2021 Daytona 500 | NASCAR ON FOX HIGHLIGHTS

Drivers start their engines, come on, Fox Nascar brings you the Daytona 500. The Corvette pace car turns onto Pimp Road and here comes the green flag. The 63rd Daytona 500 is underway before it's with you, you know it's not too wide right behind you. Back here, a second bacterial lane has a little bottom lane that goes back to the bottom, to the bottom, oh, I don't know if we got there, but man, that took out a lot of race cars and a lot of cool race cars in there. I know Eric Arma was one of the ones on the front lines, so every time that happens on the front lines, you're going to take out a lot of them.

There's Jamie Mcmurray, all these cars stuck in that mode. We had heavy rain here overnight that's a dozen destruction when we talk about being aggressive changing lanes here early just 14 laps into this 200 lap race oh eric almarola who won his dual race thought he had a great opportunity for the 500, everything destroyed here is the almarola audio that I have not vital, yes, I'm fine, incredible, incredible, did you see ryan newman leaving, okay, christopher bell new on the team joe gibbs toyota in the 20 and eric almarola running hard here, look at the 10 and 20 below, at the bottom you can see the outside. 48 alex bowman makes a little lateral move to the right side of eric almarola and i see a gap between eric and 20 cars and i look at the push coming from kyle bush to his teammate christopher bell, now that will take him to the rear bumper The fish fat guy just passed by that right side.

I could tell you another part of that equation, Jeff. These cars have twisted rear ends, that's obviously for speed and making the cars go fast. Make them approach other cars. It is also in my experience that it makes them restless when that car hits them, it pushes that car towards the direction of the rear and it can turn you in the blink of an eye or something like that remember when Eric Almarola lost the lead in the last few meters from this race in 2018 where the ride was in as soon as the contact hit him he just turned his car to the right, took the words out of my mouth, an incredible crushing blow for so many teams, so many efforts to have fast cars and be in this Daytona 500 that was a lot of heavy hitters in this village at the point whoa rick quinn half and uh Chase Briscoe and the yellow flag is canceled for the third time on lap 38.

Hamlin will stop him there and there will be a lot of pushing when Syndra got behind Kyle Larson. there, Hamlin won a league leading 11 stages in 2020 and here they come to the line to complete stage one. Wallace Hamilton on Priests and Dylan. Sorry, I got excited today and thought those two guys had Legano and Bubba Wallace Jr. would join in and Christopher Bell. on the 20 it has a left rear tire going down, yeah let's keep an eye on the 20 as it goes into turns one and two, you can see boy bubba and kyle get together a little so you don't get in trouble, look at the excess tire, now you can.

Look, there's starting to be a little soft, slow leak on the left rear and now you can really see getting to the sidewall and going flat, it's just incidental contact with Stenhouse and then Kyle Larson and I think Stenhouse he might have had a little contact with the cal larson five there goes chase elliot let's ride him through this is just staying inside it's a mirror frozen half half down down down no, I thought they were going to wait one more turn bubba wallace coming down To block that move, he's going to get to the inside of Denny Hamlin.

I also thought it would be the next level and I'll do two big pushes right here, stack them nice, that was a great Bubba Waltz move. I did it. I don't think he would really I thought he'd stick with Denny Hamlin that outside line isn't finished Kevin Harvick this line group of cars are going to race right here there's a big push coming for that, yeah, but look how organized, oh The boss is put aside, that was close, he'll stack that ball that the top lane will take, but not close enough, he actually left them three open.

You'll see some momentum now, Kyle Bush right behind Legano as the shortstop moves forward and Hamlin comes down to cover, God. these guys are driving like it's the last lap of the 500 not the stage wallace at the bottom hamlin at the top here they come for the green and white checkers to finish stage two three wide behind them hamline again didn't pass nothing in these last three laps yes but going back to what you were saying, Clint, that the best opportunity for joey logano is that all those guys have different agendas and what do they do, they get a race, they advance, but they don't really organize themselves enough well enough to achieve it.

All the way to Joey, the most important thing Joy has to do is make sure she doesn't get too far away when those runs start happening. If they get three open, they'll stop and you'll get out and they'll get a grab you with a big run everyone stays they're playing with their guests a nine and a three mainly the space for the two cars from there that's Joey Legoni the big man tj made everyone stay here although the big man behind ended up with a last lap change of the lead that's not going to change tonight there he's going to have a great race here joey will move down block that right to his teammates bumper look what's going on now behind all these guys now that's going to shake everything up here comes austin dillon to the outside oh man kevin harvick in trouble gets taken off the white flag with one lap left sponsored by a big bank he's okay, now these guys, their job if you're austin dillon, kevin has deep down, they're all trying to build that career. keslowski here goes the three cards dillon will have help no, they will go down to block logano comes back up keselowski with him mcdowell in tow dylan in the background the races on the best teammates around they go in a strong crash kyle bush larson caution is out bubba wallace is in this downtown austin hard hit by kyle busch mcdowell is the first to reach the finish line but he will have to return to the cautionary moment that ends the race brad keselowski is leaving okay joey logano we see him taking off his gloves and the steering wheel, I think Mcdowell is the winner of this race guys, he was the first one over the line.

Nascar will review and have to determine the finish at the time of the yellow flag and we will hope for a big official win if that is the case, but Bob Jenkins, front row motorsports. The team is celebrating on pit road. Awesome, you'll see some emotion in this guy if this becomes official again. Many improvements on the tour. All the Chevys are totaled. Dress up a priest with damage. He pursued Elliot with damage. This was a very hard blow for Kyle. busch when he came in yeah and the amr security team very quickly arrived on the scene being directed look at the damage on the wall there's a bumper cover up there and there's Kyle Busch coming out that's a big sign and that means that everyone has gotten out of their cars after a big crash on the last lap of the Daytona 500.

Nascar is still reviewing the video because when they turn on the caution light, that timestamp marks all the videos to determine the order of finish at the time of the yellow flag, a great race it was for Joey. Obviously I had to block the question: Where did that caution come from? Chase Elliott overtakes Michael Mcdowell. Oh, look at the run he made there, although Dowell ran on the outside with a little help from Hamlin. Okay, we know the caution was there. We saw some caution lights where michael mcdown, austin dillon's three, pulled ahead of chase eliot and michael mcdowell of glendale, arizona, for bob jenkins front row motorsports won the

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How about that man? That's a big win for michael mcdowell and that team. There is nothing bigger than this and a big accident for everyone. Something about these super tracks where certain guys just have a certain ability to pull it off and you're right, Michael, uh, Michael Mcdowell is one of those guys who does it often, a man of deep faith. He'll be joined in victory lane by Drew Blickensterfer, his crew chief, who reminds me, Larry, reminds me of the real second 500 win and his new spotter Clayton Hughes for

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For a long time, let's repeat, all the drivers involved in that horrendous accident in turn three got out of their cars and seemed to be fine, yes, that's great news because when I saw Kyle Busch, there was a yes, and some fans applauded that's why. american flag on helmet chase elliot second austin dillon third kevin harvick denny hamlin trying to get third full peat top five unofficially ross chastain is sixth ryan priest jamie mcmurray eight corey lejoy kyle larson your top 10. what a long time for michael mcdowell here it's jamie little, 14th year racing in the michael cup series, first career win, you're a Daytona 500 champion, I just can't believe it, I just have to thank God, uh, so many years of trying hard waiting for one opportunity like this. thank you love's travel stop uh speedco uh bob jenkins for giving me this opportunity uh I'm so grateful for such a great way to get a first Daytona 500 win are you kidding me?

I just want to say hello to my wife at home Happy Valentine's Day, I know it's been a tough week. Only my children I love. I wish you could be here with me to celebrate. Maybe Nascar will send the plane to get him here, but we are the Daytona 500 champions. Can't. Believe it, thanks Doug Yates Ford. We had our four teammates at the end and they all crashed and luckily I was able to get through it. I am very grateful that God is good. Michael McDowell has been there at the end of so many of these Mikes. and finally tonight was his