Toyota now that four of those five Toyotas, three from Joe Gibbs and the Levine family race car.

Right here from rookie Christopher Bell now that they've found each other, that's not great news for the rest of this field, no it's not and I'll tell you something else. You have defending champion Kyle Busch leading this field and he finished second to last. the Daytona 500 of the year, but he never won this race, he put himself in position and he has his teammate, yes, but one of the smartest drivers on supertracks, Denny Hamlin, right behind him. Now his teammate, Martin Truex Jr, had that problem when stepping on the accelerator. Can on pit road had to restart at the back so he's back in 35th place as the other four run up front here but we saw his teammates Eric Jones and Christopher Bell kind of like teammates of these joe gibbs race cars, they were left behind, look how.

They've done an excellent job getting back into the top four. A week ago, Hamlin pushed Eric Jones' damaged scar to win the clash. I love this photo of Kyle Bush with that transparent shield on his helmet. Now he himself is quite calm. I think he's feeling pretty happy, but he looks at those eyes looking in the mirror even in the middle of the corner as we continue with Toyota. Here's a special treat for loud fans. Toyota's world television premiere signs the line with Nascar champion Kyle. busch 54 laps left and kyle bush leads the daytona 500 by denny hamlin hamlin has never won the nascar championship kyle bush has never won the daytona 500.

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, don't forget, we are going to have to make another pit stop to get to the finish line, which could greatly disrupt the work. those fords over there, led by Brad Keselowski trying to get to the outside of them, Larry Jamie, what do we expect if we make this pit stop under green? Well, I was asking Larry the same question and I looked and he looks like an unprepared accountant on the eve of April 15th. he's punching in numbers and there's paper flying everywhere what you're working on well, this is what I think will happen again.

This final stage is almost like two full fuel races, so now we are on lap 147, with 53 laps left, the window will open somewhere around lap 160 to 162, with around 38 to 40 left, if I'm one of those Toyota crew chiefs, that's the format I'm going to go with, you can race up to about lap 166 to 168, but I think especially for those four up front when it opens up, jamie mike and jeff come in at the moment when the window opens, so we can expect pit stops in about 12 laps and it will be the money stop if this Daytona 500 goes green. the road to the finish line, like this, like this, like this, the Daytona 500 on Fox is sponsored by Coca-Cola, a primary partner of the Nascar Cup Series, and by Toyota, come on, the spots reach 48 laps to move forward, have emerged to the front, let's take a look at Today's credit is a bank to watch, two-time series champion and defending champion Kyle Busch has eight wins here at Daytona in multiple series, but never in the Daytona 500.

Today I think he lifts the Harley J Earl, Jeff trophy every time you come to Dayton or Talladega. Ricky Stenhouse Jr is always the one to watch, if he can keep control of that thing for a few more laps, he can get his first Daytona 500 victory. Well I have my eyes on Ryan Blaney's number 12 car, he finally got to the front with a teammate and we know how good Ryan is at the end of these races, his car is a very good pusher right now guys, I have my eyes on Clint Boyer, we haven't heard much from Clint today because you know what he has. his plan is to manage his career, he will stay behind and not get into trouble.

The main reason I'm watching him is because if he wins the race today, our own Jeff Gordon will have to interview him with Kansas City. Everyone knows how aggressive Joey Logano is on the super speed tracks. Anyone who doesn't know will probably figure it out on the last lap. Those are the ones we should keep in mind with the Penske forwards of Brad Keselowski and Ryan Blaney leading the way here at Daytona, I thought. jamie mcmurray was my teammate now i can't believe i'm rooting for clint boyer because of that jersey, although i would like to see clint boyer win it, i will, i'm a man of my word, although he has work to do and in this race, which race guy will have to come from 29th place. 35 cars on the lead lap. 46 to go.

I saw Ryan Blaney while we were setting up that feature, traversing the tri-oval in a full four-wheel sideshift if the handling is like that. he did it in that last stage, it's going to be hard to hold on to that, it hasn't stopped him, although we've been talking about yes, he's had his hands full, we started right there with the big draft for his teammate brad keselowski, but he doesn't You've checked every time the car slides to the side, it's still wide open. Well, if you had a mirror full of Ricky Stenhouse, you'd be wide open too.

Wouldn't you listen? If you want a good pusher, that's your guy, Ricky Stenhouse. jr, but you better keep the wheel straight kenny hamlin's coke chamber showing us kyle bush and brad keselowski big push coming christopher bell to the rear bumper denny hamlin now that push goes straight to the rear bumper kyle bush for the the Pushing is getting more and more aggressive has to make you nervous, but at the same time that's what you have to do in the last few laps of this race. America's best drivers, two in a row, 200 miles per hour. I wish Mike could explain.

Wow, you see how Denny Hamlin moves. On the race track you have to check a little. I wish I could explain to you what's going on inside that car right now because these guys are holding onto the steering wheel, squeezing it hard, but they're not lifting the accelerator to do that. so much skill saw a great move right there, joey logano into the rear bumper of teammate brad keselowski one two three penske that didn't work out too well in the crash here last weekend when kozlowski blamed kyle bush for the aggressive move of legano for taking all three out of the race penske ford is leading the field with 43 laps to go in the daytona 500. like that, like that, like that, oh no, here's the progressive recap of the race with 100 miles to go, Brad Keselowski, one of the 11 leaders, 16 lead changes. 35 cars with laps leading we've had five caution flags counting the two stage breakaways and 23 caution laughs ricky stenhouse made an aggressive move on the backstretch as all three were open here he is as he passes ryan blaney's 12 and lookto stenhouse and the yellow line, he makes a great run, he goes in, i think blaney's 12 moved down slightly and i think stenhouse's 47 tries to avoid them, but when you go under that yellow line you can't continue and hold and Make that pass happen unless they force you down there and we saw Blaney move a little bit to the left.

It's up to Nascar to make a decision. My experience is unless that car is hitting your door below the yellow line. Call that and I think they just have Ricky Stenhouse, so our poleman, Ricky Stenhouse, who led 24 laps here today, is going to have to come to the pits to take that penalty. Vince, well, they told Ricky that he was being penalized. Rick said that I. In his opinion, either he was going to crash it or not, he had to make the decision to go below the yellow line and it's easy to have that argument. I understand that you know when you carry that speed and they make that movement that you could say.

They're being forced, but honestly, I've never seen Nascar call it anything else unless someone is body-slamming you, Larry and guys, he has to serve a passing penalty and the window is open, but when you serve a pass. penalty, you cannot stop and service your car, so you will have to make two tips to pit, one for the penalty and one soon for your green flag stop. Yeah, the other thing Larry has to do is be very careful, go under that. yellow line when he hits pit road, he did a good job, a tough break for our pole winner arguing that he was forced to go under the yellow line, but as Jeff explained, Nascar has been very consistent with this decision, well, they always say not to force us to do it. gotta make that decision logano up front kozlowski in the outside lane logano picks up his teammate penske now leaves him like jimmy johnson right behind and here's chase elliot coming up the inside rebounding from that penalty both he and jimmy johnson are back from the penalties today You can come back from them once, but you can't come back from them too late in this race, which is what we're going to find out with Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

Where did all those Toyotas go? Those guys were dominating this race well. period, they have been dragged back to kyle bush, the first toyota there, what is it, eighth or ninth, bush, eighth, hamlin, 11, jones, 15, bell, 17 and truex never recovered, he is back in 32nd place, so we are at the fuel window with 36 laps to go. Tonight on Fox starting at 8 p.m. watch all the new episodes of 911 lone star and the prodigal son what makes me so nervous mike when we're two by two like this and we're getting ready to do a green flag stop that's when the usually starts drama. and someone makes some sort of evasive move or does something aggressive that usually draws a warning, so be curious to see how they navigate this.

I don't think he wants to be the first to stop a green flag, well we saw that on Thursday ryan blaney didn't realize all the fords were in the pits had an accident had to go to a backup car during the qualifying race little activity on pit road as joey logano tries to keep the field at bay cup champion daytona 500 winner and One of the most aggressive, well someone who has been really aggressive is his teammate Brad Keselowski behind of the. We saw last time through three and four Brad Keselowski all over the rear bumper, that 22 car trying to give it a push.

Here comes another push these guys do. It seems so easy, I promise you it's not when you see that car coming, just keep that wheel as straight as you can when you're on the bank, there's nothing you can do, you just hope that the grip of that bank will hold the car. jimmy johnson third in his Daytona 500 finale alex bowman the only hendrick chevy that hasn't had any problems today is right on the rear bumper of the seven time champion yeah good patient race for both guys but for alex bowman we haven't talked There's a lot about him after starting on the front row, but he's quietly finding his way to the front of this race at the right time.

Larry Mccreynolds was at the fuel window and getting nervous. Well, Mike, I mean, they're definitely going to have to come here. in about the next three, four or five laps, so obviously they decide to take this as far as possible and maybe just come for fuel on this last trip to the pits, that will mean some dodgy handling in the last few laps for some. In the cars we've been in, we've seen banking slide well in the corners with Warren tires and remember, Mike, we've seen it this week in the duels, bad communication if you don't let the teams around you get to know you. .

We're in the pits, hand signals, radio communication, we've talked about instant messaging on pit road, we can see a disaster hit coming onto pit road under green, we see the Toyotas going in, turns three to four, in fact, it was a good pass from Kyle Busch. passing by alex bowman just wondering maybe they would come to pit road not this time now jimmy johnson goes to the start of the keselowski but there is no help now bowman is a long car now half a long back now here comes bowman to give johnson the big push when they got to turn one wow both Bowman and Kurt Bush approached Jimmy Johnson in a hurry they were two three car links when Jimmy made that move pretty good indication that anyone in that outside lane right now is not coming to the street of pits. let's see some action from anyone in the inside lane this time out here oh, here they come, here, there you go, buddy, are they coming too fast to make it to the pits?

Speed ​​limit on the highway. Legato Kozlowski, with force on the brakes. Matt and Jason seminar. goes around to the right side to hit Hunter's mass rear right in the front the second can comes in they're just going to do two tires on the 22 Reagan Denny Hamilton has been quiet for most of the night until he ran into that traffic heavy. the race car was too tight in that heavy traffic vince uh keselowski's two on the right sides and two cans of fuel will go to crew chief jeremy bowles almost everyone used right side tires as this group came unstuck of the first 14 cars, no. pit and most of them stay outside now remember something that happened the other day also in the duels we saw the cars get in single file and run some of their fastest laps of the race to try to make up time for when these happen stops with green flag. see if these guys can now get out of those cars that just left pit road before hitting the green to get fuel and tires 48 johnson and ally chevy are your bowman leader kurt busch ty dillon ryan cura austin dillon are ten chevrolets up front haven't yet made their stop this late in the race, pit stops are now more important than ever for Kevin Harvick and for you keep tweeting pit for bush and the hashtag giveaway for a chance to win a sports car wrapped in bush right now, the first 13 cars still have. to make this final stop 12 chevrolets and timmy hills four triple turns four one car stem house junior no caution we stay green as stenhouse pulls into the pits with a lot of damage there and several cars choose to pit including Chase Elliott Tyler Reddick Ross Chastain is in brendan went to pit road as we continue undergreen ryan priest is also here here is chastain's stop and this is something there was some type of contact between cole custer and ricky stenhouse jr well they have the hook down and in position in stenhouse car , you may be able to continue here comes Custer, who stays on the track and a good amount of smoke behind his number 41 Ford, yes, these guys want to get to pit road before they close those pits in case he comes out the yellow flag.

Matt Jimmy Johnson was staying with those chevys and then he called an audible sound from the cab he didn't know what to do so he stayed outside they're looking for four tires here on 48. jamie stenhouse's turn definitely ruined the chevy's strategy the one from curt bush in his box, all four tires stopped, he said the car is perfect right now, alex bowman's 88 Regan car, you see him there taking four tires, he's been quiet on the radio in the past, happy with his race car, eric jones' contact may have caused ricky stenhouse to spin there was no caution and the field turns around alex bowman losing the lead after his pit stop oh here comes jones what a great race we talk about communication and eric jones i had no idea 47 ricky stenhouse jr was coming onto pit road and there's jimmy johnson, 48 on the inside, he wasn't sure if he should come to the pits or not, he gave up the lead and pitted next time .

Yes, it seems he was planning to come. They ruled him out of the problem here because Cole Custer had nothing to do. what to do with the stenhouse incident kyle busch is the race leader joey logano brad keselowski chris busher a toyota and five fords right behind him joey gay slides into pit road and so do eric jones's 20 well, It's just that you know it's a bad time for Eric Jones. He had a great race and he got into a car and Ricky Stenhouse Jr was right in front of him, braking to get to pit road.

There was nowhere to go for Eric Jones. Remember, I'm going to get that Preston jersey ready because Clint Boyer, who was 29th, Jeff is now in 5th place, I think I see him hanging there in the corner, Mike 25 laps left in the Daytona 500 time For Wendy's Pit Stop Jamie and Michael had their own rivalry on the track as they fought for Wendy's breakfast, then there was an epic egg race that led to an unconventional race with a delivery cart that led to Wendy's breakfast. Bacons for the winners, everyone wins on March 2, when Wendy's Breakfast launches nationwide.

Well, we talked about how a green flag pit stop can change the entire race. We saw where some took four tires, others took two tires, they really split these. groups the four tire group is 15th back four seconds behind the leaders with two tires we are side by side with 20 laps to go in the Daytona 500 this is how the coca driver family is doing tail joey logano in second place denny hamlin ryan newman top 10 austin dillon bubba wallace still on the lead lap now the group of 15 cars that used two tires in the last pit stop has been almost a second slower than the first place group 16 and up that used four tires and is closing in on the right Let's take a look at those fastest Ram pit stops, of course they will be the two tire stops that were fastest led by your nemesis Boyer.

Need I remind you what's at stake here? Jeff promised that if Boyer won the race, Jeff would interview him using this. beautiful bosses t-shirt, well they have to survive this four wide race that is going on right now and I have to say I think I'm going to want four tires now, not two, because business is getting better. Kyle Busch was shuffled. Kyle Busch was shuffled back. to 16th place, the four tire group was led by ross chastain and jimmy johnson, oh and it's a problem for defending nascar champion kyle busch, vince bush, he had a tire rub, that was the problem when get to the pits, well, I can't see well, it's down. the apron in turn, a jeff, that is very far away, surely you have to be very, very careful if it is a rub with a tire and not break that tire many times we see that these tires go down if they have rubs, in reality they will tear him to pieces up front ryan newman brad keselowski two forwards side by side from different teams eric almarolis ford christopher bell the rookie and toyota well we saw ryan newman up front at the beginning of this race we haven't seen him since him, but there are 18 laps left now 17. he's right in the mix, he's a former Daytona 500 winner, he knows how to do it, 2008 winner Newman is fighting for the lead and, uh, let's see if there's contact to Kyle Busch, this is Joey Logano, right? behind him, the problem, greg, here's the big man, well, there goes half the field, he sure does and it's ryan newman leading them around, oh, jimmy johnson, jimmy johnson's hopes in this final of the Daytona 500.

Kurt Bush, another former Daytona 500 winner, Brad Keselowski, trying to win for the first time all destroyed bubba wallace eric almarola one of the fastest fords in this entire field and here is martin truax who couldn't get back into the group leader and his exhaust smoke was destroyed, of course we are under yellow flag with 15 Go look at the outside line here Jeff, you can see Joey Logano very aggressive with the rear bumper of the 10. He will push it up to two and just before Before the 10 gets there, there is a little movement and that little movement when you make so much contact makesmake your car spin, that's exactly what happened to brad keselowski and the team in uh yellow and that happens right in front of most of the field and it really all started with a big push from joey logano do you remember joey logano speaking in the radio before about you have to tell me when I'm pushing that car and it will make contact with the car in front of us well that happened right there with his teammate here is our Ford onboard camera with legano you could hear that started to get up, but the unfortunate amarola, her car started rocking back and forth just before making contact with the two hooks, her bumper makes it spin, oh it hit alex bowman and then it lights up and for the second time in less than In a handful of years, Eric Almarola ends up being eliminated from a good chance to win the Daytona 500.

On board with Austin Dillon, he even slowed down trying to slow the car enough to avoid this accident. Riding with Jimmy Johnson, our Chevy Cam just rocks. crashed one of the cars lost control I think it was Mark Church Jr. fell made heavy contact with Jimmy on the right side it was a matter of if or a matter of when I think it was just a matter of when I'm serious, You knew it. It was going to happen that that group caught another group, they were going to compete very hard to gain that position on the track.

We saw so many drafting hits that we are nearing the end of the Daytona 500. Nobody is going up. In that situation, we are under the red flag. The cars are stopped on the backstretch and work has stopped between the cars on pit road and our AMR safety team is attending to Brad Keselowski. Reports from our cameraman are that all the drivers whose cars are stopped are getting out of their cars and Brad is surveying the damage, one of the top four drivers with 10+ Daytona 500 starts trying to win for the first time, Well, Mike, I mean, it's a product that you know from hit writing that goes on, we talked about blocking.

I don't think anyone was trying to block they were just trying to get those lanes moving these cars so fast here's another look at this yeah look at these three cars here's joey logano who's blocked in Eric's rear bumper Almarola there will be a big push here and you will see the rear of the car already moving just as it reaches the rear bumper of Brad Keselowski's two. All it takes is the slightest amount of lateral movement to get those two cars out of Keselowski. turning to the side, i really mean, eric almarolo is basically the sandwich meet, there joey logano pushes him, he approaches the rear bumper, he has no choice but to crash into both of them, all brad can do is try to keep the steering wheel straight.

I mean, this is just an aggressive race at the end of this race, Ross Chastain was having a great day, it was a shame to see him get caught up in that and I'm not sure his day is over. Minimal damage, looks like his car we'll do. Look, once they get him back to the pits, uh, Johnner Hunter Nemechek is back in the pits, no working under the red flag allowed, Alex Bowman is back on Pit Street, we saw David Reagan coming out of retirement to try the Daytona 500 again. and I saw him get involved in that too if I'm going to pick a driver other than the retired Bobby Allison to fight his way through an incident, I read it, it's Kevin Harvey coming back to the other side of the track, I can't see anything. any phenomenal job, I mean, I was in a great position to be a little further back to be able to stop the seas parting when Kevin Harvick got there and that's what I'm talking about, Mike, it's stuff like that. that has to happen to you if you're going to win the Daytona 500, there was definitely something that Kevin Harvick said.

Okay, now things are on our side. I once asked Bobby Allison, the Hall of Famer, who I know is at home watching our broadcast. Tonight, how do you miss all those remains, he says, pointing to where they are, they won't be there when I get there. Well I think there was a movie that was made 30 years ago with a similar statement to those days of thunder, yeah let's look at Clint Boyer in the 14. Work your way through this in black and gold at the top of your screen , fifth car back, now sixth car back, and here he comes, unbelievable, unbelievable, he did it and Debeedetto almost ran him over on the way, here he is.

What did Boyer say about that? Yeah, how did you do that? I don't know, it was close, but we're in sixth place and a bunch of cars are wrecked, I mean a group could be eight or ten of us. You're not hurt, I got hit with a guy and he just stayed up. Neil Bonnett won a firecracker 400 here one July, he passed three cars and made three on the last lap and said how did you do that? He said the man did it all. with eyes closed here are the cars involved in that accident we are still not sure who could continue.

We'll know after they raise the red flag. What are you saying? We called Clint Boyce. That's always entertaining. I have to do it. Say hey Clint, it's Jeff in the booth, you've got me buddy, I've got you, man, hey, I'm breaking out this t-shirt to warm it up after watching you pass the needle on that accident right there, uh, you must feel pretty good about your car. races and that you made it through that big man, probably more, so going through that big man, I made him hit Brad was sliding back and I was like, oh no, I barely missed him, but you know, according to the plan, you hate traveling in it. the back but you know what's coming you have to give yourself a chance I said it from the first day since I got here survival survival survival it's time for the gloves to run out it's time for us to go well, we saw that you implemented that strategy that You were behind at the beginning of this race, but now I have to believe that you are very happy with the position you are in.

What are you going to need? Will more things like that be needed? You decide who can help you take the lead and try to win this Daytona 500. Well, I think a couple of things led to that accident, honestly, it was, you know, at the end of the race, things started to compress, but two tires were all slipping. sliding they had their hands full, it would be interesting to see what everyone does here, after the caution, since there are very few cars left, but, for one of them, baby, prepare that t-shirt, you will need it, well, you are getting a damn . from a showman thanks for talking to us good luck the rest of the way okay let's go to advent healthcare center and regan smith well kurt busch first out of that healthcare center kurt knows that was a big mess in In front of you was something you could have done differently no I couldn't have done much different you know there was 15 to go and we were all running hard and we ended up hitting the oil cooler it's not even worth it. watching the guys for me, my guys put together a really good monster power camaro, the co1 was fast, it was connected, I was able to get wide and on the inside lane, luck was not on our side, there it is, boom , that's a roulette.

People, the roulette wheel spins and grabs your number, I grab my number, maybe in Vegas we'll be a little better, thanks skirt, glad you're okay, Las Vegas, next week, race number two of the nascar cup series, we are under the red flag due to a bad accident on the backstretch the daytona 500 has 16 laps to go 16 laps to go and the daytona 500 was under the red flag as they continue to clean up the backstretch of a multi-car incident let's get back to the spotlight regan smith well brad kozlowski stay here with brad we saw the push that joey logano gave to eric yellow in the back they immediately reached your rear bumper once they hit you too much to grab you yeah, I immediately turned uh i I don't know, yeah, I had a six car in front of me, I think I was about to push it and there was a lot of kinetic energy there, but you know, I feel like we had a really good car.

I made a mistake on a lap earlier and the 95 was doing a great job pushing the six, I didn't think they would have a push as hard as they did and they just got behind me there at the bottom like I should have covered it better and It wasn't like that, it's my fault, I put myself in position for that, but it's a very good effort by everyone. Ford team with discount tires. I felt like we were there. We left a lot of turns and we were certainly in position. in the end and uh just not strong enough did you have any idea that they were coming with a big joey and eric amaral run right there or was it pretty much nothing you could do?

I knew the 10 was coming and the six of them put up a pretty good block and you know we were closing in on them, it's just a lot of energy when you have three or four of them, you know, it adds up quick, thanks for talking to us, Brad Keselowski. We led 30 laps today. Almarola's car is waiting for a push to return to the pits. They are going to restart the cars and once the caution flag is shown, they will be allowed to work on those cars and that work starts now. I talked to Clint Boyer and what a great job he did or was lucky to overcome that accident, but I would say the same thing about Hamlin.

I thought Hamlin really did a good job working his way up there and Logano, then Logano Hamlin and Boyer. We only made it through before the hole closed. We've been talking about Kyle Busch and we just happened to see that exhaust smoke. He has engine trouble, but he's still racing, so he scores. He owes you a return. He was told that he would be allowed to pass the safety car and go around so that his score would be correct with the rest of the field. That didn't sound good. He just went to start the engine and I don't think it sounded good.

This is probably getting pretty terminal, can you give us a nudge? Saturday, week three of the xfl, heats up. Coach bob stoops leads dallas against seattle. He catches the action. Sports fans can't stop talking about Saturday Five Eastern on Fox and Fox Sports. app, you can play soccer here, right on the baseball field, they call it the trioval turf between the race track and pit road, and the best thing about that mic is those speeding cars when they're in the draft pass by that one in a second covering that football field so Kyle Bush can get to the pits with electronic fuel injection in these cars.

Oh, a lot of smoke. He got it started, but they have to go through a cyclic procedure to restart that car. It's not that simple anymore, it's just flipping a switch or turning a key. Your family car now makes you wonder if it was Kyle Busch in a tight draft, maybe the temperatures got too high, that led to some of these problems that you have cars. on pit road, jamie, well, as you know, at the last stop, 14 and Clint Boyer. he took two tires, he just told the team that we were in big trouble from the start.

I would love to have four if we have enough time. They are putting the right sides on and it looks like Boyer will get his wish for new tires. Kyle Larson. on the right of the screen getting four also eric almarola came down pit road with damage cut a tire and dragged the frame to his pit stall 15 to go and here is the ram run off pit road harvick boyer larson mcdowell It looks like five cars stayed out six seven eight maybe ten laps lead the cars didn't pit. Watch Kyle Bush stay on the platform. I think he knows it's only a matter of time before he starts losing some fluids that aren't necessary for a running engine. eight cylinder is the local mosquito control program unfortunately larry dropped a valve ring all you think about maybe the kitchen sink 15 laps left in the daytona 500 who will win almost everyone who came to daytona this weekend they came in search of this harley trophy Earl to engrave his name on one of those plaques on the permanent trophy that remains here in Daytona and symbolizes the winner of the Daytona 500. 15th attempt to win it for Kyle Busch.

He has entered the garage after completing one or two laps under yellow to get points ahead of the cars that were eliminated here. He said earlier in the week that he hopes to have 10 or 12 more opportunities in the 500, well, we have seen some of the all-time greats taking a long time to get that first win and only 500 wins but it's not going to happen today Reagan well certainly one of the best Daytona Bush 500 cars Kyle Bush has ever owned , Kyle, did he give you any clue that he was about to fail? um no, I mean, right there coming out of four when we were leading and the guys were shifting from bottom to top, that's when they warned me that it was starting to fade and then during the test it got looser and that's when Legano was on top of me pushing me and me.

I couldn't get out of the way fast enough, you know, so overall, it's a shame, man, I really hate it for all my boys,I really hate it because of Joe Gibbs racing and, you know, you go off the road after the last pit stop. and you are leading what you know is your chance to win and all you have to do is make sure you can keep everyone else behind you. We have been in that place I don't know how many times and I will continue to go down in history for discovering new ways to lose control.

I know another guy who's done that before and he's pretty popular, so I don't know, it sucks to be in that conversation, although we'll continue for another year, thanks. To the police of his time, he was referencing Dale Earnhardt, who spent 20 years trying to win the Daytona 500. There are four of the drivers with 10 or more starts in this race hoping to win their first 500. There's pretty much only one of those guys left. In this race, Clint Boyer, I really thought today was the day for Kyle Busch when he came out to the front and as fast as his car was, I thought today was going to be the day, so let's get the field ready for you. 22 cars are on the leading lap. some lapsed favorites include alex bowman and martin truax and matt di benedetto one lap down eric almarola eric jones jimmy johnson ricky stenhouse two laps down with 13 to go ryan newman is their race leader, driving for jack roush and roush fenway The last time we ran the 500 was on a Monday, Jack Roush was in victory lane with rookie driver Matt Kinseth Bell second behind Newman.

What a day it has been for the rookie. Incredible, I mean, we know we're going to see great things. I got out of this kid this year, but to start the Daytona 500 the way he did pretty impressively, he had to survive the next 12 or maybe 10 laps when we turn green, it's going to be a tough challenge, well guys , the trends are back in 2020. We know we don't have many drivers left, but if you look at the last 10 Daytona 500, the last caution average is about 194 with six to go, eight times in the last ten, it happened in the last ten laps and Mike and Jeff six overtimes, including our last two trips here in February, so if the leader comes to the white flag and we are under green, the next flag ends the race;

Otherwise, if a yellow flag comes out and we get to the 200 lap distance, we would go. to overtime and a white green box there are many dark horses in the top 15 right now rookie christopher bell is one of them in second michael mcdowell in ninth ryan priest in 10 corey lejoy 11 ty dillon 13 reid sorensen 14 and still very soon we will pick a winner, so the Daytona 500, which has taken two days to run, has 12 laps left to decide a winner. The President of the United States and the First Lady are present to give the command and set the pace.

Jimmy Johnson receives a penalty. here early too many men on the wall william byron being flipped by ricky stenhouse hard hit on the inside wall william okay but the first car out of the race his teammate Chase Elliot would win the first stage for Rick Hendrick, while Denny Hamlin o Hall of Famer Joe Gibbs won stage two Chase Elliott takes the fuel can out of the pit box with him and leaves it on pit road where Martin Truex picked it up and was unable to move forward. Ricky Stenhouse went under the line to make a pass and then finished. spinning into the front bumper of eric jones finally joey logano and the yellow 22 gives eric almarola a push to the bumper of logano's teammate brad keselowski who crashes into the wall and is in the big one at daytona in the turn three micro you could hear that little lift of the gas pedal by joey logano just before the number 10 car reached the rear bumper, brad keselowski knew he had a lot of momentum as he pushed the eric alma roll tent, he knew he had to lift it probably wounded from its observer.

Okay, you're closing in on him real fast. Unfortunately, he simply wasn't early enough to prevent that from happening. Nascar's damaged vehicle policy allows the five-man team six minutes to make repairs and get their car out. that time has expired for jimmy johnson he will not win this Daytona 500 martin truex was also pushed to the garage here is denny hamlin's team we will see how these first few laps play out here against yourself you are the best most decorated guy there is on these tracks racing, anyone out there, so don't question it for a second, let's find out they'll make it to the green with 10 laps to go in the 62nd Daytona 500, Ryan Newman leads them into turn one with a push of Logano in the 22 harvick right behind christopher bell at the bottom with Chase Elliott and last year's winner Denny Hamlin, when we talked about how well those bumpers line up in the fords, they didn't line up as well in the back immediately when that big, but true thing happened. now joey logano locked on the rear bumper newman's six will take the lead look at denny hamlin too one of those very aggressive pushers big push to chase hillary when she gets to the rear bumper rookie christopher bell oh no now hamlet will go to the outside It's like leaving Chase Elliot hanging there.

Hamlin slid into a hole that wasn't there behind Kevin Harvey's four. He now he watches that lane start to move forward with the big race because of that, the inside lane is starting to lose some cars. It's so watch them back up here to chase Ellie a little bit going all the way towards the middle. Let's take that Clint Boyer rookie out in 14 with Elliott single file out front, six cars trying to get away from Danny Hamlin to the outside of Kevin. harvick is going to take out kevin harvick now well that was a power move by denny hamlin ford ford toyota chevy chevy ryan preece in the top five in 37.

I haven't seen him all day no we don't know what his statistics. They are on these super tracks the best average of anyone in the field eight to go oh crash at the back of the field two accumulated charges there they read swords oh sorry timmy hill timmy hill who was tenth after the 20 laps run yesterday and reed sorensen and Out of caution with eight to go, Timmy Hill, who had said if they didn't make the Daytona 500 on Thursday they'd probably have to pull out of that team and it looks like Alex Bowman has the front end, oh boy, up front , and we will support how all this.

I started from our aerial coverage of Goodyear, the bottom of your screen, Sorenson goes to the middle, a lot of sparks coming out of that car, I think he slashed a tire, oh he slid right in front of Timmy Hill, yeah, every time you see So that guy basically sparks, that tire has fallen off and now a car is lower and riding on some steel, maybe the track bar adjuster bracket hit Sorenson against the wall pretty hard, I'm not exactly sure what happened to Alex Bowman and you saw David Reagan slipping. inside and what may be the final 500 of it.

I'm going to try to get Timmy Hill back into these seven so that all these cars go a lap or more down after all this contact with Bowman two laps down while they're trying to fix the Right in front of their car now as we watch what's happening At the front, those two Fords that were locked together doing a good job of pushing are now going to separate, one will have to choose the inside, you know, Newman is going to choose the inside or outside lane so he will have a Toyota and a Chevrolet behind him of them as pushers ryan newman your race leader as reid sorensen collides with timmy hill cool more hey um six laps left at daytona air coverage provided by goodyear discover what's possible keep moving goodyear more motivated so who are your friends up front ?

Ryan Newman Joey Logano the two forwards Danny Hamlin the lone Toyota the Chevrolets of Kyle Larson and Ryan Preece Well, obviously, for Ryan Newman, he believes that Denny Hamlin is his friend because he chose the inside lane. have denny hamlin as one of the most aggressive pushers, someone with a very fast car behind him on this restart, sixth is ryan blaney, seventh is chris pusher, eighth is michael mcdowell and ninth is kevin harvick everyone Go ahead before Ross Chastain and Chase Elliot's Chevrolets, I just like it. the position of joey logano and denny hamlin maybe even a little bit more towards denny hamlin, you know, the defending winner of this race, he's so good at these tracks, we've seen how strong that car has been, although Newman is in control of this reboot.

I just don't think Denny Hamlin will stay on his back bumper until the end. We went back and looked for damage to Alex Bowman's car. Turns out it was because of the earlier caution flag and the accident. They were just returning after having made replacements. and uh, trying to get it to the finish line here, how about Ryan Sacerdote? The kid from Connecticut had a great debut in the Daytona 500 last year, finished in the top twelve, third at Talladega last spring, former Nascar Modified champion, is in fifth place, just ahead of him defending the 500 .winner denny hamlin here's hamlin's radio let him know he's got to hold his ground here like tight tight tight let's freeze in that car now to hold his ground whoever got that right with that spotter just let him know we gotta align, we do not align.

Up or dead I love the way Denny Hamlin thinks he knows what it takes to make that run now of course he wants it for himself so he knows the tighter those cars can keep that gap between the bumpers , you want those bumpers closed tight. each other because that's where the energy will come from. I think all these manufacturer alliances have now gone out the window. Your best friend is the car that is right in front of or behind you. I still think that movement can be done without help. Getting to the checkered flag though Mike, there will be four laps to go Newman Logano on the front row green flag Not a great start by Denny Hamlin right there excellent start by Joey Logano timed it perfectly Logano with Kyle Larson in 42 and Ryan Blaney at 12.

Here comes the last Logano drops the side draft guy. Not a great start, but he looks at the way they connected through ones and twos. Denny Hamlin and Brian Newman have taken off. Can they go too far? Remember I talked about this. Earlier in this race, Denny Hamlin tried this same move with his teammate Kyle Bush, but yeah I agree, I think they're going too far, I just don't think they can push like that in tandem for four laps in a row, can they the cars? Behind him they join in a draft long enough to run over the leading duo with three laps to go, but Denny Hamlin is going to give everything he has to try to achieve it.

I'm surprised they were able to stay hooked together for so long. I just don't think he's going to last long Chase Elliott peeks out Logano says no thanks I'm going for the middle one Joey Logano got shot there goes Denny Hamlin he knows it's time to see these two stop now while this great career by Ryan Priest. coming from behind two to go boy that was just a danny hamlin textbook can you put the block on oh car oh 77? that was ross chastain crouched on the platform turned it sideways across the racetrack straight toward ryan priests another pileup with two to go we're going to overtime there's the car from the kids from connecticut joey legano logano has the flat left rear and right front problems ty dillon stuck in the grass no rear lid or spoiler that's a big hit for ross chass been wanting to get to pit road to load the car i think so and ryan Priests that car won't turn it's against the wall now turn around that's previous damage it just came back and maybe a little current damage look 77 right here well I knew those cars were going to stop you can see right there Ryan Priest pushes Chastain onto the apron as soon as she steps off the apron, losing control and making a big impact at 22.

Logano from Chastain's car goes to the side and tries to right, you know those types of impacts for Legano might. It may not seem like as big an impact as what we see on some of these other cars because of the damage, but when you get right to the driver's side door and then the passenger side door goes into the wall, those injuries almost look like Jeff. the right rear went down with all those sparks and the car just took off, I think the car once it got to the apron, the car went a little to one side, tried to correct and caught on the bank and shot it to the nose, I think. michael mcdowell managed to pass with minimal damage.

Oh, look at Christopher Bell walk by with some damage. We are going to travel with him and our Toyota camera. There's just nowhere to go and we're traveling with Ross Chastain. He had a great career. You are really at this stage. In the race you have no choice, you just can't lift and there was only half a car with room there and he tried totake it, arrived at the pits while the field circulates under yellow, the teams can work on the cars. Let's listen to Denny Hamlin and Ryan Newman on the radio. You can't do it when everyone expects you to do it right.

Lavin said he ran out of temperature. He was getting too hot. Why did he make it to you? That's not the reason he made it. I don't think so either, but it's a good excuse, well, we knew he was going to rip Ryan Newman's rear bumper off at some point, he just didn't know when, when you're hooked to someone's back end. Bumpers like that tandem that gives you full control of the car in front and it's very easy for you to just go out and make that pass and he did it, I mean, perfectly right coming out of the corner, he knows that Newman is moving the steering wheel to try to keep it. at the bottom there is absolutely nothing Ryan Newman can do now this worked so well for New uh for Hamlin gets in front of the six and really stopped.

This entire lane continued with his momentum, although the 17th there was perhaps going outward. he's going to make that pass, chris busher, great move to get to the outside. could have taken the lead, newman, lucky and skilled to pass without damage, that 34 mcdowell, with hardly any damage, manages to pass, uh, clint boyer, unscathed, still in fourth place, here's Regan, well, the attempt to Jimmy Johnson winning his third Daytona 500 came up a little short since you were caught up in the accident two rex, how much has this race meant to you over the years? Yeah, it's been really uh.

It really is a cool race to be a part of, I mean you only dream of racing in races like this as a kid, that yellow 22 car was pretty aggressive all day and I felt like it was a matter of time before his pushes were A little bit A lot and it seems like that was the case there, but our ally, Chevy, was really strong, he hated that we were broken, but he was very excited about the races ahead of us. Cliff Daniels did a great job leading this team. Full support from Hendrick Motorsports. family, my friends, my fans, I'm very grateful for all that and we didn't get victory lane today, but I'm ready to get to Las Vegas to work there, well, thanks for the memories here, Jimmy, seven-time champion, Jimmy Johnson. of the 500, here's Ty Dillon's car being dragged back by the wrecker, he had a great finishing record here and passed the 500 and there are the cars left, still 18 cars off the lead with Denny Hamlin in Toyota trying to hold off five forwards right behind. him chris busher kevin harvick clint boyer ryan newman ryan blaney so the first chevrolet uh that will be bubba wallace who has a second place in the 500. he is the leading chevy and then justin haley who won here last July leading what just last lap, I think it was just the last lap and some distance in that race, but what a wild week it's been here in speed week that started with the crash and we had a big crash there and a lot of crashes on this.

It's been a very entertaining Daytona 500 and it wasn't really until this last stage, when we got to the end of the Daytona 500, that the aggression increased and the intensities increased. I think they see that trophy up there on the hood and all of a sudden, those pushes turn into pushes that turn into bangs that turn into smashes, so when they clean up we'll go to Nascar in overtime. I can't pick a winner, Shannon and the guys in the studio, I think one of the record drivers may have a good chance. On that, all of our picks are now out of the window Mike, we're done, Shannon spoke, Larry Mcreynolds, Jamie Mcmurray here at the Racehub studios, let's talk about what we just saw on the track, Jamie, we've seen these moves on the straightaway final. that place has been a very busy place today this was coming out of that homestretch when that transition uh starts hitting those race cars tell me what happened well look at the move that denny hamill made i thought it was awesome to push ryan newman and he said that The temperature went up, which I think and he was able to get past Ryan, but we saw a lot of accidents at the back of the race today because that's where the bumpers can lock up, um, more easily and I think it's hard to explain. the fans at home, but when you see that guy coming, I heard Jeff say this inside the car, you grip the steering wheel as hard as you can, you tense up and hope that when they hit you, they hit you hard enough to just push you off. forward and he doesn't put you on his side and what we saw with brad keselowski is you know he got more aggressive as the race gets to the end it's a Daytona 500 I mean you're going to be aggressive and that's what we expect see from those guys and I don't think anyone will get mad about that because that's exactly what they expect to happen, yes the banking at the corner is 31 degrees but when you get to that double yellow line and you get just Under was not even about 31 degrees when Ross Chastain went down there and his left side tires were right underneath.

You can see it here. He is much flatter than 31 degrees and just shot it on the race track he was on at the time. once he dipped below that double yellow line, he was forced to go down there, he was just to the right, that's race car stability, yeah, and look, we saw Ross Chastain's car, he was going to about 10 miles per hour. faster than everyone in front of him, he made a great run when Denny made the move on Ryan, he stopped everyone and the guys who were 10 Karlings back got some great runs. Look, it's the end of the day. 2,500.

There was a solid Ross Chastain gap. enough room there he just approached him my tendencies haven't let me down although this is now the third consecutive Daytona 500 to have overtime maybe we should ask him to pick the winning mic because he obviously knows what's going on thanks to Shannon the real question Have we finished well yet? Nascar rules now provide for overtime as necessary until we have a winner tonight on Fox. All new episodes of 911 The Lone Star and the Prodigal Son once our race here is complete, the biggest race of the season . Denny Hamlin knows the way to victory.

Lane in 2016. Look at him on the outside of Martin Truex Jr punching and punching to the line in the closest 500m finish ever and a year ago, here's Hamlin falling to the inside, Joey Logano, up there, Kyle Busch He has to follow his teammate. to the line as Joe gives Toyota the 1-2 in last year's Daytona 500. I wonder if Jeff Hamlin with that Ryan Newman move showed his move too soon. It is very possible that he will have Mike because he will now be the leader. How is he going to stop someone from doing the exact same thing to him?

But wow, he's been so strong, so strong, I think it's going to be extremely difficult to beat Danny Hamlin. Trainer Joe Gibbs, newly inducted into the Nascar Hall of Fame, started this race with four. Cars has one left in the top 15. You asked the question, let's call him and ask him himself. Hi Denny, this is Jeff and Mike in the booth. Do you have a copy. What a move, man. It was quite impressive to see how you took notice of him. rear bumper ryan newman, but you showed your hand too soon because now you're going to lead this race.

I like where I am. I mean, I like pushing, but you know, being able to control the line on the restart. I think it's beneficial and you know, thinking that another cautious one is coming and I was a little bit limited by the attempts that I need to make a move, so I went ahead and tried to get the upper hand and worked, but I have a long way to go. Wow, yeah, I hear you a long way to go and probably a few more green and white chips. I thought I was interested in that last reboot.

Ryan Newman came out, I didn't think you got the best restart, there was a gap, but when I finally closed that gap, I was impressed with how you were able to pin it down, yeah, definitely, I mean, I've worked with Ryan before, um, you know, obviously, Taladega the last year with this package that I pinned on the last lap, but yeah, we had a nice Well, pretty good, wait there, uh, I was a little limited by the temperatures, so I had to make a move, so I saw the line coming , so everything went well. Thank you very much, good luck the rest of the way and uh.

I can't thank you enough for the amazing access to the Daytona 500 leader here as we close this out, we appreciate it, danny hamlin, your race leader under red, where else can you get this kind of don't know where, Mike? We're not going to get a golfer to show up on screen number 18 at the Masters and come talk to you before he makes what would be the winning putt, but this is Nascar, I'm talking about these cameras in the car, visor cameras, monitors of heartbeats, radio access and being able to actually Call them is, uh, it's amazing what we can do, drivers who have won back-to-back Daytona 500s.

Richard Petty won seven total consecutively in seventy-three and four Kel Yarbrough 1983 and four Sterling Marlin 1994 and 95. So Denny is trying to join a very exclusive list here he will have lane choice on the restart and he will go green checkered and white chris busher moved from chevrolet to ford camp for 2020 at roush fenway racing lined up second kevin harvick clint boyer and ryan newman front five which always impressed me mike about drivers who just had a knack for this type of racing is that the rules change, whether it's the power plant, whether it's the aerodynamics, uh, a body style that they can continue to have, you know that way, almost like a vision. where they could avoid accidents or figure out how to get the momentum, get the push, make the passes and it seems like Denny Hamlin is one of those guys with a lot of fluid on his back, right away from the radiators, oil coolers, like everyone has .

I scrambled around there so quick and dry, left the jet dryers trying to get the job done as quickly as possible and now the field is rolling and pit road will be open before we get Nascar overtime, that's a Wallace bubble below the line and 43 looking. for pit road kyle larson chase elliott and austin dillon all those chevys coming to pitt road kyle larson 20 off season races okay he's bred all over the world and half of them including the chili bowl big check there's a lot of just incredibly talented racing drivers that come to Nascar and we have the privilege of days like today, to see these guys, the best of the best, here in a stock car on a two and a half mile high super speedway, It's fun to watch at Daytona and wow.

They're going to have to get all that talent out of these race cars and now themselves in these final laps and some interesting dark horses in that top ten. Michael Mcdowell has been good on the super tracks. Justin Haley had to race to get to Daytona. 500 on thursday a winner here previously was in 9th rookie john hunter nemechek second generation driver starting his rookie season in front row motorsports there he is in 10th number 38. great rookie class, the biggest i can remember in years, six drivers including the top three from last year's xfinity series to campaign the entire 2020 season in nascar cup racing and it's been an up and down day for those rookies uh john hunter nemechek in tenth place, brennan poole, who got the bye on lap 130 in 13th place, christopher bell and tyler reddick all on the lead lap cole custer and quinn house out of the race there brennan poole and christopher bell have problems with a lot of damage on the right front there and after that big hit boy they repaired Joey Logano's penske mustang, whatever you know at this point, it's about getting points, this thing looks like a modified car, not a stock car, all that, You know, Mike, I so want to say it's still anyone's race, but Denny Hamlin has been so impressive the way he's been able to when he loses. lead to get it back, but he's got a guy that's right behind him, I mean, Newman's not out of it yet and neither is Boyer, but there's one guy that just stood out to me when it comes to the last few laps of the race. find something extra, he's won this race before, that's Kevin Harvick who will likely start behind Hamlin if Hamlin chooses that inside lane and since long before you joined our Fox coverage, we've been calling to heaven for Kevin Harvick to close no matter what. competitive, he may or may not be in the first half, the first three quarters of a race, something like David Pearson, you get to the last few laps and there he is in the fight for victory and don't rule out Chris Busher in that first row too. because if hamlin chooses that inside lane, bush will have his teammate ryan newman lined up behind him and hamlin has no friends in front by that i mean he's the only toyota in a sea of ​​fords the first camaro is justin haley in eighth place Yes, but not only that, not only is it the only Toyota, those other drivers you have, maybeSomeone like Chris Busher wants to win his first Daytona 500, but you have those veterans behind them and you don't want to see Denny Hamlin win.

He had another Daytona 500 last year, I won it this year, so in overtime we go green, white, it's a two-lap shootout and if the leader takes the white flag under the green, the next yellow or checkered flag will end the race and nascar says we will make as many tries as it takes, well it may take a few, here's a little radio from the always entertaining clint boyer and company sean, i was in front of him when the lights went out, yes you were, but they go back to the last scoring loop and it must be pretty far from where the yellows came out, damn it's going to be okay, we're going to meet here, stay focused, we've got a fast car, we've got a lot of hordes around us, we'll be okay, so what bothers Boyer is which lane he will have to restart in based on his current one. position yeah, I think maybe he felt like he was ahead of Newman, he would have been in that outside lane and what they do on the last lap coming to the line they're going to use a camera to determine those positions, but before that they're going to use the previous circuit uh that Nascar has timing and scoring so sometimes it backs up several feet and the reason they do that is to establish the restart order.

They use the last timing circuit you crossed so that no one when the caution arrives. you have to guess it to try to establish his position, it's already established when the caution light comes on, so larry lane chose the outside for hamlin, are you surprised at all? no i'm not actually that's the discussion jamie mcmurray was having when you were trying to contact me a while ago if hamlin lydon lined up on the inside that puts those two four roush fenway teammates bumper to bumper in the outside, I think he had to choose the outside to break those two teammates, well larry, if I'm ryan newman, I want to get revenge on denny hamlin, I want to block the bumpers, I want to push him to the white flag and when we come out of turn four On that last lap, I hope he gets to make the same move that Hamlin did.

Kevin Harvick led four laps in his Daytona 500 victory in what he won in 2007 with a last-lap pass in overtime oh here we go sheker white green we go to overtime sponsored by credit one bank 18 cars on the lead lap trying to win the green flag Daytona 500 oh the cars got loose and spun some tires the contact is that boyer and mcdowell oh man and the yellow flag came out we'll try again well he was already upset about starting in that line he would have been out of that if it had been one he got up early higher up and has damage to the right front and Justin Haley had contact yeah it seemed Like someone spun a tire, so I thought Hayley maybe went outside, so here's Clint Boyer, 12 shows up. to the rear bumper the six oh actually maybe it was boyer had some contact from behind from 34 mcdowell sent it towards haley actually knew they made contact wasn't sure where that contact came from we saw this the other night in and when the duel Was it the same type or was it maybe the class, but one of those similar things where they came to the line and spun the tires with a little bit of contact, Ryan Newman, that was Ryan Newman spinning the tires and William Byron. and both went off the track while trying to accelerate under the green flag on worn tires.

There is now quite a bit of damage to the left rear and Christopher Bell is still having problems. Yes, Boyer is not out of this nor is Michael Mcdowell, I think you know. The contact that was made there, I think they could work it out, is whether or not they are going to have any kind of track position to win this race, so these laps are counted under yellow, but the completion of the race will come with another try. on the green and white checker until we get it right counting the bell still 18 cars on the lead lap capable of winning this when boyer hits pitt road after doing some farm racing here next on fox 911 lone star followed by the prodigal son all new episodes tonight Here's another view from the Goodyear blimp of that reboot.

Watch Mcdowell 34 with a hit on Boyer, who turns into Haley again, similar to what we saw in the crash. I'm just not so sure that that was necessarily caused by Mcdowell's contact, I mean. It was so slight that I wonder if the slightest contact occurred just as Boyer spun the tires a bit. Boyer and Haley continue after the damage is repaired and we hear from Michael Mcdowell and company. I'm not sure what he did. There, but he was spinning around, I tried to get away from him on the inside, I got hit there, well that's Michael Mcdowell, you know, he's basically saying he doesn't feel like he made the contact that sent Clint Boyer out there.

Boyer owns a good-sized farm in the triad. north carolina area so i don't think it's a grass farm although it's mike no it's not so we'll try again with mcdowell boyer and haley at the end of the field and that will move ryan blaney to fourth kevin harvick now. fifth and corey lejoy to sixth place wow lejoy third generation driver whose grandfather gave the order to start one of the dual races on Thursday night gave a great speech at the hall of fame and brought with him a letter he sure brought a letter who thought he might meet rick kendrick knowing that jimmy johnson is retiring and that they might be looking for a host to fill that seat gave rick hendrick a letter he actually saw him backstage at the hall of fame as he was finishing up his performance and I happened to see Rick Kendrick one on one backstage and I handed him that letter and said sir, I don't know if I'm what you're looking for, but I'd like you to read this. letter i just thought you know, that spoke a lot about corey lejoy and his passion for this sport and i haven't talked to his kendrick about that, but i guarantee you that meant a lot to rick, since for a long time i have told my sons that if you don't ask the answer is always no boy you come back for some more repairs trying to make that mustang a little more aerodynamic when it runs again boy thanks to all our Fox TV team that is with us during all year. on the Nascar road from February to June, most of them were at the Super Bowl two weeks ago and they have all been here since last Saturday, giving you great photos and close-ups, and the

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I saw a lot of those guys completely saturated because they were in the elements in Las Vegas the next week, then in California, then in Phoenix and then we came back to the east coast in Atlanta. for the 2020 nascar cup season as they chase the france cup bill what do you say mike let's try this again same song second verse is second or third well second overtime yeah so we're heading west the fox trucks and all carriers load for Las Vegas on Sunday at 3 p.m. m. ET on Fox, then to California Speedway in Fontana at the same time a week later and then to Phoenix, all at 3 p.m. m.

ET and all on the Fox Network. It looks up front here a little different. The lineup was shaken up because of what happened on that restart. Now Newman, what was in fourth position? I think it goes to second gear now. See Chris Busher recoil when that warning came out. The inside row must have been dragged back and you see Kevin. harvick from back in fifth now here's ryan blaney is who uh denny hamlin has chosen to line up behind him and hopefully push him down the road, kind of like the Roush Fenway team's chances, Ryan Newman with his new partner team leader, Chris Busher. who had been away for a couple of seasons on loan at jtg doherty racing and is now back in the roush fold and there they are in the first two inside rows, that's what we found interesting the last time Denny Hamlin decided to split those two.

This time he will let him line up it will be lap 207 the longest Daytona 500 in history the only toyota in the top 15 is hamlin he is followed by seven front men and then six chevrolets led by rookie brennan poole and kyle larson once again for the green white checker look at danny hamlin's hand out the window he will give a signal to ryan blaney when he wants to go there, look at those eyes of denny hamlin looking in the mirror what is ryan blaney going to do right now he wants me to look at him, he They separate a little on the backstretch through the fast drive busher, they can't be of much help to Newman, they can't get close enough to push him, now, Danny must be careful about getting too far away and letting a big race come, As long as they are next to each other, it's good, but here comes Newman, great race, didn't he put the block on him?

Great job not causing the accident on that block. The white flag under the green, the next flag will end the race and newman is there, newman has caught his rear bumper just like he did oh, wrecking behind Chase Elliott spinning around still green and here they come and here comes Blaney Brian Blaney behind Ryan Newman trying to take him to Hamline Newman backed up towards Blaney Big run coming here towards the inside newman in front nothing denny hamlin could do what can he do now ryan blaney here comes a push from denny hamlin oh this ain't over yet at all ryan newman out of turn four for the last time blaney to the outside in here comes hamelin to the outside hits the wall in the air goes newman upside down in a shower of sparks on his roof ryan newman crosses the line fourth and stops scoring unofficial between hamlin and blaney as to who crossed the finish line, the first Newman to be flipped, rose into the air on the way down, was hit by another car and launched into the sky, landing on his roof, the amr security is there quickly to tend to Ryan Newman, a punch from Denny Hamlin, who won. the Daytona 500 for the second year in a row and the third time overall coach gibbs leads his team in prayer denny hamlin ryan blaney too close to call our scoring monitor gives us an interval of 1 hundredth of a second was closer than expected which has done denny hamlin has now won three of the last five Daytona 500 and ranks third on the all-time list third victory at Daytona in his 29th start and fourth Daytona 500 victory for joe gibbs racing yes sir unofficially second closest 500 finish ever both won by denny hamlin side by side over martin truex and here against ryan blaney not a good job bro thank you amazing man denny hamlin and joe gibbs compete jubilant because the biggest single day prize in stock car racing is yours once again and denny hamlin will be on his way to victory lane we'll update ryan newman's situation when we get back uh I'll take you back downstairs um uh uh a crowd silent in Daytona awaits news as do we with the condition that ryan newman is assisted by the amr security team that is going to eliminate He was taken from the car and taken directly to a local hospital.

Here's a look at the last lap. Denny Hamlin ahead of Newman and Ryan Blaney. Yeah, Ryan Blaney gets to the rear bumper of him. Nothing Denny Hamlin can do but try. to get right into brian blaney's rear bumper, which he does a great job, newman makes a pretty good run to turn four, but now comes a big run from ryan blaney being pushed by denny hamlin, he tries to go to the outside then, the inside blocks the bumpers and puts Ryan Newman face down. Corey Lejoy comes in and makes contact, just picks up Newman's car and stops on his roof.

Here's the second-closest finish in Daytona 500 history. Denny Hamlin, the winner. in both this time it's ryan blaney finishing second planey tried the top side tried to go down ryan newman turns around and the car goes up on the roof and here's Cory Lejoy running around picking it up and on top of that we'll give you more Updates on Ryan Newman as they become available to us while they are working now to help him out of the car. Denny Hamlin and his team have reason to celebrate in Daytona. Here's Jamie Little. Well, there's a little celebration, but it's a moderate victory. lane right now denny as a racing driver right now the ups and downs how do you describe this style of racing? the adrenaline and the bravery that it takes yeah, I mean, I think sometimes we take for granted, you know how safe cars are uh, but you know, number one, we're praying for Ryan, um, I worked very well withRyan throughout this entire race and obviously they changed him right there, but I'm proud of our entire Fedex team, um, I don't even know. what to say, it's so unexpected, I mean, you know, I knew they were coming with a great race there, my job was just to make sure I didn't put up a block that was going to ruin me, I lived the race in another corner we came to.

The bumper on the 12 pushed him there and I knew I was going to give him a big run and the race wouldn't end and obviously it worked out well for us in the end, but I'm proud of all of this. fedex team uh toyota coke jordan brand little big burger um you know it's great to have my girls here great to have the team celebrating you know back to back I can't even tell you what it means to me denny it doesn't matter what crew chief you have or what rules package or what year is it three times now what's up with you and this style of racing at Daytona?

Yeah, I mean, you know, I feel like I'm a student of the game. I never stopped learning. And you know, trying to figure out where I should put myself at the right time and it doesn't always work out, I mean, the odds have definitely defied the odds here in the last eight years or so and Daytona. 500, but you know, I just trust my instincts and so far they have been good for me, so I can't do it without the car that allows me to deliver that race winning news, congratulations on your 500 in a row thanks